Food / Polish Milk, Just not the same [54]

I don't like milk products which are home-made... I prefer those which come from professional creameries in clean, aesthetic and hermetic packages (returned empties)...

Life / What and why would anyone need a PESEL Number? [6]

In some Municipalities in Poland, are introduced special web-platforms, which provides access to wide range of City Offices, you can send some drafts or documents via net, you don't need to go by foot to some places, just send it, and you'll receive answers and results, sooner. PESEL is usually your nick or password.

Next, e.g. at uni or in library, PESEL is used as your Password, look at the WKLBN - you have there the biggest libraries in Lublin, i.e. Maria Curie Skłodowska University, Catholic University of Lublin, Municipal and Regional Library, Polytechnics, Medical University, Agricultural University and others...

Thanks to PESEL, students have those services centralised.


You're wrong, they want to upgrade it to the PESEL2... because PESEL (ver. 1) has some technological restrictions...

Probably, you thought about "Meldunek" (Propiska) - those are informations about place of residence...it differs to PESEL, Meldunek is a Communist relict, and Polish rulers want to import legal solutions similar (the same) to those in UK...

Sometimes, I think, they forcefully want to make Poland, the Second UK...

Food / Polish Milk, Just not the same [54]

I get almost everyday fresh milk in glass bottle, straight to my door. There's milkman who provides it at my housing estate...It's really fresh and tasteful for certain.

But if you want to buy good milk (not coloured water) at the store, you should look for "Ale Mleko!" (What a Milk!), 3.2 per cent, red carton probably...last time I drank it, was good....

Life / Poles need to learn to save! [73]


What many Americans don't save is electricity and water. Lovely.

Dishwashers aren't popular, in comparison with traditional techniques of washing, they are wasting too much water.


No, it isn't, I think it's very valuable initiative.
In Poland we can return only glass bottles, it's like unwritten and simplified recognisance, called 'kaucja'.
For plastic bottles are special containers, those bottles and other plastic things go to the recycling factory. Except for reusable plastic bottles (pre-filled bottles) of soda, which we can buy/exchange at the corner stores.


Paper plates in Poland?
Only at open-air festivals, where food is provided for a large number of people, using them at home is very unpopular.
In America? Probably... I remember one take from "Little Miss Sunshine" (US production), where family have had very unhealthy dinner, i.e. pack of KFC's hot wings, sprite...and a salad....yummy... very healthy...and they've used ONLY paper plates and plastic cutlery and cups... it have shocked me... because I used to ritualise preparing and having meals, spending time on it. Especially among family, it's kind of Savoir-vivre, and part of culture. Using paper plates is in my opinion kind of bastardising.


No, they haven't...they still drink rainwater...

Seriously, water-meters in Poland are everywhere, in every building...Poles call them "Wodomierz", it measures the volume of water usage...