Do you really think that eating fish on a Friday is a penance?

Not a Friday fish person. Eat it when I feel like it That tradition fish for Friday began when the tall ships brought in the troops and they needed to be paid and fed. They brought in huge catches of fish and that was on a Friday. The King (close to the church) decreed only fish could be eaten on Friday so that way the people could only buy fish and the men would get their wages.