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InWroclaw   
20 Sep 2012
Food / Where to buy British mature Cheddar Cheese and salted butter in Poland? [289]

Well if you're right you're right and you are.

I get confused because the endings of cities/towns change in Polish to mean in or whatever it is, so I probably thought Wroclawskie meant "in". I think it's a whole separate area or something, perhaps meaning (I'm purely guessing) Greater Wroclaw. If not, bit of an unfortunate coincidence that the names are so similar, or fortunate coincidence if you head for one wanting the other coming from hundreds of miles away - depending on whether you're a glass half empty or half full person.

At selected Biedronkas (2000 shops in Poland) there is 10-month and 14-month matured cheddar, 7zl for 200g. The 14-m is farmhouse-like. Not bad at all, pretty good quite frankly and I don't usually go for farmhouse. The 10-m I am yet to try. I don't know if they use animal rennet, ie suitable for vegetarians or not.
InWroclaw   
20 Sep 2012
Food / Where to buy British mature Cheddar Cheese and salted butter in Poland? [289]

The receipt says Tesco Hipermarket - Wroclaw, Bielany Wroclawskie

So you're explain to me the difference, as a newcomer I don't know it.

This is perhaps going to end up in the random chat or bin, but I think you're alluding to it being somewhere called Koberce or something like that, or that it's an area called Wroclawskie like Katy Wroclawskie. That's my guess on what you mean. But Tesco call their branch Wrocław, so in my mind it's Bielany, Wroclaw but perhaps it should be considered part of that other area with the similar name which Google translates as "the Wroclaw" (Wroclawskie).
InWroclaw   
20 Sep 2012
Real Estate / Wrocław has some of the highest rents in Poland [7]

Thanks Harry :o)

I'm quite fed up where I am - neighbourhood's gone right down, drunks at night, gangs and skinheads, noise from the selfish types upstairs, and the monthly admin/service charge up too.
InWroclaw   
20 Sep 2012
Work / Teaching English in Wrocław - TEFL, fair pay? [40]

Pretty much b*gger-all demand for new or unqualified teachers at the moment in Wroc - even private tuition is very quiet apparently. Check out Gumtree - you'll see they're desperate for students, 30 Zl an hour - etc - consistent with what I've heard from one or two teachers I've bumped into here. Only the established ones are getting any trade, I'm guessing.

this poor soul has tonight slashed the hourly rate to 20 zł & 1st lesson free - things must be pretty tough
InWroclaw   
20 Sep 2012
Travel / Lublin ruined by arrival of Ryanair [33]

Rest in peace everyone :-),

That phrase in English is an expression of sympathy following a bereavement, eg "May Pan Xyz rest in peace. Amen."
InWroclaw   
19 Sep 2012
Food / The great British teabag hunt thread [66]

You can get orgaic Clipper tea in Alma

Clipper don't impress me much.

Way better than Lipton's.

OK, I'll give you that now, solely based on the price differential and the fact I've had a few mugs of it and it's quite good.

2 x 2g bags of Biedronka's Remsey (Black, not Ceylon) almost delivers the same oomph as 1 x 3g bag of Tesco Finest.

However, you get 80 in a box of Tesco Finest, and 75 in the Remsey. As I need two Remsey bags, I only get 37 cups out of the Remsey, so no real saving on the Tesco Finest price. If TF was back in their shops, I'd opt for that again, no question. If I were drinking small cups of tea, I'd probably agree the Remsey wins significantly because of its price and the fact you could get 75 small but strong enough cups of tea out of it for half the price of the Tesco bags.

Biedronka's Remsey Ceylon is probably one of the better Polish brands around and there's nothing I can put my finger on to criticise it as such, but even with 2 bags it doesn't seem to have the full flavour of a good British teabag. The Remsey Black Tea seems better by a whisker and is not a bad substitute on your bench in the absence of one from the UK, especially for the price. But drop a good Brtiish teabag into your mug and you will taste the difference if you brew it for 4 or 5 mins.

