USA, Canada / American Polonia. Wisconsin - the most Polish state? [112]

Merged: American cities with the largest Polish population

The following American cities and municipalities have the largest Polish populations:
New York City, New York - 213,447 (2.7%).[1]
Chicago, Illinois - 210,421 (7.3%).[2]
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 65,508 (4.3%).[3]
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - 57,485 (9.6%).[4]
Los Angeles, California - 56,670 (1.5%).[5]
Cheektowaga (town), New York - 37,560 (39.9%).[6]
Buffalo, New York - 34,254 (11.7%).[7]
Phoenix, Arizona - 32,050 (2.4%).[8]
Toledo, Ohio - 31,792 (10.1%).[9]
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 28,178 (8.4%).[10]
San Diego, California - 25,201 (2.1%).[11]
Cleveland, Ohio - 22,978 (4.8%).[12]
Houston, Texas - 19,290 (1%).[13]
Detroit, Michigan - 18,992 (2.0%).[14]
Omaha, Nebraska - 18,447.[15]
Baltimore, Maryland - 18,400 (2.8%).[16]
Parma, Ohio - 15,503 (18.1%).[17]
Grand Rapids, Michigan - 15,442 (7.8%).[18]
Amherst, New York - 15,136 (13%).[19]
Erie, Pennsylvania - 14,718 (14.2%).[20]
San Antonio, Texas - 14,475 (1.3%).[21]
San Francisco, California - 14,332 (1.8%).[22]
New Britain, Connecticut - 14,257 (19.9%).[23]
West Seneca, New York - 14,236 (31%).[24]

Food / What a typical Polish family eats. How do they prepare food and who cooks at home? [37]

Are you planning to start up a restaurant, take-away, grocery shop, café, fast-food joint or what?

News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]


But it's OK for Michnik to interfere in politics? That is equality? Both Michnik and his J-word cronies as well as priests and bishops are free to rant and rave as long as they don't set up a thug squad to illegally enforce their acceptance and punish dissenters.

Whether it would be to the Church's advantage to not speak out on public issues is an entirely different matter. You can propose your services to the Epsicopate as a PR and image-improvement specialist

USA, Canada / Is there any chance that I can go right now to the US and start a life over there? [19]


I have visited Posen, one of the oldest Polish settlements in America. It's an interesting place to visit and has one of America's highest per capita Polish populations. Nestled in a beautiful part of the state of Michigan full of dense woodlands, it's a great place for hunters (deer, bear), anglers, campers, hikers, canoeists, mushroomers and other outdoorsy types. The cemetery shows Polish gravestones going back to the 1850s. And their Potato Festival is definitely worth seeing.

News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]


Those that make such accusations seem to forget that a priest or bishop is also a citizen and as such enjoys freedom of pseech. Excommunication is an internal Church matter with no impact on the body politic. The excommunicated party cannot be prosecuted, fined or jailed by the public judiciary or law enforcement. If the Episcopate had the authority to reverse what they considered unacceptable government decisions, then we could speak of interfering.

JP2 made it plainly clear that priests may not stand for pulbic office. As long as they don't, they enjoy freedom of speech like everyone else. It would be like saying Michnik was interefering in politics because he made this or that statement. He has the right to speak his mind, odious as that might be. That's called democracy!

News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]


Back during the first presidential popular election campaign, the Church was condemned for supporting Wałęsa -- the Church is infterfering in poltiics bla-bla.... But somehow the Michnikites did not condemn Warsaw University professors who openly urged their students to vote for Mazowiecki. The latter was a worse offence because UW is a state institution.

News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]


And of course their professional idiocy stems from the fact that they do not belong to or support PO, innit?

News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]


It is even said that the tirówki will soon have a fiscal cash register strapped to their waist.

News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]


Alior, PEKAO SA, Raifeisen, Millennium, Rabobank, BPH, mBank...?

News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]


No-one with gross earnings of less than 1,300 zł a month should pay any income tax. The big foreign super market chains should finally be made to pay their fair share.They are paying Polish workers starvation wages, creating deplorable working conditons, channelling most of their profits to their home countries and re-investing the vary bare minimum in Poland needed for the operation to keep ticking over. The re-Polonisaiton of banks proposed by PiS sounds promising but actual details are still sparse.

News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]


I hear that's what they do in Belgium and Oz - you're reportedly fined for not voting! Anybody know?

News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]


That's the truism of the year. Everybody candidate wins because he gets more voters to vote for him. So what else is new? Water is wet! Dublin is the capital of Eire. 100 groszy = 1 złoty...., etc.

News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]


Crowds cheered and waved Polish flags as President Andrzej Duda rode through the streets of Warsaw, One TV commentator said it reminded him of JP2's drive-pasts. In his first address to the Sejm, Duda called on Poles of every poltical orientation, believers and non-believers to dispaly mutual resepct and not try to impose their views on others. Mutual respect is needed if we are to achieve a sense of community, he added. He said his first efforts would be directed at restoring the normal retirement age and increaseing the threshold below which people are not taxed.

