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Abstaining meat on Good Friday

  • 18-04-2014 03:10PM
    #1
    jamo2oo9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭


    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.

    Abstain meat on Good Friday 33 votes

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  • #2
    RoboRat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,558 ✭✭✭RoboRat


    Well done.


  • #3
    theteal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,590 ✭✭✭theteal


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

    Might go to the pub later too :cool:


  • #4
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


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


  • #5
    howamidifferent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,819 ✭✭✭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. :D


  • #6
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭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


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  • #7
    Benny_Cake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭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.


  • #8
    davo2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,356 ✭✭✭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.


  • #9
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


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

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


  • #10
    Corkfeen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭Corkfeen


    I'm having a nice steak.


  • #11
    Artful_Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #12
    dmc17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,888 ✭✭✭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!


  • #13
    dmc17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,888 ✭✭✭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!


  • #14
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #15
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


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


  • #16
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #17
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #18
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    Yes. No meat for cloud today.


  • #19
    Sugar Free
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,639 ✭✭✭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.


  • #20
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    RoboRat wrote: »
    Well done.

    No, medium rare.


  • #21
    J_E
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #22
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #23
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #24
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,064 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #25
    Corkfeen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭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? :D


  • #26
    The Master
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 14,324 CMod ✭✭✭✭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......


  • #27
    hfallada
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭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.


  • #28
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,102 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #29
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭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. :D


  • #30
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


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


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  • #31
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    I had smoked haddock, Mmm rediscovering fish


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