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Anonymous wrote:Potatoes, eggs, cheese omelet on Italian sub rolls. No meat on Friday nights. Catholic thing.

Not a universally Catholic “thing” for this particular meal, but, yes, *six* Fridays a year and Ash Wednesday we Catholics are asked to “sacrifice” a rich or expensive meal containing ingredients such as meat. Different cultures around the world (because “catholic “ means “universal”) have different customs so this is just one example.

Abstaining from meat is universally catholic bc it is canon.

Reread the first post. Catholic thing was referring to no meat on Friday nights. No need mansplain Catholicism. Also everyone eats egg sandwiches during Lent. This just sounds like a tortilla bocadillo

And now I want a tortilla bocadilo

Who is this “everyone”? I’ve never had an egg sandwich in my life, let alone any specific menu during Lent since I don’t celebrate Lent. Are you even aware of other religions/ cultures?

At my grandma's house it was often fried egg sandwiches on homemade buns on summer nights when we visited. I still make myself a fried egg sandwich on bread at least once every couple of weeks.

I just remembered--for breakfast sometimes my mom would boil eggs and we'd eat them mashed up in a bowl with milk, salt, and pepper. Egg cereal I guess? Also milk toast. Other times just cereal (the choices were invariably cornflakes, rice krispies, cheerios, or puffed wheat. I hated puffed wheat then but loved it when I reached adulthood, but it's very hard to find. Everything now is all sugar or fancy organic cereals). The only time we had the sugary cereal was on car trips when my mom would buy those packs of assorted single serving cereal to eat in the car, we'd argue over who got the Sugar Pops)

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Anonymous wrote:Potatoes, eggs, cheese omelet on Italian sub rolls. No meat on Friday nights. Catholic thing.

Not a universally Catholic “thing” for this particular meal, but, yes, *six* Fridays a year and Ash Wednesday we Catholics are asked to “sacrifice” a rich or expensive meal containing ingredients such as meat. Different cultures around the world (because “catholic “ means “universal”) have different customs so this is just one example.

Before Vatican II, Catholics avoided meat on all Fridays, not just during Lent. As this is a thread where people are reminiscing about their childhood, presumably pp is recalling that they didn’t eat meat on any Friday at all.

That's why my elementary school always had tuna casserole on Fridays.

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Anonymous wrote:Potatoes, eggs, cheese omelet on Italian sub rolls. No meat on Friday nights. Catholic thing.

Not a universally Catholic “thing” for this particular meal, but, yes, *six* Fridays a year and Ash Wednesday we Catholics are asked to “sacrifice” a rich or expensive meal containing ingredients such as meat. Different cultures around the world (because “catholic “ means “universal”) have different customs so this is just one example.

Abstaining from meat is universally catholic bc it is canon.

Reread the first post. Catholic thing was referring to no meat on Friday nights. No need mansplain Catholicism. Also everyone eats egg sandwiches during Lent. This just sounds like a tortilla bocadillo

And now I want a tortilla bocadilo

Who is this “everyone”? I’ve never had an egg sandwich in my life, let alone any specific menu during Lent since I don’t celebrate Lent. Are you even aware of other religions/ cultures?

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Anonymous wrote:Brains. But she thought it was too good for us and kept it -- "them"? -- all to herself.

Isn't that tripe? I actually love tripe.

I think tripe is intestines. My immigrant Italian grandparents cooked it for days to make it tender enough to eat.

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Anonymous wrote:Potatoes, eggs, cheese omelet on Italian sub rolls. No meat on Friday nights. Catholic thing.

Not a universally Catholic “thing” for this particular meal, but, yes, *six* Fridays a year and Ash Wednesday we Catholics are asked to “sacrifice” a rich or expensive meal containing ingredients such as meat. Different cultures around the world (because “catholic “ means “universal”) have different customs so this is just one example.

Before Vatican II, Catholics avoided meat on all Fridays, not just during Lent. As this is a thread where people are reminiscing about their childhood, presumably pp is recalling that they didn’t eat meat on any Friday at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Potatoes, eggs, cheese omelet on Italian sub rolls. No meat on Friday nights. Catholic thing.

