Poland-Tea or coffee land?

Bitter lemon.

I've seen that in Poland a few times recently. It used to be popular in Britain many years ago.

I only drink one cup of coffee ( with milk, 50% caffeine) a day, right in the morning and then only black tea. For me Poland is associated with "Yunan" black tea. Very common in the past but now hardly available.

We recently discovered decaffeinated tea in Edeka in Germany.🫖

It is like decarbonised coal. Or defloured bread roll. :):):)

No, it isn't, you can drink several cups of decaff tea on evening and than you can go to sleep. Try this after 3 cups of normal black tea.

What for?????

I didn't write that I drink. I wrote that you can drink.

I didn`t suggest it.


I can but I don`t.

The same with decaff coffee ( my wife's favorite ).

Yunnan is in Poland available and not so expensive. Has anyone seen Keemun tea in Poland?

Sometimes when I go for a kebab in Leipzig, I get a small glass of very strong Turkish tea from a samovar for free, which is practically constantly boiling. This is the only black tea I drink with sugar. There is no such kebab in Poland.

When I was last in Poland, I do recall the coffee served in local eateries was MEGA-strong!! It seems though, at least in the area I was, folks usually drank their coffee pitch black and I got a bemused reaction when I asked the waitress for some milk and sugar. Sort of said without saying anything "Boy, are you a sissy! Can't even take your coffee straight!"

:-)

It must have been a long time ago. I also remember finely ground coffee poured with boiling water in a glass, very strong and fragrant for the whole house. But I remember it from my youth.

Still popular.

What I remember was pretty coarsely ground.... still popular with some (I used to laugh when they'd call it 'Turkish' cofee).


Milk with that kind of Polish coffee is very weird in Poland (not as weird as tea with milk but still... pretty weird). But many/most added sugar.

It must have been much later, coarsely ground coffee was for coffee machines with a filter. Finely ground coffee in electric coffee grinders would not be suitable for filters because it would clog them.

Must be, Maf!

I have two favourite stories about tea and coffee in Poland which I must admit that I tell to people abroad.

One was when I was having a meeting with a client and asked him if he'd like a coffee. His reply was "No thank you, I already consumed 220 mililtres of green tea just over 90 minutes ago".

The other was when I was waiting for a friend in a cafe (the kind run by sort of hipsters, paid for by someone's Żoloborz parents) by pl. Wilsona. I'd had a white coffee which was as weak as cats' **** and my friend was late so I ordered a double espresso. The young man behind the counter looked at me in abject horror and said in a tone of voice that was as shocked as if I'd asked for a placenta smoothie with a heroin chaser: "Bbbbut that would be three coffees!"

After a recent deep cleaning of our coffee maker, I started drinking a lot more tea than coffee.

And that's what I call the Germanic side of Poles.

That`s good. Very good. It shows that Polish people are extremely friendly to foreigners and care about them, despite the stereotypes which suggest we are cold etc.

You assume he knew or cared.


Żoliborz nomenklatura. He probably has a Swedish passport, a bicycle and eats vegan bigos.

I got the impression that he's one of those who thinks high air pressure or sitting with his back to the driver on a tram make you ill, that weak tea is a stimulant and that ice cream is bad for the throat.

And probably has one of these.
mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/1875847-Do-you-dunk-your-penis

Yes. What language and what accent did you use while ordering double expresso???


You mean PiS guys???


Come on, those are too far reaching assumptions. :):)

In Poland? Obviously Japanese with a Yokohama accent.

Seriously, of its something straightforward, I can often pass. Friends joke about having an eastern Polish accent or used to back in the day.

Not rare for auditory learners. I know Poles in the U.K. who can pass providing they're saying something straightforward and short.


If so, they'd pretend they'd they weren't but would secretly like a chance to get back what they lost after 89.

I think you spoke English with a Polish accent. Or vice versa. This esspresso word is a bit tricky....... :):):)

That's only for parties.

I don't ever speak English here, not from one month to the next. That's why I'm on here so much probably.

Though I've been asked twice recently in the U.K. by Poles if I'm Polish. Once when I was speaking English and another time when I was overheard on the phone and she said in Polish "ooh, you must have been here for a long time because you're staring to get an English accent".


It's not exactly Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz.

I wonder if Pawian will come for tea?

Well, he probably likes bananas better.

The last time I had tea was about ....... ehrm.... let`s guess - about 2 years ago? So, you`d better attract me with another drink.

Yes, original bananas straight from Africa:

• 
  istockphoto53422043.jpg