Food / Food coloring ingredients to buy in Poland? [7]

allegro.pl/listing.php/search?sg=0&string=barwnik+spozywczy

Ask for "barwnik spożywczy" or "barwniki spożywcze". The cheapest way to get them is Allegro or specialized shops like this one in Poznan:

pan-centrum.pl

You can also buy them on sites like:

tortownia.pl
mniammniam.com
sweetdecor.pl/category/58,barwniki-spozywcze
fabrykacukiernika.pl

Life / Why is Polish Christmas on the 24th? [87]


;)
My Christmas Eve is in town which has 5,000 citizens, 3 grocery stores, 1 pharmacy and 1 restaurant. My parents live here and I'am basically trapped here for every Christmas : )) Wanna rescue me ? ;)


Yes, he had - wine ;)

Life / Why is Polish Christmas on the 24th? [87]




My Christmas Eve is finished until 10 p.m, we don't eat meat that day even after midnight and this "booze" is three bottles of wine for 10 people.


I wonder why...


After Pasterka I just go to bed and watch dr. House ;)
Sounds nothing like Polish Christmas.

Language / Lat V lata [8]

"Lata" means just "years" for example "Lata temu" - "Years ago"
And "lat" is a version of "lata" but saying in genitive.

Genitive has two questions: whom? of what?
So if you want to say "For 20 years" you should ask "For 20 (of what?) years".

I hope it will help. This is the method that polish children have at school to learn how to change words properly.

Travel / Places for Vodka tasting in Poznan? [3]

It depends how much money do you have.
I am sure that places like Aleksander Restaurant od Bażanciarnia (I mean quite expensive) can arrange something for you but you have to call and ask. Try Bażanciarnia first, they serve very nice traditional Polish food and Aleksander is more multi-kulti ;)

bazanciarnia.pl
alexander.poznan.pl (don't be scared - this site is hopeless)
darkrestaurant.pl/witamy.php (here you can taste your vodka in the darkness...)
villamagnolia.pl

Law / Thinking of opening up a Greek restaurant in Poland, bad idea or good? Jenkei [45]


Yeah, this is the same guy who owns Mykonos Restaurant :)

Law / Thinking of opening up a Greek restaurant in Poland, bad idea or good? Jenkei [45]

I live in Poznan and we have three Greek restaurants here. Two of them are just normal restaurants but the third one called Meze is a little bit unusual. It based on small spaces, the same menu for whole year and low prices. It's not usual restaurant because you have to order and pay first (like in eatery) but the food is very good and fresh and it based on original Greek products. You also have to remember about the design, you have to make your restaurant look different than others. In Meze you have modern furnitures (good design but not too expensive) and no traditional greek stuff (like this: zuki.pl/warszawa-praga-poludnie/restauracje/grecka-tawerna -santorini/recenzja/2070/) but the colours are very greek (blue, yellow, white). Young people love this place and I assume they prosper well because they have tho places like this in Poznan and there are always people inside.

So, Pellasgos, you have to have THE IDEA, something original because opening another traditional greek restaurant could be not so good thought.
You can see it here : meze.pl

Good luck ! :)

Food / Chinese restaurant / takeaway / supermarket Poznan [7]


Try Pekin Restaurant on 23 luty Street, opposite Academy of Fine Arts but I can't assure you if they have dim sum whatever it is :) Other restaurant is Azalia on Marcin Street but I've never been there.


And he is right :)

Work / CHRISTMAS CHARITY WORK IN POLAND... [29]

Gazeta Wyborcza organizes action which is called "Everyone can be a Santa" when you can give something or do something for poor families. You can give the money which is the easiest way but you can also repair the roof, buy some coal etc. For example my friend with some other people took two sisters for all day shopping to shopping centre.

But I think it's a little bit too late for that because Christmas Eve it's on Friday.
I don't know where do you live but in every big city in Poland there's a Christmas Eve for homeless and maybe you could help with that.

