Friday, March 17, 2006
St. Patty I need your help
The Arch-Diocese of Boston (who's patron saint is St. Patrick) has given dispensation to Catholics to eat corned beef today. Catholics are not supposed to eat meat on Fridays during Lent as a respectful gesture toward Christ's fasting in the wild.
The 'no meat on Friday' rule was instituted when Italian fish merchants where having a tough time and not a lot of folks where eating the seafood they were catching. A Pope wanted to help the local economy so he made this rule and bing-bada-boom Long John Silvers has a boom during March.
One more puzzle piece: St. Patrick was a Scot killed by the Irish.
Let me get this straight: a made up rule to boost an economy is broken so the indulgences of a culture, who killed the revered hero, during a time of fasting creating a holiday marked by a gluttonous base-line so the economy benefits from the sale of corned beef.
I don't get it. I'm going to have a lobster and cabbage roll and a Guinness chaser.
The 'no meat on Friday' rule was instituted when Italian fish merchants where having a tough time and not a lot of folks where eating the seafood they were catching. A Pope wanted to help the local economy so he made this rule and bing-bada-boom Long John Silvers has a boom during March.
One more puzzle piece: St. Patrick was a Scot killed by the Irish.
Let me get this straight: a made up rule to boost an economy is broken so the indulgences of a culture, who killed the revered hero, during a time of fasting creating a holiday marked by a gluttonous base-line so the economy benefits from the sale of corned beef.
I don't get it. I'm going to have a lobster and cabbage roll and a Guinness chaser.
// posted by Bo @ 8:49 AM 
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