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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:25 PM Original message |
During Lent, the lunch ladies at my kids' public school make sure |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:26 PM Response to Original message |
1. ... |
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WindRavenX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:27 PM Original message |
at the dining hall I work at (at a Catholic university)...we always have a fish item |
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WindRavenX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:35 PM Response to Original message |
7. btw |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:37 PM Response to Original message |
11. I went to the State University in my home town , Buffalo, which is |
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MountainLaurel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 05:38 PM Response to Original message |
54. I had that same reaction |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:27 PM Response to Original message |
2. I don't have a problem with that. |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
3. I don't have a problem with that. |
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Pirate Smile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
4. That's nice of them. |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
5. But do they breast feed or circumcise them? |
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Atman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:34 PM Response to Original message |
6. No issue. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:41 PM Response to Reply #6 |
15. I should mention that there generally is a meatlike substance on the menu. |
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orwell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:35 PM Response to Original message |
8. Good for them... |
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Czolgosz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
9. How do the lunch ladies know who's Catholic and who isn't? |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:38 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. I think it is the menu choice for the day. |
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Czolgosz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:42 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. So the lunch ladies at your kids' public school make sure no kids get meat on Friday, and they don't |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:46 PM Response to Reply #16 |
21. No, I mean they refuse to serve the meat entree to the Catholic kids on Fridays in Lent. |
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Czolgosz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 02:07 PM Original message |
I think a reminder is fine, but if non-Catholics are getting meat and Catholic kids are requesting |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:48 PM Response to Reply #16 |
28. Well, there aren't a ton of Catholics here in the first place. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:39 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. It's a small town where everybody knows everybody else. |
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Czolgosz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:45 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. So long as they teach a science in the science course, I'm not gonna fuss about Lenten menu issues |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
10. So? I'd also expect them to make sure the Jewish kids don't get pork |
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T Wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 02:07 PM Response to Reply #10 |
40. Exactly - sounds like a camel's nose under the tent kind of thing. |
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Dr.Phool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
14. My wife is Catholic, I'm not. |
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Bunny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:47 PM Response to Reply #14 |
22. Oh dear god you poor man! |
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Dr.Phool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:56 PM Response to Reply #22 |
33. This thread made me hungry |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 02:47 PM Response to Reply #14 |
45. But, but, you'll be violating the law of God. Leviticus 11:10 |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
17. I am completely shocked - is there no righteous indignation at this |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:47 PM Response to Reply #17 |
26. Sooo they should serve the Catholic kids meat and violate their beliefs instead? |
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Goblinmonger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:51 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. Well |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:56 PM Response to Reply #30 |
34. I see what you're saying. |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:50 PM Response to Reply #17 |
29. No. At least by me, because no one is being forced to do anything. |
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nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:54 PM Response to Reply #17 |
31. eh, to me it's a polite gesture -- thoughtful, that someone would take the time |
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Czolgosz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:57 PM Response to Reply #17 |
35. I'm not so sure this is a violation of the 1st Amendment, which is comprised of both an |
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Bjornsdotter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 02:05 PM Response to Reply #17 |
38. They should |
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DURHAM D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
18. I went through 12 years of public school in the midwest. |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 04:27 PM Response to Reply #18 |
51. I worked at a Protestant church camp for a summer, in the kitchen |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
20. And hopefully they make Kosher meals avilable to the kids who need them. |
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Tsiyu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
23. Where I grew up - upstate NY - we were always served fish on Friday |
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nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
24. that's kinda sweet -- but how do the lunch ladies know the catholics from the baptists? |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 03:06 PM Response to Reply #24 |
49. It's tattooed on the back of their necks |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
25. Oh, that's sweet. I'm not a Catholic anymore, but that's a very nice thing to do... |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
27. I'm going to have a steak tonite, while my wife has cold cereal. |
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Goblinmonger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
32. What bothers me a little |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
36. How do they decide who is Catholic? |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 02:10 PM Response to Reply #36 |
41. They don't "decide", they know who is who either because they |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
37. Don't get it, or have other choices? |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
39. You won't find any one getting meat on Fridays in Louisiana schools |
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htuttle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
42. Since it's Friday, I'm having my usual beef & pork hot dog...in a bun. |
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Democrat 4 Ever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 02:42 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. We always had fish on Fridays in school growing up. All year long. |
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htuttle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 02:46 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. Friday Fish Fries have become popular far and above just Catholics |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 04:30 PM Response to Reply #44 |
52. My parents went out for Friday Fish Fry every Friday since they moved to Wisconsin |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 04:31 PM Response to Reply #42 |
53. No condiments, right? |
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 02:56 PM Response to Original message |
46. I made a point to east meat on Fridays |
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Mad_Dem_X (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 03:02 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. You sound like a cool person! |
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 03:06 PM Response to Reply #47 |
48. That was the only way I was rebellious in school |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
50. How comes this thread got kicked to the Lounge, but |
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