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Eurola   
8 Jul 2009
Food / where to buy polish food online in US? [14]

I happen to know Polana. It got more expensive when the owners changed and Yes, way overpriced. The meats comes from other Delis, Andy's is cheap, so they get the business...

Polana does not make its own brand.
Unfortunately, polish retirees who move away are stuck with the prices.
Eurola   
20 Jun 2009
History / World War II - a tragic story for Poland and the World [489]

Bzibzdioh is right. Don't bother. You can't reverse the damage done to generations of youngsters by one post. They need to be willing to accept the truth about the history straight from the people who lived it and there are only few of them left.
Eurola   
20 Jun 2009
History / World War II - a tragic story for Poland and the World [489]

A great research Zimmy. It's amazing how generations of western kids were never thought the real story of World War II. Thank God for the stories of my parents and grandparents who lived it.
Eurola   
7 Jun 2009
Food / TINNED CORN (MAIZE) GALORE IN POLAND [11]

We even have a place made of corn in Mitchell, S.D.
A different design inside and out every year. Amazing to see.


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Eurola   
7 Jun 2009
Love / THE TYPICAL POLISH WOMAN? [148]

Good man. Stick to opinions about women and forget about giving opinions about The US. :) I hope you had (stil have?) good time!
Eurola   
20 May 2009
History / Poland: dont blame us its the Germans. [174]

The question is, what's wrong with you. I've worked with Germans and I have German friends. I can not imagine blaming them for the past.

It makes me sad when I see on TV young Palestinian boys, five or seven year old, throwing rocks at Jews. Would you like the same happening between Polish and German boys?

Apparently, neither parents are instigating that and that's the way it should be.
Eurola   
20 May 2009
History / Poland: dont blame us its the Germans. [174]

Many did emigrate after the second world war, to countries like Australia, New Zealand and Canada because there was nothing left in Britain for them. The economy wasn't good, so many houses had been destroyed and there was rationing for years after the war had ended.

That's exactly why so many people emigrated from Poland. Silly me, I thought you guys had it better...but you're right osiol, however, people who really lived through the war, my grandparent or my parents, did not like to talk about it...I know some stories, I wish I knew more.

It's not fair to judge an average German, young or old today. Most, had nothing to do with it. They had a crazy guy in power and they were just as scared. My two German friends told me what their mother went through as well. It was not that much different from my grandparents or my parents experiences.
Eurola   
17 May 2009
Life / Women in Poland dyeing hair red [30]

Yes, a lot of Slavic women (not only Polish) seem to love red hair or a variety of tint of red. As mentioned above from chestnut to fiery red. I myself like a hint of red in my hair. It gives a nice healthy shine... but really, really red...no.

Every time I see a woman on the street of Chicago or a suburb and she has a red hair I know, she is from Europe (whatever country). American women don't color their hair red even though there are so many hair coloring products on the market.

I don't like it on older women trying to cover the gray with red...it comes looking orange..eeek. but many younger girls (women) can look quite stunning.
Eurola   
17 May 2009
News / Polish priest publishes sex guide [97]

Back in Poland, centuries ago, my older neighbor was getting married and was going with his fiancée to a priest for teaching about marriage. He said that he could never wear a condom because of the teachings. His sperm was a livelihood and well being for his future wife. You know, she was his life's flower and a flower needs moisture to grow...

Luckily young women and men in Poland no longer fall for this crap, or we'll still have nine or twelve kids in the family. :)
Eurola   
6 May 2009
USA, Canada / Polish stuff vs. American stuff [107]

Americans don't have fruit trees around the house and then let the fruit fall dawn and rot attracting flies and wasps or any other flying creatures.

Americans don't turn their front lawns into a vegetable/flower gardens either and then spend the evening with a hoe chopping away weeds. :)
I prefer a clean, manicured lawn any time.
Eurola   
6 May 2009
USA, Canada / Polish stuff vs. American stuff [107]

Most of Americans are working their a**es off working two or even more jobs.

Exactly. I don't know anybody in Poland doing that. Complaining about a low paying job - yes, but working more? No.
Not to mention all the crap with a month of vacation when starting a new job and all multiple holidays!
This goes for the whole Europe actually, not only Poland. And they dare to call Americans lazy. Kiss my a**.
Eurola   
3 May 2009
USA, Canada / Polish Constitution Parade 2009 Chicago, Illinois [25]

I've never made it to the parade, there is always something, every year, like today. My friend from Florida came to Chicago to put her mom on the plane to Poland. Her mom lives with her and she is "getting rid" of her for four months.

Of course we had to meet for lunch and a couple of hours of chatting face to face after that. I see her only when she passes thru Chicago for one reason or another, once or twice a year. So, again - the parade went by my nose.

Guess who joined us for lunch? :)
Eurola   
1 May 2009
Food / Help with Grandma's saurkraut soup recipe [10]

maybe with some red cabbage added...

Some people add tomato paste. Nothing wrong with it. It adds color and flavor, I like it.
And, ahh...the falling of the bone ribs in it. yammmm.
Eurola   
26 Apr 2009
History / Józef Zachariasz Bem - does anyone know anything special about him? [16]

Cyprian Kamil Norwid (more about him below) wrote a very deeply descriptive poem dedicated to general Bem.

