Posted on 09/09/2014 4:08:53 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Chicken is meat.
The Catholic church could allow the traditional observation of Friday abstinence on Mondays, making this a religious observance in the schools.
Play their game.
Oldeconomy,
I’m Methodist, but decided to follow tradition a few years ago and go “meatless” on Fridays. In our modern society, it is way easy to go meatless with lots of options. Still, it has been rewarding spiritually.
Heaven forbid that secular schools might be in tune with many of their students and simply have meatless Fridays. Fish sticks? On no! No religion in schools.
This whole meatless Mondays stuff is so leftist it makes me sick.
Sorry, that’s my opinion.
Oldplayer
That wouldn’t make sense.
“The Friday Fast is an Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Anglican practice of abstaining from meat on Fridays.
According to Pope Peter of Alexandria, the Friday fast is done in commemoration of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday.
Abstinence is colloquially referred to as “fasting” although it does not necessarily involve a reduction in the quantity of food.”
Source: Wikipedia
This just in...SUN RISES IN EAST.
Meat is expensive. If I’m skimping on it at home, why shouldn’t it be limited in tax subsidized school lunches? Those receiving the free and reduced breakfasts and lunches have obama voting parents. Too bad so sad.
Sorry. I mistakenly thought that you were responding to the subject of this article.
No, the Mississippi school cafeteria fare seemed more interesting.
My public elementary school (1960s) always had meatless Fridays: fish sticks, "tuna boat with cheese sail," macaroni and cheese. No shocker, the district was mostly Irish and Italian. And some Jewish kids, who, if they practice their faith, know a lot about fasting and abstinence.
I think it's called being "sensitive" to the local culture, right? But nobody used that expression then. Someone would kick your butt if you did.
That keep using that word “meat.” Nothing I ever had pushed on me in a government cafeteria had any resemblance to meat.
When I was in high school in the early 60s, our cafeteria served fish on Fridays. I doubt there were more than a dozen Catholics in the entire school system.
No one complained about it despite the fact that the vast majority of students were Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist or Pentecostal.
Long ago, San Francisco has surrendered and become the No. 1 wimp city in America. These leftist jellyfish would surrender to a cupcake recipe.
As I recall, fish on Fridays was not uncommon among Protestants then, either, was it? . . . I mean, despite the existence of such expressions as "mackerel snapper" for Catholic?
(My father, who had an Irish Catholic mother, told me that one.)
I don’t recall Fridays having any special meaning to our family or our church.
One of the reasons we didn’t mind fish on Fridays was it was in no way a sacrifice to us. We liked it as well as any other meal.
Interestingly, our cafeteria served good food. Their rolls were always great. They tasted almost as well as they smelled and that aroma was fine.
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