The strangest things in Poland

Ahh yes, G. Rasiak.. Only Chuck Norris can score a goal with Rasiak in Fifa 2006 game. :)

I know that, thats why I made a point of saying I know Polish people who are very nice, it was just the ones at the airport. lets face it if you have a reservation youre going to get on the plane I see no reason to push and shove, I have never come across it anywhere else apart from Poland.

What may a foreigner find really strang about Poland? Hmmm, after hearing all these horrid stories about the utterly poverty that afflicts all Polish people a tourist could fingd strange the looks of the streets full of nice, new cars and people that actually don't look anything like beggars that walk around and talk on their mobile phones. :)

everyone goes to church
this is the strangest thing ever
how can everyone be religious?

and how much they whine! this I do not get. Usually, if something doesn't work, Igive my best to solve it. Polish people just whaine about it. this is actually funny!

oh, also very stange is that they consider other countries (like Romania) to be some sort of nightmare. what they don't know is that Romania, for example, is far better econamically. Romania people have low unemployment rates, unlike polish ones. also romanian lion in stranger than polish zl.

I begin to think that polish poeple are so frustrated by thier own poverty and general lack of respect that they need to throw it on someone else. I mean anyone visiting a country tries to see it as an amazing experience. But the polish poeple that visited contries from SE of Europe spend most of their time criticising them.

Prove me wrong,please!

Everyone's not. My GF doesn't go to church. Nor do some of her friends and family.


Where have you witnessed this...or were you just told?

danny, you try to be funny or simply retarded ?

many english people critisise countries they visit... how hard it is to get a warm pint and decent fish and chips...

And that is just in the UK, have you tried getting a proper pint of Ale and proper Fish and Chips in the UK, it’s that difficult we have organisations to help people find such fare.

That’s what I tell my Polish friends when they complain about British food, they haven’t had to spend all their lives eating it so they should be thankful for small mercies.

You know, I’ve leant to celebrate the differences between, ‘Us & Them’, the diversity is what makes UK, and Europe such a fun place to live- and last summer the UK had excellent weather so I felt no need to go abroad in search of culture and warmth, I got it right here with my Polish, Czech, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish [Basque], Hungarian, Algerian, Chinese, French, Welsh, and English friends- best holiday I had ever.

Although I’m going to Poland next spring, no offence to anyone else, if it isn't very good I'll be sure to mention it.

SDub... sympathies... come down to hampshire... loads of ale, good company and open fires to sit round whilst enjoying both...

fish and chips... no idea... never touch the stuff... but i know where to get a top curry...

and where are you going in spring...?

Silisia, I can't spell the town as I don't have it in front of me and my Polish is hopeless.

But you know what, back in the day I had some success as a cook, and I stole a dish from a book and called it ‘Silesian Heaven’, never knew where Silesia was, I just knew the recipe [pork based dish with onions] was from Silesia. Time passes, girls come and go, and I don’t find love….

Then I find love with a woman who turns out to be Silesian [although I think her family moved there after the War, you know that story]

Quite romantic isn’t it; sorry I must be getting old.

Chemists...Apteka.
They are everywhere.....I have never seen sooo many chemists in my life. An Kebabs, the Polish seem to regard foreign food, exotic food as Kebabs.

We go to a restuarant called Sphinx, its a chain. General cheap cheerful and foods not bad. What makes me smile is its like an Eygptian themed restaurant, with Kebabs and Mexican food? Figure that out?

Pizza, so far the only style of Pizza I have found is the doughy American style as opposed to the more refined thin crust pizza.

Polish food. Potatoes taste like real potatoes, tomatoes taste like real tomatoes. The food generally tastes more. As opposed to the insipid tasteless crap that UK supermarkets press upon us.

lack of book shops, this is sad. And books seem really expensive as well.
The fact the psuedo historian and holocaust loon David Irving's writting is sold in book shops????? In the history sections.

24 hour MCDaonalds near Rumia, closes at 3am and reopens at 6 am...annoying.

That fact that some football games there is no opposition supporters!!! At all?

Yes, potatoes and vegetables do taste better in Poland. The stuff you buy in supermarkets in the US all tastes the same. You make a zupa and you don't know what vegetable you're eating!

lack of book shops, this is sad. And books seem really expensive as well.

Do you think so? In Krakow tehre are lots bookshops in small towns at least one....not much different than in Uk.

I wouldn't say lack of because i've been to a few in poznan, but I would agree with them being expensive.

Sphinx or Sioux are good for late night kabobs :)

and in poland kebab is spelt with a P... how strange is that...!!!


so true... and they actually look like vegetables too... how cool is that...!!!

I've never seen it spelled with a p in Poland

really... pebab...?

no it is kebab....the same.

We seem to taking in our lanugage few english words.... my firend sent me e-mail and was saying about ..fixing something.....

no seriously... i keep seeing kebap everywhere... unless it actually means something totally different... not an english word btw

Books are relatively expensive in Poland but to be honest they are not so cheap in UK.

Maybe i am wrong but I think that we still mantain "good class" about books...i went to WHsmith few days ago and was close to faint...all celebrities from the last raw wrote a book....Big brother....Jordan( probabbaly 3).......how somoeone in his early 20 who took part in BB write his autobiography?:)

was it kebap?...maybe different spelling? Where do you see it, in restaurants?

döner kebap ...Turkish
I think they also call it this in Germany

Could be.....

Fisz I didn't see your website...:(

kebab. Wrong spelling.
You know, it's that long metal rod thing with chunks of meat and vegetables poked through it and stuck in the fire. Very popular. tried one in zakopane, with sheep meat.

look in the other thread again Iwona :)


Come on Krysia read a few posts back :) Keep up to speed here :)

nope, Fisz got it spot on. Here in Austria, it's Kebap too... confused me as well 1st time i saw it.



anyway, carry on. :)

this is how they spell it in the Czech Rep. too

it is bit confusing....I will have a look next time in krakow...

It's kebab all over in PL....damnit :)

that is what I thought at first.

it is kebab indeed ... but they say kebap because of the polish phonetics. Voiced consonants sounds like unvoiced when in the end of a word ;-)