I hope you remembered to eat red meat on Good Friday!
You are really enjoying your anti-Catholic kick aren't you
Fasting has a well established tradition in the church. Origen, and early Christian theologian, wrote about how Christian fast on the 4th and 6th day of the week (Wed. and Fri), and the Lenten fast has very early origins as well. Mind you, the Early Church had a stricter interpretation of the Lenten fast, as well as the Weekly fast, than the modern Catholic Church, but the changes in the Catholic church seem to mostly be more recent. The Orthodox church still practices strict weekly fast, and a strict Lenten fast. Red meat on Good Friday is absolutely not allowed
Mind you, regarding one of the earlier threads, Orthodox Christians do not believe that fasting will "earn" them salvations, but rather that it is a good spiritual practice. Fasting periods should be a time to focus on fasting from iniquity and the prescribed foods, in order to teach the body not to be ruled by its passions, even its passions for food, and a time to focus on alms giving and prayer.