"Cross Contamination" and Abstinence from Meat

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Does eating a non-meat food that has had contact with meat violate the law of abstinence? For example, at the sub shop I frequent, the workers wear the same pair of gloves for several sandwiches in a row. If the gloves they are wearing while making my veggie sub have previously handled meat, is it still okay for me to eat the veggie sub on a Friday during Lent?
 
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Food workers are supposed to change their gloves when handling food.

I personally wouldn’t but that’s just my opinion.
 
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Does eating a non-meat food that has had contact with meat violate the law of abstinence?
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No. nononnononononono. no.
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If the gloves they are wearing while making my veggie sub have previously handled meat, is it still okay for me to eat the veggie sub on a Friday during Lent?
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Yes. yesyesyesyes. yes.

I hope that you are just curious, and not someone with the heavy burden of scrupulosity.

There are a multitude of reasons why meat on Friday is not to be eaten, but instead, fish. Fish seems the most common substitute.

My mother could make fantastic desserts; the main meal was not her forte. One has not suffered penance (perhaps) until one had the “privilege” of eating her vulcanized fish sticks. And if you have never had a brown crust seared into the bottom of a fish, and so dried out that one needed liquid with it to be able to swallow, one has not really “experienced” the penance of Fridays.

It took me until I was in the Army to appreciate how fish should be cooked - and if you have never been in the Army, I am describing faint praise. To me, a piece of fish deliciously prepared as it should be, is equal to or better than some of the best meat.

But I digress…
 
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