Posted on 02/27/2007 12:32:29 PM PST by Alex Murphy
LOL. It's all about the buck.
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not sure how Catholic fasting works but wouldn't the cheese be a deal breaker?
Now that's assuming that what McDonalds calls cheese actually cheese...and it's not.
Dairy is ok during fasting, at least for Catholics.
but McDonalds is an EVIL, EVIL BIG CORPORATION!
/sarc
Perhaps one of our Catholic friends can chime in on this point. One will be around shortly, anyway - they'll be "anonymously" adding the keywords MOACB and/or FASCINATEDWCATHOLICS to the thread :)
Nah. In my pre-McDonald's childhood, we always had cheese pizza on Fridays during Lent. :-)
This is my first Great Lent since I was chrismated as Orthodox. It's not too hard to give up meat, but dairy is difficult.
Come to think of it, Orthodox could not have the cod or even the tartar sauce either.
Filet-O-Shrimp, anybody?
Nope, cheese is good...otherwise I'm in trouble for the grilled cheese I fixed last Friday night :)
My daughter's Catholic school serves cheese pizza on occasion on Fridays during Lent.
Cheese is fine. Meat is not. That's why there are so many Friday fish fry's around the country.
lobster sans butter... etc...
my wife is being very vigilent this year in keeping me on track with orthodox fasting...
goodbye coffee with cream.
i didn't realize orthodox and catholic fasting differed on that...
Do you guys fast from fish, but not from shellfish?
How about cephalopods (squid, octopus)?
Frisch's Filet of Sole (it was actually HALIBUT) was the BEST sandwich EVER!! When their store Prime and Wine burnt down, that was the end of the Halibut sandwich.....I still miss it!
Of COURSE you can eat cheese during Lent.
This article says it's OK for Irish Catholics to eat meat(corned beef) on Lenten Friday's that happen to coincide with St. Patrick's Day!!
Check out this New Zealander's catch. It could feed the entire Orthodox Church ...
This handout picture taken December 2006 in the North Pacific Ocean some 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo, shows a specimen of a deep-sea giant squid. A New Zealand fishing boat has landed what is believed to be a world record squid weighing an estimated 450 kilograms (990 pounds).(AFP/National Science Museum/File)
Can one of the Orthodox explain why dairy is restricted during Lent?
I'm going to go out on a limb, here ... make a wild guess ... and suggest that huge squid would probably taste really bad. They have a significant ammonia content in their flesh.
Yep. That's the rule followed in my better half's family.
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