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Christmas carp (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carp

In Central Europe, it is a traditional part of a Christmas Eve dinner.

In the United States, carp is mostly ignored as a food fish. Almost all U.S. shoppers bypass carp, due to a preference for filleted fish as opposed to cooking whole. Carp have smaller intramuscular bones called y-bones, which makes them a whole fish species for cooking.

In Europe, common carp contributed 1.8% (0.17 Mt) of the total inland fisheries production (9.42 Mt) during 2015–2016. It is a major farmed species in European freshwater aquaculture with production localized in central and eastern European countries. The Russian Federation (0.06 Mt) followed by Poland (0.02 Mt), Czech Republic (0.02 Mt), Hungary (0.01 Mt) and Ukraine (0.01 Mt) represents about 70% of carp production in Europe during 2016.

In Utah, the common carp's population in Utah Lake is expected to be reduced by 75 percent by using nets to catch millions of them, and either giving them to people who will eat them or processing them into fertilizer.

Heh.

Europe:

"This is an excellent fish that we farm reserved for holidays."

US:

"You want free fish? You can have all you want."

"Does it have bones that I have to eat around?"

"Uh. Some."

"Not interested."

[–] QuizzaciousOtter@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Honestly, as a Pole, I don't know many people who actually like carp. Eating it outside of the Christmas time is almost unheard of, in my family / friends circles anyway.