Christmas Carp

A Czech ad for Vodafone, a cellular company in Europe.

Czechs eat carp, a fish, for their Christmas meal.  In the "olden days" when turkey and ham were too expensive, the peasants started eating carp and now it is a national tradition.  Czech friends of mine have told me they don't even like carp! But, it's tradition.

You will see big buckets of live carp all over the city.  To keep it fresh, Czechs will buy it live and keep it in their bathtubs until the big day.