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mafketis   
7 Jun 2020
Study / School meals in Poland [145]

completely moronic because tbe kids will not eat it.

They're much more likely to eat it if they're not preached at. Even in the PRL institutional food did not usually include meat on Friday (and IIRC least one other day though there wasn't a schedule as far as I know).

In the early 90s I often ate a student stołówka and the food was still pretty good quality (potatoes that were identifiable as potatoes and not reconstituted potato flakes) vegetables from the farm and not cans, etc. I remember thinks like fish dishes, egg dishes and the like on Fridays...it's possible to make non-meat based meals that kids will like but if you accompany it with a bunch of talking points they'll tune you out...

Also, IIRC the very first meal I ever had in Poland was non-meat some kind of dumpling and sauerkraut (there may have been small bits of boczek as flavoring but it wasn't a meat portion). Very delicious (if you like cooked sauerkraut which not everybody does).
mafketis   
7 Jun 2020
News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

you propose to kill a child for the sin or sins of his/her father

No... I want the mother to be able to have the fetus (which is not remotely conscious) killed if she thinks that's the optimal choice in that horrible situation.

stopping her from killing a human being

A trained medical professional would do the killing of a lump of non-sentient cells... (the abortion should be carried out as quickly as feasible after the rape of course)

What would you do in the Savita Halappanavar case? The baby had no chance at survival but because there was a heartbeat doctors were legally prevented from saving the mother's life... sick and twisted and completely immoral.
mafketis   
6 Jun 2020
Study / School meals in Poland [145]

moronic idea of a "Vegetarian Day"

Not completely moronic, but the best place to start is non-mammal non-bird meat Fridays (in line with Catholic tradition). Sometimes that will be fish and sometimes something else.

The main thing is not to preach or talk down to kids (who have finely tuned b-s detectors) and not to forbid things. I remember back when I was in jr high they came up with an idea to outlaw candy on campus and the main effect was to create a large black market....

Of course kids aren't great judges of what to eat (since like all people they're hardwired to like sugar and fats and salt) but trying to cram unappealing 'healthy' foods down their gullets isn't a promising option.
mafketis   
6 Jun 2020
News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

Very authoritarian of you. Y

Well this is of course dependent on the woman's choice (I thought you were smart enough to realize that, sadly..... no......) If she wants to have the rapist's baby then fine, she should (though I personally don't consider that choice particularly moral - the fewer rapist genes around the better). Where we differ is that I think she should not face the state monopoly on coercion to force her to give birth to a rapist's baby when she doesn't want to.

Something for you... good to know you're on the side of the rapists....

radionetherlandsarchives.org/war-rape-in-the-former-yugoslavia/
mafketis   
6 Jun 2020
News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

bible fundamentailsm on one side

how do you define 'fundamentalism'? where I'm from it's about interpreting the bible as literally as possible... and catholics mostly don't read the bible, so....

another brilliant fool hath spoken.

how so? explain how you think that rapists should not have (biological) children if you think pregnancies from rape should not be aborted.
mafketis   
5 Jun 2020
Life / Who's the best looking (and acting/singing) celebrity in Poland? [32]

Doda's sth like the Polish Britney Spears?

10 years ago....

Here's someone more... up to date

youtube.com/watch?v=S7sN-cFhwuk

What Bulgarian singers are really popular? I remember a few names (mostly chalga) but it's been so long since I've been there...
mafketis   
5 Jun 2020
Study / School meals in Poland [145]

I would shoot myself in the head if that was how my school meals looked like

People in different countries have different tastes.... I don't know why that's so hard for some to understand....

In the past crap food was simply too expensive

Yes, now it's too cheap and many people eat the way a lot of westerners so.... cheap food full of chemicals, starch, salt and sugar and low on nutrition.

I remember (a number of years ago) for work I often was involved in entertaining foreign visitors... one of the most common things they said was that food in Poland tasted the way it used to in their countries (meaning natural rather than heavily processed ingredients). I don't think they say that anymore...
mafketis   
5 Jun 2020
Study / School meals in Poland [145]

I wonder what the 'crispy country bake' is?

Take one country (a small one like Brunei, or Costa Rica is preferable)

Set it on fire till it's nice and crispy,

Voila!

Serves several million.
mafketis   
5 Jun 2020
Study / School meals in Poland [145]

have to fit the school's 'healthy eating' policy

how miserable.... how can anyone have so little self-respect that they paw through other people's food deciding if they should be allowed to eat it.... yech....

