It's Friday in Lent

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  1. LSUgirlinTx

    LSUgirlinTx Is it game time yet?

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    I'm glad you feel better after voicing your opinion. How did I know somebody was going to say this....sigh, alright...

    Catholics do not eat meat on Fridays in Lent as a form of penance. It's that simple. It, like the actual definition of a ritual, is an established pratice that we have been doing since way (and I mean waaaay) back in the day.


    I can see where a person doesn’t understand this as a form of penance when you see lines out the door and people ordering The Ace at Mike Andersons. That could also be looked at as our good luch in geography. Obviously we on the Gulf Coast have easy access to seafood and we also know what to do with it. I'm sure that Catholics in Denver have a hellofa time- frozen fish sticks for everyone!
    Not everyone goes buck wild and orders all you can eat catfish as apart of their "penance". One of my friends only eats beans and rice for dinner, and for rest of the day he fasts. We also have church fish fries on Friday. I like it because it makes me feel apart of a larger community, like I have some form of family in Houston.

    Believe it or not it is difficult. Just like when you really want something but you cant have it- you crave it.


    Now I feel better

     
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  2. LSUgirlinTx

    LSUgirlinTx Is it game time yet?

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    I could talk all day about what you just put! SO TRUE! You cant throw a rock in Houston without hitting a former Louisiana native and yet it's still difficult to find authentic LA stuff. There are a lot of things that are "Louisiana" like some begnet places and there is an Hebert's here, but something is missing...

    There aren’t any good seafood stores here (you have to drive to Kemah for that- and that's a drive I'm not willing to face on a weeknight). I remember when I was a kid we would go to several around BR and you would walk in, hear the Propane tank going, have the spice of the crawfish boil hit you in the nose and back of your throat, and load up. Nothing like that here. I could go to "You buy, we fry...cajun/chinese food" places but I'm not going to touch that with a 10 foot pole.

    If somebody wants to make a bunch of money please move to Houston and open up a CC's franchise. I'll be your #1 customer.
     
  3. HatcherTiger

    HatcherTiger Freedom Isn't Free

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    http://www.hebertshouston.com/
     
  4. LSUTiga

    LSUTiga TF Pubic Relations

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    I always figured that "Back in the day" people fasted and the availability of seafood was non-existent. Even my grandparents, early on, didn't have electricity and would take turns butchering calves with the neighbors cause the pretty much had to eat it before it spoiled.

    One neighbor butchered a calf and split it. When the next neighbor butchered one of theirs, they did the same.

    I always assumed that, as seafood became more readily available, people were accustomed to excluding red meats and didn't see the seafood in the same light and that was how we got off track.

    I have no specific knowledge of this but the only logical thing I could ever come up with as to why I couldn't have a ham sandwich but a dozen fried shrimp were o.k. :confused:
     
  5. TigerBait3

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    we generally eat speckled trout/flounder/crawfish, grits, or some shrimp variation. but when that gets old, i just walk down the frozen section and buy some lean cuisine pizza or alfredo crap. its pretty good.
     
  6. NoLimitMD

    NoLimitMD Founding Member

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    :thumb: Good post. It's essentially like a REALLY weak version of Ramadan.

    Surprisingly, in all my years around Catholics, that's either the first time I've gotten such an explanation or I've forgotten it everytime somebody has told me. Thanks for posting this.

    And everyone else, if I'm asking the same question in about 50 weeks, please direct me to this thread.
     
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  7. LSUgirlinTx

    LSUgirlinTx Is it game time yet?

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    Glad to have helped. BTW- if sarcasm is an art consider me Picasso :thumb:
     

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