Why do Eastern Europeans have carp as the main dish at Christmas?

>>8397991

By comparing it to other shitty Eastern European food.

Fucking disgusting shit sucking mud eaters... I'm cooking a duck because I already had ham and turkey this month.

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it is easy to store in your bath tub

>>8397991
Dunno, why not ask in the CARP THREAD?
>tl;dr use the cataloq, newfag.

>>8397991
>how do you make it tasty?

you don't. You just suffer it.

That prepares the kids for life in Eastern Europe

>>8397991
You don't. Slovak here; so many people have given up and use other fish, esp. already cut fillets so you don't have to clean it or pick out tiny bones. Or you can argue even shitty fish is tasty deep friend, idk mang.

Just focus on the kapustnica and potato salad.

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>>8398004
Not OP but I didn't know, and was hoping there wasn't, a carp thread. I'm still not going to look. This place is the worst.

>>8397991
I'm guessing its traditional because its cheap and big (carp can easily be over 6lbs).
Just like Turkey in america.

>>8397991
Catholics used to not eat meat on Christmas Eve (that's why Italians do the many fishes thing as well). Carp are plentiful in inland Central Europe.

>I prefer my hamburgers to fish, waaa
There's no such a thing as bad food, there are only people who can't prepare it. I'll give you two recipes, a very easy one and more advanced one.

On the day before you take onion, chop it all and put a layer of it on the plate, then put your cut fish, then onion again. Keep it in a cold place for a night. Next day remove onions. Take flour, put salt in it, and put your fish in it to coat it with mixture. Then cream eggs, and coat each piece with them. Finally you coat it with breadcrumbs. Fry it on your clarified butter to avoid all the smoke.

The first step is the most imporant one, without it fish always will have a bad mold taste. If you don't have a whole night take garlic, cut cloves in half and smear on the fish. Different results, but also makes the mold taste go away.

Secound recipe (assumed you know the basics here)

You will need
>a glass of white wine
>a glass of carmel bear
>2 onions
>3-4 cloves
>half of lemon (both peel and juice)
>anchovy
>capers
>roux
>carp fillets

Cook wine and beer with an onion spiked with clves. Finely chop the second onion, brown it on a pan with capers, lemon peel and anchovy. After that put decoction on the onion, still on the pan. Fry the fish properly, then use your roux. Add the lemon juice and you're ready to go.

>>8398194
Oh, of course you put roux on the pan before using your decoction, not after it.

>>8398026

It's traditional Christmas food, you blowhard. Where the fuck else would it go?

>>8398003
so what you don't shower a few nights before christmas?

>>8398268
>Eastern European
>shower

>>8398268
>not waiting to take a bath with a cute carp loli

and if you want a real answer, most people have both a bathtub and a shower here.

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>>8398194
>carmel bear
kek

>>8397991
>Why do Eastern Europeans have carp as the main dish at Christmas?
Catholic (or rather, Orthodox in this case) religious observances regarding the consuming of meat.