Food / Polish mustards [134]


We have something siimilar in the U.K. called Hot Dog Mustard which you only found on hot dog stands or at fairgrounds. I always liked it and it tastes nostalgic now.


Very useful as an emulsifier in cooking. Then again, so is mustard powder.

Food / Polish mustards [134]


I used to have a friend who was a German teacher and liked all things German. She used to buy something called 'Susser senf' (excuses for the spelling; it sounded like that when she said it) which I tried. It was supposed to be mustard yet tasted of nothing.


They do a decent Ukraińska (dawno Rosyjska) however the rest just don't appeal, especially Sarepska (though a bit of that works nicely in a cheese sauce and even works if you're making Glamorgan sausages). In small supermarkets, it's almost invariably Kamis that's on sale.

Oddly enough, there's a company in Silesia that makes English mustard for export. Sadly only ready made in jars which I don't like buying because it loses heat/flavour and goes off quickly.

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You really haven't been to Europe, have you? Do you really think that the alternative here to emptiness is "suburban sprawl".


I quite like Central Park, especially the cityscape around it however nothing like that. More like Scarsdale or parts of the Hamptons if you're looking for an NY analogy. Not really my thing and mostly 1930s buildings with relatively little infrastructure, but handy, safe and quiet.


Nor would I. Perhaps she's writing for people who think that European tourism is only London, Paris, Venice and Vienna.

Did you see the apology at the bottom of the article?

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Milo lives somewhere nice and leafy and I live between a large forest and a large river. No sewers, though I'd not drink the tap water in Michigan.

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They were.

She went to Warsaw and Lublin. Odd that you should pretend that either of them are "off the beaten track".
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And we shouldn't forget that most of the 640 miles that Jailbird Jim drives through is empty.

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Means fragile. A problem for minority governments the world over.

One drawback of coalition governments. There should be a way to force it through as a precursor to equal marriage.


I do, not that politics in PL is especially 'intricate'.

Odd that you keep mentioning nationality.

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What's so 'fragile'?

Then again, the current regime doesn't even have a proper majority.

Food / Polish mustards [134]


Look at the label on the jars of certain brands. Some say Ukraińska, some say Ostra (not that it's especially ostra). Things change.


At least one hasn't seen that some manufacturer have rebranded due to current circumstances.


Evidently some of us know things happening in Poland that you don't. That one's actually the only decent mustard on the market unless you go to Kuchnie Świata or occasionally Dealz to get Colman's. And even then, they've only got ready made rather than tins of powder.

Hard to know why Polish mustard in general is so bland and flavourless. Almost always ready made in jars too. Near useless for cooking with.Almost as bad as that stuff that Americans pretend is mustard.


One good thing in PL is how common horseradish root is in the shops. It's always better to make it from scratch.

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A second class alternative but better than nothing.


Indeed.

Food / Polish mustards [134]


Eww.

I find Polish mustard very bland like German mustard.

The one that used to be called Rosyjska and is now called Ukraińska is a decent medium one but still lacks kick.

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He is certainly excellent, if rather right wing, as are they both. Have you read his book?

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Only if your name's Poloniusz.


It isn't.

And just as capitalism is restrained, constricted and controlled in the developed world where there is also a large non-capitalistic element to the economies, so Socialism co-exists with limited capitalism.

The problem is, if you give capitalists an inch, they'll take a mile, as we saw with privatised (soon to be back) rail franchises in the U.K, and situations in Poland where companies (mostly though not entirely German) were allowed to buy publicly owned manufacturing assets so they could close them down and switch production to their home market. And when they don't close them down, they take more in 'profit' from someone's work than they get themselves for doing it!

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She didn't even believe her own shtick.

And now he's quoting from Tory politicians who died 50 years before he was born.

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Quite.

And now he's quoting that fraudulent scammer Ayn Rand.

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Looks like he's fallen down the rabbit hole.

And the sad thing is that he can't even vote in a Polish election, not that he could even read the campaign manifesto if he tried.

Bizarre that some pond life try to pretend that the concept of 15 minute cities could somehow restrict their freedom.

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All very mainstream destinations.

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That capitalists use to make you their slave?


It's like that pretty well everywhere, except for cases where economies of scale and poor funding have lessened that.

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There's nothing 'combined ' with anything. Why are good town planning principles a problem for you?


So in fact not a problem for you.Yet for some reason you erroneously mention it.



Better a Socialist 'agenda' than an unrestricted capitalistic agenda.

Both main contenders mentioned here are centre right though, and sadly not on the left so basically you're still saying nothing.

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How does that work?

We're talking about town planning guidelines.

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Why do you think you'd be in a 'corral'?

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Or Algeria.

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An excellent concept, don't you think? That and good public transport and safe streets for kids.


Most of the developed world is like that and always has been. Unfortunately there are some crazies in the UK who believe internet lies that they're going to be somehow confined to their street.


Ironically, the planned towns and cities built in the Gulf (the expansion of Kuwait City, Jubail, Dammam, Jizan, etc) by American companies (mostly Bechtel) have always been not 15 minute cities, but 10 minute cities. It's just good town planning.

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+1

Fiction and Death Camps don't sit well together. Schindler's list only works since it's based on the life of a real person and handles the Auschwitz scenes carefully.

There are enough lowlifes who try to relativise or even deny the reality of what went on. Romantic TV series somehow add to that.

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So plenty of time.


That's certainly an interesting word salad. Why not come to Poland? Despite the language barrier, you could get laid in one of those dodgy kiosks with the curtained-off back bit where they offer 'dances'. There are still a few around town and they'll let anyone in who pays and doesn't mind scar tissue and greenish discharge.

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Has absolutely no idea either, since we've never met.


Actually no, but never mind accuracy.

We're talking about Poland's next President, something nothing whatsoever to do with you, and which you evidently know as little about as the zero you know about anyone's language skills here. And since you can't even hold a conversation in Polish, language skills are something, like slimness or girlfriends, that you have never been blessed with.

Two driven candidates, both centre right, no credible challenger on either side of them, and only one thing sure; that the winner will be from the same party as the government; a good thing right now.

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Given that he only missed being elected by a tiny margin, I'd say that millions outside Warsaw related to him.


Given that you don't speak Polish at all and have never heard me speak in any language, it seems that the Dunnung-Kruger thing relates more to your assessment of the language skills of people you've never met.

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It 's even more fluent after a good night's rest.


He's excellent.

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No. It's fine for a politician to give interviews in their own language, and should they decide to give one in another language, quirks are fine. It's not a test of language administered by non-natives.


Yes, it's fluent. It flows beautifully.

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Is there a need to give a live interview in a foreign language?

Most politicians don't, and when they do, nobody expects perfection. And Radel Sikorski in any case speaks English very well, as we established here. His rival just sounds like a second language learner with a textbook and a teacher called Agnieszka who starts every lesson with "hello, I am Agnes" and can't pronounce law or girl.

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That's fine by me since I'm fluent in Polish.

And should any politician need to speak or issue a statement in English, it would always need to be proofread by an educated native speaker anyway. He could ask his wife who is very good with words.

The othe4 three can take a running jump.