Who's Having Fish For Dinner Today?

[naomi24]

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?

[weecalf]

Don't like fish are fish genetically grown yet.maybe not the plaice to ask just coding

[emmie]

no,

[RATTER15]

I dont think I have ever been involved with the "fish on Friday" thing, despite being brought up by a Christian Mother. I dont think the Salvation Army bothered to much about that to be honest, I may be wrong. I eat fish at every opportunity though, I love a nice big chunk of smoked haddock.

[Old_Geezer]

It was never a tradition for me.
That said I have made no plans for meals over the BH yet, so it could be a possibility if the supermarkets are open. Otherwise no.

[sandyRoe]

I'd always thought that fish on Friday was a Catholic thing. We have fish most days now so there's nothing particularly special about it being Good Friday.

[Zacs-Master]

Oho ooh Ratter, you've got me salivating. I vaguely remember my mum cooking a big fillet of Haddock in white sauce on Good Friday.

[cazzz1975]

no, not just because I am allergic to fish but because its a religious thing, I am not religious.

[ummmm]

We tend to have fish most Fridays but today I'm not :-)

[mikey4444]

I am in Penzance for a few days and I will be having fish for lunch today, a lovely crab sandwich, on brown bread. In fact, I might even have it for breakfast ! For my dinner, I shall have a real Cornish Pasty, with some Jersey Royal potatoes. I paid £3 for 1.5 kg, which is expensive I know, but a treat never did anybody any harm !

For tea sometime over the weekend I shall have some nice home made scones, from a lady near my caravan site, with clotted cream.

God....no wonder I am a tad on the fat side ....well, a lot actually !

[naomi24]

Not just a Catholic thing, sandyRoe – we ‘heretics’ used to do it too. Friday was usually fish day - but only on Good Friday was it obligatory.

[ummmm]

I'm a rebel :-)

The OH asked if we can at least have a fish finger sandwhich. I said NO....

[sandyRoe]

I suppose my thinking was coloured by local observance. If Catholics religiously ate fish on a Friday some Protestants would have made it a point not to.

[mikey4444]

I don't remember Good Friday being any different to any other Friday, food-wise. I was brought up as a Catholic, and my Dad was Irish and a fishmonger, so we had fish every Friday ! But we would have a roast chicken on Easter Sunday. Chicken was expensive in the 1950's, unlike now, but it tasted better. Or maybe that is the passage of time playing tricks with my memory.

[RATTER15]

mikey, I miss the Devon Cream Teas, OK, I know you arent in Devon but the Cornish cream teas will be the same. Up here in Wales I have had a few cream teas, just not the same, talk about being tight with the cream!!

I do love Wales none the less. the bacon up here is far superior!!

[Wharton]

There are many who will have nothing for dinner today, give it (and them) a rest.

[naomi24]

Mikey, if you had fish every Friday it stands to reason that having fish on Good Friday wouldn't have been any different to any other Friday. ;o)

[paddywak]

Probably,both Trish and I were brought up in fairly strict Catholic families and fish on Fridays is about the only bit that stuck.

[naomi24]

paddywak, That's what I mean - it's somehow become traditional - well at least for us.

[jno]

there's no requirement to eat fish at all - the rule is about abstaining from other meat. A vegetarian meal would do as well.

For all the significance of Good Friday, mikey is right: Christians were meant to abstain from meat every Friday. They still are, although the rule may be relaxed if they perform some other good service instead, such as saying extra Rosaries.

[ukanonymous]

I am having pizza for din dins :)