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Life in communist Poland - personal relations


Bobko 20 | 1,046
18 May 2023 #211
we mostly received kasha with some gravy but without meat.

This was my experience even in the 1990s. Mind you, this is the time of unbridled Wild West capitalism.
AntV 5 | 631
18 May 2023 #212
Maybe her's were like they were because she grew up in a rural-ish suburb in out skirts of Poznan.
OP pawian 204 | 21,119
18 May 2023 #213
rural-ish suburb in out skirts of Poznan.

And they had plenty of delicious produce from nearby farms??? :):):)
GefreiterKania 30 | 1,217
18 May 2023 #214
This was my experience even in the 1990s.

80s/90s - a lot of dairy products: pierogi ruskie (lol), leniwe, milk soup, pancakes with cottage cheese, cream or vanilla budyƄ for dessert; apart from that a lot of gulash and chicken, rather decent soups (nothing like what we had at home but edible) and always some sort of fruit kompot. Now that I think of it, it was quite decent but back then I never really enjoyed the meals at our school canteen because my mom was a great cook and I was spoiled at home.
AntV 5 | 631
18 May 2023 #215
And they had plenty of delicious produce from nearby farms??? :):):)

Not sure, but the meals were cooked by women who came from those nearby farms.
Bobko 20 | 1,046
18 May 2023 #216
always some sort of fruit kompot.

Yes, of course. We are not savages.
Barney 15 | 1,568
18 May 2023 #217
Everything you have posted chimes exactly with my experience of school meals. The free milk was horrible exactly as Pavian describes. The food was probably worse than Torq describes and not as balanced. Its nothing to do with communism just the bean counters undervaluing the country's potential and future.
jon357 72 | 21,200
18 May 2023 #218
The free milk was horrible exactly as Pavian describes

We had that too. Even after the milk-snatcher stopped it, we still had it in South Yorkshire. It was always on the point of going off. I can't stand milk to this day. Nevertheless, it was vitamins and calcium which some kids didn't get much of elsewhere.

Its nothing to do with communism just the bean counters undervaluing the country's potential and future.

I think you could say that about most of the developed world and places less-developed too. And cynicism creeps into bureaucracies and is pervasive.

School meals (like hospital and prison food) have a tiny budget. It's a miracle really that they served what they did, and with Poland's kleptocracy meaning that not all the budget/food got to the kids an even bigger miracle.
Miloslaw 17 | 4,718
18 May 2023 #219
. We are not savages.

Who are "We"?

Or have you let your mask slip?
OP pawian 204 | 21,119
20 May 2023 #220
School meals (like hospital and prison food) have a tiny budget

Yes. It can be a matter of further discussion if it is better to have a canteen with lousy meals at school or no canteen at all which is today`s reality for most schools in Poland.

PiS, instead of wasting or stealing billions, should have spent them on reviving school canteens, nurse care and dentist surgeries in Polish schools. I had them in my primary school in 1970s.
jon357 72 | 21,200
20 May 2023 #221
should have spent them on reviving school canteens, nurse care and dentist surgeries in Polish schools. I had them in my primary school in 1970s.

We had those two. Not everyone went to the school dentist however the existence of one was important for kids whose parents didn't take them for dental treatment.

I'm surprised that there aren't school nurses now. They're important for head infestations which can spread in schools, for picking up on childhood obesity and for supporting girls when they reach the menarche.

School canteen are pretty important too and should always be free.


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