Love / Polish guy canceled 3rd date on me, is he uninterested or am I reading too much into it [43]


There isn't one.

He doesn't sound interested. It was just sex from the internet.

Law / Weed laws in Poland [25]


It's freely available in shops in Poland.

Life / Adopting a cat in Poland? [13]


That's the point of them.

Food / Polish Pizza !! The best in the world? [330]

Parmo, not Parma (autocorrect).

Nice but not kind to anyone's waistline or cholesterol levels.

Food / Polish Pizza !! The best in the world? [330]


Made from wheat I think. Very old recipe.


Me too.


They can't say "thee" and "tha" (a very South Yorkshire thing; I grew up saying it) with the "th". They pronounce it a bit like dee and dah.

There's a ton of regional dishes, some half forgotten. Some nice ones from east anglia and Lincolnshire. The northern ones tend to be a bit less user friendly since they're from poorer or geographically wilder places. Catholic Pie from Lancashire is nice. I like Bavarian Buns which you only ever see in Bradford.

The North East is a bit special about traditional food. Singing Hinnies, pease pudding (Northumberland hummus), the best kippers in the world and since WW2, there's Parma, an Italian/American/Middlesbrough fusion food.

About food from the south, I don't know much since I've not really been there much apart from London. A friend from Kent says there are local specialties where he's from.

What about the South West? Is there anything there that you don't see elsewhere?

Food / Polish Pizza !! The best in the world? [330]


I got some Henderson's Relish a while back. I'd not really had it despite it being a Sheffield thing and fairly local to me. They call it Hendo's there and Deedahs (Sheffield people) around the world take it with them or buy it online. It's been made for about 150 years about 100 yards from the original factory (just behind the big flats you see in The Full Monty).

It's a bit like an insipid Worcester Sauce without the kick. A bit like the very bland stuff they have in Germany and sell as Worcester Sauce. A sort of relation to Maggi.

It's good for vegans and I'd guess it would do as a substitute for a light soy sauce in cooking. Probably food with delicate Chinese recipes.


About Stargazy Pie, nobody outside Cornwall (where it was pretty well forgotten too) had even heard of it until about a decade ago when a theme park in China started selling it.

I like Dock Pudding (a Halifax specialty) and Herb Pudding (sort of Westmorland/south Lake District).

The latter is easy. Pearl barley, herbs (nettles are traditional, onion or leek, egg yolk and sometimes cream, baked in a mould.

Mushroom ketchup is nice. Rare in the shops and best home made.

News / The Fur is Flying! Animal Rights in Poland [87]


Very nice if you cook them properly.

There are a lot in the U.K.; they tend to be sold fresh near the coast and of course there's a lot of coast.

They're sometimes eaten raw, just marinaded (if they're very fresh) though I'm not fond of that.

Any decent recipe for Coquilles Saint Jaques will do.

Food / Polish Pizza !! The best in the world? [330]


And not many tomatoes. More flavouring, dye and e numbers.


Eaten many, have you?

Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [397]


I've seen that in shops there. Good that it's a local one.

Life / Adopting a cat in Poland? [13]


Vets are cheap compare to wWstern Europe. You don't need a pussy passport. Vaccinations are cheap and there's no cat licence.

If you want to adopt from a shelter, you'll need a PESEL.

Food / Polish Pizza !! The best in the world? [330]


That's actually a good idea.

Food / Polish Pizza !! The best in the world? [330]


Jellied eels are sold in about two places in London. Stargaze pie appears more in photographs than on tables. For some reason the Chinese are obsessed with it.

I've never eaten either but would try the pie.


There used to be a restaurant in the Starówka in Warsaw, a holdover from the PRL era that used to serve pancakes with decorative swirls of it on.

In some Polish supermarkets there are twenty kinds, each vying with each other for the crown of repulsiveness.

Mind you, the only faddiness I have about food is avoiding raw tomatoes.

I quite like HP though with the right thing like a bacon buttie and used to like Hammond's Yorkshire Relish when they were still making it. A bit like HP but more bitter.

Life / The climate for gardening in Poland [340]


Popular in WW2 in the U.K.

We used to grow it back in the 70s/80s.

Food / Polish Pizza !! The best in the world? [330]


All ketchup.


Most is varied, healthy and delicious, influenced by all corners of the globe (except for Eastern Europe) and a delight to eat.

No preserved pig entrails, decomposing cabbage or mysterious tubes.


More gruesome.

I have a good friend who works in one of the largest ketchup factories in PL. part of his job is scraping the thousands of flies from the top of the open vats.

Food / Polish Pizza !! The best in the world? [330]


Ketchup in general.

It's muck.


We all have; it's an additive-filled race to the bottom.

News / The Fur is Flying! Animal Rights in Poland [87]


In excess being of course killing for sport.


There's nothing at all that can only be got from a whale, is there.

Yet some, Japan for example, kill those intelligent creatures.

Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [169]


The term you're thinking of is commoners however that includes 90% of szlachta..

Perhaps you mean proles, plebs or chavs. Ours can usually afford to travel for leisure however PL is old hat for them now.


Too banal.

Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [169]


There must be tens of thousands of such parties then. The bar and brothel owners would be so delighted that they'd be wetting themselves simultaneously all over Poland. Ryanair and Wizzair's share prices would probably go up too.

What are "commons"?


Google is your friend, and if it rejects your entreaties, think of it as a puzzle.

Food / Polish Pizza !! The best in the world? [330]


A disgusting idea

Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [169]


So there are no cabs in Poland then? Who knew?


Like Joe Baxis?


Ballet dancers eat. Some of them anyway.

Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [169]


The person next to you could have taken them and you could have got a cab home.

Paw, try to apply some logic.


Quite. The guy in the photo is unlikely ever to be mistaken for a ballet dancer.

Life / Neoliberalism and family formation in Poland [100]


I don't.


I don't either.

Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [169]


Hard to know what you mean by "commons" and like most people who've seen buffets before, I don't tend to take photos to marvel at the food.

@pawian
If that's you in post #55, I'd think about seeing a dermatologist...

Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [169]


No they haven't.


Especially the pineapple.

It looks nice, however a buffet's a buffet.

Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [169]


Everyone does.


No, we have more choice. And four countries within Britain to contribute.

Life / Neoliberalism and family formation in Poland [100]

That's a good definition though perhaps not the most common one.

Isn't it incumbent on is all to treat everyone equally and to show respect to all?

Language / Foreigners speaking Polish - examples. [71]


That's a grammar term to describe the way English is used in most of the world.

About pronunciation, there's RP however nowadays people tend to refer to modified RP.


Not that region; Lerpool has a distinct catch to the vowel sound in those words, largely through influence from Ireland and Wales.

In most of the U.K. (including RP speakers) the vowel sound in pub and ugly are the same.

Life / Neoliberalism and family formation in Poland [100]


What do you understand by that term?

Food / Replace meat with bugs - new trend in Poland [29]


Yuk.

The amount of sugar in the main brands of tougher in PL is even worse than the crushed beetles.

Life / Neoliberalism and family formation in Poland [100]


Unless. And he and his brother will have a chance to plead innocence or guilt very soon.


It's a European Arrest Warrant so pretty well automatic. Romania have said though that his forthcoming trial there takes precedence. Should he be acquitted of that, he'll be arrested immediately and brought back to his home country.

This thread isn't just about the creep Tate thought.

He's a trivial figure.