However You have something about 48 hours to do something good :)

Food / Bread Baking in Poland [65]


Well it means it has no .... hahhaaa I just found the translation of "konserwant" in English and Onet Dictionary says it's ... preservative... so Polish bread has no preservative inside (buuhahha).

However, I don't know exactly what do you mean when you say your bread goes off. Of course when you have some little green mushrooms on it there's nothing you can do BUT there is hope when bread is just hard. You have to put some butter on a frying pan and fry the bread on both sides. I usually eat it with sugar.

Another version is with eggs but then you have soak the bread in it (eggs can be prepare with salt, pepper, herbs or whatever you want) before you start to fry it. Serve with fresh tomatoes, cream (kwaśna śmietana, nie śmietanka), salt and pepper taste delicious.

Smacznego !

News / An end to Drug Prohibition in Poland and EU states? [9]

I quoted Newsweek.
"To hybryda, którą wygenerowali Wietnamczycy. Popularne konopie mają około 0,2 proc. thc [zawartość substancji narkotycznych – przyp. red.]. A tutaj mamy do czynienia z roślinami z 20-30 proc. thc! "

"This is a hybrid, which was generated by the Vietnamese. Most of cannabis have about 0.2 percent THC [content narcotic - ed.]. And here we are dealing with plants with 20-30 percent of THC!"

News / An end to Drug Prohibition in Poland and EU states? [9]

Eeee ... no no. Amphetamine is definitely NOT my boat :) I just quoted statistics.

News / An end to Drug Prohibition in Poland and EU states? [9]

Did you know that Poland is one of the biggest producer of amphetamine in the world ?? And our weed has 20-30% THC content when normally it's 2% (!) In July the police found illegal cultivation of marihuana in fake house (WTF?) near Warsaw. The bulding was made from styrofoam with windows from plexi and with little bulbs that the neighbors will thing there is "life" inside.

Poland is one of Europe's largest marijuana plantation . Thanks to the Vietnamese.

The new two-storey villa was in a quiet street in Old Babice near Warsaw . Large windows , balconies , glass staircase . By the thought of not przeszłoby any passer-by , that actually looks at the dummy home. In windows , dead on the inside boards , installed a small , energy-efficient light bulbs . So that evening looked like in the middle went to normal family life . And really inside the second house , completely cut off from the world, and in it the network of large lamps , weave powerful irrigation pipes and venting ... Amazon jungle 80 percent . humidity and 45 degrees of heat . Nearly one hundred 600 -watt high pressure sodium lamps . In all public forests cannabis , looked after by the Vietnamese gardeners : 500 bushes , from which arise the drugs with a value of up to 300 thousand . gold .

Yes, our national treasure isn't coal ...

News / Medvedev in Poland [28]

He came with package of files about Katyń so at least he brought a present ;) The rest of them (46 files from Moscow's archive) we'll get on the occasion of another president's crash ;)

Sorry for the black humor, blame The Monty Python.

News / Medvedev in Poland [28]


Rozbiór - partition

The situation when your neighbours decide to treat you like their birtday cake and eat you part by part ; )

UK, Ireland / The more subtle differences: Ireland/Britain v Poland [310]

I thought there was some overtone in that what he said :)
We should think about the new name for that:
whitecheese-and-vanilla-cake-which-is-not-cheesy-in-the-yellow-way ;)

UK, Ireland / The more subtle differences: Ireland/Britain v Poland [310]


I feel stupid. What's SO funny ??

History / When will you Poles give back German land and the cities which you robbed? [557]


We call it the tourism of sentiment. Usually it looks like this: To Posen/Danzig/Breslau etc. come german trip. They look at buildings and say :

- Do you remember , Helga our first date ?
- Oh, yes it was the summer of 41'. Hans, it was glorious time ! You gave me a bouquet of little Jewish heads instead of flowers and I gave you a belt made from women's polish hair !

