Because on this day a Vesperal Liturgy is celebrated, no food or drink is consumed until its conclusion - that is around 3 or 4 pm at the earliest.
Jerusalem Typikon: one cooked dish and wine
After the dismissal of the Liturgy, “we enter the dining hall and eat a cooked dish, and drink wine, and eat other foods without oil” (ch 49).
Note: Oil is not specifically mentioned, which may indicate that it is not served, especially in the context of instructions in the Psalter.
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Psalter: cooked food without oil, wine, and other food without oil
“On Holy and Great Thursday, we eat cooked food without oil and also drink wine and [eat] other food without oil. For the Council of Laodicea, in canon 49 concerning Great Thursday says: it is not appropriate to loosen [the fast] on Thursday of the last week of Lent, and thus dishonor all of Lent.”
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Studite Typikon: one cooked dish, wine, and kolliva
“[We] eat one cooked meal, and kolliva, and cooked beans, and we drink wine.”
Note: Oil is not specifically mentioned, which may indicate that it is not served.
Note: kolliva - from Greek κόλλυβα - boiled wheat; in this context the word could mean any boiled grain or porridge.
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Mount Athos Typikon: one meal of two cooked dishes with oil and three cups of wine
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We worship Thy Passion, O Christ.
Show us also Thy glorious Resurrection.
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