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R'uh r'oh!! Corned beef brisket, St Paddy's Day and LENT !!
March 2, 2017 at 9:56 pm
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.
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R'uh r'oh!! Corned beef brisket, St Paddy's Day and LENT !!
March 2, 2017 at 11:26 pm
Did you know that the Fillet-O-Fish was made to fill a need for Catholics that won't eat burgers during lent? That's right, it's a religious food.
Personally I love the motherfuckers even though I'm a Atheist. Extra tarter sauce for me.
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RE: R'uh r'oh!! Corned beef brisket, St Paddy's Day and LENT !!
March 2, 2017 at 11:46 pm
Oh!! But dear God in Heaven, HOLD THE FUCKING CHEESE !!!
(yeah, I'm one of those don't combine seafood and cheese types)
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R'uh r'oh!! Corned beef brisket, St Paddy's Day and LENT !!
March 2, 2017 at 11:50 pm
The cheese stays.
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RE: R'uh r'oh!! Corned beef brisket, St Paddy's Day and LENT !!
March 3, 2017 at 12:02 am
At least I came upon it honestly. I was at a relatives house and was served tuna noodle casserole, and there was melted cheese on top. Despite having that sort of dish at literally countless family, church and school functions before, on that day it hit me the combo of cheese and tuna was thoroughly off putting.
About the only item I've encountered since that was acceptable was the fake krab and cheese crap at the Chinese buffet. I think the paucity of actual crab (and the mostly TVP) content allows for the cheese to be Ok in that dish.
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RE: R'uh r'oh!! Corned beef brisket, St Paddy's Day and LENT !!
March 3, 2017 at 9:48 am
(March 2, 2017 at 11:46 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Oh!! But dear God in Heaven, HOLD THE FUCKING CHEESE !!!
(yeah, I'm one of those don't combine seafood and cheese types)
One does not simply hold the cheese.
I had no idea you ate Kosher, vorlon. 
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RE: R'uh r'oh!! Corned beef brisket, St Paddy's Day and LENT !!
March 3, 2017 at 10:01 am
I dreamt about CB&C and fiddler crabs last night.
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RE: R'uh r'oh!! Corned beef brisket, St Paddy's Day and LENT !!
March 3, 2017 at 10:16 am
All the tourists to San Diego seem to want to find the best fish tacos. I'm 41 and had my first fish taco a few months ago and am addicted now. I'd be a happy lent observer.
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RE: R'uh r'oh!! Corned beef brisket, St Paddy's Day and LENT !!
March 3, 2017 at 10:36 am
Fish tacos are the bomb.
It occurs to me that the filet o fish should be awful - square "fish" of questionable provenance, American "cheese", craptacular cheap white bread bun... yet it isn't. I have no idea what that means, but now I'm wondering whether or not McD's in Mexico have them - there's one a couple walking miles away. I doubt it.
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RE: R'uh r'oh!! Corned beef brisket, St Paddy's Day and LENT !!
March 4, 2017 at 9:00 am
When St. Patrick's Day falls on a Friday the Church in many places usually removes the obligation to abstain from meat for that day.
I find the Church's practices on fasting and abstinence during lent to be totally absurd. Did you know that eating meat on a Friday in Lent or not fasting on Good Friday or Ash Wednesday is a mortal sin that will by itself send you to Hell under Catholic teaching? Imagine what that conversation in Hell might be like:
Damned Soul 1: "So What are you in for?"
Damned Soul 2: "Rape and murder primarily, you?"
Damned Soul 1: "Ate a ham sandwich on a Friday in Lent."
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