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Good Friday once fell on Easter Monday.
It might have been at Doncaster!

Hi Malone, you may well shiver, it looks and smells yukky! That said, the stall where it was sold, Tubby Isaacs, is/was world famous (sort of) - you might enjoy these old photos:-

http://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/13/so-long-tubby-isaacs-jellied-eel-stall/

The 'green sauce' you mention is indeed called 'liquor', but it's served with pie and mash, another East End 'delicacy' - it's actually not bad, again, sort of!

Brendan, thanks for that - and now that you explain the 'liquor' I remember hearing about it. It was on the list of things that I made sure I would never eat!

Rossim, a great gag - I loved it!

Very good Rossim, I like it :-)

Rossim's got the right idea. Good Friday was the name of a horse that fell in a race in 1899 on a Tuesday.

Thanks, Orson - and I still laughed at your version! I thought I was going to acquire more Easter knowledge … not that I'd have retained it anyway.

bear of lb

There was a very interesting discussion about Easter on another thread (non-Pedant). It was humorous and people seemed to enjoy it. I think my comment on this thread led to your posting.

Your analysis is interesting and I have not heard some of the terms since school days. However most people have no passion for Passiontide or qualms about palms. I think pedants can choose what they are interested in, but I am glad they use the correct terminology.

EASTER-
I should have said that my intention was as much to be helpful as pedantic.

I would have responded before but went away for a few days very soon after my earlier post & am only just returned.

I suppose I should add that my earlier post only applies to the western Church: the autocephalous churches of Orthodoxy have their own & very different rules, some of them being different from one another - for example some still follow the Julian calendar rather than the Gregorian.

I trust that Malone especially will appreciate that I had no wish to be censorious, rather enlightening. More liturgical minutiae can be made available on request!

Bear, thanks.

There was some interesting stuff in your earlier post, much of it was totally new to me. I'm afraid, though, that I will stick up for anyone (individual, company, organisation) who refers to 'Easter Saturday' when they're talking about the day before Easter. I feel your terminology is true only for the (relatively) small number of people who accept all the Holy Week rules, titles, whatever.