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FUZZYWICKETS   
21 Aug 2011
Life / Polish cigarettes healthier than American? [6]

cigs are horribly unhealthy but it's always difficult to come up with true stats as far as how many died of cigs in one country vs. another, unless of course we look strictly at things like smokers dying of lung cancer or emphysema. a lot of americans are obese and if they die when they're 50 of heart disease or clogged arteries there's no telling whether it was their pack a day habit or their #2 meal at McDonald's a day habit.
FUZZYWICKETS   
18 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

ShortHairThug wrote:

You’ll either frequent this particular joint or not, as the food being served there is to your taste or not. Simple, isn’t it?

yes, it's simple. too simple, that's the problem. all you have said is, "americans don't eat Polish food because it's not to their taste".

the question is WHY. why is it not to their taste? THAT is the OP's question. saying, "because it's not to their taste" is a total non-answer. it's repeating the question in statement rather than question form. if you want to get to the bottom of it, you need to look at the food itself. what is it about the food that turns them away? how does it differ from mexican, japanese, korean, chinese, indian, italian, french....all successful cuisines in the USA.

what makes this interesting, IMO, is that for example, PolAms outnumber Chinese Americans considerably in the USA, yet Chinese restaurants are incredibly successful and in basically every town imaginable. where are the Polish restaurants? why are they not there and if they are, why doesn't anyone go to them? "why are polish restaurants not successful in the USA?"
FUZZYWICKETS   
18 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

ShortHairThug wrote:

What Poles eat is irrelevant.

so why would american palates not coincide with polish palates?

Polish food is fatty, greasy, often times fried, lots of meat and starch, desserts, coffee/tea......does that sound entirely UN-american?

one would have to wonder why an American doesn't eat such food, no?

unless you'd like to prove otherwise and tell me what Poles DO eat on a regular basis. maybe then we'd have something here.

NOW we're back to the OP.
FUZZYWICKETS   
18 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

This is just absolutely amazing. How difficult can it be for a few poles on here to give us a list of typical polish food. and while you're at it, like convex had previously requested, tell us what you ate over the last week.

that outta give us a good start and back to the OP.

ShortHairThug wrote:

My answer is directly related to this thread. Ask yourself what is that staple diet of yours and what kind of food attracts you that makes you fat in the process and you no longer need to dwell on Polish cusine as the shroud of confusion will slowly be lifted.

my personal diet is completely irrelevant to this thread.
FUZZYWICKETS   
18 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

Monia wrote:

My conclusions are as follows: if someone says that Polish cuisine is unhealthy, bland, repetitive, means , that such a person is not familiar with Polish cuisine

OK, so enlighten us. what is staple polish food.

Monia wrote:

Polish restaurants will never be very popular in USA as Americans choose mostly fast food restaurants .

YES. we're all huge, like walking tubs of lard.

what is staple polish food?

Monia wrote:

Also the other factor is that, over the years of Poland being a country highly degraded by the jewish owned media average uneducated Americans don`t have a positive attitude towards anything, which is Polish .

holy cow, that's insane.

Monia wrote:

Martha Steward, who is Polish, made a fortune promoting her way of living in USA, which is undeniably Polish .

is it possible for a mega rich woman who has spent her entire life in the USA and doesn't speak Polish at all to live an "undeniably Polish" way of life?

convex wrote:

Could you give us an example of some of the meals that you've eaten this week? Maybe a nice meal by meal run down.

thanks for the support.
FUZZYWICKETS   
18 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

yes yes, every single person in america eats fast food....breakfast, lunch and dinner! we're all fat, unhealthy greedy people living in a lousy country!

whatever you say. great. of course. yes, of course. sure, sure.

what is staple polish food?

my question is directly related to this thread. the OP is asking why Polish restaurants are not successful in the USA so don't you think idenfying what the food actually is would be a good start? sounds logical to me and illogical for the poles on here to refuse to answer a simple question, a question right on topic.

