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First Friday of Lent...what's for dinner?

#1 Postby PTrackerLA » Fri Feb 27, 2004 4:39 pm

For all the Catholics out there or anyone else who abstains from meat on Fridays what did y'all have today? I had some vegetable pizza for lunch and tonight I'll be having Crawfish! :grrr: I can't wait (some penance huh? lol)
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#2 Postby bfez1 » Fri Feb 27, 2004 4:40 pm

Seafood--Probably a fried soft shell crab dinner

For lunch I had an egg salad sandwich I made myself and I ordered some fries to go with it.
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#3 Postby JCT777 » Fri Feb 27, 2004 4:40 pm

Not sure what I am eating for dinner tonight. Pizza does sound like a plan, though. 8-)
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#4 Postby GalvestonDuck » Fri Feb 27, 2004 4:48 pm

Sushi!

I wish. :)

Haven't had seafood yet today. Just a grilled cheese sandwich for lunch and a dose of cough syrup for breakfast. I'm desi driving tonight so I'll probably skip anything major for dinner, eat whatever meatless snacks they have at the hangouts, and drink lots of Diet Pepsi. Friday nights are free food nights in Galveston. A lot of my favorite places to go have a nice spread of hors d'oeuvres. Cadillac Bar (I think they're exclusively in TX) on the Seawall closed. They used to have free buffalo wings, quesadillas, nachos, and queso.
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#5 Postby Suzi Q » Fri Feb 27, 2004 4:55 pm

I'm not Catholic but I'm having tuna melts. If I were Catholic, would that be ok? :?:
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#6 Postby JCT777 » Fri Feb 27, 2004 5:00 pm

Suzi Q wrote:I'm not Catholic but I'm having tuna melts. If I were Catholic, would that be ok? :?:


I believe so, since tuna is fish and fish does not count as meat.
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#7 Postby bfez1 » Fri Feb 27, 2004 5:28 pm

Suzi Q wrote:I'm not Catholic but I'm having tuna melts. If I were Catholic, would that be ok? :?:


Perfect, Suzi!
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#8 Postby Lindaloo » Fri Feb 27, 2004 5:35 pm

Crab patties here even though I do not eat meat anyway. lol. Felt like I should at least join in with the seafood eaters today. :)
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#9 Postby ColdFront77 » Fri Feb 27, 2004 5:57 pm

Having pizza in the next half hour, order was called in a few minutes ago. :)
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#10 Postby CajunMama » Fri Feb 27, 2004 6:33 pm

Lunch was a tuna fish sandwich and for supper we're having some kind of frozen fish nuggets, french fries and an undecided vegetable!
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#11 Postby azsnowman » Fri Feb 27, 2004 6:35 pm

"Mary *had* a Little Lamb!"

I'm not Catholic SO....tonight's menu, Mary's Little Lamb Shanks on the BBQ in a BLINDING snowstorm!

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#12 Postby deb_in_nc » Fri Feb 27, 2004 8:26 pm

I'm not Catholic either but I had fried catfish for lunch.
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#13 Postby GalvestonDuck » Fri Feb 27, 2004 10:13 pm

Suzi Q wrote:I'm not Catholic but I'm having tuna melts. If I were Catholic, would that be ok? :?:


That would be fine. :)

Fish, eggs, veggies, and fruits are all good. The reason we abstain from eating red meat is because back in the old days, meats like beef and pork were festive foods for feasting (was that redundant? :) ). The rich could afford to eat those foods pretty regularly. So, in an effort to discipline their will and show penance for their sins during Lent, they gave up indulgences like meat and ate the more commonly accessible foods like fish. Of course, it's done on Fridays because Jesus died on a Friday. The forty days is symbolic of the many occurrences of 40 days of discipline in the Bible, most notably Jesus' time in the desert. The actual time between Ash Wednesday and Easter is longer than 40 days (46, to be exact) because Sundays don't count. Jesus was resurrected on Sunday, so it is a day of celebration, not abstinence or fasting. However, depending upon how you were raised and taught, some people like me continue to abstain from whatever indulgence it is that they gave up for Lent. But in terms of diet, Sundays are feast days.

I've had non-Catholic friends ask about our sacraments and Lent and things like that, wondering why the Catholic church makes "rules" that supposedly aren't in the Bible. The basis for Lenten abstinence is in Daniel 10:2-3) -- "I, Daniel, mourned for three weeks. I ate no choice food; no meat or wine touched my lips; and I used no lotions at all until the three weeks were over."
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#14 Postby george_r_1961 » Sun Feb 29, 2004 4:32 pm

Well I worked all day..10AM till midnite. So I had a veggie sub with extra extra extra cheese and half a jar of mayo on it for lunch..along with a diet coke of course. For dinner I had ice cream and lasagne. :D
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#15 Postby GalvestonDuck » Sun Feb 29, 2004 4:42 pm

Half a jar of mayo and extra extra extra cheese?

Good gosh, George!! I hope you eat Cheerios for breakfast. Is your cholesterol high? Please tell me you weren't serious.

...and a diet coke? LOL!
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#16 Postby hurricanedude » Sun Feb 29, 2004 6:22 pm

Hot Dogs and Pork and Beans.....dont forget..Im Pentecostal...LOL
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#17 Postby GalvestonDuck » Sun Feb 29, 2004 6:50 pm

Dude -- just curious...PHC, AOG, or UPC?
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#18 Postby hurricanedude » Sun Feb 29, 2004 6:52 pm

AOG
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#19 Postby GalvestonDuck » Sun Feb 29, 2004 6:58 pm

Cool! So you're a Trinitarian also. :)

I had an interesting encounter with members of a UPC church down here in Galveston, in regards to the Trinity vs. Oneness debate. That's just such a bizarre concept.
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#20 Postby streetsoldier » Sun Feb 29, 2004 9:30 pm

We had tuna steaks. "O, for-TUNA..." :wink:
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