Not a universally Catholic “thing” for this particular meal, but, yes, *six* Fridays a year and Ash Wednesday we Catholics are asked to “sacrifice” a rich or expensive meal containing ingredients such as meat. Different cultures around the world (because “catholic “ means “universal”) have different customs so this is just one example.

Abstaining from meat is universally catholic bc it is canon.

Reread the first post. Catholic thing was referring to no meat on Friday nights. No need mansplain Catholicism. Also everyone eats egg sandwiches during Lent. This just sounds like a tortilla bocadillo

And now I want a tortilla bocadilo

Who is this “everyone”? I’ve never had an egg sandwich in my life, let alone any specific menu during Lent since I don’t celebrate Lent. Are you even aware of other religions/ cultures?

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Anonymous wrote:Brains. But she thought it was too good for us and kept it -- "them"? -- all to herself.

Isn't that tripe? I actually love tripe.

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Anonymous wrote:Potatoes, eggs, cheese omelet on Italian sub rolls. No meat on Friday nights. Catholic thing.

Not a universally Catholic “thing” for this particular meal, but, yes, *six* Fridays a year and Ash Wednesday we Catholics are asked to “sacrifice” a rich or expensive meal containing ingredients such as meat. Different cultures around the world (because “catholic “ means “universal”) have different customs so this is just one example.

Abstaining from meat is universally catholic bc it is canon.

Reread the first post. Catholic thing was referring to no meat on Friday nights. No need mansplain Catholicism. Also everyone eats egg sandwiches during Lent. This just sounds like a tortilla bocadillo

And now I want a tortilla bocadilo

Who is this “everyone”? I’ve never had an egg sandwich in my life, let alone any specific menu during Lent since I don’t celebrate Lent. Are you even aware of other religions/ cultures?

+1. Not a thing in my very catholic family.

Anonymous wrote:Brains. But she thought it was too good for us and kept it -- "them"? -- all to herself.

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Anonymous wrote:Potatoes, eggs, cheese omelet on Italian sub rolls. No meat on Friday nights. Catholic thing.

Not a universally Catholic “thing” for this particular meal, but, yes, *six* Fridays a year and Ash Wednesday we Catholics are asked to “sacrifice” a rich or expensive meal containing ingredients such as meat. Different cultures around the world (because “catholic “ means “universal”) have different customs so this is just one example.

Abstaining from meat is universally catholic bc it is canon.

Reread the first post. Catholic thing was referring to no meat on Friday nights. No need mansplain Catholicism. Also everyone eats egg sandwiches during Lent. This just sounds like a tortilla bocadillo

And now I want a tortilla bocadilo

Who is this “everyone”? I’ve never had an egg sandwich in my life, let alone any specific menu during Lent since I don’t celebrate Lent. Are you even aware of other religions/ cultures?

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Anonymous wrote:Potatoes, eggs, cheese omelet on Italian sub rolls. No meat on Friday nights. Catholic thing.

Not a universally Catholic “thing” for this particular meal, but, yes, *six* Fridays a year and Ash Wednesday we Catholics are asked to “sacrifice” a rich or expensive meal containing ingredients such as meat. Different cultures around the world (because “catholic “ means “universal”) have different customs so this is just one example.

Anonymous wrote:I think in the U.S. my mom's cabbage might seem unusual, but it was totally normal and still is normal in my country. Basically cabbage soup thing, which we still eat. Now that I think about it, when I moved here when I was 22, I used to make it all the time and bring it to work to eat. People looked at me really weird about it! Might explain how I did not gain the weight back then though!

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Anonymous wrote:Potatoes, eggs, cheese omelet on Italian sub rolls. No meat on Friday nights. Catholic thing.

This is so confusing to me. You are not supposed to eat animal products during Lent! That is like the only rule the Orthodox church has for Lent. Except for some fish. SOme strict observer will eat fish on certain days during Lent, some will eat is all the time during Lent. Now, you tell me that Catholics are allowed eggs and cheese during Lent? So, in Orthodox church, you can be "vegan" with fish for Lent, but in Catholic, you can eat dairy and eggs, but can you eat fish during Lent? It seems to me like we just invent whatever we want and call it Lent.