Fryday

This and every Friday for the next 6 weeks: All you can eat fish.

Having grown up Catholic (and leaving with no bad taste in my mouth), I am familiar with fasting from meat on Fridays during Lent. It's a small act of sacrifice and mindfulness about the season we're in.

Certainly sacrificing meat for a day isn't a big deal. Well, unless you're a carnivore. Like me. I don't think a meal really counts unless there's meat. Beef, chicken, pork, bacon. All delicious. All necessary.

But if you're really devout, you can eat fish on Fridays. I have wondered why "fasting" from meat somehow makes an all-you-can-eat fish fry an acceptable alternative. It seems like maybe we've missed the point. This isn't anything new, though. Read any of the prophets and you'll see it's the old, old story of God's people.

Oops.

Anyone giving up anything for Lent?