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Do people's parents still get thick about eating meat on Ash Wed/Good Friday?

  • 14-02-2018 3:14pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,888 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Well?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,943 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    As a grown man with his own family, my parents aren't worried about what I eat at all,
    My ma would still stick to no meat on them days and my da does the same just because she'll be the one cooking :) 
    ,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    I'm an adult. Who gives a fcuk what my parent thinks?


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 18,848 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kimbot


    Its ok, I spiked her tea with sprinkles of ham so she cant lecture me later when I feast on a steak :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,396 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    I have a bag of FX Buckleys finest fillet steak beside me right now. Looking forward to dinner tonight!

    My mother would expect no less, I've been a devout atheist for over 2 decades at this stage.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    My mother still cooks fish every Friday but more out of habit now than anything else. She'd never pass comment about what others eat though.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 809 ✭✭✭filbert the fox


    you know I've always enjoyed asking the faithful what plant group Cod comes from.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    I remember the day in about third year of school that a busybody in my year started laying into to me for eating a ham sandwich on Ash Wednesday. I was a finicky eater struggling with an eating disorder at the time. Getting food into myself was very important. I still can't believe it now that a girl I didn't really know that well felt that my eating meat on a Catholic holy day was any of her business.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,199 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    you know I've always enjoyed asking the faithful what plant group Cod comes from.....

    The Roman Catholic fish thing has nothing whatsoever to do with vegetableism. The abstinence is from "warm-blooded-flesh", so technically reptile is allowed. But is has to do with the original disciples being fishermen and Christ himself cooking fish for them, and the subsequent use of a fish symbol as a secret Christian identifier.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    My father's a de facto atheist and my mother left the Catholic church about 20 years ago. So, no.

    The mother in law would probably be strict on it for herself and the husband except that she's vegetarian so most meals have no trace of meat for anyone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 200 ✭✭Mtx


    Eat meat on that day=thrown out of the house


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,921 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Won't be eating meat today, have a dose of gastroenteritis.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    Won't be eating meat today, have a dose of gastroenteritis.

    Ass Wednesday. :):)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    you know I've always enjoyed asking the faithful what plant group Cod comes from.....

    ....and when they tell you that it’s not a “no meat” day, Is it that you don’t understand what that means?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I observe it even though I'm not religious. My mother and father and parents in law are very religious. The wife is a mass goer too. I had a long enough battle about me not going to mass. So I decided to respect the tradition for the peace and its good to respect other peoples traditions Besides I make a savage fish pie and I have 363 days a year where I can eat meat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    Sleepy wrote: »
    I have a bag of FX Buckleys finest fillet steak beside me right now. Looking forward to dinner tonight!

    My mother would expect no less, I've been a devout atheist for over 2 decades at this stage.

    So sharp and edgy I think I’ve almost cut myself....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,423 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    I observe it even though I'm not religious. My mother and father and parents in law are very religious. The wife is a mass goer too. I had a long enough battle about me not going to mass. So I decided to respect the tradition for the peace and its good to respect other peoples traditions Besides I make a savage fish pie and I have 363 days a year where I can eat meat.

    Erm , is there another day Catholics can't eat meat ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    splinter65 wrote: »
    ....and when they tell you that it’s not a “no meat” day, Is it that you don’t understand what that means?
    Fish is meat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,199 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Erm , is there another day Catholics can't eat meat ?

    Real, fundamentalist Orthodox Roman Catholics won't eat meat on any Friday on account of the Crucifixion, but they don't make much noise about it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,624 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    Parents on both sides observe it more or less but they don't care what we do.
    We don't intentionaly observe it but we would have fish once or twice per week. So it will be fish today and tomorrow this week. My kids love me. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,423 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Real, fundamentalist Orthodox Roman Catholics won't eat meat on any Friday on account of the Crucifixion, but they don't make much noise about it.

    Ahhh , so we're Catholic light lite .


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,199 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Ahhh , so we're Catholic light lite .

    Exactly. Ach, 'tis a fine barn but sure it is no Catholic, English.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    seamus wrote: »
    Fish is meat.

    The rules around days of abstinence clearly state "fish and all cold-blooded animals may be eaten"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,423 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    The rules around days of abstinence clearly state "fish and all cold-blooded animals may be eaten"

    Would penguins be classed as cold blooded ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    The rules around days of abstinence clearly state "fish and all cold-blooded animals may be eaten"
    Cheers, just wanted to point out that it's not a "no meat" rule. If it comes from an animal, it's meat.

    Animals include mammals, fish, birds, snakes, spiders, frogs, etc.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Erm , is there another day Catholics can't eat meat ?

