Ash Wednesday

Well, it’s Pancake Day ™ today, and that means tomorrow is Ash Wednesday. Presumably the ash is related in some way to the burning of pancakes.

Or something.

Anyways, how come you can’t eat bacon butties tomorrow? Or any meat apart from fish, which apparently you can as it’s not really meat or something.

I’m confused.

So 20 bacon butties for me for breakfast I think!

And according to the always-true Wikipedia…

“During the early Middle Ages, meat, eggs and dairy products were generally forbidden. Thomas Aquinas argued that "they afford greater pleasure as food [than fish], and greater nourishment to the human body, so that from their consumption there results a greater surplus available for seminal matter, which when abundant becomes a great incentive to lust”

Seminal matter, huh?

Tsk.