Cyprian Kamil Norwid, a.k.a. Cyprian Konstanty Norwid (September 24, 1821- May 23, 1883) is a nationally esteemed Polish poet, dramatist, painter, and sculptor. He was born in the Masovian village of Laskowo-Głuchy near Warsaw. Norwid is regarded as one of the second generation of romantics. He wrote many well-known poems including Fortepian Szopena ("Chopin's Piano"), Moja piosnka [II] ("My Song [II]") and Bema pamięci żałobny-rapsod ("A Funeral Rhapsody in Memory of General Bem"). Norwid led a tragic and often poverty-stricken life (once he had to live in a cemetery crypt). He experienced increasing health problems, unrequited love, harsh critical reviews, and increasing social isolation. He lived abroad most of his life, especially in London and in Paris, where he died.

The poem was sang by my beloved Czesio Niemen. It still gives me the chills when i listen to it.

youtube.com/watch?v=0yWnInAK1Lw

Full version:

youtube.com/watch?v=Od3NPfci5Fs
Eurola   
26 Apr 2009
Life / Culture Shock Since Moving to Poland - Anybody Dealt With This Before? [52]

The couple of Tescos I've been to were bigger than Dominicks or Jewel, way too big for my liking. There were some girls walking in the isles, looking like models, with trays of food samples. Kind of nice.

The Biedronkas I went to were smaller and seemed to be less organized. Products allover the place.
Eurola   
26 Apr 2009
Travel / Looking for GPS address of lake near Warsaw. [7]

may be 30KM or somehow near Warsaw. we hope we could drive less than 2 hours.

What the heck...I thought traffic around Chicago was bad.
I drove 2.5 hrs from (or to) work a couple of times last winter, but during a blizzard with a visibility close to zero...(20 miles, about 36 km)
Eurola   
25 Apr 2009
Love / Depression and Polish Men [30]

Oh sure, we give it a good cry and then start to look for another.
Eurola   
25 Apr 2009
Love / Depression and Polish Men [30]

I don't know about being depressed, but they are more likely to put their mind and soul into a relationship ( a true one, I shall add). When the break up happens, they can be unhappy about and express it.

Comparing a the western man who'd say oh, well b*tch begone, f u.
Eurola   
25 Apr 2009
Life / Culture Shock Since Moving to Poland - Anybody Dealt With This Before? [52]

I read the posts and I'm very surprised with all the complaints. I immigrated to the USA and my life wasn't all roses at the beginning (no language, different attitude of people, no family.. etc), but I looked at it more as an adventure not a culture shock. I had enough of an open mind not to expect things to be the same. If I were to move to Somalia next month, I would not expect them to talk or behave the same as people in Poland or The USA. I can accept, learn and do my best to blend in or... go back home. Right?

So, why did you choose to move to Poland? We all try to better ourselves, but if you feel that you struggle so much why not go back where you came from? Why did you leave your better country? What did you expect to find and to accomplish in Poland? Why are you trying to make it in a country you don't really like?
Eurola   
24 Apr 2009
USA, Canada / WHY SO FEW POLISH RESTAURANTS IN AMERICA? [44]

I think they are plenty of Polish restaurants in locations where they can prosper. Maybe we should start to put more sugar in the food so it will become more popular. Hehehe. You know, Chinese food in America is NOTHING like what you see and eat in China. Even Italians prefer so called "their" food in America, because it was modified. So there.

The trend now is to finally feed the people with whole foods, unprocessed and that's what a real polish food is.
I say, let's keep it the way it is.
Eurola   
19 Apr 2009
History / MONSTERS AND DRAGONS OF POLAND...are there any...? [42]

Every child knows about Baba Jaga z £ysej Góry and now you'll know too. :)
A fragment taken from the link below. I couldn't possibly describe any better the monster I was scared with as a kid. Especially living in or nearby of huge kieleckie forests and not too far from Lysa Gora. Speaking of a childhood trauma...hehehe :) Just kidding, being sniffed by a fox was much, much scarier!

"Perhaps the most well known figure appearing in Polish folk tales is
BabaYaga/Jedza/Wiedzma/Czarownica. She is an old witch with magical powers.
In the middle of the forest, she sits and spins in her hut supported by bird's feet. Her thread is made of bones and entrails of the dead and her hut is surrounded with a fence of human skulls and bones. The house itself seems to be made

out of parts of the human body. She rides in a mortar, pushing herself along with a pestle,
and sweeping with a birch broom. The mortar and the pestle are simultaneously
instruments of destruction and nurture, serving both to grind grain and prepare flax for
spinning cloth. They also symbolize human sexual organs. Riding the pestle or the broom
(in Polish folklore), Yaga rules over the masculine generative organ. BabaYaga cooks
and eats human flesh, her cannibalistic tendencies recalling memories of human sacrifice.
She is a birth and a death giver. In order to achieve whatever she
considers necessary for life on earth to continue, she may transform into a bird, a reptile,
or a fish. Just like Mother Earth, she feeds and devours life. Although Baba Yaga-the
old hag--has been demonized, in folk tales we can still perceive her positive qualities. In
fact, she is "good" and "bad,' young and old, concurrently. She devours children, but she
helps couples to reunite; she appears as a horrifying, bird of prey-like old woman, but she
is also the beautiful and wise princess, or the young maiden..."

If you want to read more (28 pages) of other interesitng stuff.

hichumanities.org/AHproceedings/Malgorzata%20Oleszkiewicz.pdf


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