(Incidentally, those earning less than 666zł would not be taxed which is a starvation wage; it's a crying shame anyone in Poland could earn that little.)

News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]


They'll have their hands full undoing 8 years of damage left behind by the Platfusy.
To avoid all the wrangling in parliament it'd be nice if they could pass just one law rescinding all of PO's blunders.

News / Are Poland's politicians able to speak foreign languages? [29]


He should - he was Brezhnev's chief KGB spy in the DDR and they didn't send people lacking language skills to such posts.

News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]


Do you believe the matter has been fully cleared up? Not a question of "murder" but a major national tragedy the annihilated 96 mostly high-level poltical and military leaders. Do you think it's right that the wreckage remains in Russian hands and that they are denying access ot various relevant documents. Is that not a slap in the face of Polish national sovereignty?

News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]


Wait till that ciphre and a PiS-dominated Sejm begin de-libertinising all the lefty junk legislation (test-tube babies, gender BS, etc.) and de-Platformising late retirement age and other ill-considered laws left behind by the Platfusy!

News / Are Poland's politicians able to speak foreign languages? [29]


Komorowski was briefly interned during martial law. He had plenty of time before nad after that episode to learn another language in addiiton ot the 7 years of Russian all Poles of his generation had at school..

News / Are Poland's politicians able to speak foreign languages? [29]


How do you know he dorsn't know nay English? Did he admit as much? But he knows Russian - ever Pole of his generation had 7 years of Russian at school. He may have forgotten it over the years, but can always brush up. enoguh to tell Adolf Pütler off!!!

News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]


Good move! Why invite the guy whose mess it will take a coupla years to clean up? Don the Wrecker responsible for loads of skewed and toxic legislation is not an asset to the country but a liability. Having to view that shifty-eyed former trough-hanger would be like rubbing salt into Poland's wounds.

History / When will you Poles give back German land and the cities which you robbed? [557]


What in your view are legitimate grounds? Big-power treaties backed by huge armies?

Food / SURVEY OF THE POLISH CONSUMERS' CONSUMPTION HABITS OF CAFÉS [28]


As I ntoed, the Vistula thing was a very rough approximation. Besides, back then coffee was not just another beverage to wash food down with, it was a kind of upper-end experience or social event. Especially as regards frequenting a kawiarnia (café) which had a certain mystique about it.

For breakfast, those that didn't drink tea usually chose white ersatz coffee (kawa zbożowa) made from roasted grain and chicory. It contained no caffein so even little kids could drink it.

correction of typo: noted


I forgot to mention Sahara brand. Just a tad pricier than Fort but reminds one of a southern European roast.

Food / Where to go for the best steak in Warsaw? [77]

Sounds fabulous, but I rang them and was told a rib-eye runs 190 zł (about $50) for two people. A little too rich for my blood.

Food / SURVEY OF THE POLISH CONSUMERS' CONSUMPTION HABITS OF CAFÉS [28]


When you sample it, do gives us a full report!

History / When will you Poles give back German land and the cities which you robbed? [557]


In the spiritual sense, Poles can rightly claim any land they have tilled, where they have worked, loved, prayed, built their homes, raised families, laid their ancestors to rest and left their blood, sweat and tears in. Only those espousing the "might makes right" mentality can say some land was never Polish or belonged to Poland only in times of yore.

Food / SURVEY OF THE POLISH CONSUMERS' CONSUMPTION HABITS OF CAFÉS [28]


That's the coffee found in the droppings of wild felines, isn't it?

Food / SURVEY OF THE POLISH CONSUMERS' CONSUMPTION HABITS OF CAFÉS [28]


I don't think that price level would have many takers in Poland. For 60 zł you can buy 2 500-ml bottles of high-end vodka.

Food / SURVEY OF THE POLISH CONSUMERS' CONSUMPTION HABITS OF CAFÉS [28]


The world must be coming ot an end if we can actually agree on something. I use Fort to add kick and body to bland Arabica blends. And yes, it's drinkable alone as is.

News / Poland's President-Elect Duda leads in public trust - CBOS poll [185]


You mean Kwaśniewski, don't you. Smooth, glib ex-commies like Kwas and lefties like O'Bama have their propaganda machines well oiled and generously bankrolled so they can even get themselves re-elected, but (as Lincoln said) you can't fool all the people all the time.

You can rest assures that no monuments will ever be built nor any streets named after Kwaśniewski, neither will he be laid to rest in Wawel -- the pantheon of outstanding Poles.

Food / SURVEY OF THE POLISH CONSUMERS' CONSUMPTION HABITS OF CAFÉS [28]


Absolutely not! Except for a small group of gourmets and snobs. The biggest selling ground coffees in Poland are bottom-shelf Tchibo Family and Prima Finezja -- both mainly or entirely robusta-based.

Poland has room for a yet anotehr good, low-priced robusta-based coffee properly roasted and doctored to remove as much of robusta's rough edge and off-lavours as possible.