[Sca-cooks] Lenten stufff, chickens, fish and vegetarians...

[Marcus Loidolt]

Middle Eastern Lent, that is Orthodox Great Fast starts NOT on March 1st but on February 27th, the Monday before Western Ash Wednesday...Rome and the West counts the Sundays...the East does not...
  Also bear in mind that for the West, one might be allowed fish or other cold blooded animals on Fridays and so forth, not so in the East. According to St. John Chrysostom in the 3rd.cent. "let no food derived from any spined thing pass your lips on these days of the Great Fast..." "Keep with Joy and Feasting the Day of Resurrection, let every Sunday be filled with joy, music and feasting for all!"
  So that even today in the Eastern Church, both Catholic and Orthodox, one will find the observant faithful ABSTAINING from meat, but consuming dairy and egg products on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and FASTING from all animal products on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. While Sunday, again being the Day of Resurrection, is forbidden to fast and so one might enjoy non spined/invertabrates and dairy, as well as foods which might have a meat broth or gravy but which is less than 1% of the dish.
   
  Also, no chicken that I've raised has been vegetarian....they are among the most aggressive omnivores I've come across, next to pigs, coons, and teenage boys!!!
   
  Abot Johann von Metten
  medieval poultrier

  

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Message: 11
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 23:49:52 -0600
From: "Michael Gunter" 
Subject: RE: [Sca-cooks] Speaking of Lent....
To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
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>Neither chicken nor fish are vegetarian.
>
>joy
>radei

Sheesh. Some people you have to explain the
joke to...

Gunthar




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