Reuters in Warsaw:
Wojtek Jargiło/EPA
“For most Poles, no Christmas would be complete without carp for dinner. But with prices rising and shopping budgets already stretched by surging inflation, consumers are having to fork out more for their favourite festive fish.
Polish people hold their main celebration on Christmas Eve, with carp the centrepiece of a 12-dish feast that is traditionally meat-free.
While the bottom-feeding lake dweller is considered inedible in parts of the world, in Poland and some other central European countries carp is served cold in jelly as well as fried or baked and has long been seen as a relatively cheap way of feeding a large group of people.”
