Carp in the bathtub and blood candy: Tom from Texas on Russian food
His look at the dishes that surprise Americans became the week's most watched upload, and its comment section turned into a lesson in Slavic Christmas dinners.
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Things about Russian food that are WILD
What does an American married into a Russian family find wild at the dinner table? Tom from Texas, whose channel runs on life with his Russian wife and her country, put the question into "Things about Russian food that are WILD," and it became the most watched of his six uploads this week, past 175,000 views.
The comments explain a good part of the video. Carp is the big subject: many viewers cannot understand why Americans call it a trash fish, and people from Poland, the Czech Republic and other Slavic countries write in to say it is a Christmas dinner staple. One commenter adds that keeping it in the bathtub is real, but for hours, not days. Others bring up bird's milk, the chocolate-covered sweet that the Poles know as ptasie mleczko, and Gematogen, the childhood candy made with blood, which one viewer still buys.
The rest of the week stayed in the same world: the uncle who earns $6,000 a year and, the title says, is happier than most Americans, a bear behind the wheel, and two Monday uploads. One of them, "Things that haven't changed about Russia since the USSR," is the channel's fastest video right now after only half a day online.
Even so, the whole channel is running at well under half its usual daily views. That is a familiar picture among the travel channels near its size: Scarlet & Seth, Sailing Zatara and Dabble and Travel are slower too, while Chris Must List and Ame in a van are running ahead of their usual pace.
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What viewers say
The concept of trash fish is wild to me
@theshadowemperor2346See it on YouTubecarp is famous in all Slavic countries :D mostly for Xmas dinner
@Dudush90See it on YouTube"Bird milk" is also popular in Poland, where it is called Ptasie mleczko
@Kuba-xw1mwSee it on YouTube
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- Channel
- Tom from Texas
- Subscribers
- 695,000
- Videos published this week
- 6
- Video published
- October 2, 2026
- Video views so far
- 175,870
- Views on its first day
- 90,179
The numbers
Here is how Tom from Texas's week looks in numbers.
💡 Test your knowledge
Gematogen, the childhood candy viewers mention, contains blood from which animal?
Gematogen is made with processed cattle blood, an iron source, mixed with sweeteners like condensed milk.
