[WillowTheWhisp]

Fish on Fridays has absolutely nothing to do with eating it when it's fresh. They didn't just catch fish on Fridays.

Originally people could and did eat fish several times during the week. They also ate meat on whichever day took their fancy. However, the Catholic church chose to not eat meat on Fridays in rememberance of the death of Jesus. Maybe it was based at first on not wanting to kill an animal on the same day that Jesus was killed.

But, because people may not have been willing to be vegetarians once a week the church declared that eating fish was OK because fish wasn't meat. Apparently for the purposes of abstaining from meat on Fridays beavers were officially classed as a vegetable according to Fr. Henderson (now deceased) of St. Joseph's - not that you find many beaver joints on sale in Accy.

We used to have fish on Tuesdays and Fridays but I don't think there was any religious significance to the Tuesday, it was just my Mum's weekly meal plan.