re: #305 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Germany is big on pork, which I do not eat a lot of, and good fish is hard to come by in most places. So dead chicken is pretty much the default meat setting.

In a few weeks I will start my annual Lenten meat fast: I turn Good Catholic for six weeks before Easter and do not buy or bring home any meat (I am not strict or religious about it, I just avoid it to a great extent).

Here the primary churches are Roman Catholic. (There are numerous flavours of Protestant churches, but the Catholic Church has a much larger presence.) There is also one Greek Orthodox Church in Bridgeport (pop 1,100) but I am not sure how their calender works as compared to the Roman Catholic adoption of the Gregorian system.

As such, restaurants tend to offer Lenten meals on those Fridays of Lent, and grocery stores will pare back orders of meats as sales tend to drop a bit. The two local butchers (one in town, one way out in the middle of nowhere that also butchers game animals for a price) generally just lower their prices during Lent.