R'uh r'oh!! Corned beef brisket, St Paddy's Day and LENT !!

[Pat Mustard]

Yeppers.

St. Patrick's Day is on Friday, March 17 this year, and it's during LENT !!!!

A popular holiday treat/staple, brisket is also beef, and many observant Catholics buy into the fish on Friday's thing and eschew (other forms of) meat.

Todays' Omaha World Herald notes some dioceses are granting dispensations for parishioners to swap Friday and Saturday for their meat free day, others it's going to be  a no go.


Of course, it is all EXTREMELY silly, Jesus never mentioned brisket or Lent for that matter, so it's a another way for the poohbahs to poobahficate their poobahficantism.

I rather like brisket, although I'm watching my sodium these days.  I might splurge and get the pricey premade pre-sliced stuff at WalMart, just for the fun of it all.

Actually it is a point of catlick dogma for centuries that National Drinking Day is not a part of lent.