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Post by rdywenur on Jan 12, 2007 16:51:57 GMT -7
This must have been your dinner for Christmas....fresh carp
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Post by george on Jan 12, 2007 17:45:17 GMT -7
Got to thinking about the discussion of body builds. I mentioned that Polish boys look so skinny. Pawian mentioned that Americans are more muscular and bigger boned that Poles. When i was growing up in the sixties, it was very, very, common to see skinny teenagers that you now see in Poland. In High School , if a football lineman was 215 Lbs, it was considered very big. Now its not unusual to see a 300 pound( that 136 kilos to you Europeons ) lineman on a high schoool football team. When i was growing up, a 250 lb pro football lineman was considered huge!! Now its considered puny.Why is this? Where i work, the young guys ( 20's and 30's factory workers ) are big guys without being obese. When i see American soldiers in Iraq, they dwarf allied soldiers. These guys don't sit around and just eat and play with the computor all day. Why is this? I know tons of Polish Americans who's ancestors only came from Poland. And they are generally big boned husky guys. So it can't be (small boned ) in the genes so to speak. I really think its in the diet. Sure Americans eat a great deal, and they eat a lot of fatty food. However, they must be also eating a lot of protean which is causing them to be bigger than Poles or others for that matter ( good old American beef steak maybe ). Sure Americans are obese, but they are also getting bigger and muscular. It think it has a lot to do with their diet. Good and bad with everything.
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Post by jeanne on Jan 12, 2007 18:10:59 GMT -7
This must have been your dinner for Christmas....fresh carp You beat me to it! I was going to say it was carp for dinner on Christmas Eve. I only know that because one of my daughters had a Polish boyfriend a couple of years ago. My husband likes to fish and when he catches huge carp he puts them in his vegetable garden for fertilizer. When the boyfriend saw him doing that, he was horrified and told us how his family eats carp for Christmas Eve dinner and how his mom put them in the bathtub!
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Post by george on Jan 12, 2007 18:20:32 GMT -7
Bathtub!!!!! Arahhhhhhhh. Would want me to take a shower instead of a bath
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Post by jeanne on Jan 12, 2007 18:22:50 GMT -7
Think how the poor carp must feel about it!
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Post by Pawian on Jan 13, 2007 0:08:34 GMT -7
This must have been your dinner for Christmas....fresh carp Yes, but you didn`t answer why they are in the tub. And Jeanne either.
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Post by Pawian on Jan 13, 2007 0:09:14 GMT -7
Think how the poor carp must feel about it! About taking a bath instead of a shower? Or the opposite?
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Post by jeanne on Jan 13, 2007 5:07:42 GMT -7
About taking a bath instead of a shower? Or the opposite? About finding themselves in a "pond" where people usually bathe!
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Post by jeanne on Jan 13, 2007 5:27:21 GMT -7
Yes, but you didn`t answer why they are in the tub. And Jeanne either. I don't know. I assumed it was to keep them as fresh as possible until it's time to prepare them for cooking. Tell us, Pawian.
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Post by kaima on Jan 13, 2007 7:42:11 GMT -7
I only know that because one of my daughters had a Polish boyfriend a couple of years ago. My husband likes to fish and when he catches huge carp he puts them in his vegetable garden for fertilizer. When the boyfriend saw him doing that, he was horrified and told us how his family eats carp for Christmas Eve dinner and how his mom put them in the bathtub! Ohhhh ... and for years I thought eating carp at Christmas was a bad Czech habit. For the second time in my life I ate carp this Christmas, in Slovakia. This time it was tasty and edible. The hostess cooked both fillets and steaks. I stayed away from the fish steaks. The family readily accepted that my father also had the good sense to plant his carp under the rose bushes. We had the best rose bushes in town. That was when he could not give them away to other fishermen. As a result of all this I have a real psychological barrier to eating this "garbage" fish. Kai the Konnoisseur
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Post by rdywenur on Jan 13, 2007 12:12:12 GMT -7
I also was assuming you were keeping them in the bathtub (uuugh) till you were ready to take them and make them your din din keeping them alive as long as possible. (or are they cleaning out the bathtub...double duty)
Do you torture your students as much as you do us. Matko!!!!
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Post by Pawian on Jan 13, 2007 13:12:24 GMT -7
The hostess cooked both fillets and steaks. I stayed away from the fish steaks. Why exactly? I prefer steaks. Our mother always used to make steaks and today I perfectly know where the bones are positioned in a steak. I could it it with my eyes closed.
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Post by Pawian on Jan 13, 2007 13:20:46 GMT -7
I also was assuming you were keeping them in the bathtub (uuugh) till you were ready to take them and make them your din din keeping them alive as long as possible. (or are they cleaning out the bathtub...double duty) Do you torture your students as much as you do us. Matko!!!! The tradition of keeping fish in bathtubs is very old, it goes back to times when bathtubs started to be popular in Poland, probably in ancient Roman times. Poles had wide contacts with the Roman Empire then, many Slavic warriors visited Rome either as diplomats or prisoners of war, and they saw how Romans used to keep fish in their yard ponds. Unfortunately, those ancient fish were from warm seas, they would have never survived in Polish freezing climate. Therefore ancient Poles kept their fish in bathtubs and pools at home. Such fish were favourite pets, especially for children. There was a custom to give the fish names: Bruce, Roger, Dick etc. Children have always loved to play with their pets in a bathtub.
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Post by jeanne on Jan 13, 2007 19:10:32 GMT -7
Children have always loved to play with their pets in a bathtub. hmmm...and then they eat them. Pawian, are you teasing us?
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Post by Pawian on Jan 14, 2007 14:46:54 GMT -7
hmmm...and then they eat them. Yes, even I was shocked after my medium son asked when we would eat the fish at last. Those kids today.... Poles keep fish at home to avoid problems with getting it on Christmas Eve. They might be out-of-stock on the day and then what will one do? Buy tinned fish? In our family a motive of love to animals is added. hahahaha
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