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FUZZYWICKETS   
5 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

SHT wrote:

Yep, we’re doing our best to keep you afloat during the hard economic time by buying the few things you still produce there but even that might change soon.

well, glad we could help with all that bland food :D
FUZZYWICKETS   
5 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

ShortHairThug wrote:

Some of us like to enjoy a good steak without killing it’s natural flavor.

hahahaha, oh just knock it off already with the "we're so natural" crap. remind me how much ketchup Poland goes through again....
FUZZYWICKETS   
5 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

ShortHairThug wrote:

Who are you kidding, if all your hot dog joints closed all of a sudden and the same happened in Poland we are back to square one, homemade meals for us but you would starve to death.

a common misconception.

300+ million people, not everybody is a fat fast food eating slob.
FUZZYWICKETS   
5 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

ShortHairThug wrote:

Instant gratification, drive through culture,

when fast food joints in Poland empty out and zapiekanka kiosks/gyro stands/pastry stands stop all operations, you may have some hope in comparing the USA's "instant gratification" culture to Poland's food culture but until then....
FUZZYWICKETS   
5 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

In the USA, there are approx. 3.7 million Chinese Americans compared to about 10 million Polish Americans.

Why are there a bazzillion Chinese restaurants in the USA, yet so few Polish restaurants, even though the Polish population is triple the size? Why do Chinese restaurants succeed, no matter where they open one?

Could it have ANYTHING to do with the food they're serving?

People simply enjoy more flavorful, diverse meals in the USA. Polish food is too boring and bland.

Straight up.
FUZZYWICKETS   
5 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Moving from United Kingdom to USA. Is it worth it? [136]

f stop wrote:

my mother proudly (!) lives on $800 a month. I have no idea how she does it. Granted, her house and car are all paid for, but the bills like insurance, electric, gas, water, must be at least $500/month.

electric, gas and water, in an avg sized house, is nowhere near $500/month. that would be crazy.

i have 120 sq meters and I pay under $200 a month for electric and water, no gas bill. also, for someone living alone, it would be even cheaper (less showers, less laundry, etc.).

regarding medical insurance, I'd have to ask how old your mother is. if she's 65 or over, she's completely covered by Medicare.

assuming your mother doesn't drive a sports car, her car insurance is minimal. again, i don't know how old she is but if she doesn't commute to work every day, she's probably registered as a part time driver. if i knew what state she lived in, i could probably take a good guess at how much she's paying. northeast, maybe $800-$900 a year, midwest/down south, maybe $400 a year.
FUZZYWICKETS   
4 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Moving from United Kingdom to USA. Is it worth it? [136]

The OP made it clear, along with later posts, that cost of real estate was a huge issue for him. Hands down, real estate is cheaper in the USA than the UK.

commonwealth shmomonwealth, his biggest concern is alleviated in the USA. go back and read his responses to my posts regarding this.

we'll let him prioritize whether or not a more developed social safety net trumps cheap real estate, or for the most part, cheaper everything.
FUZZYWICKETS   
4 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Moving from United Kingdom to USA. Is it worth it? [136]

pip wrote:

wow- way to take what I said completely out of context.

you forgot --zero, but I don't claim to be an expert.- that last part is important.

you must be kidding me.

so what is our conclusion, that neither of us is an expert? that's great....so where does that leave us in this conversation?

this is old.
FUZZYWICKETS   
4 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Moving from United Kingdom to USA. Is it worth it? [136]

pip wrote:

zero

too funny! yet another one.

pip wrote:

I don't claim to be an expert.

neither do I but i think 4 years in Poland qualifies me to have an opinion on the subject.

pip wrote:

differences in the quality of life.

for who, specifically?
FUZZYWICKETS   
4 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Moving from United Kingdom to USA. Is it worth it? [136]

Patrick,

If that's what you like, go right ahead, but dude.....do you really want to live somewhere that has 6 weeks of warm weather per year? To each their own.
FUZZYWICKETS   
4 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Moving from United Kingdom to USA. Is it worth it? [136]

i'm down south and am completely baffled by the home prices. my wife and i will be looking to buy next year because even after you tally up property taxes, mortgage, upkeep (which is minimal because you can buy houses for under $100,000 that were built in 2003-2005) it is cheaper than renting an apartment. where I grew up in NJ, it's exactly the opposite, house prices are astronomical there.

also good that you mentioned heating. once the hot weather months pass and A/C isn't needed, my electric bill is next to nothing.

it really is a simple decision. if you want the best possible quality of living, move to the USA if you're educated and can get a good job. basically everything costs less here than in Europe, especially real estate and fuel and you'll have 50 states to choose from (and travel to).
FUZZYWICKETS   
4 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

Des Essientes wrote:

.....one-thousand years of Polish culinary tradition preceding 1945.....

geeze, and after all that time, they decided their staples should be fried dough with completely basic "stuff" inside and random ground up fatty pork parts stuffed inside a sleeve.

go to any avg. polish family's house and you'll surely see what effects "one-thousand years of Polish culinary tradition" had on their dinner plates.
FUZZYWICKETS   
3 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

delphiandomine wrote:

The food served in higher end restaurants is almost never identifiable as clearly Polish - it's always, as Jonni says, Central European in nature.

absolutely. a country tattered by communism for decades upon decades and still remains poor.....it's expected that the country's national food is going to be cheap ingredients that everybody can access. when it gets fancy, it loses it's "polish-ness".
FUZZYWICKETS   
3 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

