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Did Anyone Eat Meat Yesterday?

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  • 20-04-2019 12:35am
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    JupiterKid
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    Did anyone eat meat yesterday, on Good Friday?

    Growing up eating meat on both Ash Wednesday or Good Friday was a no no but as I'm not religious I dispensed with this observance about 20 years ago.

    Anyone still observe the tradition and if so, why?

    Anyone here remember when eating meat apart from fish on ANY Friday was taboo?


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    SureYWouldntYa
    Registered Users Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭SureYWouldntYa


    Granny thinks I had a fish dinner and thats all that matters


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    branie2
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    I had fish yesterday


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    poisonated
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    I had sausage


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    This is it
    Registered Users Posts: 5,236 ✭✭✭This is it


    Had a lovely steak sandwich for lunch. I'm not religious so I pick and choose which traditions I follow :)


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    Hedgelayer
    Registered Users Posts: 530 ✭✭✭Hedgelayer


    This is it wrote: »
    Had a lovely steak sandwich for lunch. I'm not religious so I pick and choose which traditions I follow :)

    I had a lovely steak and if I had white bread now id clean the frying pan with the bread and eat that as well... Love a good steak


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    Badly Drunk Boy
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    I didn't eat meat on Good Friday but it wasn't for religious reasons. I didn't get a chance to have anything at all in work, except for two packets of crisps, and I had fish and chips when I got home.

    Most Fridays, they serve fish in the canteen in work, and on the 'no-meat' days you mention, they offer kippers for breakfast as an alternative to pig-meat. They still have the normal meat options so there's no real harm. Turkey was also on the menu today for lunch, seeing as how it's Christmas or something... :confused:


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    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    So I was at the butcher and I says to her, I says: 'Nothing like starting the day with a big piece of meat inside ya' as I winked at her theatrically.

    tenor.gif


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    Roger Hassenforder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    I'd a piece of halibut fit for Jehovah


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    gozunda
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    Does an omelette with cheese and home cooked ham count? ;)


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    gctest50
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    SureYWouldntYa wrote: »
    Granny thinks I had a fish dinner and thats all that matters

    Why is fish seen as some sort of torture by some people ?


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    NIMAN
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    Yip, me.

    But I'm a heathen and going to hell anyway.


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    Hedgelayer
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    NIMAN wrote: »
    Yip, me.

    But I'm a heathen and going to hell anyway.

    All aboard...


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    Rikand
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    I had fish. But that's because I fancied a bit of fish and not out of any religious observance


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    rays cyst
    Site Banned Posts: 11 ✭rays cyst


    I want to make a meal of it

    Jew pork, Jew pork


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    Atlantic Dawn
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    I didn't, it's perhaps the only holy Joe tradition I observe, stopped going to mass about 20 years ago, only attend now for funerals and weddings.


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    SureYWouldntYa
    Registered Users Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭SureYWouldntYa


    gctest50 wrote: »
    Why is fish seen as some sort of torture by some people ?

    Its not a rasher sandwich so its automatically loses


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    freshpopcorn
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    I had fish but I like fish.
    I think techinacally your really meant yo fast on Good Friday and eat very little.


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    tony1980
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    Had Steak Sambo for lunch and a nice Cod and Chip from the local chipper for dinner. Had a few G&T’s this evening too. Feck all that Religious codology.


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    Holy Duck
    Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭Holy Duck


    Had salmon but gave the dog a chicken wing, am I in trouble?


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    NIMAN
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    If God exists and we meet him, or St Peter or whoever is on the door that day, do you really think your diet on certain days of the year are going to stop you getting in?

    If it will, then I say God's being a little bit childish.


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    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Holy Duck wrote: »
    Had salmon but gave the dog a chicken wing, am I in trouble?

    You’re grand, dog should say a few hail Mary’s or he’ll end up in hell


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    mazwell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 150 ✭✭mazwell


    I had fish and chips and a row with my husband cus he reckons chicken isn't meat


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    hank scorpio89
    Registered Users Posts: 159 ✭✭hank scorpio89


    mazwell wrote: »
    I had fish and chips and a row with my husband cus he reckons chicken isn't meat

    Its poultry..he is correct 😎


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    Foweva Awone
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    I don't think I did, only coz I'm visiting my parents and they don't cook meat on Good Friday. I don't eat meat every day anyways, so didn't really miss it.


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    Tikki Wang Wang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 332 ✭✭Tikki Wang Wang


    Pork is essential on Good Friday - that way you can offend the Taigs Islamists and Joos in one go!


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    SeaFields
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    Holy Duck wrote: »
    Had salmon but gave the dog a chicken wing, am I in trouble?

    The dog might be in trouble for other reasons. Save yourself the vet bills - don't give the dog chicken bones.

    Otherwise, a few 'our fathers' will see you through.


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    Mint Sauce
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    I had fish yesterday, but then had a meat feast pizza last night. Both were quite tasty.


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    martinedwards
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    For lunch I had a bean chilli made by my son who has gone vegetarian for lent.

    but as I was at a funeral in the morning, I had a few of the most amazing sausage rolls after the service......

    and Pork chops for dinner


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    OldMrBrennan83
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    I accidentally had goujons before I went to bed Thursday night after midnight, so once it was broken I did the right thing and had a fry and more goujons yesterday.


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    Eggs For Dinner
    Registered Users Posts: 2,945 ✭✭✭Eggs For Dinner


    I have to say the burgers in Ferrycarrig Park on matchday are delicious. Dunno if there is much meat in them though, my soul might still be pure


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