What’s this not eating meat stuff? You hardly qualify as Catholic. Eat up!

Yes, I know, Amy and I already had this discussion. But since I’m already going to hell, I’m at least trying to stave it off for a bit.

My mom totally lost her mind and made chili last Friday.  It was yummy, I had seconds.  With cheese.  Mmmmmm.

Mmmmm ... cheese ...

Shit, we gots to stop it here, ladies, because I’ll be 220 if I keep this up. For real.

Great, you are offering something up for Lent!

Plus, there are plenty of great BBQ joints open at 12:01 AM.

Is it the actual meat that you are craving… or would the sauce on something else suffice? 

Strange question, I know… but I just love the bbq sauce…

BBQ sauce on those little imitation crab meat stix is good.

Unless, like Snidge says, you crave Meat, in which case, you’ll have to talk to Wad; I’m off market. hey, is that alowed during lent?

I’m eating mongolian beef from a chinese joint. My company bought us all chinese food for lunch today. Yummers.

Wad condemned himself to hell with a chicago dog today.

Same with “The Boy”. Though, given the spawn has not even been baptized, the Wad thinks that this might give “The Boy” a loophole to extort.

Wad’s not sure what og means about Wad and meat, but Wad can grill a mean steak.

Mmmmm… Steak.

Besides, Wad is quite sure that snidge is not interested in Wad’s meat.

I had Milkmaid caramel chews for lunch, because they were free at the BIA Home Improvement Show.

Stupid check not getting here in time for me to pay my rent a day early.

Pulled pork sounds kind dirty! heh!

You know, I think I’d like to pull some pork ...

I think the weekend officially arrived.

Never understood the meatless Friday thing, especially after learning the reason for it in High School… can’t remember at the moment, but it was pretty lame.  Something having to do with boosting fish sales during the renaissance.

Reminds me of 2 jokes.

1)
KFC meets with the Pope and tells him that they’ll donate $1 trillion dollars to the Catholic Church if they agree to change the daily prayer from “Give us this day our daily bread” to “Give us this day our daily chicken”.  The Pope returns to his advisors and announces that they may have to give up the Wonder Bread account.

2)
A Methodist moves into a neighborhood of Catholics and every Friday fires up the grill and grills himself a nice steak.  The smell is overwhelming and soon the neighborhood is pressuring the local priest to do something.  After much badgering the man finally submits to convert to the Catholic faith.  The priset holds a ceremony and declares “You were born Methodist, you were raised Methodist, and now you are a Catholic”.  The neighbors rejoice that the problem is now resolved.  However, Friday comes and once again there is the unmistakable aroma of cooking steak.  The neighbors rush to the newly Catholic man’s backyard and see him standing over the meat declaring “you were born a cow, you were raised a cow, now you are a fish!”

Heretically delicious,
Dix

Found a reference on Meatless Fridays:

“Abstaining from meat goes back to the fourth century. At that time, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays were days of abstinence from meat. By the twelfth century, abstaining from meat was required on only Ash Wednesday and on all of the Fridays of the year. In 1966, the U.S. Bishops decided that fasting (and abstaining from meat) should be required only on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, and that abstinence from meat only on Fridays of Lent. This 1966 guideline is the practice of today’s Church. Over the years, age guidelines have been added to the Church’s fast and abstinence practices. Specifically, everyone 14 years of age and older are required to abstain from meat on the prescribed days. All those between 18 and 59 are asked to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. On fast days, one full meal and two smaller meals (all without meat) may be taken. The two smaller meals should not equal another full meal. The laws on fasting and abstaining from meat do not apply if someone cannot fulfill them, at any age, due to health concerns.”

I love how religion gets “easier” as time goes on.

So, if you’re fat, which is a health concern, and are on the Atkins diet… does this mean it’s Ribeye night on Fridays?

You wanna talk tough abstinence, try Ramadan.  No food during daylight hours for a full 28 days.  And I’m not talking sunup to sundown, it includes dawn and twilight.

Yom Kippur’s no picnic either (no pun intended): no food for 24 hours.  Though after 2pm you really stop noticing your stomach trying to eat itself.

Funny thing is, all the Muslims I know look at Yom Kippur and think it’s tough, while I think the same of Ramadan.

Who knows, maybe meatless Friday really is tough and I just don’t know because I’m not Catholic.  I’ll tell you one thing though… sure make getting into steakhouses on Friday nights easy during March.

Black Angus Bound,
Dix