The ship crew eats only vegetables on a banyan day.
banyan day
idiomIn British naval tradition, a day of the week when galley kitchens served no meat on board ship.
Origin
disputed originAccording to the OED, the term is borrowed from the Banyans in the East Indies, a caste that ate nothing that had life.
Because the ship ran low on supplies, the captain declared that Friday would be a banyan day.
The sailors grumbled about the lack of meat, yet they accepted the tradition of the banyan day as a necessary measure for rationing.
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