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Post by suzanne on Jan 10, 2006 8:20:21 GMT -7
This is a tradition which goes back to my childhood. In communist Poland fish had to be bought in advance before Christmas because you never knew if you would be able to buy it on the last moment. So people bought fish and kept them in the bath for a few days. I never thought about the practical aspects of being forced to buy fish way in advance and store it somehow. As a child, I'm sure that I too would've loved to have had a fish at home in our bathtub! Although when it came time to eat it...... Even today, I don't think I could kill any animal before cooking it, except oysters and mussels, since they don't look like animals.
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Pawian
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Post by Pawian on Jan 11, 2006 14:08:51 GMT -7
I never thought about the practical aspects of being forced to buy fish way in advance and store it somehow. In a communist country everything had a practical side, really. The shortages in shops were very bad in 80s. I remember in 1981, the martial law time, how people had to stand in queues all night and half the day to get their fish. Some of my schoolmates didn` t come to school because they stood in the line with their parents. Yes, one must get hardened to treat fish as food and be ready to kill it. That is what I do - I see just food in these fish. Killing is fast and they don`t suffer. As a boy I was different. I pitied those fish we had. I didn`t cry, though, like my cousin. I was unsure how my sons would react to the fish being gone from the bathtub. No problem at all. The younger one even kept asking when we would be eating them... Tough kids. A new hardened generation for the tough world is growing up... hahahahahahah
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