"Ranée at Arabian Knits" > wrote in message
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> In article >, "news" > wrote:
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>> "Ranée at Arabian Knits" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > Anyone making anything interesting?
>> >
>> > We are preparing for the Lenten fast by feasting tonight on homemade
>> > corn dogs (uncured, organic, blah, blah hot dogs), potato wedges,
>> > roasted corn with lots of butter, two kinds of potato doughnut and pear
>> > fritters. How about you?
>>
>> I suppose you are Western Rite Orthodox. Eastern Orthodox Great Lent
>> began
>> yesterday (Clean Monday) and we (meaning those in the faith I grew up
>> in)
>> do not observe Fat Tuesday or Ash Wednesday, but instead, some have a
>> feast
>> on Sunday.
>>
>> Old habits die hard, so I will stop eating meat and dairy. My doctor and
>> cholesterol levels are happy!
>
> We are western, though not Orthodox. Not to get too much into
> religion here, but our church is a kind of middle ground between east
> and west - though our calendar is often closer to the western calendar,
> we tend to observe the fasts and feasts more like the east (without
> getting into any theology.
>

The OP is all about a religious food tradition. Not everyone observes
these holidays so if you bring up the subject you ought to be prepared to
explain it further to the uninitiated.