New Year’s Eve is the perfect opportunity to have fun with friends. On December 31, we go to house parties or balls, which often last until the morning, and at the stroke of midnight we wish each other well and welcome the new year together. What did this evening look like over 50 years ago?
What did you eat on New Year’s Eve in the times of the Polish People’s Republic? Vegetable salad was a must on the tables
New Year’s Eve in the times of the Polish People’s Republic consisted mainly of parties and parties organized in apartments. Due to the fact that stores were often out of stock of many products, Poles organizing the party at home had to be very creative when preparing snacks and dishes. It’s no wonder that the queen of them all was on the table, i.e. vegetable soup, which was made relatively quickly and with easily available ingredients. To this day, it appears at all kinds of events, including weddings. Another popular snack was meat jelly called “jellyfish”, which most often contained pork legs (so-called cold legs). In some houses, stomachs or tongues also ended up in it. Regardless of the content, the snack was served with vinegar and washed down with a glass of vodka.
What were the popular frog eyes? Some called him a cheated pork chop
One of the popular warm dishes was “frog’s eye”, i.e. pork chop. What was behind this intriguing name? It is nothing more than a slice of mortadella (i.e. ground meat leftovers) coated in egg and breadcrumbs, and then fried. “Frog’s eye” was served with a fried egg. The most common soups were tripe, and sometimes also bigos, left over from the holidays. Other snacks included herring in cream or vinegar, pickled mushrooms or eggs in mayonnaise. As for sweets, they were most often chocolate blocks, sponge cakes or kogel-mogel. The most common drinks were vodka, home-made moonshine, and soon also champagne, which was actually just highly carbonated, sweet wine.
New Year’s Eve in the times of the Polish People’s Republic at a ball and in a restaurant. What did you eat?
In addition to parties, there were also balls organized at the workplace, and the lucky ones could take part in events prepared by restaurants. In both cases, the menu was much richer then. There were also beef cutlets in sauce, bigos full of cabbage and stroganoff.
Source: Gazeta
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