If you’ve ever wondered aloud why ‘Friday is Fish Day’ in the Catholic religion, it’s likely you’ve been given some good reasons, the most usual one being ‘Because the Pope said so.’
But was the real reason behind it all the fact that Thursdays were often sunny and pleasant out by the stream where the trout ran well on Spring days?
Only a monk would really know.
Even in our non-Catholic household when I was growing up in the 1950s and ’60s it was fish on Fridays, “because the Pope said so.!” Great postcard & post!
Interesting that although this postcard is hand-labelled “Medford, Oregon”, and mailed from Portland, and the meadow at least looks reasonably Oregonian — it is a British postcard.
Ode to the days when the Chief of Police would actually receive a post card such as this in San Francisco:)
I remember reading once that the reason Fish on Friday was touted was because fish just weren’t selling in those days. Possible?
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