Fishy Friday or not?

FGT
But I usually (unless invited out) have fish & chips from the chippy round the corner every Friday night. The queue was out of the door tonight being GF. £7:50 and delicious as always!

Wow £7.50. I pay £11.50 which is the average price locally.

I often have fish on a Friday. This evening cod loin, new potatoes, samphire and Hollandaise sauce.

Tuna pasta here but all the fish and chip suppers sound wonderful 😀

I wish we had a good fish and chip shop, but our one is always disappointing

Yes, fish tonight and fish every Friday.

It is Roman Catholic tradition but Protestants stopped eating fish on Fridays. As a result, the fishing industry suffered so Edward VI issued a decree that fish must be eaten on Fridays.

It's become a tradition for many.

What a load of tripe! Eat what you want.

My local fish and chip closed down, and the next is too far away now I no longer have a licence. I couldn't afford it there as it cost me £17.50 and that was around 3 years ago. I am amazed they are still in business charging that amount for one portion of haddock, rather than cod and chips.

Charleygirl5

My local fish and chip closed down, and the next is too far away now I no longer have a licence. I couldn't afford it there as it cost me £17.50 and that was around 3 years ago. I am amazed they are still in business charging that amount for one portion of haddock, rather than cod and chips.

We got two pensioners fish and chips yesterday lunchtime and they cost £8.00 each. The portions were large. 1 portion of chips went straight into the freezer for another day. The pieces offish was a bit smaller than average, but not much.

Purplepixie

What a load of tripe! Eat what you want.

But not tripe 🤮

Not RC , but always eat fish on Fridays and usually on Tuesdays too.
This evening I had a piece of hake.

The price of a full size cod and chips around here is £14 Charleygirl but the fish keeps getting more expensive.
I would pay it if the meal was tasty but the last time we bought from the Chip Shop it was very greasy.
We aren’t religious and our plan is to have fish tomorrow evening (cooked by me).

Yes we have fish on Fridays but then I love fish and we have it in some form or about three times a week.

The Holy Church decrees no meat on Fridays, but fish is OK.

How contradictory is that?

Fish IS meat surely? It has fins and scales and lives in the seas as opposed to walking around pasture on four legs.

Same difference.

We had sea bass and pac choi. I’ve realised we usually have fish on Fridays, not for religious reasons, but practical.
We have a fish van that comes on a Friday so we eat the Sea bass fresh!

We had home made fish pie, from the freezer.

Usually have it on a Saturday, but as I had been to a Good Friday church service, I wanted something easy that I didn’t have to prepare when I got home.

DH says they always had fish on GF, but his family were not remotely religious.

No I never a tradition in my life, I do eat fish regularly however and fish and chips occasionally on Saturday but I do begrudge the price nowadays £14 last time.

We had seafood risotto last night. If I say so myself, it was delicious! 😉

I'm also not RC but my Methodist parents always served fish on Good Friday and I have continued the custom. Granted yesterday it was haddock fishcakes and salmon fishcakes from the local fishmongers, so nothing fancy but very delicious they were. Lamb will be served when the family come over for an Easter lunch. Again what we did as children and carried on.

We always had fish on Good Friday but I had a vegetarian pasta dish yesterday which was delicious.

Met a friend for coffee yesterday and passed an award winning chippy - it was 10.45am, not yet open and people were queuing outside!

mae13

The Holy Church decrees no meat on Fridays, but fish is OK.

How contradictory is that?

Fish IS meat surely? It has fins and scales and lives in the seas as opposed to walking around pasture on four legs.

Same difference.

Catholics eat fish on Fridays—particularly during Lent—as an act of penance to honor the day of Jesus’ death (Good Friday). The tradition involves abstaining from warm-blooded land animal meat, which is seen as a delicacy and "flesh," while fish is traditionally allowed, often symbolizing a simpler, humbler food.

Cut and pasted AI.

Well the lasagne was enjoyed by all, including my reluctant husband!

Interesting how many of us ate fish/vegetarian.

Have a happy and peaceful Easter weekend everyone.

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.

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!

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!