ShortHairThug wrote:

I guess it's all due to the success of that healthy international fast food you consume; proof is in the putting so to speak.

can't argue that one. it surely is successful. LOTS of "pudding" in every single fast food joint in Poland, for sure.
FUZZYWICKETS   
17 Aug 2011
Work / Jobs for non Polish speakers? [24]

I know that HP and Google operate completely in English in Poland. that's always an option.
FUZZYWICKETS   
17 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

FUZZYWICKETS wrote:

I'll tell you what, maybe the poles on here need to provide a nice list of "staple polish cuisine". then, we can judge it accordingly. i've got a pretty darn good grasp of what staple polish food is but we won't get anywhere till the poles admit to it.

still waiting.
FUZZYWICKETS   
16 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

ShortHairThug wrote:

What are those reasons exactly?

i suggest you ask the OP.

Des Essientes wrote:

There may only be two Polish restaurants in Southern California, both of which are successful, but there are no British restaurants at all here.

hahaha. this is so ridiculous. what a silly thing to say. i tell you, the way some people argue on here, it's just amazing.

ha, ok. well, silly AND untrue, apparently.

Ironside wrote:

British staple cuisine is better than polish staple cuisine ?

I'll tell you what, maybe the poles on here need to provide a nice list of "staple polish cuisine". then, we can judge it accordingly. i've got a pretty darn good grasp of what staple polish food is but we won't get anywhere till the poles admit to it.
FUZZYWICKETS   
13 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

Lady PL wrote:

this post had me laughing out loud. my favorite parts are as follows:

Polish food is not popular bc OUR CUISINE is for Northern Europeans and not Americans. They have different tastebuds that s all.

I am a HOT Polish woman who can cook and on top of everything I am a POLISH AND AMERICAN (NY) lawyer and I don't like the nasty comment's about Polish cuisine.

what a hysterical stance to take.

and remember folks, when you get upset on this forum, be sure to remind us of how HOT you are and how much money you earn....that outta help you get the point across.

?????

Had it not been for Chinese, Japanese, Mexiac, French, Italian etc. you AMERICANS wouldn't have much to be proud of.

are you now trying to tell us that a country made entirely of immigrants from around the world.....oh forget it.

what a 'tard.
FUZZYWICKETS   
9 Aug 2011
Work / Polish Salary and Tax [43]

grubas wrote:

Yeah, like 3.5 times average salary.

can - worms - opened.
FUZZYWICKETS   
9 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

Ghost wrote:

this thread is silly - europen food is similar and interwined on so many levels that only fools are fighing about supperiorty of their country food.

i don't see much fighting regarding which food is superior, i see the vast majority giving examples of why Polish food doesn't succeed in the USA (the point of the thread) because it is plain, bland, salty and fatty and Poles doing their best to fight back.
FUZZYWICKETS   
8 Aug 2011
Work / Teaching jobs for Americans in Wroclaw? [54]

Dommie B. wrote:

I had a doctorate in clinical microbiology with a very strong language background, 19 years experience as a scientific translator, and 9 years experience teaching undergraduate and nursing school courses.

it always amazes me to see people this old (and accomplished) moving to Poland to teach English for a few shmeckles a day.
FUZZYWICKETS   
8 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

Des Essientes wrote:

we often gravitate towards other creative vocations such as graphic design, the visual arts, and philosophy. Ah Polonia! We live out our lives scattered across the globe.....

...waiting tables, washing dishes, picking fruit, cleaning houses, driving forklifts.....

and then, they wipe the sweat off their brow, come home, and eat a salty, fatty, bland meal. hell, even vodka is essentially flavorless.
FUZZYWICKETS   
8 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

Sebastian wrote:

I'm Polish. I've been eating Polish food for my entire life.....

The menu choices seem too fancy to be Polish food.

Real Polish food is bland, and lacks herbs and spices, and certainly isn't as fancy.