I think the best Ceylon/Sri Lanka teas have an emblem, forgotten what it is now, but their tea body stamps it on to indicate approval

Auchan are doing black tea in bags - a new line of theirs in a yellow box, 5zł 86 for 75 bags. However, it is not, in my opinion, as good as the Remsey from Biedronka. The bags are slightly smaller physically although the same weight. I don't think the two shops have the same supplier for this.
InWroclaw   
19 Sep 2012
Language / Polish words with consecutive identical letters? [17]

To name a few: lekki, miękki, dżdżysty, zza (preposition)

They're just the sort of examples I wanted, thank you. (For anyone curious, they mean: light, soft, rainy, behind)

terroryzować

That's an interesting one, thanks for that, too.
InWroclaw   
19 Sep 2012
Food / The great British teabag hunt thread [66]

I always thought you were in Poland?!
I am back in England quite soon, but thank you for your kind offer, I might take you up on that in the future and will reimburse you of course, as the person in the UK I left money with last time to post me stuff took ages. Apparently the PO queues put him off each time.
InWroclaw   
19 Sep 2012
Language / Polish words with consecutive identical letters? [17]

For example, in English the word "letters" - it has 2 Ts in the middle of it it. "Middle" has 2 Ds, of course.

I can't really think of any Polish words like that, so can you suggest some?

I know Polish has borrowed the word "thriller" from English as I see the word on fiction book covers in Poland. But, are there any traditional Polish words where there are two identical letters used together consecutively in a proper word (zz, oo, ee or cc, etc)?

This is one I found but it's probably just a street name...
Kołłątaja
mapa.targeo.pl/Kollataja-Hugona/Wroclaw/ulica
InWroclaw   
19 Sep 2012
Food / The great British teabag hunt thread [66]

Not noticed any Salada brand, no. I didn't know that was the custom in New England! I really must go and see more of the States one day. Time's flying and I still haven't been back there.

Way better than Lipton's.

About the same I thought, but it is cheaper. As a British teabag is 3g, you need 2 x 2g Remsey or Lipton bags for a mug of tea. You then get something approaching the oomph factor (to give it its scientific name) if you brew it for 5 mins or so. I agree for the price, it's not a bad buy at all. 75 bags are about 5.50zl.

I used those when i was there, used to be around 6,99 PLN for a 100.

I'm going to bring tea from the UK on my next trip back. Ty-phoo or even Asda's own will do.
InWroclaw   
19 Sep 2012
Food / The great British teabag hunt thread [66]

Hint - "Ramsey" from Biedronka.

I mentioned Remsey/Biedronka in post 1. It is not brilliant, it is just about make do as is Lipton's.
InWroclaw   
18 Sep 2012
Food / The great British teabag hunt thread [66]

I have this fab loose leaf 'Ahmad Tea' ....the best yet makes PG tips taste like dishwater.

Was not impressed when I tried it.

Co-op 99 loose leaf tea knocks the spots out of most of them.

Marmite, sorry Harry I just can't touch it.
InWroclaw   
18 Sep 2012
Food / The great British teabag hunt thread [66]

How did you know that I like take away sandwiches too?

;o)

Buy a good loose leaf Assam and brew it in a pot.

I tried last year, preferred the teabags and wasn't too thrilled with the loose leaf here anyway

Right, the Kiepskis are on Polsat2, so do excuse me!
InWroclaw   
18 Sep 2012
Food / The great British teabag hunt thread [66]

Sorry but I can't help (always stock up on Twinings when I'm back in the UK).

Don't tell anyone else but I go to Wilkinsons and buy Typhoo One Cup and it's fine, I prefer it to Twinings. I know, I just do..!

The tea is only one component in a good brew.

I don't like Yorkshire Tea, over-rated. Perhaps it's the water thing.

Bleugh! Don't tell me you put UHT milk in tea. I stopped putting any dairy products in my cup decades ago, and now, when I'm back in blighty, I take my tea as nature intended there, too. Once you go black, you never go back. Or something like that.

Fresh milk only, full fat brings out the flavour of the tea.

I like Tetley here :(

Polska Tetley? Not for me thanks.

