[Sca-cooks] a Lenten question-

[Mark Hendershott]

At 08:01 AM 2/11/05 -0800, you wrote:
>I took a psychology of food abuse calss, and one fo
>the things we talked about was cultural eating habits.
>  And the Prof hypothesiszed that it's no coin- umm..
>can't spell.. random quirk that Lent happens to fall
>at the end fo winter/early spring - for millenia there
>wasn't going to be a lot of preserved food, meat  or
>dairy left over from the winter, so "choosing" not to
>eat it, or saying "i can't eat this becasue God said
>so" is a lot easier to handle than "OMG we have no
>foooood!!!  I want some fresh cheese and I want it
>NOW!"
>
>Aurelia

I've always thought the prohibition on diary was, knowlingly or not, 
because young cows are born in the spring (unless man interferes) and the 
milk is needed for the young.

Simon Sinneghe
Briaroak, Summits, An Tir