Food pet peeves

[Jed_]

Isn’t gold fish a type of carp? Edible, I assume, but not the most desirable.

Carp is Christmas dinner in Poland.  My first Christmas with my Polish wife (now deceased) was in 1999 in Poland.  They made me pan fried trout because they didn’t think I’d eat the carp in aspic.  I ate both.  Unlike many Americans these days, I’m fine with aspic.  It’s funny looking at old cookbooks from the 1950s, they did a lot of ‘fancy’ dishes in aspic that most people today wouldn’t touch.

Just take your giant goldfish and put it in the tub for a few days feeding it something other than mud until it doesn’t taste like mud anymore, and then cook and eat it.  That’s what they do in Poland.  No shit, there was a carp in the tub when I arrived at her parents house.

[_priapism]

Aspic is called kholodets in Russia.  Mandatory fare every New Year’s feast. Here one my wife made this year.

[Jed_]

Chicken in aspic?

And I spy the salmon caviar in the back.  I have a jar of that in my fridge.

[_priapism]

Chicken in aspic?

And I spy the salmon caviar in the back.  I have a jar of that in my fridge.

And Olivier Salad. That is another must for New Years. The table is traditionally covered with food, and everyone eats and drinks, until they are exhausted. The Russian term  is “zakuski” (derived from the word morsel) — and dates back to the czars' tables of the 18th century.