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Polish food at home or out? [57]
pgtx wrote:
but if Americans like it, fine w/me...
it's not even that we "like it". we eat it but don't celebrate it like people in Spain/France/Italy/Poland. America simply isn't a bread culture. Go to Italy, find great wine. Go to Poland, find great kielbasa. Poles eat more kielbasa than Italians....Italians drink more wine than Poles....you see what I mean.
tygrys wrote:
And the assumption of "American food is disgusting" is very typical of Poles who newly come here or have never been here.
because they do the same thing anyone does when they come to a foreign country, are intimidated, aren't confident with the national language....and don't want to spend much money while they run around trying to see all the sights.....they eat fast food. It's logical.
I recently had a few beers with 2 German guys that were staying here on a short work contract. When I looked around their kitchen to see what they were buying at the supermarket, it was basically cheap white bread, cases of Coca Cola, empty Papa John's pizza boxes next to the garbage can, packaged ham and cheese (getting fresh stuff would involve interaction with the deli clerk) and basically other cheap starchy foods that can easily be taken from the shelves. When I asked them what restaurants they went to, it was always one of those corporate joints like Applebee's or TGIFriday's and they would order steaks or burgers, french fries with it all the time, BBQ ribs.....and OF COURSE, they follow all that up with, "geeze, we've put on so much weight since we've been here, all you guys eat is fast food in America!"
No.
YOU eat fast food.
I don't blame them. I did the same thing when I first came to Poland. I didn't know the lingo, had no idea what I was looking at when I went to a store....it was survival. You know it's not the healthiest thing for you but you do what you gotta do to make ends meet and keep your stomach full. In time, your diet changes once you figure things out. When you visit the USA, like any other country you're not familiar with, you end up doing the same thing.
Food for thought: Think of the things Poles love to eat in Poland, what their national foods are, what foods define Poland, what they can't wait to eat when they get home to visit mommy and daddy.....and tell me that it's healthy and not loaded with calories and fat.
