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1jolaThreads: 33
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Joined: Sep 23, 08 ♂ 		 Jan 12, 10, 08:40    #121
espana:
what is in the menu for new years eve in poland ?

Champagne, you peasant.
slask miller  Jan 12, 10, 14:23    #122
just for reference for the english carp are botton feeders but so are cod and you eat millions of them.................
szarlotkaThreads: 14
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Joined: Feb 20, 07 ♂ 		 Jan 12, 10, 14:35    #123
slask miller:
just for reference for the english

We know what a carp is thank you.

slask miller:
carp are botton feeders

predominantly bottom feeders is a more accurate description
thefisherman  Jan 12, 10, 22:19    #124
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!
polkamaniacThreads: 1
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I guess that is why the polish carp were called "Królewski Karp"
sjpatejak  Jan 21, 10, 19:26    #126
The Greek word for fish ichthys is an acronym for Iesous Christos Theou Yios Soter, Jesus Christ God's Son Saviour
polkamaniacThreads: 1
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That's a mouthfull !!!!!!
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Joined: Jun 1, 08 ♂ 		 Dec 16, 10, 16:49    #128
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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 :)
polkamaniacThreads: 1
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I guess why it's so popular is because it's cheap and readilly available.
nickyspaghettiThreads: 3
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Joined: Oct 20, 08 ♂ 		 Dec 17, 10, 09:14    #130
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.
Ashleys mindThreads: 7
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Three years and you haven't figured it out yet...? Man your culture is complex. ;P
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sobieski:
Is anybody on this forum eating karp on Christmas' Eve?


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.
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Stu:
Then on the 23rd, I'll put my wife, my mother-in-law and a carp... in a car and drive back to the Netherlands to celebrate Christmas over here, together with my mother.


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

Stu:
stilton, soaked for two weeks in red port.

Do you prepare it in any other way, baking etc?
Sounds delicious, wow my mouth is actually watering thinking of it.
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SeanBM:
Do you put it in living or dead? the carp, not your mother-in-law


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

SeanBM:
Do you prepare it in any other way, baking etc?


No, just like that ... with a nice piece of french bread. The port has completely soaked into the cheese. It's absolutely gorgeous.
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Dice:
why do people in Poland eat carp for Christmas Eve?


Because Poles just love to carp on about things.
OlafThreads: 8
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Dice:
why do people in Poland eat carp for Christmas Eve
I think it is tradition - carp was brought to Poland around XIII century and was popular.
Dice:
the worst one possible
- What? Why? Not true.
Dice:
You can farm salmon as easily!
- You think farmed salmons are any better? That's daydreaming.
Dice:
Is there any way to cook this fish so it's actually eatable?
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!
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Joined: Apr 11, 08 ♂ 		 Dec 19, 10, 11:42    #137
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.
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1jola:
espana:
what is in the menu for new years eve in poland ?
Champagne, you peasant.

HAHAHAHAHAHAH!
thefisherman:


CARP pen ter

polkamaniac:
"Królewski Karp"

Stu:
mother-in-law alive

Polonius3:
Royal carp (karp królewski)
- anyway Ciprinus carpio...
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Joined: Apr 11, 08 ♂ 		 Jan 1, 11, 14:00    #139
Illinois is now exporting the invasive carp to China where it is regarded as a delicacy.

http://www.wbez.org/story/news/illinois-company-begin-exporting-asian- carp-overseas-markets
seacat  Dec 3, 11, 19:03    #140
"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.
Polonius3Threads: 1,005
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The nvasive Asian 'flying' carp in the US is known in Polish as a to³pyga. 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.
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if the carps are in the bath......when do the polacks have a shower or a bath???

do poles shower for Christmas??
ceper  Dec 22, 11, 18:55    #143
espana:
if the carps are in the bath......when do the polacks have a shower or a bath???

For three whole days a year we have as much grease in our hair as Spaniards do throughout their lifetime. :)
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espana:
if the carps are in the bath......when do the polacks have a shower or a bath


the carp learn to swim out of the way.
pawianThreads: 90
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Joined: May 30, 08  Pictures: 2 ♂ 		 Dec 22, 11, 23:18    #145
Dice:
Why carp for Polish Christmas?


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

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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