REAL CZECH CHRISTMAS EXPLAINED - Pick into our Christmas dinner
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
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1- Pujdem Spolu do Betlema
2- Vesele Vanocni Hody
3- Pasli Ovce Valasi
Czech Christmas cookies recipe: • TRADITIONAL PRAGUE CHR...
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A Christmas tip: on the 24th, at the end of the afternoon around 4-5 pm, go to the Vltava banks under the Charles bridge, on the Malastrana side. There people gather, musicians too, and sing Christmas carols like you did at the end of your video. Very nice to attend and to hear.
Oooh will try to get it next Christmas I’m in Prague!
@@ArepasforDinner I am from Indonesia, my wife from Prague and we live in The Netherlands. For sure we will be in Prague during Christmas for family visit. And, maybe, go to this sing along event under the Charles bridge.
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Recipes with Resa yes I’m so exited is my goal for this year haha idk if it’s possible anymore haha. Thank you so much for watching!! We are on a ski trip. Need to get back home to get up to date with y’all videos 😋
I think you eat the goose or duck on 26th, Saint stephan day. Usually on 25th people just eat left over fish and salad and open faced sandwiches and just everything that is int he house.
we usually have family gathering around 26th.... to brag about presents, and to sample cukroví.
Wow! Que interesante. Me encanto
Gracias Vicky!!!
we also have saint mikolas (mikuláš) but we celebrate it on the 5th december when people dress up as mikolas a devil and an angel and visit little kids and ask them if they were good all the year and if they were good the angel gives them a sweet and the devil is there to scare them (parents say to the kids that the the devil will take them to hell if they don't behave good)
about celebrationg christmass in 24 instead of 25......it is little bit complicated. We are celebrating it in right time and giving presents in 25th (but in today view it is 24) ..........it is difference between old and new countries. we are old country and our traditions are old too. USA or all american countries are much younger (I don´t mean native people there, but countries created by europeans some years ago.) In medieval era day didn´t start at 0:00 am and ended at 24:00. In medieval era day was from sunset to sunset. Than after christmass dinner gifts are given after sunset, than it is at 25th in medieval view. All american countries was created much later, when all europe changed that principles and start using day from 0:00 to 24:00.
Mmmmm wow that’s interesting thanks for sharing!!!
My mom sets the "extra" plate always. On Christmas day we eat Mushroom Sauerkraut soup ... and Bobalki...and my grandfather would always have his vodka shots at every family meal! 🤭
Oooh I knew you were gonna enjoy this video!! Is beautiful to keep your traditions throughout generations. It inspires me to keep mines
@@ArepasforDinner absolutely!
Muy interesante! Después de ver este vídeo solo puedo exclamar "mám hlad!" :-)
Christmas in July anyone!!? haha
Santa Claus nie je sv Mikuláš/st Nicolaus. SC je marketingový výtvor Coca Coly, a meno je odvodené zo skomoleniny holandského mena sv Mikuláša.
Hi, Im a czech expat living in the USA ...funny that...and I would like to address a few misconceptions you ... a Venezuelan & USA expat living in my home country Czech... mentioned in your video. I think that in Prague people do not keep to traditions as the rest of the country does, partly because they dont really have attachment to it anymore and in part because they no longer understand the history behind it. I will address them in the order you mentioned them. I hope that this insight will help you gain more understanding.
Czech dinner does not include shrimp, dipping sauces, olives or orange gooseberries (totally foreign) there is no appetizer dish (cheese & salami) preceding the dinner, nor is there a cheese roulade (that is an easter thing). The table should include all that is produced or consumed by the household and should be blessed (not blessed by the priest but noted by the good spirits protecting the household) so there is plenty of "harvest" of the particular product. BREAD is essential, and grains. As a decoration and or food. Some other stuff if included. Milk, cheese, Barley especially, then other stuff, such as straw (usually in the form of an ornament), Apples, Potatoes... And observing customs such as tying the legs of the table (to keep the family together) and so on. Im sorry but it looks to me like your czech family does not keep a very traditional Christmas.
A frier is not a Christmas dinner only appliance. Czechs love to fry Rizek, French fries, Smazak (cheese)... It is all year round cooking essential.
Christmas dinner is on 24th. There is no 25 Christmas dinner. The 25th, 26, 27 is a leftover day. The 25th is also visiting grandparents day (a second Christmas day usually accompanied by reading the Bible chapter of Jesus being born, then dinner and gifts). So 24th dinner is the Family nucleus special dinner day. It is not the "humble"day by any means. The carp is a fairly recent addition to the Czech tradition (Last 100years). Originally there was mostly cooked grains. Carp was poached from the aristocracy owned lakes and carried heavy penalty of army draft (think 12 years).
These days people who do not like fish cook duck or chicken for Christmas. But it is forbidden by tradition. As your luck will "fly away" if you eat anything with feathers.
Im sorry to disappoint you but the extra plate on the table is not for more food. Czech Tradition has a specific purpose for it. Many people believe it is so that Jesus eats in spirit with the family. This is a misconception. The real custom dictates that if there is an even number of diners, no plate is added. If there is odd number, then extra plate is added to fool death into thinking someone is coming yet. That way death does not chooses a companion among the diners. If she does, one of the people at the table will die within a year.
Other customs are usually observed such as cutting apples, tossing shoes and floating boats. I think you should have your husband explain those. There are traditions that are no longer observed, such as pouring led. (Led is hard to find so candle wax was used in my home as a substitute. This is one custom that is disappearing, Im sorry to say).
