I am non Catholic but always remember my Catholic friends never ate meat on Fridays?

[Bobbisox]

Only on Good Friday, my Mum would not allow us to eat meat so no bacon sarnies for brekkie then, we always had to have fish, I remember going with her to the 'wet' fish shop early on the GF morning, to this day, I don't have meat on Good Fridays
how about you?

[mrs_overall]

<<<<<looks guiltily at her chicken salad and says nothing>>>>>>>

[Bobbisox]

ha-ha
I don't know why we never were allowed meat then mrs o..:-(

[MarkRae]

http://www.catholic-p...m/life/fridaymeat.asp

Look at the last two bullet points - I swear these people just make it up as they go along...

[craft1948]

Friday is always fish day...........the fish van comes round our way early in the morning.

[Bobbisox]

It is an expression of one's Catholicity; and
In reparation for the grave sin of abortion.

Blimey Mark, I could have been eating meat all along...

[mrs_overall]

When I was little we always had fish on a Friday (every bloody Friday, week in, week out) but none of the family were religious

[MarkRae]

IMO, garbage like that is just as nonsensical anything said by leaders of the religion that usually gets a kicking round these parts...

[Bobbisox]

we were Methodists through the years Mrs O, most small mining villages were then, where Chapel was the main stay of small communities,
but you wern't allowed to drink, so I gave it up when I got married when I was 21...lol

[DEN53]

I'm just boiling some eggs at the moment for egg sarnies. I wouldn't normally, but Sainsbury delivered my shopping this morning and 4 out of the 6 eggs were broken.

[mrs_overall]

We were raised as Methodists but I think it was only to get us all out of the house to go to Sunday school to give ma & pa a break

[Bobbisox]

pmsl@den

where is 'these parts' Mark?
are you in the capital now?

[craft1948]

I'm not catholic but I think the rest of the street was............

[Bobbisox]

ha-ha Mrs O, bet you went a couple of Sundays so you could go to the SS Trip

[MarkRae]

> where is 'these parts' Mark?

Er, Answerbank...

[Bobbisox]

I think a good few in our street was
brings back childhood memories of the ladies heels click-clacking down the Street (it was on a hill) on their way to Mass on Sunday mornings, then the S.A would come and play their brass band,,it was lovely

[Mamyalynne]

Born and bred a Catholic, always fish on Fridays as a child, now I am sufficiently at peace with myself to eat what and when I like with no guilt or angst.

[Bobbisox]

ha-ha Mark, I thought you gave religious leaders a good kicking where you live...sorry

[ummmm]

Never eat meat on Fridays....

[Bobbisox]

it was probably when communities were God fearing senga, and they were