Food / Eating Kielbasa - how do you cook yours? [119]

Horseradish, nice. I have some from a company called Motyl, tasty. I also bought some Wasabi horseradish by Provitus. Spicy as hell, good for sausages. It's not quite wasabi'ish enough for sushi so I bought separate wasabi.

Food / Eating Kielbasa - how do you cook yours? [119]

Hard to give one precise colour, light brown. I'm tempted to say mustardy but that hasn't crept into modern parlance as of yet. It's made by Kamis, the ones I have. From a glass jar. The squeezy ones are better for grills of course.

Not yellow like Colman's. I have eaten many quality Polish mustards but this one is better than them all. Good old English mustard. Some have tried to copy it. They've done well but not well enough.

Food / Eating Kielbasa - how do you cook yours? [119]

Don't forget the quality mustard, Sarepska or Rosyska

Food / Borscht - Zurek / Bialy barszcz recipe [153]

With eggs gives it a different dimension. I must make it clear that I am referring to żurek.

Food / Borscht - Zurek / Bialy barszcz recipe [153]

Aha, in Silesia it's most commonly z jajkiem. Pepper is up to the adder of it. Here, the sausage is cooked like in zosia's example.

Food / Borscht - Zurek / Bialy barszcz recipe [153]

Zurek is sour rye soup, a Silesian speciality. It is eaten with eggs and lots of pepper. Sublime!

Life / Do Polish People steal a lot? [330]

From what I hear, train theft is pretty bad. Asides from that, thieves will be thieves, regardless of country.

UK, Ireland / What do you hate about England and English people? [142]

Too many Chavs on the go. Also, it gave up on Aneurin Bevan's 'from cradle to grave' notion way too cheaply. This is one of the biggest disappointments, how the NHS changed from being a genuine gem to entertaining nonsense like CCT and excessive privatisation.

Food / Eating Kielbasa - how do you cook yours? [119]

Umm, ho hum, no nie wiem

Life / Reasons for moving to Poland [291]

Yeah, English tends to get them going

Food / Eating Kielbasa - how do you cook yours? [119]

Just don't grill the kabanos, that'd be sacrilege. Podwawelska and Toruńska, yes

Work / Average monthly salary in Poland is around 1000 PLN (few hundred bucks). [387]

Let's call it a mutual respect arrangement.

Work / Average monthly salary in Poland is around 1000 PLN (few hundred bucks). [387]

3 words Greg, you are branching out :)

Food / Eating Kielbasa - how do you cook yours? [119]

That's like a Monty Python sketch or The Fast Show,

'Does missus like a bit of sizzle?', 'Well, do you, missus?'

Work / Average monthly salary in Poland is around 1000 PLN (few hundred bucks). [387]

Definitely, yes. The place right opposite, pretty much the same kind of place, costs 1000PLN. I hope my neighbours don't know how little I pay. I have a special agreement with my landlord.

Life / Do Polish People steal a lot? [330]

Formillier? Is this a French verb? Have to ask Polson.

Nah, just being stupid again. Sorry, here we go.

They say that, when the Germans come across the border to buy a second-hand car within Poland, the chances are that it's theirs anyway. It just becomes repossessed again.

Life / Reasons for moving to Poland [291]

You will encounter ignorance virtually everywhere.

Life / Do Polish People steal a lot? [330]

Tyres, thieves.

Again, a lot of nonsense comes from stereotypes. Most of us are familiar with the Germany-Poland car joke.

Work / Average monthly salary in Poland is around 1000 PLN (few hundred bucks). [387]

My place is central and rent plus bills comes to 750PLN only. 3600PLN?? Pie-in-the-sky stuff.

How many saunas and jacuzzis were thrown in? Or, just BS?

Work / Average monthly salary in Poland is around 1000 PLN (few hundred bucks). [387]

Geez, that's half my salary. Holy smoke!!

Language / The Polish language - it's bloody hard! [210]

Navajo, HOW? LOL

Thanks Marek

Language / The Polish language - it's bloody hard! [210]

No cheating, no. There was some tense recall but I'm never fully sure on some occasions.

Language / The Polish language - it's bloody hard! [210]

Polski jest jednym z najtrudniejszych języków na świecie.

I'm not sure if the above is correct, cases get me. My instinct tells me it's ok, maybe missing a mark or 2, LOL.

Language / The Polish language - it's bloody hard! [210]

Europa da się lubić gives non-Poles hope. There are some on the forum who just assume that non-Poles cannot understand Poland or Polish. How wrong they are.

Language / The Polish language - it's bloody hard! [210]

It's hard to speak it fluently. That really takes a lot of practice and a bucketload of luck

Life / Reasons for moving to Poland [291]

You can say that again ;)

Life / Reasons for moving to Poland [291]

Teaching is hard work, you can say that again

Life / Reasons for moving to Poland [291]

They made out that they were some clerks from a local office and she let them in. She's deaf so she likely heard nothing.

Life / Reasons for moving to Poland [291]

Yeah, bleedin gypos. They conned my fiancee's grandma to the tune of 30k.

Rule no 1: Don't let a gypo into your house.

I saw some at the local Tesco today. They even look like crooks

Life / Reasons for moving to Poland [291]

What is what all about? The money difference? Yeah, at one level it gets to me when the Poles call the Scots stingy. The level of stinginess is much higher here from what I've seen in 4 years than in Scotland.