Christmas dinner drink is wine. Usually red, to represent the blood of Jesus. Even children are permitted to take a sip. No more. Just a sip. The drink that is drank after, is either muted wine or eggnog. Spiked. Please do not be offended but most Czech households do NOT consider Slivovice to appropriate Christmas drink. It is not "SPECIAL" enough. Hard liquor is considered unsuitable for this occasion. Almost like using a tractor to plant your Orchid. But then People on Prague tend to live apart from the rest of us so it might be their norm.
And cookies are, and yet are NOT SUSENKY. They are CUKROVI. There is really no physical difference but Susenky marks every day coffee yummy desert cookie while CUKROVI is only a Christmas thing. Many people freeze it and eat it in the summer, and it will always be cukrovi, because it was made as cukrovi. No one bakes Vanilkove Rohlicky in July. It is like asking American why the 4th of July BBQ is not your 14th of August BBQ. Both are BBQs but NOT the same.
One unrelated note about the Potato salad and the fish soup. Potato salad recipe is usually unique to each family. There are as many variations as there are family clans. The same goes for the fish soup. Though some fish soup recipes are inherited secrets that are guarded like the rarest of treasures, and do go back all the way to the Austrio-Hungarian Empire. The best recipes originate in the Hungarian Halaszle recipe. My family has the oldest recorded family tree in Hungary (Shiraky 1400) and we have one such recipe. Though my parents make 70 liters of the soup (3x a year - Possible by my dad being a fisherman) they NEVER share the recipe. It would be akin to treason. They do trade the soup for favors. Another czech thing. They "pay" their car mechanic, the barber, and various repair and maintenance people with this liquid gold. Each batch takes about 18h to make.
Sorry for getting off the subject....Another point that should be made, is that though the Czechs are the most irreligious of all the Slaves, they consider baptism a CULTURAL thing. I dont know how things are in Prague but most people I know have their kids baptized. It would be akin to not getting whipped on Easter. (Another crazy and uniquely Czech tradition). No one believes in it but everyone celebrates it. But unlike the Moravians, the Slovaks, the Poles or the Russians we do not "do" confirmation. That would be a religious ceremony.
And lastly I would address the Russian "Father Christmas". The Russians have completely different system that is as foreign to us, Czechs, as American Santa Claus. They, the Russians have Christmas January 7th and their New Year on the 14th of Jan. This is because they celebrate the Holly Days using the old calendar. The Russians never tried to force this on the Czechs. Same as Santa, it is everywhere, it is exciting, and new, and unusual, but not really adopted by the Czech culture.
Anyway I'm a big fan of your videos! I have watched about 12 of your blogs, and found them all accurate. Even the stuff you dont like. Totally on the mark. Also I dont like the Tlacenka either, but I was sad to see you dislike the Kastany. Your language video was very helpful explaining to my American friends the fine points of Czech grammar that I just couldn't explain. So Thanks for that. So well done.
But I thought this video was so full of misconceptions, that I had to explain some of it. As it is with many other countries it is the women who are the ummm cultural-gatekeepers. We tend to know the customs better than our guys, and it is us who keep the customs alive. I hope that I have shed some light on the Christmas traditions that would help you understand the Czech people a bit more. If you have any questions please pm me. I would be honored to explain some of the fine points of my culture.
proč to nemůžeš napsat ve dvouch větách?
@@1819943 Navíc jsou tam chyby. Rusové + naši vlezdoprdelkové sem skutečně v 50. letech chtěli zavést Dědu Mráze a jolku ve snaze potlačit slavení Vánoc jako církevního svátku. Nezaváděli tedy pravoslavnou verzi, ta se taky nelíbila, ale jen dávání dárků dětem, které je v Rusku na Nový rok. Stačí si poslechnout Zápotockého projev z roku 1952 - "Ježíšek zestárl, narostly mu vousy a je z něj Děda Mráz."
The lack of religiousness is not because of socialist times (That would make Poland and Hungary atheistic as well and it didn't. At all.) Czech atheism is older than that, as Czech relationship with the catholic church was very complicated (Cyril and Methodius, Hussites, Czech Borthers) and catholic religion was used as a tool against czech people's freedom and nationalism until 1918. After 1918 the newly established democratic republic didn't promote any religion in particular and in 1948 the communists already took over a rather atheistic nation - although they gave christian party a lot of power. The longest serving minister in their government was a priest. Statistically, in the past 100 years the number of believers was dropping faster during the time of freedom than during the time of socialism.
Petr Maly mmmm very interesting but nevertheless religious people were kicked out of the country by communists!.. That didn’t happen in Slovakia Poland or Hungary. Only in cz
@@ArepasforDinner As a grandson of a catholic woman and a history teacher who was sent by communists into a labor camp for teaching non-marxist version of history and as a husband of a woman from a catholic family... no. Some people suffered for their faith, sure, same as many others for thousands of reasons, but religion itself was not such as big problem as some want it to look like. Bibles were printed and even translated, convents still existed, same as faculties of theology. And they were subsidised by the state. The state also paid priests.
I like to watch your channel, but you could also give Czech subtitles ... It will certainly increase your viewership...Thanks
Im czech
gratulace, potlesk
Fish is modern food for us. In Czech history we cooked mushrooms Jacob as first traditional food .
Btw: it tastes really horrible
I do not see "vanocka" anywhere...
My czech family doesn’t like much sweet