Fish has almost completely disappeared from Hungarian gastronomy

Fish dishes are not even part of the holiday dishes

“Although there are no data sets available on how much fish the Hungarians ate a few hundred years ago, it is certain that the natural waters were full of fish in the Middle Ages and even in the early modern period. practice changed it to such an extent that, after more than a hundred years, Hungarian fishing and angling were regulated in the law dividing the Hungarian fishing community, and at the same time the entire domestic fish stock of natural waters was ordered to be state property. they tried to inflate the domestic fish consumption, as a result of which the fish consumption indicators typical of the 1980s have roughly tripled: the amount of fish eaten by Hungarians per year has increased to around 6 kilograms. “

– you can read the history of domestic fish consumption in Qubit’s recent article richly illustrated with pictures.