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>> "Ranée at Arabian Knits" > wrote in message
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>> > Anyone making anything interesting?
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>> > 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.
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>> Old habits die hard, so I will stop eating meat and dairy. My doctor and
>> cholesterol levels are happy!

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> 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.
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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.


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On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:32:21 -0500 in rec.food.cooking, "news"
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>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".
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On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:39:46 -0800, David Harmon >
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> 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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