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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 09:41 PM Original message |
Growing up Catholic and not liking fish was never easy for me. |
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Zuni (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 09:48 PM Response to Original message |
1. my dad had the same problem |
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 09:51 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Have you ever had salmon patties? |
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mykpart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-28-09 04:56 AM Response to Reply #3 |
22. My mother made those. |
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DarkTirade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 09:50 PM Response to Original message |
2. There's an old catholic saying... |
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rurallib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 09:58 PM Response to Original message |
4. Me also. I usually ate peanut butter until ....... |
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KitchenWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 11:43 PM Response to Original message |
5. I ate a lot of peanut butter. |
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-27-09 11:45 PM Response to Original message |
6. Not Catholic, no idea. Why no meat on Friday? |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-28-09 12:20 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. As I recall, |
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-28-09 12:23 AM Original message |
So "without food for 40 days" became "no meat once a week"? |
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-28-09 12:37 AM Response to Original message |
12. It's mostly used for Lent now. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-28-09 12:44 AM Response to Reply #9 |
14. In Bavaria the restaurants' special on Fridays is generally a cheese or fish based dish |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-28-09 01:08 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. That might be tradition, |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-28-09 01:23 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. No it's not a purely US thing. Nor was it vegetarians trying to make a point in most restaurants... |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-28-09 05:10 AM Response to Reply #17 |
24. not a US thing, we didnt eat meat on a friday |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-28-09 12:15 AM Response to Original message |
7. Pizza for me back then....what a sacrifice ! |
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DeepBlueC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-28-09 12:17 AM Response to Original message |
8. Wasn't it a bitch? |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-28-09 12:23 AM Response to Original message |
10. Everyone in my family hated fish, |
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Career Prole (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-28-09 12:34 AM Response to Original message |
11. What I hated was no eating Sunday mornings until... |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-28-09 01:11 AM Response to Reply #11 |
18. In my church, |
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Career Prole (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-28-09 02:05 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. ROFL! |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-28-09 12:38 AM Response to Original message |
13. Fish Sticks and Tater ToTs...that was the extent of it for my mother. |
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MrSlayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-28-09 12:44 AM Response to Original message |
15. The only meat a priest could eat on friday was nun. |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-28-09 12:45 AM Response to Original message |
16. Yeah, especially if you grew up as I did in a New England Irish family, where Friday |
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crimsonblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-28-09 02:13 AM Response to Original message |
21. why? |
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mykpart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-28-09 05:08 AM Response to Original message |
23. I was twenty before the Vatican relaxed those rules about |
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