[Sca-cooks] semi-topical: Good Friday dinner?

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Chris Stanifer:
>Beer is allowed during Lent, right????

It has been alleged that strong/heavy beers such as bocks were 
designed to help people get through fast days. Germans still call 
beer in general, and especially the heavy ones, "liquid bread".

Adamantius
-- 




"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la 
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them 
eat cake!"
	-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques 
Rousseau, "Confessions", 1782

"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
	-- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry 
Holt, 07/29/04