Travel / VISITING POZNAN, can anyone suggest places to visit including good bars/clubs? [16]

Merged: Short film from Poznan and some questions for you.

For those who have never been in Poznan :



By the way I have some questions for you, foreigners living in Poland: how and where did you find out informations about Poland ? I mean was it website or friends etc. ?

I will be very thankful for answers :)

News / Germany - We won't let Poland drown! [28]

Yes , get some Russians for help :))

Love / Inside polish women's psychology and mind [109]


So when I want high sallary, live with no marrage and (God forbid!) no children then I'm a freak. That's the stupidest thing I heard today and it's only 1 p.m....

Travel / Public Transportation in Poland [30]


In Poznan (which you called provincial town....agrhhh) we have time tickets. You can buy a ticket for 15/30/60 minutes and 48h ticket. Every ticket is valid in buses and trams and you can change the transport. Simple :)

Tickets are available only in kiosks and in ...eeee... ticket machines (?) so trams and buses are very punctual because the drivers don't have to sell tickets inside.

End of report ;)

History / Why did Hitler kill so many Jews in Poland? [261]


Heh yes it is :)))

I. Have. No. Patience. To. Persons. Like. You. Good. Night.

History / Why did Hitler kill so many Jews in Poland? [261]


No I don't. That's why ....I asked.... And he didn't answer so he didn't know.


Picking up some single sentences from whole reply it's not good idea when you want to be treated seriously :)

History / Why did Hitler kill so many Jews in Poland? [261]


Noooo. I have no problems with dealing with things which I prefer not to hear :P Of course there are experts on Wiki but usually they sink in the sea of crap ;) That's why I prefer books.


I have nothing more to say :) Especially if I have some eggs to paint (I'm not joking...) and I see you are an "essay man" so I agree with everything you say in advance :P

History / Why did Hitler kill so many Jews in Poland? [261]


First of all I don't consider Wikipedia as a reliable source because EVERYONE CAN WRITE AN ARTICLE THERE :)
As Vetala said there's a huge difference between not liking people and wishing them to die. Of course there was an examples of helping Jews. But see the difference between generalization and enumerating such examples one by one. Generally in press (which can be treat as authoritative reflection of people's way of thinking) there was a lot of anti-semitism incidents.


What it means "many" ? In XVII century Poland was the biggest country in Europe (as historians say from sea to sea - from Baltic Sea to Black Sea) and what you are talking about has happened on Polish eastern borders. So I understand that Jews from east escaped from there but it doesn't mean it was some kind of exodus from Poland :)


Yep, if all Jews from Poland escaped to Holland, your country would be far far too little ;)

Food / Lazanki recipe request please.... [12]


I'm watching the blessing of swieconkas in Krakow in TV now. Is there yours too ? "))

Food / Lazanki recipe request please.... [12]


Aaaaaaand the winner iiiisssssssss..... ;)))

History / Why did Hitler kill so many Jews in Poland? [261]

I'm not talking about the whole history of Jews in Poland. For centuries (especially in XVII) Poland was the most tolerant country in Europe when the shelter could find not only Jews but Arians, Lutherans or Calvinists. But in 30's the increase of anti-semitism was huge. I have something about 10 yearbooks of popular polish newspapers from 34-39 with jokes about Jews. And believe me, they stink of anti-semitism for a mile. My friend showed me few of anti-semitism leaflets which were distributed on streets in 30's.

You are right that for many centuries Poland was some kind of paradise for Jews but in 30's this paradise was definitely over.

History / Why did Hitler kill so many Jews in Poland? [261]


No. Ironic was the way I said it...


No. Ironic was the way I said it...


Most of Pole like to be a scapegoat.
It's funny because it the same time when this post was made Russian TV showed Andrzej Wajda's "Katyn". So in the same time when Russians admit that massacre in Katyn was Russian fault, most of Poles deny their own murders. Thanks God it's not the opinion of historians.