I was going to give Cultural Culinary Dilemma it's own thread; but this one is seguing nicely into as it is, so I'm just gonna add that thread to this one.
As we all know, tomorrow starts Passover, which means tomorrow is the traditional Seder (even though Passover continues 7 or 8 days, tomorrow is pretty much the big one) and it's also Good Friday.
Now, say a person was raised Catholic - which I was - and continued to follow Catholicism as an adult - which I didn't - but was married to a culturally Jewish woman - which I am.
Now I don't adhere to abstinence (no meat on Friday) but let's say a person did; and the person had a Seder to attend after Sundown - that would be a little bit of a pickle.
Because ya gotta have chicken liver pate, and ya gotta have chicken matza soup it's just part of the whole thing, ya just gotta; which means obviously that it couldn't be a dairy meal, so the main dish would be meat, brisket or chicken for the most part.
So what would a person who couldn't eat meat on Good Friday do?
Beyond that; it's also a day of fasting; in the Catholic definition, only two light meals and no snacks - obviously the Seder dinner is going to interfere with that too.
So what would a person do?
Would a person seek absolution from the Priest, making the argument that after sundown, the no meat thing really didn't apply?
Might one support that by making the point that Jesus was culturally Jewish himself; and had had a meat dish Seder meal just the night before Good Friday?
Could one start the whole fast and abstinence thing Sundown Thursday night, making it 24 hours, most of which would been over the course of Good Friday, and figure that was good enough?
This secondary add on thread is for entertainment purposes about stuff that some people are quite serious about, just like the primary thread is too.
