Seafood Friday - Rubio's

It's the first Friday of Lent so if you're Catholic, then that means no meat on Fridays.

According to wikipedia's entry on "Fasting and abstinence in the Roman Catholic Church" (my comments in yellow):

"Current practice of fast and abstinence is regulated by Canons 1250-1253. They specify that all Fridays throughout the year, and the time of Lent are penitential times throughout the entire Church. All persons who have completed their fourteenth year are bound by the law of abstinence on all Fridays unless they are solemnities (that's a holy day - I actually had to look that up). All adults are bound by law to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday until the beginning of their sixtieth year.

(By abstaining from meat on Fridays, you are supposed to show penance for your sins. Man, if this was the case for me, I'd be a vegetarian!)


...The current regulations concerning Lenten fasting and abstinence for Roman Catholics in the United States generally are as follows:

• Abstinence from all meat is to be observed by all Roman Catholics 14 years old and older on Ash Wednesday and on all Fridays of Lent.
• Fasting is to be observed on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday by all Roman Catholics who are 18 years of age but not yet 59."

Well, I'm not a strict Catholic but since today was the first Friday of Lent, it seemed like a good time to use one of these at local San Diego fast food joint, Rubios:

I ended up using the first coupon - the burrito with Mesquite shrimp. It was kinda pricy dammnit. I'm sch a tighta$$. Fearing the burrito might not be enough, I also ordered a fish taco on the side. The burrito came with chips (but no beans).

Here's the burrito cut in half. Lots of filler - rice and beans. My co-workers told me, "Let me know if there's any shrimp in there!"

And yayssss! There were loads of skrimps! (Say that in a Morrid Day voice!) Every bite had nicely seasoned skrimps. I could have done with less rice but yes, skrimps galore!

Not bad, but I think that's the last time I'm going to buy a $6 burrito. The fish taco was good, as usual but I really do miss Fins. The closest Fins used to be near Bonita Road but that closed several years ago and is now Cotija's taco shop where they have some killer potato tacos! I have very plebeian tastes when it comes to this kind of food. Not of that high falutin' fish taco crap at the higher end places for me.

Who else ate at Rubio's?

Mary from Foodies: A Southern California Foodblog wrote about joining the Rubio's beach club - you can get coupons (hence my coupons!) plus free food on your birthday!

Cathy from Mmm-Yoso posted about Taco Tuesdays. Yum!

Paul, creator of the webcomic Cooljerk, wrote a guestpost on his wife's blog (Darlene)My Burning Kitchen and actually met Ralph Rubio at a foodblogger meetup!

The dude from Food Coma 911 did not post on Rubio's but instead, went to San Felipe, the source and inspiration for San Diego entrepreneur Ralph Rubio to open up his own restaurants in San Diego!

More seafood coming up...