They simply have more variety, herbs and spices, looks more appetizing, and tastes like heaven. Polish food is not bad, there are some good dishes. But like one poster said, most of it is just "ok", its too ordinary.

Do we really need to continue this argument after this post?

You know, there are enough Polish people on this thread that have already posted stuff just like this, we should just leave the arguing to the Poles on this thread, this way they can't lash out at us non-poles with comments about American food or English food while venting their frustrations and changing the subject.

Really guys, we like your food, but it's mostly fatty, salty and completely bland.
FUZZYWICKETS   
7 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

Des Essientes wrote:

You fuzzywickets foolishly claim that Polish food cannot be fancy and you are wrong.

I never said that. Get your facts straight.

wroclaw wrote:

Polish food is simple and bland.

how many more people need to write this before we can finally all agree on it.
FUZZYWICKETS   
7 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

sht wrote:

.....you have at least two generations that grew up on the most basic of Polish dishes due to the reality we found ourselves in, except for a very brief glimmer of hope in the early 70's the shortages of the Solidarity era effectively sealed our faith in our own exposure to our culinary art as the country struggled for the freedom. The question of what’s for dinner at that time was a challenge in itself and putting together a meal an art form.

i rest my case. i'm not going to say that Polish food way back when, before the invention of the locomotive, was more complex or whatever you want to say about it, but for decades, Polish people have mostly eaten bland, fatty salty meals. that's the polish food of today. i enjoy eating it but there's a reason why it hasn't been as successful as so many other ethnic cuisines in the USA.

in all honesty, i'd love to see a small polish joint open up in my neighborhood. if they could make good plates of polish food for under $10, i'd be there at least once a week but where I live, there isn't a polish restaurant for literally hundreds of miles.
FUZZYWICKETS   
7 Aug 2011
Language / Too many English words in the Polish language! [709]

strzyga wrote:

yeah... thank God for the lifeline.

you got it all figured out, don't ya' buddy. i'm obviously a retarted idiot without anything worthwhile to say, or a sense of humor for that matter.

czilałt, man.
FUZZYWICKETS   
7 Aug 2011
Language / Too many English words in the Polish language! [709]

strzyga wrote:

I'm surprised that after a few years in Poland you don't know these things.

After a few years in Poland, I know that this comment:

"A culture in which no meal is eaten at this time"

is false.

Sure, people that live on farms and maybe work out of kiosks in little villages still follow the old traditional lifestyles where "drugie sniadanie" is still a reality, but for people living in cities, working professional jobs, they eat during "lunch time". There's no arguing how common "lunch" is in Poland nowadays, hence, why everybody in Poland, including people who don't speak English, knows what "lunch" is.

Millions of people in Poland eat "lunch".

rozumiemnic wrote:

i think he was being "ironic"?

we have a winner.
FUZZYWICKETS   
7 Aug 2011
Language / Too many English words in the Polish language! [709]

Antek_Stalich wrote:

czilałt (chill-out)

it's official. Poland is obsessed with the English language.

that is disgusting. uber disgusting.

strzyga wrote:

A culture in which no meal is eaten at this time.

I'd love to know what culture you speak of.

strzyga wrote:

Now, what's the English name for obiad - a meal eaten between 2:00 and 4:00p.m.?

no word exists because people don't stop to eat during that time, just like we don't have a name for a meal eaten between 12:30 a.m. and 1:30 a.m.

On the otherhand, people in Poland with day jobs take breaks between 12:00 and 1:00, and they call it "lunch".
FUZZYWICKETS   
7 Aug 2011
Language / Too many English words in the Polish language! [709]

sandwicz is disgusting. but "lunch" is pretty bad, too. what kind of culture doesn't have their own name for a meal eaten between 12:00 and 1:00.....

rybnik wrote:

pirsing(sp)

ohh man.........

haha, the Polish language is just doomed.....