Map of European Potato Consumption

[capocannoniere]

I eat potatoes during longer lents only, when it's hard to avoid.

Do you follow the Orthodox fasting calendar?

[Victor]

Do you follow the Orthodox fasting calendar?

Yeh, full year circle, since like 2018.

[capocannoniere]

I really like potatos, especially as tortillas and fries, but it's hard to fit it in a diet of pasta, bread and cornmeal.

I live alone so i'm all for cooking as fast as I can, and most preparations demand more time than pasta or polenta. In South Brazil we'd have a lot of sweet potato though, especially in the winter.

[capocannoniere]

Yeh, full year circle, since like 2018.

What's a typical lenten meal? Compared to Roman Catholic lent you guys are strict, so I wonder how you make do without meat, fish, eggs, wine and oil for that long.

[Victor]

What's a typical lenten meal? Compared to Roman Catholic lent you guys are strict, so I wonder how you make do without meat, fish, eggs, wine and oil for that long.

Dark purple are days with allowed fish, oil and wine (no eggs, meat, milk)
Light purple are days with cold meals (no oil, fish, wine, eggs, milk)
Green days are hot meals (no oil, wine, fish, eggs, milk)
Yellow are hot meals with oil, wine allowed (no fish, eggs, meat, milk)
Light blue everything possible except meat (that's gonna be next week before Great Lent)
Grey is day when you avoid food, 1-2 days during year
+ you don't eat and drink since 12 am, midnight of the any day before Communion

[Roy]

It is interesting to see that sharp contrast between neighbouring Romania and Bulgaria.

In Poland I bet there'd be quite a regional divide. Other Poles call Poles from Poznań city ''pyry'' which is a local name for potatoes as they indeed eat a lot of them. Almost every dinner has to contain them in one form or another there, sometimes just as a starter.

[Cybele]

It is interesting to see that sharp contrast between neighbouring Romania and Bulgaria.

I'm surprised too.
Random fact: in Romania the counties which are traditionally potato producers, are Harghita and Covasna which are inhabited mostly by Hungarians.
That being said, I never liked potatoes that much.

[Varda]

Bosnian capital of potato production and earlier Yugoslavian is Glamoč, place with strong Serbian majority for centuries until 1990s btw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glamoč
Even in the last 30 years when number of Serbs in Glamoč and surrounding villages is quite smaller, only Serbs are engaged in the productions of potato there. Croatians who settled in Glamoč from central Bosnia after 1995. live mostly from social help.

[Victor]

Bosnian capital of potato production and earlier Yugoslavian is Glamoč, place with strong Serbian majority for centuries until 1990s btw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glamoč
Even in the last 30 years when number of Serbs in Glamoč and surrounding villages is quite smaller, only Serbs are engaged in the productions of potato there. Croatians who settled in Glamoč from central Bosnia after 1995. live mostly from social help.

While Semberija is famous with cabbages

[Varda]

While Semberija is famous with cabbages

Semberija is also known by production of cereals, as Vojvodina.

Look this https://vukajlija.com/glamoc/572251