Food / Polish cookbook - down to earth hearty Polish cuisine [33]


I don't know if I could even eat the sort of food that people ate back then these days. I remember having tinned salmon with parsley sauce on the top ( packet mix back then ). Tournedos Rossini! You might have moved in better circles than me......

I actually liked Findus crispy pancakes of all things. Don't know if you can even get them anymore. Vesta curries!

Those thrilling choices for a meal out too! Either melon balls or prawn cocktail for starters, steak for mains and black forest gateau for dessert. At a Berni Inn of course.


Never made anything from her recipes although she's hugely popular even today. I learnt to cook from the age of 8 out of necessity. Used an old book called 1000 recipes byJane Harrop, Isabelle Barrett. Nothing too exciting in it but good for basics.

Language / Polish vs English tongue twisters [45]

"He threw three free throws."

"Irish wristwatch, Swiss wristwatch":

" Red leather. yellow leather"

Food / Polish cookbook - down to earth hearty Polish cuisine [33]


It's the same over here too although I've known curry powder to be sometimes substituted for mustard. It was the closest thing I could think of when Jon said we had something similar in the UK. Very much a 70s/80s thing though, Haven't seen them for years and they weren't that popular.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]


Sułoszowa

Food / The most typical ingredient used in Polish cuisine [40]


I don't think dill is far behind it.

Even dogs like it.....

Food / Polish cookbook - down to earth hearty Polish cuisine [33]


Me too. Horseradish sauce in the UK is way too creamy, I prefer Polish plus it is stronger tasting too.


Are you thinking of devilled eggs?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


I always abbreviate it too. I only gave the full version for anyone that might be unaware of it.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


I've read this definition and also to be living in cloud cuckoo land/under a rock/on a different planet. That's if I have the correct idiom, Urwać się z choinki?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


Don't count your chickens.

You shouldn't rely on the outcome of something until it's actually happened. The full idiom is " Don't count your chickens before they hatch".

Language / Polish vs English tongue twisters [45]


If I remember rightly it's part of a song although I haven't heard it for years.

This one I find hard:

Czy rak trzyma w szczypcach strzęp szczawiu czy trzy części trzciny

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Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]


He also claimed that you were the owner of the forum so should we believe him about that too?

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]


Don't presume about things which aren't true:-

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]


I'm not a mod and if you can't see his posts then I presumed it was because you had blocked him which all PF members have the option to do.


I have no idea what you are talking about.


I'm not psychic.

Language / Polish vs English tongue twisters [45]


Yep. If you don't use it you lose it. Many students once they've left school, unless they're working in the tourism sector maybe, or studying at University to teach English, might hardly ever encounter English speakers on a regular basis.

I spent a year working in France many moons ago and was fluent but now I would definitely struggle in conversation. Last time I was in France I picked up a newspaper and was happy to find I could still read French pretty well :)


That's interesting. Nice to think my French might be lying dormant somewhere.


Might be due to variations in dialect or the speed with which people speak. Not everyone speaks clearly and depending where some people are from, I have a job to understand them!

Language / Polish vs English tongue twisters [45]


I'm not surprised. I think Pawian overestimates how widely English is spoken in Poland. And how well it's spoken. Those under 25 will know some but when I go to Poland I inevitably end up speaking Polish as even talking to younger Poles in English often results in blank stares.


Exactly.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]


You have blocked his posts.


Could be anything as you tend to put weird things together.

If I had to guess it would be beetroot, ogórki, bread, sausage, tomatoes, surówka or possibly eggs.

Language / Polish vs English tongue twisters [45]


That's ridiculous.

None of my Polish friends are elderly. Most are in their mid forties and learned Russian or German at school. In the early to mid nineties, English language wasn't widely taught, at least outside big cities. The children of my friends were taught English in Poland which helped when they came to the UK.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


I really don't know where you're going with this. In the PRL Poles had to figure out solutions to problems or they would have had nothing. A sort of survival mechanism if you like. Although I also think it's a way of life and part of Polish culture. What I've said doesn't really cover why though.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]

Acquiring a lot of money?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


Thanks maf, now I know where's he's coming from. I've heard examples of this many times before especially , as you say, under communism. It's a way of beating the system.


Scheming possibly.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


It can be translated in many ways depending on what one wants to say. Don't know the slang meaning. Anything to do with unity?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


Because I was talking about the end result. She was removed from the village. Never really thought about it to be honest.


Thanks for the explanation.


I really don't have much idea about this one...

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


On a cart.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


OK, she was ejected from the village and subjected to humiliation from the villagers. The origins lie in humiliation or am I barking up the wrong tree?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


No idea I'm afraid.


Connected? Linked together?

Language / Polish vs English tongue twisters [45]


Haha. I've never heard that substitution from Poles but then most of the Poles I know didn't learn English until they came to the UK or they'd had a crash course prior to coming here.

That substitution is sometimes used by English people, due to laziness I think.


This is true. Forgot about that.

Life / Polish Music. [303]

I really like this tune:

L.U.C. & Rebel Babel Film Orchestra ft. Kayah, Laboratorium Pieśni - Jesień - Tańcuj - Chłopi



and this

Kwiat Jabłoni ft. Ralph Kaminski - "Wodymidaj"

Language / Polish vs English tongue twisters [45]


Not everyone can. I have never forgotten my Polish friend telling me that her daughter came in turd place for a race in her school sports day.........

My problem when I first started learning Polish was rolling the letter 'r'. That sound doesn't exist in English language just as 'th' doesn't in Polish. Took me a long time to learn how to do it. Found it easier to roll the 'r' if it was in the middle of a word rather than at the start. 'Kurwa' often became part of my vocabulary ;)