Catholic Guilt

[Ajay]

"forgive me Father for I have sinned..."
So with Lent starting yesterday I have chosen to give up chocolate, biscuits and crisps - ( I lose some weight whilst a local good cause benefits from the money I would've spent = win/win)

So imagine my horror tonight when I found myself sharing a bag of Doritos with my daughter, a lightening bolt of guilt shot through me as I realised I had failed my pledge on only the second day, or had I?

Of course Doritos are chips and not crisps, they are made from corn not potato.

I have rationalised the situation with my conscience, it was a waver (not a Quaver) and after a few Hail Marys I am back on track with my fast.

However, the incident has raised a question, what is the difference between a crisp and a chip? I don't know, do you?

 

[colly]

A crisp is just a flat chip. That's crisp.

Not too big on crisps tbh. Now and again they are ok but can not abide some of the fluorescent, toxic things that pass for snacks today.

 

[col]

we say crisp, the yanks say chips?

 

[vernon]

Crisps are made of potatoes. Chips are made from cornmeal.

Just like you said.

A bag of crisps per day for a year means that you'll have consumed around four litres of oil. I was sceptical until I did the calculations.

 

[Ajay]

But at my local Chippie, the chips are made from potatoes not cornmeal!

 

[TheDoctor]

Crisps are made from potatoes, Doritos aren't.
Your conscience is clear, albeit something of a technicality.
"I did not have crisps with that woman!!" sort of technicality...

 

[Globalti]

Go and flog thyself with a branch of hyssop and thou shalt be absolved from thy sins. Alternatively buy me a bottle of whiskey and I'll see yer right in the confessional....

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Were they your daughter's Doritos offered to you? St Francis would claim that to refuse to eat them because of some Lenten scruple is a sin against your daughters hospitality.

PS you do know Sundays are not part of a Catholic Lent, right?

 

[tyred]

PS you do know Sundays are not part of a Catholic Lent, right?

Is that really true? asks the good Presbyterian

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Is that really true? asks the good Presbyterian

Yep. Though the practice has varied over history and folk custom/tradition in Catholic countries like Ireland clouds the issue. Sundays remain a day of celebration even during Lent. Lent lasts 40 days. Count the days and you have to exclude the Sundays to get 40. We don't do penance when we celebrate do we?

I, with a clear conscience, shall certainly take a little wine, in moderation, on the Sundays of Lent having given up alcohol for the season.

 

[numbnuts]

Sundays remain a day of celebration even during Lent. Lent lasts 40 days. Count the days and you have to exclude the Sundays to get 40.

I didn't know that

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I didn't know that

you are not alone. we left footers are not good on the actual rules but we all know what we thing the rules actually are...

 

[Maz]

what is the difference between a crisp and a chip?

About 3,500 miles I reckon!

 

[Ajay]

Thanks for the input folks, I'm going to stick with my unofficial definition of a crisp as "thinly sliced potatoes, fried and eaten cold". This leaves the door open to the likes of Doritos, Pringles and other such junk, but I shall boycott those for reasons of health and taste rather than religious ideology.
However, I now realise I broke my pledge anyway on Wednesday night when I imbibed hot CHOCOLATE as a bed time drink when in a hotel.
I guess I'm destined for hell whichever way I slice it.

(or does crappy hotel instant chocolate not count as "chocolate"....)

 

[GrumpyGregry]

(or does crappy hotel instant chocolate not count as "chocolate"....)

only in as much as looking at Page 3 can be likened to committing adultery. so not very much at all.