Abstaining meat on Good Friday

jamo2oo9

How many of you do? I don't. Every year, my mother says no meat on Good Friday and every year, I go to the takeaway shop and get me 12" pepperoni pizza, quarter pounder with cheese and two battered sausages.

RoboRat

Well done.

theteal

I've got 1.5kg of roast beefy goodness in the oven as I type!

Might go to the pub later too :cool:

jimgoose

No, because you're not the boss of ME!! <SLAM> *sulk*

howamidifferent

Going to pick up two of the finest fillet steaks on the way home from work.
And plenty mushrooms and onion.

Will be enjoyed later all by my good self with a nice bottle of red plonk.

My name is URL

Every year, my mother says no meat on Good Friday and every year, I go to the takeaway shop and get me 12" pepperoni pizza, quarter pounder with cheese and two battered sausages.

Good to see people protest against the stuff that matters

Benny_Cake

jamo2oo9 wrote: »

How many of you do? I don't. Every year, my mother says no meat on Good Friday and every year, I go to the takeaway shop and get me 12" pepperoni pizza, quarter pounder with cheese and two battered sausages.

I hope you pick up a bottle of Gaviscon to go with that? A defibrillator too, perhaps.

davo2001

jamo2oo9 wrote: »

How many of you do? I don't. Every year, my mother says no meat on Good Friday and every year, I go to the takeaway shop and get me 12" pepperoni pizza, quarter pounder with cheese and two battered sausages.

That's alot of food to eat at one sitting.

zenno

Rashers again (the best) with some veg, tasty indeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IAeFIplKP0

Corkfeen

I'm having a nice steak.

Artful_Badger

I don't go out of my way to avoid it or to eat it. I may eat meat or I may not. Good Friday has fcuk all to do with it.

dmc17

I don't need much excuse to eat fish. I love it. Having said that, I'll often forget and eat meat by accident. Has yet to kill me!

dmc17

Benny_Cake wrote: »

I hope you pick up a bottle of Gaviscon to go with that? A defibrillator too, perhaps.

A bottle of whiskey to wash it all down. That'll show them!

My name is URL

Artful_Badger wrote: »

I don't go out of my way to avoid it or to eat it. I may eat meat or I may not. Good Friday has fcuk all to do with it.

+1.. It's kinda pathetic how so many people go out of their way just to stick it to the invisible man in the sky which they say they don't believe or doesn't play any part in their lives :pac:

If you eat a big load of fcuking meat just because your not 'supposed' to, then the whole religion thing is playing a bigger part in your life than you may care to admit.

DEFTLEFTHAND

That god dam takeaway shouldn't be allowed to serve meat on Good Friday.

anncoates

jamo2oo9 wrote: »

How many of you do? I don't. Every year, my mother says no meat on Good Friday and every year, I go to the takeaway shop and get me 12" pepperoni pizza, quarter pounder with cheese and two battered sausages.

News just in:

Global edifice of Catholicism tottering.

Mint Sauce

Breakfast baguette this morning, and maybe a takeaway tonight. Not as a form of protest, but I finished a block of night duty this morning and cant be arsed cooking or doing anyhting energetic today.

cloud493

Yes. No meat for cloud today.

Sugar Free

Artful_Badger wrote: »

I don't go out of my way to avoid it or to eat it. I may eat meat or I may not. Good Friday has fcuk all to do with it.

Exactly. I'm having lamb burgers because that's what I often have on Fridays. The revelling in eating meat on Good Friday always came across to me as some weird form of rebellion.

Omackeral

RoboRat wrote: »

Well done.

No, medium rare.

J_E

It's just meat. Nobody has puffed up in smoke yet.

Eat it if you want, don't if you don't want to.

Is kind of annoying when people are like 'I can't WAIT to eat my juicy steak HAHAHAHA' to be honest. I'm not religious and I do have an issue with some of the nonsense that Good Friday represents but I don't see any point in wasting my energy going on about what I'm eating.

jimgoose

My name is URL wrote: »

...If you eat a big load of fcuking meat just because your not 'supposed' to, then the whole religion thing is playing a bigger part in your life than you may care to admit.

I humbly submit that in many cases it is having exactly the same effect as on those who abstain.

brummytom

I'm such a rebel, I eat 12 steaks, a pack of sausages, and a toddler on Good Friday.

