Food / Cooked Fruit in Poland - Fruity Fillings, Flan, Pies, Tarts and JAM [85]


An essential in many jams and jam-like products as a source of pectin.
I've never been so keen on cooked apple without other stuff.
But this ain't about me. This is about YOU, THE READER.
Let's have more Malus domestica on this thread please!

Food / Cooked Fruit in Poland - Fruity Fillings, Flan, Pies, Tarts and JAM [85]


I agree. I might even see what the powers that be can do to the title.

This thread is making me very hungry, at a time I should be thinking about sleeping rather than eating.
A little trip to the greengrocer tomorrow, I think.

Food / Cooked Fruit in Poland - Fruity Fillings, Flan, Pies, Tarts and JAM [85]

You may have thought I was just getting all horticultural again, but I do know of a local producer of 'Fruit Compost'. I think 'Compote' is the standard English name. Like the Polish word, it most probably derives from French. I bet there's that little hat on the second letter 'O', supposedly to signify that they couldn't be bothered to pronounce the 'S'.

Still, I thought the idea was it was something you cooked and ate hot rather than sold in jars.

Food / Cooked Fruit in Poland - Fruity Fillings, Flan, Pies, Tarts and JAM [85]


Yes. Only I know it under the name compost of fruit.
What's all this about peaches anyway? You're right that they're better than nectarines.
More importantly, what has all this Scots dialect got to do with Polish jam?

Food / Cooked Fruit in Poland - Fruity Fillings, Flan, Pies, Tarts and JAM [85]


Would I be right in saying this is some kind of doughnut?

Food / Cooked Fruit in Poland - Fruity Fillings, Flan, Pies, Tarts and JAM [85]

No, not pectin. Ask Gladys Knight for the answer. Better still, just read the post above - Szkotja beat me to it.
The strawberry (Fragaria spp.) pips don't get stuck in your teeth like Blackberry (Rubus fruticosus) pips do. They are evil.

Food / Cooked Fruit in Poland - Fruity Fillings, Flan, Pies, Tarts and JAM [85]

There were two different Polish jams on sale in the shop. The other was blackcurrant. I also like blackcurrant, but there was already a very good English Blackcurrant and Elderberry Port conserve in my cupboard so I chose the cherry instead.

As with all the proper food shops I frequent, I know the people who run this deli quite well, so I will suggest to them that they get some Plum butter in stock. The only problem they have is that they are in a town with very few Polish people. The few there are probably don't think too much about setting foot in a shop that is quite expensive. Perhaps they could follow the example of my local Costcutter - a big handmade sign saying 'Najlepsza Polska Żywność!'

Strangely, on my trips to Poland, I haven't tried or even been offered any jam.

I shall let you all know how I get on with this stuff tomorrow.

Food / Cooked Fruit in Poland - Fruity Fillings, Flan, Pies, Tarts and JAM [85]


If I am reading the label correctly, it is:

Najlepiej spożyć przed końcem.

Only joking!
Or am I?

£OWICZ.


Happy 4000 posts to you,
Happy 4000 posts to you,
Happy 4000, dear Miranda,
Happy 4000 posts to you.

UK, Ireland / A collection of noimmigration's threads or "STAY AWAY from BRITAIN" [978]

Lazy Brit is a bit like the myth of the Hard Working Pole.
Sometimes both of these myths are true, sometimes the opposite is true.
Could anyone possibly need to say anything else about the subject?

Life / What would it be like to live in Lomza? [60]


Oh no! I forgot to go there. I was eating all that traditional home cooked food and I could have visited the diarhooea-coloured arches!

UK, Ireland / Time for the Poles from the UK to go home [437]

Let's think of Britain as a party.

Anyone present at the party is entitled to nibbles. These are the vol-au-vents of health-care, education for children and law and order.
Everyone is expected to bring a few drinks and bites to eat. These comestible provisions are work, labour, employment, the paying of tax.

Once you reach the 'I need to take it easy on the sofa' stage (retirement), you no longer have to provide drinks - they are provided by those who are still up on their feet partying.

Of the people who have been at the party since seven o'clock (the start of working age), there are more who are now ensconced on the sofa of retirement than at any time before. They still need their drinks. They still need their finger buffet.

Now, if the attendants of this party were breeding like rabbits, there would be enough newcomers to keep everything going on their own. (Rabbits have a very short gestation). Many of these party-goers seem to be more like giant pandas than bunny rabbits.

This means more people need to be invited to the party, just to keep the whole thing going - without booze and bites, there is no party.

UK, Ireland / Time for the Poles from the UK to go home [437]

I hear no complaints from Northern Ireland here on the forum. Therefore they must be the most tolerant people in the whole of the United Kingdom.

