Fishy Friday or not?

I had scampi and DH cod at Wetherspoons, excellent. Never eat meat on Good Friday, that was how we were brought up.

Fish on Friday was the only school dinner that was edible. We have fish on Fridays (or any other day) when we can.
This Good Friday it was a smoked salmon and cream cheese croissant at the airport, though DH had it in a bagel instead.

Good Friday we had fish when parents were alive , used to be steamed cod done in a ream sauce with mash potatoes and peas .
Myself will buy the ready made version of the above and stick to that tradition.
Mick

Purplepixie

I can’t believe people still keep up this tradition of eating fish on Good Friday! I won’t say anymore in case I’m strangled!!! Happy Easter!

But why shouldn't they? How many people ate roast lamb yesterday because it is a traditional Easter dish, or turkey at Christmas? Of course not everybody does but most of us have some habit that has no rational other than it is a habit from your childhood or that you developed at sometime in your life and that has the comfort of familiarity.

I can’t believe people still keep up this tradition of eating fish on Good Friday! I won’t say anymore in case I’m strangled!!! Happy Easter!

Since Vatican 2 there has been no obligation to not eat meat on Fridays, but Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are still fast days for those of us who are healthy enough to fast. There is an age limit to the obligation too, but I do n ot remember if it is 60 or
70.

So basically it is up to each of us to decide what the obligation to fast means.

Your meal sounds nice, OP, but if you have always had fish and chips I understand your husband's disappointment.

Not that we have reach Easter Sunday, I would love to know whether you froze that lasagne or ´not.

We had kedgeree on Friday night. A coincidence rather than a plan!

I used to dread Friday when my Grandad caught fish from his boat on the Sussex coast and gave them to my Mum. I hated the fish bones and wasn’t keen on the actual fish.

Would enjoy it now as it tasted so much better when freshly caught.

Oreo

I always eat what I want, when I want 😃 we’re only here on Earth once (I think😲) so that’s my reasoning.

Pretty much my philosophy too - although I admit that we do quite often have fish on a Friday, but that's purely because we usually do our 'big' shop on a Friday and there is a very good fishmongers not too far from us with the most amazing selection of fish and seafood you could imagine.

I always eat what I want, when I want 😃 we’re only here on Earth once (I think😲) so that’s my reasoning.

I’ve never eaten fish. Historically only those living on the coast would have eaten it before fridges were invented. Monks ate fish from their ponds on fast days.
My mother always served up fish on Good Friday and I ate cheese.

Abstinence from mammal and bird flesh meat.

Seems easier to say fish, imo.

Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.

keepingquiet

I do find it entertaining how people stick to these traditions long after all meaning (for them) has gone!

As a Roman Catholic who still observes Friday abstinence, it really just means abstaining from meat and only applies to adults between 18 and 50, I think.

So yes fish is a traditional alternative but as it has become so expensive I just have a quiche (last night) or a veggie pizza sometimes, even though I no longer need to!

As another RC, it is 18 to 70. As I said, the rule is not to eat meat, rather than having to eat fish.

Fish doesn't have to be wet fish off a counter it can be tinned fish. I love tinned fish, especially pilchards and use it, plus other tins or fresh fish for a meal on any day of the week.

Not feast days. Maybe you meant fast days. There are only two days of fasting in the Church's year-Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, neither of which are feast days. Even then it doesn't mean going without any food- one full meal and one light meal, hardly that difficult.
Things like Cafod Lenten lunches are not obligatory either.

keepingquiet

I do find it entertaining how people stick to these traditions long after all meaning (for them) has gone!

As a Roman Catholic who still observes Friday abstinence, it really just means abstaining from meat and only applies to adults between 18 and 50, I think.

So yes fish is a traditional alternative but as it has become so expensive I just have a quiche (last night) or a veggie pizza sometimes, even though I no longer need to!

From being very little I always remember fishy Friday, at school it was always fish on Friday.

Fasting and abstinence was for 18-50 year olds on certain feast days…..we all knew about it when my Mother was fasting😬

When our sons were at school they used to do CAFOD lenten lunch, they swore they didn’t eat anything other than the meagre lunch but one of them did once get a headmasters detention for meeting a pizza delivery driver on the outskirts of the school boundary!

I do find it entertaining how people stick to these traditions long after all meaning (for them) has gone!

As a Roman Catholic who still observes Friday abstinence, it really just means abstaining from meat and only applies to adults between 18 and 50, I think.

So yes fish is a traditional alternative but as it has become so expensive I just have a quiche (last night) or a veggie pizza sometimes, even though I no longer need to!

I’d definitely like the undyed smoked haddock and chorizo with rice etc. What flavoring do you use?

Our nearest supermarket discounts fish on a Friday, so OH brought back some skate wings - delish with brown butter and capers.

Not a RC but, growing up, we always had fish on Fridays. The reasoning was that it would always be super fresh.

I have noticed that even the non-religious refer to "fish Friday", so it must be a custom which has stuck.

Eating alone, so will probably have omelette and salad. I don't eat meat in any shape or form anyway.
Witzend, that sounds delish, put a a plate out for me please!

Wyllow3

Greyduster

I’m having fish cakes and salad tonight, but to be honest, most days are fish days here. I just love it.

Same here. Salmon 4 nights a week: I love undyed smoked haddock best of all, and would have it a lot, but it's very expensive, as are decent prawns. Thai flavour fish cakes if done well, food of the gods.... I could go on, but will take the salmon out of the freezer now to save defrosting it tonight.

I was brought up in Hull, where as a child of course it was a major fishing hub: ironically, it was so cheap it was sometimes regarded as the "poor persons alternative": unfortunately my Dad fish wise would eat only kippers!

We get the undyed haddock from the fish van, it’s the one fish we always buy and it’s superb!
There are Rugby matches on today so we are having our (now) traditional “rugby day” meal of smoked haddock and chorizo macaroni cheese. It’s a wonderful recipe from the lovely girls that run the seafood shack in Ullapool.
It would seem a shame to use the haddock with such strong flavours but, it is an amazing dish.
Now, all I need is a Glasgow win!

I’m not religious but we did have salmon last night . We occasionally have a fish and chip supper with friends on a Friday .
I love fish and we have it about twice a week.

Out at the grandchildren’s. Who cooked us a roast followed by trifle.

And delicious it was.

I didn't give it a thought! I cooked cheese stuffed chicken thighs wrapped in bacon.

Greyduster

I’m having fish cakes and salad tonight, but to be honest, most days are fish days here. I just love it.

Same here. Salmon 4 nights a week: I love undyed smoked haddock best of all, and would have it a lot, but it's very expensive, as are decent prawns. Thai flavour fish cakes if done well, food of the gods.... I could go on, but will take the salmon out of the freezer now to save defrosting it tonight.

I was brought up in Hull, where as a child of course it was a major fishing hub: ironically, it was so cheap it was sometimes regarded as the "poor persons alternative": unfortunately my Dad fish wise would eat only kippers!

Catholics eat fish on Fridays—particularly during Lent—as an act of penance to honor the day of Jesus’ death (Good Friday).

I am RC and love fish and seafood. So not a penance for me!

Having been brought up a high Anglican, it was always fish on Friday. Over my adult years this has lapsed except for Good Friday when it still applies, as it did yesterday. No, Lamb is for Easter Sunday, symbolising the lamb of God rising into Heaven.