In Vietnam, we have a thing for wearing masks LONG before the pandemic simply because our main transportation are motorbikes and let's just say that we have a lot of dust and smoke coming from bikes and other sources (construction, cars, etc.)

Tbh, most countries find it weird and, albeit, dangerous simply because of the sad truth about child kidnapping in these countries. This really goes to show how much trust the Nordic people put on each other without fear. It's remarkable.

I am so jealous

same for poland.

This does not seem to be very animal-friendly...

In Austria, some people do the same with their Christmas Carp. Coming from their natural habitat these fish usually taste ugly and it takes up to a week to remove that ugly taste.

Cruel, disgusting tradition

Same in the Czech Republic. I've found it disgusting and cruel at the same time since I was child.

Poor fish. It'd be like keeping a human in a coffin for a week until you finally kill them.

It was the same in Hungary. Now shops are not allowed to sell them live, they have fish tanks and all live inside, but they kill it for you before handing it over. Its for causing less suffering for the fish.

so strang....id get to attached to the fish!

Interesting tradition, but I couldn't do it. I think I'm unable to eat an animal I took care of and even if it's only for a week. (No judgement)

you dont eat Karp ?

You ate the fish for Christmas??

Very interesting!

More people should do this where I live instead of just leaving the carp to die on the riverbank and left there. It is illegal to throw back carp and it is a yucky tasting fish due to the muddy waters they like to swim in, so you end up seeing huge amounts of dead ones scattered everywhere around the river. So if more people took the carp home they caught, let it swim in the clean water to be eaten then the life of the fish wouldn’t be wasted.

this is how you made gefilte fish for pesach a long time ago (like 1900s). keep the karp in the tub until passover when you kill it and make gefilte fish.

Ah, yes.

In Czechia we did that too.

WHAT!

What?

In Poland also :)

Ours was called Karol. Up unitl my dad proudly showed us Karol all cooked up in the oven. That was the last Christmas we've invited Karol to stay over ...

same in Lithuania :)

When I was a child my grandparents' generation (and some of my parents') kept carp alive in the bathtub before they made it into gefilte fish!

Is this what was turned in to luktfisk?

Oh wow... if we could afford places with a bathtub... this is a good idea! super fresh... PLUS we'd all be forced to learn something useful (like gutting/cleaning a fish properly). Increases appreciation for the meal too.

Growing up one of my friends used to keep eels in her bathtub before they were eaten.

This is rather smart tbh. I like this.

And finally, how is Michael's fate? you ate him or he continued living happily in your bath tub?

How do you kill it to eat it?

I could never eat something that had become a pet, I find it disgusting, sorry!

That's kinda cool!

See Mrs Doyle in Father Ted: "Oh do go on, Father. Go on. Go on. Go on. Come father go on." [ad infinitum]

I could survive the cinnamon but.... pepper? And why would everyone have to get married anyway? Anyways I hope the poles can be inside as my birthday is in winter.... o.O

In Florida, government forms are available in 76 different languages... So far... Another few are already in the pipeline. The US has no official language.

I think everyone does this when it is cold enough.

In France and some other countries, people kiss each others' cheeks when greeting each other so I think this is OK.

44 fluid ounces is 1.30 litres and that's really a lot.

I think most countries have this information, but not in a identity document.