Why carp for Polish Christmas?

just for reference for the english carp are botton feeders but so are cod and you eat millions of them.................

We know what a carp is thank you.


predominantly bottom feeders is a more accurate description

A CARP pen ter named Jesus would tell you that you were all like carp once - bottom feeders at heart but equal in all respects - but then a few wanted to be better than the rest and decided to maked a break for it and use the bottom feeders in a game to see which would get caught and which would not bite at their hookers and allures. Eventually, they found that some had grown so wise that they would play a game with the fishermen where the fish they were fishing for became the real fishers of men who would catch (off gaurd) all the men that thought they were awaiting a (high and) mighty catch that day. Instead of being the one catching, cleaning, then cooking a fish, they were catch of the day themselves waiting for something much more shocking than they ever could have EXpected. That's why they C 'n E at the begining of the END. It's 'e' as in elecTRICK that shocks them the most. Hi Daulton. See you 'p' as in much later plater boy. Splater splater guts!

I guess that is why the polish carp were called "Królewski Karp"

The Greek word for fish ichthys is an acronym for Iesous Christos Theou Yios Soter, Jesus Christ God's Son Saviour

That's a mouthfull !!!!!!

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Karp with Christmas ?

Is anybody on this forum eating karp on Christmas' Eve?
Poland has a lot of nice traditions...but this one belongs not too that category.

For me it has a hideous taste...But I also feel sorry for the fish themselves when I seem them packed together in a water tank in the hypermarkets...

So I am lucky my wife does not like it either :)

I guess why it's so popular is because it's cheap and readilly available.

It is a little bizarre to me that it is the traditional dish for wigilia, but so many people dislike it.
After 4 years here I would say that at least 20% of people are not keen on carp at Christmas.

Three years and you haven't figured it out yet...? Man your culture is complex. ;P

Yep ... I'll be flying to Wroclaw tomorrow. Then on the 23rd, I'll put my wife, my mother-in-law and a carp (and most of the other traditional Polish meals/ingredients) in a car and drive back to the Netherlands to celebrate Christmas over here, together with my mother.

No carp for me though. This afternoon I'll go to the butcher's and order a nice piece of venison steak. I'll serve it with some nice garlic potato wedges and a red wine sauce. Infinitely better than carp, if you ask me. I particularly look forward to my dessert: a nice piece of stilton, soaked for two weeks in red port. I can't wait.

Do you put it in living or dead? the carp, not your mother-in-law.


Do you prepare it in any other way, baking etc?
Sounds delicious, wow my mouth is actually watering thinking of it.

The carp is dead and my mother-in-law alive (at least that is my plan at the moment ... :D)


No, just like that ... with a nice piece of french bread. The port has completely soaked into the cheese. It's absolutely gorgeous.

Because Poles just love to carp on about things.

I think it is tradition - carp was brought to Poland around XIII century and was popular.


- What? Why? Not true.


- You think farmed salmons are any better? That's daydreaming.


Sure there are, many ways. Carp is a bit fatty, but fried in proper temp. can be very nice.

Salmon instead carp is like hamburgers and chips instead of pierogi and barszc!

Royal carp (karp królewski) with only one line of scales along the back and weighing about 2-2.5 lbs are the best, as they have fewer and larger intermuscular bones and the best-tasting flesh. The worse is the sazan (wild carp) covered all over by large scales.

An Afro-American (who incidentally fancy carp more than white Americans) once told me that after cleaning and rinsing a carp it should be salted and frozen before cooking. That supposedly removes any off-flavour.

HAHAHAHAHAHAH!





- anyway Ciprinus carpio...

Illinois is now exporting the invasive carp to China where it is regarded as a delicacy.

wbez.org/story/news/illinois-company-begin-exporting-asian-carp-overseas-markets

"The Yellow River Carp" is famous in China for thousands years cause it's delicacy.The Han people in north China value the carp,because the carp means lucky and rich.In chinese new year or wedding,the Han people in north China eat carp in tradition.

In lengend the carp in Yellow River which fortunately jumped cross the"Long Men"(the gate of dragon),will be burned the tail by lightning,and then the carp become a dragon.

The carp(chinese call 鲤） in north China taste better than in south China.

The carp which invade USA,chinese call 白鲢 OR 大头（big head） , chinese like the head of this fish ,because full of fat in it's big head.

The nvasive Asian 'flying' carp in the US is known in Polish as a tołpyga. They are very good eating (I've had them in Poland), in fact better tasting than the common carp. Another vareity is the amur (grass carp in Englsh), used in the west to keep unwanted aquatic vegetation and algae in check in lakes and ponds, as they are prue herbivores.

if the carps are in the bath......when do the polacks have a shower or a bath???

do poles shower for Christmas??

For three whole days a year we have as much grease in our hair as Spaniards do throughout their lifetime. :)

the carp learn to swim out of the way.

Why not?

Today, I had carp at school mock Christmas Eve. My portion was smaller than my neighbour`s, that`s unfair! Why am I always disadvanteged?

Plus, I bought 3 fish which are now racing the bathtub.

only just picked up on this thread, but it made me laugh! i really like carp, but its certainly not eaten that often by us brits! so you have the xmas period with the mother-in-law....will she still be alive after nye..:D

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Where did you keep your live carp and did you kill it or free it?

I am more surprised that people keep their carp in the bath. Did your children ask you not to kill it? Any funny stories?

The people in this video as far as I can tell deny killing their own carp.

I had carp in Polish Carp, it was pretty good and tasty. It was marinated in onions for some time. The Only thing i was missing in it was tad bit of seasoning. I am sure Polish Carp is not fed crap. Then recently, I thought lets try a carp here in texas. I soon realized that It was nasty and tasted kind of like sewer dwelling fish.

I wonder if keeping a wild Texas carp alive in fresh, spring water for 2-3 days would remove any off-flavours. That's what they do in Poland with pond-bred carp. After being removed from the pond they are kept in freshwater tanks before reaching the retailer.

Not exactly. The carp that are supplied to stores in Poland are bred in captivity, in something like a gigantic pool. They drain this pool when the fish are the right size, and collect them. These are clean fish fed pellets and not mud feeders.

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A group of animal rights activists in Szczecin are demanding 'rights for fish' outside shopping centers.

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Should fish have rights?