All Things Christmassy in Poland

I like those. Good at Christmas. In my region we eat them with strong cheese.


Goldfish can indeed be lucky. Fun too; have you read Lace by Shirley Conran or seen the mini-series?

Yes, apart from goldfish, they also keep other animals at Christmas to bring good luck:
e.g, llamas are very popular:

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As well as sheep, donkeys and goats. Sometimes camels.

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Polish people do eat some strange things.
What do llama and camel taste like ?
I have never had any of either. :-)

Nobody in Poland eat llamas. I never did.

Nobody does. It's just more drivel from the attention seeking monkey.

Camel (I've had it many times but avoid it unless I have to eat it to be polite, since I like camels) tastes something between beef and lamb. A bit closer to beef. Not the best meat and usually eaten in places where they cook the meat as soon as it's killed, so it tends to be tough.

You can buy it in Poland at Makro, frozen.

Why did you stop lying?? You lied about Christmas before and now such a change??? :):):)

Ukrainian kvass, Polish bread and Jewish carp at Christmas supper - the amazing unity of 3 nations.

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Cultures, of course.

I prefer that term to nations.

The meal with the three different elements shows how complex Poland is and what a rich history (and present) it has.

A Polish expat in Germany compares two ways of celebrating Christmas

onet.pl/styl-zycia/facet-xl/od-lat-swieta-spedza-w-niemczech-ale-gdzie-im-tam-do-polskiej-wigilii/757y908,30bc1058

- You can feel the holiday atmosphere in Germany, but it's not the same as I remember from Poland - says Adam. - There's no such hectic preparations, cleaning, cooking.
Adam had been to German friends for the holidays a few times. But there was no Christmas wafer, no carols. Modest.
"Germans, at least where I live, in Schleswig Holstein, don't have any traditional Christmas Eve dishes," he says. "They basically eat whatever they feel like eating. If someone feels like having a Christmas Eve wurst, which is a hot sausage, why not? Lent is not generally observed. No one here goes from house to house with a wafer, there are no carol singers."

Who are you talking too?

How is your the carp in the bathtub doing? Did you take your daily bath with it yet?

Don't you mean Polonia whom you have dismissed for years on here as not being Polish? :)


Adam should have gone to the Christmas markets in Berlin, where they are at least serving up pierogi - a Christmas Eve Polish staple - but in Woke German style!

Berlin's traditional Christmas markets reflect city's growing diversity

"So it comes as no surprise that popular Christmas markets include a LGBTQ+ one offering rainbow pierogi and entertainment by drag queens, a Scandinavian market selling moose goulash and reindeer salami and a market tempting revelers with naughty gift ideas."

And in a new tradition they too recall having been the target of a Christmas Season massacre.

"On Dec. 19, 2016, an Islamist attacker plowed through a crowd of Christmas market-goers with a truck, killing 13 people and injuring dozens more in the German capital. The attacker was killed days later in a shootout in Italy."

apnews.com/article/germany-christmas-markets-diversity-lgbtq-international-berlin-b72a76844d045174b1ac42e2a4d34be8

Thats disgusting how they try and destroy religion and young childrens minds with this woke BS. And Pawian the pos supports these freaks.

I hope. Trump wipes out wokeness in America and it spreads to Europe.

Yes, he does. I can't help but think he's been trawling the internet for days, feverishly searching for articles like the one he posted about the Pole living in Germany. And, sure enough, his search ended in hitting pay dirt! It's portrayed as a loss of culture and tradition, but since it's happening in a European country and involves a native tradition, you know he's relishing it.

Hanukkah starts on December 25th, so don't be surprised when he starts posting endless articles, gushing with sentimentality, celebrating how Jewish traditions are not just unchanging but thriving.


LOL!

I only dismiss American Polonia whose classic specimen are you or Joker. You are you-know-what in my opinion. :):):)


Look Who`s Talking Two!!!! hahaha buhahaha


Why feverishly?? Full relaxation on my part when I know you will be vexed on the brink of losing consciousness. hahaha buhahaha.

But that's the point really. It's a largely Protestant tradition in that area and not an Anglican one, but rather 'low church'. Their observances are always low key and close to downright miserable ;) For God's sake, look at the Puritans who banned the celebrating of Christmas.

What??? Now I know why none of my family has ever been Puritan in their lives. :):):)

They did indeed because it had no basis in Scripture. Nothing in the Bible said that Jesus was born on 25th December etc. etc. and in England anyway Christmas celebrations were too closely tied to the old Pagan Yule. All those drunken revels didn't go down too well in the Cromwell camp. Mind you the Scottish Presbyterians were just as bad. They banned it too. There's a reason they take salt and not sugar in their porridge up there :)

And vinegar in French fries !!!!
Or vinegar in chips!!!

:):):)

Ah well now, that's different. There's nothing to compare with salt and vinegar on your chips and that's universal throughout the UK and Ireland.

However, you might be interested to know that during Cromwell's so-called Protectorate, soldiers used to patrol the streets on Christmas Day, literally sniffing out any Christmas food being prepared which they then seized. They probably stuffed themselves silly on it later on back in the barracks.

I meant chips as crisps.
For chips I said French fries.

French fries are not the same thing though. However, as it's Christmas we shan't quibble. I've never liked salt and vinegar crisps even though they were invented in Ireland and my usual mantra is everything Irish is better ;) It has to be cheese and onion for me. which, coincidentally were also invented by Tayto, Ireland!

Amasing!!!! :):):)


Absolutely! :):):)


Now I am at little odds. :):):

IIRC scripture suggests a later summer/early autumn birth.... early in the US (before it was the US) it wasn't celebrated either for the same reason and only really became a holiday much later.

The European holliday seems to be a combination of Roman Saturnalia, Northern Yule and Slavic Koljada (maybe another paganfest or two).

I'm not complaining. I'm not a Christian* but I recognize that a great strength of Christianity is its protean nature that mixes and combines with other practices which no other world religion comes close to matching.

*I have no religious faith but I sometimes describe myself as a cultural protestant...

I found such curious info in the Guide of Culinary Art:

In old Poland, wafers were beautifully painted.

Those were special wafers, not for sharing but to hang on the tree as decoration. Some wafers were even gilt.

Wafers after dyeing the flour with natural pigments gain different colour than white.

. The wafers were not only white, but also colored. The colored ones were intended for animals, mainly cattle. After the Christmas Eve supper, the housewife would collect the leftovers, add such a wafer to them and take it to the stable. It was believed that cows treated to it would be healthier and give more milk. It also meant that people wanted peace with all of creation.

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Those crispsy rolls are called croquettes from French.
Polish fave when stuffed with minced meat all year round but on Christmas Eve they must be filled with mushroom/cabbage stuffing.

Here, only mushroom but also cheese instead of cabbage. The first time I had such and I must say the impression was very positive. Crispy outside and melting inside.

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That would be a nice tradition to revive.