Editing Common carp (section)

===Food culture===
In [[Central Europe]], it is a traditional part of a [[Christmas Eve]] dinner. Hungarian [[fisherman's soup]], a specially prepared fish soup of carp alone or mixed with other freshwater fish, is part of the traditional meal for Christmas Eve in Hungary along with stuffed cabbage and poppy seed roll and walnut roll. A traditional Czech Christmas Eve dinner is a thick [[Fish soup|soup]] of carp's head and offal, [[Fried fish|fried carp meat]] (sometimes the meat is skinned and baked instead) with [[potato salad]] or boiled carp in black sauce.<ref> HRDINOVÁ, Radka. The tradition of carp with salad is not even a hundred years old. What was eaten for Christmas before?. iHNed.cz . 23/12/2011.</ref> A Slovak Christmas Eve dinner is quite similar, with soup varying according to the region and fried carp as the main dish. Also in [[Austria]], parts of [[Germany]], and [[Poland]], a fried carp is one of the traditional dishes on Christmas Eve.
<ref> Lis Raabe: Alte Weihnachtsbräuche aus deutschsprachigen Ländern. Heyne, München 1984</ref>
Carp are mixed with other common fish to make [[gefilte fish]], popular in [[Jewish cuisine]].<ref>Falsche Fish. In: Gil Marks: Encyclopedia of Jewish Food. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken NJ 2010, p. 185.</ref> 

In [[Western Europe]], the carp is cultivated more commonly as a sport fish, although there is a small market for it as a food fish.<ref>[http://www.carp-uk.net/carpfacts.htm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723035631/http://www.carp-uk.net/carpfacts.htm|date=July 23, 2011}}</ref><ref>[http://www.fatanglingtours.com/carpinfo.htm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150102081418/http://www.fatanglingtours.com/carpinfo.htm|date=January 2, 2015}}</ref> 

In the [[United States]], carp is mostly ignored as a food fish. Almost all U.S. shoppers bypass carp, due to a preference for filleted fish as opposed to cooking whole. Carp have smaller intramuscular bones called y-bones, which makes them a whole fish species for cooking.

When Eurasian Carp was introduced to [[Lake Toba]] in [[Sumatra]], it was adapted to be used for the traditional dish [[Arsik]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-10-17 |title=Arsik Recipe (Spiced Carp with Torch Ginger and Andaliman - Mandailing Style) » Indonesia Eats |work=Indonesia Eats |url=https://indonesiaeats.com/arsik-indonesian-andaliman-spiced-carp-batak/ |access-date=2024-05-31 |archive-date=2020-10-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017132159/https://indonesiaeats.com/arsik-indonesian-andaliman-spiced-carp-batak/ |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>