For most Poles no Christmas would be complete without carp for dinner, but with prices rising, shoppers whose budgets are already stretched by surging inflation are having to fork out more for their favorite festive fish
Poles hold their main celebration on Christmas Eve, with carp the centrepiece of a 12-dish feast that is traditionally meat-free.
While the bottom-feeding lake dwellers are considered inedible in some parts of the world, in Poland and some other central European countries carp are served cold in jelly as well as fried or baked and have long been seen as a relatively cheap way of feeding a large group of people. But with inflation in emerging Europe's largest economy deep in double-digit territory, fish farm owner Michal Gorski says he has had to raise the price of carp from 18-20 zlotys per kilogram in 2021 to 30 zlotys this year.
In some supermarkets the price increase has been even bigger, with economist Rafal Mundry pointing to a 75% increase at one major chain at the beginning of December.A carp is fished out from a water tank at fish farm in Rembertow, Poland December 17, 2022. REUTERS/Kuba Stezycki
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