Is it Prince Spaghetti night?

Is it Prince Spaghetti night?

  • No, never

    Votes: 12 37.5%
  • Yes on Wednesdays

    Votes: 2 6.3%
  • Sometimes

    Votes: 11 34.4%
  • Penne or Rigatoni maybe

    Votes: 2 6.3%
  • Pasta formerly known as Prince Spaghetti night

    Votes: 6 18.8%
  • At least twice a week!

    Votes: 3 9.4%

  • Total voters
    32
  • Poll closed .
This is a fun synopsis of the Catholics & fish history:
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesal...e-the-fishy-tale-behind-eating-fish-on-friday

These days, I'm often rather amused at the whole notion of eating fish on "fast days" as a sacrifice. It made perfect sense where I grew up near the Gulf Coast. Dad was a p/t commercial fisherman, and we had fish all the time. It was the cheapest thing for us because all you had to do was drop a net. Dad ran a small trawler, and a typical drop hauled in around 300 lbs., some of it bycatch that got thrown back, but most of it we kept and ate. In a typical fishing day he would drop the net about 4 times just for our own food, so we'd end up with close to a half a ton of food for the price of a tank of fuel. Cheap fish? Check.

Now I live in the Midwest, where fish is much more scarce and expensive; it's usually the second-most expensive dish on most menus (right behind prime beef). Yet, somehow, people here still eat fish as a Lenten "sacrifice". Personally, I always take this rule with a grain of salt: if it's expensive I don't eat it on fast days, even if it is technically allowed. So, things like pasta with truffle sauce are out, too.

Oh, and no Prince spaghetti. Not marketed anywhere I've ever lived.
 
Wow, I forgot about that canned brown bread! Ate it as a kid, but haven’t seen it in ages. It was really good toasted with cream cheese. :bitelip:
 
































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