Dishes made from stockfish (locally called bakalar) are traditionally eaten on Christmas Eve in Croatia, especially Dalmatia.
The perceived vulgarity of the silent d may lead to hypercorrections like *bacalado for bacalao (stockfish) or *Bilbado for Bilbao.
The town is famous due to the "Festa del Baccalà", where the typical dish baccalà alla vicentina is prepared with the stockfish imported from Røst, a Norwegian town belonging to the Lofoten.