Who's Having Fish For Dinner Today?

naomi24 | 08:27 Fri 18th Apr 2014 | Religion & Spirituality

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Even though we're non-believers, we always have fish on Good Friday - a throwback to childhood I think - a bit like having turkey at Christmas. Does anyone else still follow the tradition?

What Will The Goodly Ungodly Make Of This?

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paddywak

If it wasn't a bank holiday we'd have been off to the coast today there's nothing better at the seaside then a jumbo haddock,chips and mushy peas.

Old_Geezer

You're not allowed pizza. Unless it is liquidised, and even then that not just fruit/veg.

naomi24

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jno, //Christians were meant to abstain from meat every Friday. //

I think that's been established.

Old_Geezer

I was brought up to be a Christian and I do not recall ever being told to abstain from meat on Fridays. Not by family nor by the reverend. I think there is a difference between those who want to embrace all the nonsense rules and those who merely wanted to accept the spiritual philosophy. Probably a broad church.

jno

you were right, though, Good Friday was no different in terms of diet. I believe the restriction (for Catholics) now applies chiefly to Lent and Good Friday. This is why McDonald's invented Filet-o-Fish.

jno

sorry, that was for naomi. Protestants can eat what they like.

woofgang

never have done, never will do, although I like fish and shellfish, if I eat it on friday its by coincidence and not tradition. More traditional in my family was shellfish on a saturday for tea.

Wharton

jno - What quaint notions you have.

mikey4444

Just looked again at that pack of Jersey Royals....its only 750g, which makes them even more expensive than I thought ! Bought some local early Cornish potatoes, grown here in the village, so will try them as well
( £1.99 a pound ! )

jno

which is the quaintest, wharton?

tiggerblue10

I usually have fish on Friday as they do battered fish in the canteen. Otherwise no.

Fancy some fish fingers now!

mikey4444

Paddy...with you on the fish and chips but not the mushy peas. I like my peas to be small and sweet, like Petie Pois. They like mushy peas in Yorkshire though :::

I love the bit where the people in Alan Bennet Class are having some posh food but the same mushy peas as Working Class !