"Ranée at Arabian Knits" > wrote in message
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> In article >, "news" > wrote:
>
>>
>> "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.

On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:32:21 -0500 in rec.food.cooking, "news"
> wrote,
>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.

Oh, come on, news, if that *is* your name. Common knowledge is all
the explanation you need to understand "preparing for the Lenten
fast by feasting".

On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:39:46 -0800, David Harmon >
wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:32:21 -0500 in rec.food.cooking, "news"
> > wrote,
> >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.
>
> Oh, come on, news, if that *is* your name. Common knowledge is all
> the explanation you need to understand "preparing for the Lenten
> fast by feasting".

You don't even need common knowledge, just reading comprehension.

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