Des Essientes wrote:

This thread claims they are not successful, but myself, and others, have provided examples of successful Polish restaurants in the USA, and thus proven the thread's titular claim wrong. The Polish restaurant I cited, Warszawa in Santa Monica California, serves the very sort of fare that Boletus has given us examples of.

this provides no evidence that Polish restaurants are "successful in the USA", it provides evidence that there is a polish restaurant in santa monica, california, that is successful.

never in my ENTIRE life in the USA have I heard someone say or suggest, "hey, let's go to the Polish restaurant in town for dinner." never, and i grew up in a very polish part of the USA.
FUZZYWICKETS   
3 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

delphiandomine wrote:

I'd actually say that the food found at truckstops are 'typically Polish' - of which none of those dishes are.

right. as in "the same stuff almost everyone else eats in Poland," which happens to be bland, salty and fatty.

again.

unless of course you're in college, then it's bland, cooked by "just adding water", and probably radioactive.

Prince Polo and soup packets, meals of champions I tell ya'.

this argument is over.
FUZZYWICKETS   
3 Aug 2011
Love / Polish women USED TO BE much more attractive: [162]

f stop wrote:

I'll stick to the activities I actually can enjoy, not torture myself with, like spinning in place, for example.

I'm sure you will. Enjoy the consequences.
FUZZYWICKETS   
2 Aug 2011
Love / Polish women USED TO BE much more attractive: [162]

fstop wrote:

I swim minimum 2 miles a week. Kayak for hours every weekend.

as predicted.

here, try this website:

healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc

it has hundreds of activities to choose from. plug in your weight, how many minutes you do a certain exercise per week and you'll get your total calorie burn.

i put in 150 lbs and entered 60 minutes of moderate swimming (this means 60 minutes of constant swimming, no breaks, no hanging out, pure swimming). 30 minutes per mile seems reasonable. total calorie burn = 414 calories.

kayaking is not an activity to burn calories, plain and simple. Do you know why you're physically capable of kayaking "for hours" every weekend? nuff said.

my estimation, you're burning around 700-800 calories a week. you know as well as i do, that's not nearly enough to melt your growing rear end.

NOW, change the activity to running. if you ran for 40 minutes a day, 4 days a week, at 6mph (slow but i'm trying to be realistic) you'd burn 1,824 calories. that's more than DOUBLE what you're burning now. if you eventually worked up to 7mph, you're now at 2,088.

your problem, like so many others, is you think you exercise, but you really don't. do something that really makes you breath heavy, really kicks your a$$ several times a week....and poof!....the fat disappears and your tail be lookin' fine again.
FUZZYWICKETS   
2 Aug 2011
Love / Polish women USED TO BE much more attractive: [162]

f stop wrote:

I don't agree. I sit at work, 8-10 hours a day. I try my hardest to stick to 1500 calories diet, I swim for miles, kayak for 10s of miles.. and my ass is still getting bigger and bigger.

because you sit at work all day, "try your hardest" but fail to stick to 1500 calories a day, you don't swim/kayak regularly....hence, the growing pupa. if you wrote down everything you ate last month along with every mile you swam (or didn't swim) you'd have your answer to why you can't fit into those skinny jeans anymore.

stop lying to yourself or to anyone else on this forum.
FUZZYWICKETS   
2 Aug 2011
Love / Polish women USED TO BE much more attractive: [162]

while I see some fat people at Walmart and the like, the first hand observation of my son's friends is that all the girls are all painfully thin, all with various eating disorders, basing their self esteem on being size zero.

for the most part, the weight problem these days is due to laziness, not which diet you follow or what your fat/carbs/protein intake percentage is.

if someone wants to look good, they should exercise a lot. simple. you want to eat dessert at night? exercise. thing is, most people don't like to do it and don't like that it takes time out of their day or that they have to get up earlier or go to bed earlier in order to do it. exercising regularly is a lifestyle change and people generally aren't willing to make that change.

as for polish girls not looking as good, yes and no. sometimes being better fed leads to better looking skin, hair, color, etc. Being thin makes any woman look better as long as she maintains a healthy appearance. some women in poland look like they are lacking some serious vitamins and minerals and it looks awful.

women that eat healthy food and plenty of it, coupled with a lot of exercise will always look the best.
FUZZYWICKETS   
1 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

delphiandomine wrote:

I very much doubt that the babcia's doing all the cooking are going to be cooking this stuff.

i've been to plenty of houses in poland for meals and it's the same stuff, every time. different cities, 100's of kilometers apart.....same stuff, as previously described. my polish grandmother made the same damn stuff as well.
FUZZYWICKETS   
1 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

seanus wrote:

The pierogi ruskie I get are often dripping with fat

but.....but.....it's natural!

Boletus wrote:

Boneless trout, smoked over the beech wood smoke, served with horseradish and baked apple, with cranberries and grilled potato. A Polish dish? Definitely.

let's be honest......of all the polish people on this forum, how many of you have actually eaten this meal? digging up some random recipe you saw one day in a real deal polish restaurant hardly says anything about the debate at hand.

the stuff is bland and fatty with loads of salt. period.
FUZZYWICKETS   
31 Jul 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

Foreigner4 wrote:

Pride comes before the fall and this is another example of it.

a lot of people are guilty of this on here regarding polish food. it's like that one thing they constantly cling to, always have to defend. as if, "well, if nothing else is superior here, at least we don't eat fake food like you guys!"