The Polish Christmas Eve dinner consists of 12 meatless (not including fish) courses. Our landlord and his wife brought us this sampling of their evening meal. It included an "oplatek" (pronounced: Opwatek) which is a wafer of very thin bread like material, similar to Lord's Supper wafers but thinner. Polish family members take turns breaking off pieces of each other's oplatek and giving each other wishes for the next year. You will notice, the wafer they brought us has been broken a symbol that they have given us good wishes for Christmas and the next year.
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