No, I abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. I'm not religious, or veggie. I just think it's nice to have a little tradition. It's a shame to see grown adults reveling in rebelling against the beliefs of their parents/the church. Eat meat, or don't. Who cares?

Mr. CooL ICE

I was too busy to make bacon for breakfast, so ate porridge instead. I made sure I had some meat for lunch, otherwise I could wake up tomorrow as pope.

Corkfeen

dmc17 wrote: »

I don't need much excuse to eat fish. I love it. Having said that, I'll often forget and eat meat by accident. Has yet to kill me!

I've always wondered this when did fish cease to be a meat?

The Master

My name is URL wrote: »

+1.. It's kinda pathetic how so many people go out of their way just to stick it to the invisible man in the sky which they say they don't believe or doesn't play any part in their lives :pac:

If you eat a big load of fcuking meat just because your not 'supposed' to, then the whole religion thing is playing a bigger part in your life than you may care to admit.

Certain people think if they're gonna be treated like children and be told what they can and can't do on this day then they might as well act like children......

hfallada

Dont forget no all meat is forbidden. Beaver is approved by the catholic church to eat on Good Friday.

Im young and I know tons of my friends that wont eat meat on good Friday. But they were far from catholic the other 364 days of the year.

lertsnim

They should make the sale of meat illegal on Good Friday. It's only for one day after all. This doesn't sound ridiculous at all.

I had beef today. Not because I am sticking up two fingers at the mythical man who lives in the sky. I had it because it was there to eat.

jimgoose

hfallada wrote: »

Dont forget no all meat is forbidden. Beaver is approved by the catholic church to eat on Good Friday...

Public Service Announcment: Do NOT under any circumstances Google "Eating Beaver on Good Friday" while at work.

JONJO THE MISER

Have 2 nice Aldi striploin steaks out, getting to room temp.
Will have those bad boys at 12:01am.

Kablamo!

I normally would abstain alright but there's a cooked chicken in the fridge that won't keep until tomorrow. Waste is a bigger sin I think.

efb

I had smoked haddock, Mmm rediscovering fish

GLaDOS

Had a ham and cheese toastie for lunch, as I do most days.

c_man

I'm probably gonna stop by Burger King after work as is my want some Fridays. I'm on the verge of declaring it "too nice a day to cook".

sdanseo

Please, only Good Friday? My granny abstains from meat every Friday.

Personally I don't think the Catholic Church should tell me what to feckin' eat so I'm munching on a Turkey sambo right now. Secularism is great.

elefant

doolox

If you want to have a decent filling satisfying meal you can try swordfish or Tuna steaks, Taste practically like turkey or chicken but are not "meat".

Come to think of it it is a wonder that the butchers are not protesting about the discriminatory practice of banning one class of food and allowing another with little or no logic behind it.

Such strange things are traditions.........

I know from past experience that most publicans practically welcome Good Friday and Christmas as days off in order to catch up on maintenance and overhauling of pub infrastructure but some hardline customers hate and resent it.

I recall a roadside pub was not allowed to serve even food or teas on Good Friday to the passing Bank Holiday trade. The publican tried to circumvent the law by setting up a marquee next door to the pub in the carpark, purely for selling food and tea/coffee but fell foul of the planning and health and safety laws. You can't win.

Banjoxed

I don't drink alcohol during Holy Week and don't eat meat on Good Friday for religious reasons. However I find the whole idea of a imposed "dry" Good Friday to be patronising and would support the scrapping of this archaic bit of social engineering. In any case, having the border five miles away makes a mockery of the ban anyway.

xxmeabhxx

I don't deliberately eat meat or drink as a form of rebellion on Good Friday or Ash Wednesday but I understand why some people do. It's one thing for people to decide for themselves to abstain if that's their belief but it's quite another to have those beliefs protected and enshrined by the government in a country that is supposedly secular and has a growing number of people identifying as something other then Christian. The fact that it's illegal to sell alcohol on these days adds massively to the desire to rebel, because people feel (and rightly so) that's it's unfair that government enforces religious rules onto the whole population.

4zn76tysfajdxp

I eat chicken because I don't consider white meat to be true meat.

Tiddlypeeps

My name is URL wrote: »

+1.. It's kinda pathetic how so many people go out of their way just to stick it to the invisible man in the sky which they say they don't believe or doesn't play any part in their lives :pac:

If you eat a big load of fcuking meat just because your not 'supposed' to, then the whole religion thing is playing a bigger part in your life than you may care to admit.

