Nickidewbear
17 Sep 2009
Food / Is it just me, or is the Polish diet rather unhealthy? [119]
You're going to hate me for saying this, but that's why Poland has the Jews to thank: because we helped you all add variety to your diet. ;) In all seriousness, I myself have understood the Polish diet to be pretty unhealthy. For example, I read about horse meat (See nytimes.com/1993/01/20/style/dining-well-when-dining-out-in-warsaw-yes -warsaw.html.) and Googled it to confirm it and find the article to which I was referencing.
Meanwhile, my Jewish-Polish granddad eats a pretty unhealthy diet (including pierogis as a staple) and his unhealthy diet cost him 18 inches of his colon due to cancer. Meanwhile, my dad developed or exacerbated his pre-existing Chron's Disease. By the way, this taught me (besides the fact that Poland and so many other countries have the Jews to thank for introducing the concept of a kosher diet) that especially Jews were meant to eat as kosher as possible and lead by example in eating kosher, instead of follow the gentiles in their eating habits (which we even tried to do in Egypt, which did not work well for us, and yet we kvetched to Moses that we still would've rather had boiled lamb).
By the way, my great-grandma Czarnecki was a Slovakian-American gentile Catholic; and as far as I know, my mom's a gentile. I also didn't know that I am Jewish until I began exploring the Jewish roots of my Christian faith and researching my family history (and, besides getting a completely different picture than was painted for me, finding out a whole lot of stuff besides that I am Jewish). So, I am not knocking on gentiles: I'm just a shout-out to the Jewish community; who, by the way, settled in Polin ("Here [you shall] dwell"), or Polan-Yah ("Here dwells Yah"), for a reason.
You're going to hate me for saying this, but that's why Poland has the Jews to thank: because we helped you all add variety to your diet. ;) In all seriousness, I myself have understood the Polish diet to be pretty unhealthy. For example, I read about horse meat (See nytimes.com/1993/01/20/style/dining-well-when-dining-out-in-warsaw-yes -warsaw.html.) and Googled it to confirm it and find the article to which I was referencing.
Meanwhile, my Jewish-Polish granddad eats a pretty unhealthy diet (including pierogis as a staple) and his unhealthy diet cost him 18 inches of his colon due to cancer. Meanwhile, my dad developed or exacerbated his pre-existing Chron's Disease. By the way, this taught me (besides the fact that Poland and so many other countries have the Jews to thank for introducing the concept of a kosher diet) that especially Jews were meant to eat as kosher as possible and lead by example in eating kosher, instead of follow the gentiles in their eating habits (which we even tried to do in Egypt, which did not work well for us, and yet we kvetched to Moses that we still would've rather had boiled lamb).
By the way, my great-grandma Czarnecki was a Slovakian-American gentile Catholic; and as far as I know, my mom's a gentile. I also didn't know that I am Jewish until I began exploring the Jewish roots of my Christian faith and researching my family history (and, besides getting a completely different picture than was painted for me, finding out a whole lot of stuff besides that I am Jewish). So, I am not knocking on gentiles: I'm just a shout-out to the Jewish community; who, by the way, settled in Polin ("Here [you shall] dwell"), or Polan-Yah ("Here dwells Yah"), for a reason.