That's not tea, it's milky water! You might as well not bother with the tea bag at all!

I used to work with someone who drank tea like that, they also loved trashy take away sandwiches.
InWroclaw   
18 Sep 2012
Food / The great British teabag hunt thread [66]

Today, and indeed last week, there would appear to be no good value teabags at any of the Tescos I know of in this city (I know of 4).

Tesco Finest was the only one that was worthy of my seal of approval, being a 3g bag, and a box of 80 at appox 11zl.

Having tried a variety of other brands, some also calling themselves Finest and similar, they were demonstrably tasteless by comparison.

The first thing British tea drinkers want is strength. So our teabags are usually 3 grams each. Most Polish teabags are 1.5 or 1.6g each. Some of the cheaper Polish brands are not recogniseable as tea at all, and are probably mostly tea dust.

The only temporary substitutes for Tesco's Finest and at a reasonable price are a variety sold by Biedronka, believe it or not. Not too bad if two bags are used.

Lipton's 2g bags are fairly good I suppose, but don't have the oomph of the Tesco Finest and are not as well priced.

M&S of course have teabags but seldom are they what I consider attractively priced for regular purchase.

Some of you might post a list of brands which you think I don't know about and should have included as a substitute. I have tried them all here and within the price range I don't have any other recommendations. Some of the well-accepted brands here just make me wonder how they achieved that status as they are very poor compared to even supermarket own brands in the UK.

If anyone knows of a shop in Wroc that is selling a UK brand of tea bag at a sensible price, please let me know. If the brand is one I'd have heard of but has Polish text/blurb printed on the actual box, it's already a no no in my experience.

(Yeah I know you Americans drink your tea black and love Lipton's - this is a thread for us Brits who take our tea white!)
InWroclaw   
16 Sep 2012
Language / "bibshite" Is this is an actual polish phrase and if so what does it mean? [25]

Before the mod bins this one too -

I knew of at least 2 private school primary teachers who for real couldn't spell. One became a Head. Massive salary too.

Emma probably wanted to suggest an informal tone and not intimidate anyone, so she wrote quite casually. The actual structure of her message shows a rather high degree of fluency and flow - she's succinct but she's managed to be casual. She could probably turn her hand to writing interesting fiction or features if she gets bored with teaching, although as ever a decent slice of luck is necessary.
InWroclaw   
15 Sep 2012
Language / "bibshite" Is this is an actual polish phrase and if so what does it mean? [25]

On condition they have the feking time machine. :):):):):)

I am going to greet my neighbours "Bibshite" tomorrow morning, it's the only way to test it if we don't get a native speaker to answer this thread.

If I were Emma I'd say "bibshite" to the child's parent when they bring him to school. See their reaction...

dreading monday morning if the other little boy has been saying it to his parents at the weekend..

It might mean "Miss you are lovely" for all I know! But I doubt it's that innocent! More like a confused fusion of words the child has heard. My mum used to say "ponce" to her nursery teacher!
InWroclaw   
15 Sep 2012
News / There's still hope for Poland! [19]

Shifty-eyed tricky Don will end up on the trash heap of history. Oby jak najszybciej!

Replaced by who? :):):)

Shifty-eyed tricky someone else I'm afraid. They're all the same once they get their arse on the seat of power.
InWroclaw   
15 Sep 2012
Language / "bibshite" Is this is an actual polish phrase and if so what does it mean? [25]

Good morning in Polish sounds to English ears like gin dobree or jen dobree

Hi sounds like chair-shhhhhed

Hello sounds like hallo or vitam (like the BE way of saying vitamin without the in)

I have absolutely no idea what he's saying - it would appear he's been watching reruns of Father Ted!

Yes, the case of Emma seems very dubious. Another stinking troll?

It's a fun one anyway, I really did LOL when I read that "word" used, and that ain't easy the way things are here!

btw Emma - I am not a Polish native - one might be along in a moment to explain that the child isn't corrupting the word gobshite and is actually saying something touching and rather beautiful in 18th century Polski ...