I don't think it's hard to see why there might be an element of protest in the day.

A lot of people on here would have been reared in a house where there was strictly no meat on good friday and other such traditions. I don't think it should be too difficult to understand why these people would get an element of satisfaction from being able to ignore the custom now that they are grown.

I wasn't raised in a religious household, so it didn't even register in my head that "I shouldn't really be eating meat today". I forgot it was a thing until I came into this thread. But if I was raised to follow this tradition then I can imagine I would feel a similar sense of satisfaction breaking away from it.

Kinda mean to call that pathetic. It's not like that religion is just minding it's own business either, it still very much effects people who have no interest in interacting with it. Publicans being forced to close their doors today being a very simple example of that, the school system is another.

J_E

Tiddlypeeps wrote: »

I don't think it's hard to see why there might be an element of protest in the day.

A lot of people on here would have been reared in a house where there was strictly no meat on good friday and other such traditions. I don't think it should be too difficult to understand why these people would get an element of satisfaction from being able to ignore the custom now that they are grown.

Sure, there's that, but isn't it a bit contrived to excitedly proclaim to every social media outlet that you're doing so?

I have issues with the alcohol rule and will bring it up but when it comes to meat...what's the point, you can buy it, it's just another day of the year, we've heard the jokes every year before. It's a bit stale now.

Even in those families they probably ate fish anyway. Not sure what's special about fish that suddenly makes it not-meat. It's as good as.

COYW wrote: »

As a matter of interest, is it a sin if you eat meat today, as a Catholic. If a practicing Catholic ate meat today, would he or she have to go to confession for that? If find it weird that you can't eat meat but you can eat fish. Why is it ok to eat meat on Christmas day for example, the birth of Jesus but not today?

It's even stranger because Jesus didn't actually die today, going by Hebrew calendars it was the 14th. Even then there are about 3-4 conflicting dates within 2-3 weeks of each other.

COYW

As a matter of interest, is it a sin if you eat meat today, as a Catholic. If a practicing Catholic ate meat today, would he or she have to go to confession for that? If find it weird that you can't eat meat but you can eat fish. Why is it ok to eat meat on Christmas day for example, the birth of Jesus but not today?

Also, I was under the impression that it was every Friday during Lent.

iDave

Cant wait for Good Friday to be over so we can get over the annual freaking out over booze and meat.

Tiddlypeeps

Cydoniac wrote: »

Sure, there's that, but isn't it a bit contrived to excitedly proclaim to every social media outlet that you're doing so?

I have issues with the alcohol rule and will bring it up but when it comes to meat...what's the point, you can buy it, it's just another day of the year, we've heard the jokes every year before. It's a bit stale now.

Even in those families they probably ate fish anyway. Not sure what's special about fish that suddenly makes it not-meat. It's as good as.

It's possibly a little immature, but I would imagine a lot of the people that do this are quite young and not long away from living with mammy who would have imposed this rule.

There is probably also an element of curiosity from the likes of the OP who may genuinely be curious how many people still follow this tradition. Social media is a good way of finding out.

Diabhal Beag

I gave the single finger salute to all the atheist haterz and had myself a plain cheese pizza.

candy-gal1

Yes, but not on purpose and also seems a very fair coincidence since had a few glasses of red wine, and may have more late

Balancing!!


Even though Im pagan so does it really matter for me anyway :P:pac::)

Richard Hillman

I have just had a microwaved chicken burger. I highly doubt there was much chicken in what I ate.

Sheeps

Anyone know where i can get the best bbq ribs in Dublin?

Graces7

sigh.... so much here is boringly predictable.

no meat here as i can very rarely if ever afford it. and for serious health reasons and age am not allowed to fast anyways.

abstinence from fleshmeat is a deeply symbolic honouring of Jesus especially today. which means a great amount to many. myself included

if you have no belief than it is meaningless.

someone used the term immature which i endorse. so childish.

ps fish is costlier than meat so never have that either.

Ghost Buster

jamo2oo9 wrote: »

How many of you do? I don't. Every year, my mother says no meat on Good Friday and every year, I go to the takeaway shop and get me 12" pepperoni pizza, quarter pounder with cheese and two battered sausages.

You complete and utter legend you!!!!!!!!!