Christmas Traditions - Carp & Potato Salad

On Christmas day in Slovakia a traditional meal will include carp and potato salad. Just last week we noticed portable fish ponds showing up outside the grocery stores. Inside were live carp. Next to that were a couple of guys with fishing nets, some bags and a scale. So that is how you get your fish for Christmas meal. We noticed the fish were being scooped up by the net, put into the bag alive, weighed and paid for. I don't care what happened after that. I always thought carp were bottom feeders, the kind that no one ever kept if they were caught. I have little doubt that the spices used to cook this fish must make it tasty. We probably will not have a chance to try it. I guess it could go with potato salad, right?


Here are the kids watching the carp swim around before they become a traditional Slovak Christmas dinner.