    No meat in my house good Friday and ash Wednesday


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    The rules around days of abstinence clearly state "fish and all cold-blooded animals may be eaten"

    Komodo dragon stew it is so. :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,314 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    I don't eat meat on Ash Wednesday or Good Friday

    And while we're on the subject, Catholics aren't supposed to eat meat on any Friday during Lent


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    _Dara_ wrote: »
    Komodo dragon stew it is so. :P

    Ah don't, reminds me of the time my cat bit the head of my komodo. :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    _Dara_ wrote: »
    Komodo dragon stew it is so. :P

    I had Iguana Stew in Guyana many years ago. Disgusting stuff, if memory serves me right - chewy too. It's often served in a curry in Jamaica.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭whatdoicare


    Just eat duck or Swan - that's technically considered fish in the priest handbook :D

    Also, I'm typing this while eating a meatball sub, so meh, my folks haven't cared in years what I eat.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Just eat duck or Swan - that's technically considered fish in the priest handbook :D

    Also, I'm typing this while eating a meatball sub, so meh, my folks haven't cared in years what I eat.

    It was goose only, and Barnacle Goose at that; as it was once thought they lived a semi aquatic existence.

    I'm having a sirloin steak myself.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    branie2 wrote: »
    I don't eat meat on Ash Wednesday or Good Friday

    And while we're on the subject, Catholics aren't supposed to eat meat on any Friday during Lent

    Catholics over 14


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Catholics over 14
    And under 59.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    Erm , is there another day Catholics can't eat meat ?

    Good Friday but it’s not “can’t eat meat”.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    seamus wrote: »
    Fish is meat.

    But not for Catholic fast purposes. See?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    It was goose only, and Barnacle Goose at that; as it was once thought they lived a semi aquatic existence.

    I'm having a sirloin steak myself.

    You know the recession is over when you can have steak on a Wednesday.
    Just 3 short years ago Wednesday was egg and chips.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    seamus wrote: »
    Cheers, just wanted to point out that it's not a "no meat" rule. If it comes from an animal, it's meat.

    Animals include mammals, fish, birds, snakes, spiders, frogs, etc.

    Not for Catholics. Your getting an education here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,328 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I adore fish and eat it a few times a week. Would they care if I ate meat probably not.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    splinter65 wrote: »
    Not for Catholics. Your getting an education here.

    I should also point out that for catholics, beavers, puffins and alligators are fish. This means that they are not meat and so can be eaten on Good Friday.

    This is not my opinion, this is the church's stance on it.

    To recap, beavers are fish and fish isn't meat. Nothing crazy going on there at all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    I should also point out that for catholics, beavers, puffins and alligators are fish. This means that they are not meat and so can be eaten on Good Friday.

    This is not my opinion, this is the church's stance on it.

    To recap, beavers are fish and fish isn't meat. Nothing crazy going on there at all.

    One of the best things about being a Catholic is laughing at how riled up non Catholics get over our religions rules and regulations.
    Rules and regulations like fast days, which don’t affect anyone else in an way shape or form.
    The frustration and irritation is very amusing indeed.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Do people take communion on Ash Wednesday??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    My parents never followed it and almost every Ash Wed/Good Friday if it came up in conversation, my dad would say something about how it was made to prop up the fishing industry at the time. I haven't read up on it but I think there is some theory about that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    Ipso wrote: »
    Do people take communion on Ash Wednesday??

    Yes they do, yes. And no, the body and blood of Jesus doesn’t break the fast.
    Next?!?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    splinter65 wrote: »
    One of the best things about being a Catholic is laughing at how riled up non Catholics get over our religions rules and regulations.
    Rules and regulations like fast days, which don’t affect anyone else in an way shape or form.
    The frustration and irritation is very amusing indeed.

    I'm not sure where you're seeing people being frustrated or irritated. Nor can I see where people are getting riled up.

    But sure, just tell yourself that you're amused at what you'd like to see even if it's not there. That's definitely not crazy at all. And beavers are fish.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    splinter65 wrote: »
    Yes they do, yes. And no, the body and blood of Jesus doesn’t break the fast.
    Next?!?

    Was Jesus a fish?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,559 ✭✭✭refusetolose


    splinter65 wrote: »
    Yes they do, yes. And no, the body and blood of Jesus doesn’t break the fast.
    Next?!?

    he'd be cold blooded anyway by now surely


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Lorelli! wrote: »
    My parents never followed it and almost every Ash Wed/Good Friday if it came up in conversation, my dad would say something about how it was made to prop up the fishing industry at the time. I haven't read up on it but I think there is some theory about that.

    Deadly theory.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Was Jesus a fish?

    But the symbol of chritianity at the time was a fish, as Jesus was a fisherman or it was the age of Pisces.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    Was Jesus a fish?

    No Jesus was a man. The son of God. Don’t get all frustrated now, it really doesn’t affect you in any way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    he'd be cold blooded anyway by now surely

    Why do you say that? Jesus died on Good Friday, rose from the dead on Easter Sunday and returned to his father in heaven in Ascension Day. Try not to let it bother you, you’ll find that your life will continue uninterrupted despite other people enjoying beliefs different to your own.


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