If you’re craving Pollo Tropical on Friday but are a dedicated Christian, you may hesitate because you realize that it’s Lent, and assume Pollo Tropical is taboo. But guess what? Throughout Lent, Pollo Tropical is offering several items with shrimp, as a Lenten alternative to the chicken or “beefy” pork and rib offerings on their menu.

Lent is the most important and somber period of the Christian year. Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Methodists and several other Christian denominations practice this forty-day observance (beginning with Ash Wednesday, ending with Easter Eve). Fridays are considered fasting days, and meat consumption is prohibited on all Fridays and several Holy Days of Obligation throughout Lent.