Life / What would it be like to live in Lomza? [60]


You're not telling me Olecko is better are you?
My flatmate hails from there.


I like a very short place-name.

UK, Ireland / Time for the Poles from the UK to go home [437]


That little sinister moustache is not a big gay moustache.

Life / What would it be like to live in Lomza? [60]

£omża makes its own beer.
Why has nobody mentioned that on this thread yet?


I think you're being at least just a little harsh.


Of the younger people I have met there, only one has moved to the UK and that was for university rather than work. I've met some older people who have worked in the UK, Ireland and Germany though.

Of course, it all depends on the local economy and Poland's economy as a whole.

Life / What would it be like to live in Lomza? [60]

I did feel as though I was pretty much the only foreigner there both times I visited. For me that's no bad thing. When out on the town for an evening, the last thing I would have wanted would have been to bump into English people! Unlike some Polish cities, they haven't been overwhelmed by booze-tourists in £omża, and I don't think they will either.

It is quite a drive to Warsaw from there. Białystok is closer, but I just have a hunch that if £omża's not going to be enough for a big night out, you might as well hit the capital rather than stepping up by only a half-measure.


Probably. Wherever I live needs to be okay without a car.


Yes. It has a bus station. The bus was not all that late when it arrived.

Life / What would it be like to live in Lomza? [60]


I've only visited a couple of times, but that won't stop me from having an opinion.

I like big cities, but only a bit. I'm not particularly keen on very small places though. It seems to have enough going on to make things interesting enough. If you want to go out and enjoy yourself, you don't have to go to the next big city, but then it all depends on your idea of fun. I've been to a handful of pubs there, all quite nice, especially the open air one in the main square. This had been replaced by a mini ice-rink on my last visit, but who wants an open-air bar in late December anyway?

I wouldn't know how to compare £omża with anywhere in Canada, but there are one or two places in England I could compare it to.

Now I've said that, I can crack on with reading what this thread is actually all about.

UK, Ireland / Time for the Poles from the UK to go home [437]


Remember where our regular trolls are from, PD.

UK, Ireland / Time for the Poles from the UK to go home [437]

Have you found any similar forums to post on that might get your message through to all the Slovaks, Czechs, Lithuanians, Latvians and so on?

When my flatmate moves back to Poland in September, I will still need the money, and having a Polish teacher around can be quite useful (especially on the odd occasions when I learn more than just swearing). We'll need to replace him at work and at home with another Polish person (preferably female next time).

UK, Ireland / Time for the Poles from the UK to go home [437]

No. The English want them to stay and keep paying the rent.

UK, Ireland / A collection of noimmigration's threads or "STAY AWAY from BRITAIN" [978]

Why do the so many of these people who claim to be so proud of their country seem to be same people who have so little faith in their country?

I have explained before about my view of pride. I can only be proud of what I have done, not of what other people have done. I appreciate all that is good about my country and sometimes allow myself to take a little pride in my own little part in this.

Life is defined in the living. What is most visible is not necessarily the most representative. Not every 14 year old hassles people outside the local shops with a garish logo-infested shell-suit and a pitbull. There are plenty more you don't see precisely because they are not spitting and swearing in the street in a garish shell-suit.

Likewise, I think the way I do, and there are many more like me. But I am not the most visible within the media because being tolerant, understanding and most of all, positive does not provoke nearly so strong a reaction as intolerance, misconceptions and negativity. It's also because

I DON'T SHOUT ****ING ABUSE IN CAPITAL ****ING LETTERS.

Well, not much anyway.

UK, Ireland / A collection of noimmigration's threads or "STAY AWAY from BRITAIN" [978]

is a poto like a small potato?

Language / pronounce "Kocham Cię" [57]

A Liv'rpudlian saying 'Cock Armchair'

Work / Education in Poland - system and structure [118]

I don't know how they decided which countries should participate.
Perhaps none of the others were edumacated enough.

Work / Education in Poland - system and structure [118]

Henry Kelly

Work / Education in Poland - system and structure [118]


Anyone remember Going For Gold?

Work / Education in Poland - system and structure [118]

That's a very bold statement.

I used to sit in class looking out of a window somewhere in Britain.
Then the bloke who is now my flatmate spent his schooldays looking out of a window somewhere in Poland for his education.

Now someone go and find me the perfect education system.

News / Polish Immigrants Leave America for Europe [210]

Chukchi? Filipinos? Palestinians? Perhaps Russians from just over the other side of the Urals?

News / Polish Immigrants Leave America for Europe [210]

Asia does not exist.