'healthy eating' is largely about getting people to pay more for lower quality food... (see the relentless pushing of veganism in the media over the last couple of years, much higher costs for lower quality food).
mafketis   
5 Jun 2020
Study / School meals in Poland [145]

It's the snacks, I tell you! Large meals full of fatty food with clear breaks between them are far healthier than constantly reaching for little snacks while counting calories.
mafketis   
5 Jun 2020
Study / School meals in Poland [145]

I checked, it's provided by a catering company

Well see? That's your problem right there! That type of outsourcing is a plague that ends up being more expensive in the long run than running a kitchen with local oversight would be...
mafketis   
5 Jun 2020
News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

PiS cant decide what it is. They have multi personality disorder

That's what I mean by opposition party - they can only express negative goals and have no real positive agenda.
And the party culture prioritizes loyalty and connections over competence (very much like the PRL) so they put incompetent people in charge of things and can't recognize their incompetence because that wouldn't be loyal...

How do PiS supporters justify the way they're failing (when not actually sabotaging) small businesses?
mafketis   
5 Jun 2020
Study / School meals in Poland [145]

It should be remembered that part of the idea of institutional cooking in Poland is to make up for shortfalls at home. A large number of people ate at least one meal in a workplace cafeteria and bary mleczne were partly aimed at those in small workplaces.

This means the institutional memory of school lunch rooms is about making sure students get things they might not be getting at home. It's understandable that the emphasis is not on keeping up with fashionable ideas in more prosperous countries but making the food filling for those that might not be getting as much at home.

Of course the food culture outside of schools has changed a lot, not always for the better. Up until the late 1990s or early 2000s there was no snacking culture in Poland, people at three or four meals a day and usually nothing inbetween (which is probably a lot healthier than topping up with potato chips or candy bars).

'Meatless Monday'

Again, people had enough of meatless meals in the PRL... meatless Fridays make sense but fish (except for herring) has never been all that popular.
mafketis   
5 Jun 2020
News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

I'm pretty sure that PO was trying to lose (or not trying to win) in 2015... maybe PiS wants an opposition president so they'll have somebody to blame for their failures? Even the dimmest people probably start tuning out when they go after Tusk anymore....
mafketis   
3 Jun 2020
History / Where did Poles spend summer vacations in the PRL era? [63]

Even more so than Poland there is a big East-West divide in Hungary... Budapest and the Duna are the rough boundaries. Places like Veszprem and Szekesfehervar in western Hungary are very clean and developed looking. But go further east to Miskolc and it's a very different story...

Budapest is its own thing and you get all the extremes of wealth and poverty of the country crammed in to one city.

Poles mostly go to Croatia and Italy?

you already asked that and I answered... look that up before asking again....
mafketis   
3 Jun 2020
News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

. The question is, who has the plan to move Poland forward out of the pandemic.

Short answers..... no one! PiS is too worried about the presidential election and non-PiS is too (and I'm not sure if they have any better ideas than anybody else does...)

To be fair, no other country (or supranational organization) seems to have any realistic ideas either... and neither do I - we really haven't been here before and everybody's flying blind.

I've changed my mind about a lot of things about the pandemic but one thing has remained constant - the economic repercussions will be far worse than the health impact (though I've changed my mind about why that will be since March).
mafketis   
3 Jun 2020
History / Where did Poles spend summer vacations in the PRL era? [63]

Balaton and Bulgaria (more Zlatni Pjasyci than Slanchev Brjag) were the main international destinations AFAICT though the great majority spent vacations in the PRL partly for financial reasons and partly difficulty in any kind of international travel....

After the collapse of communism people wanted to go somewhere else and travel to Bulgaria more or less completely stopped until around 2006 or so... now it's one of the main destinations again. I never heard of Poles in the PRL vacationing in Jugoslavija though presumably some did...

Here's a slide show but for some reason it doesn't load in my browser... maybe you'll have better luck...

turystyka.wp.pl/wczasy-w-czasach-prl-6043989699368065g
mafketis   
2 Jun 2020
News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

they treat mining as if it's some sort of religious experience

I'm reminded of the old country song "Dark as a dungeon" about coal miners in Appalachia (working in far worse conditions than miners in Poland)

"Come and listen, young fellers, so young and so fine
And seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mines
It will form as a habit and seep in your soul
'Til the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal"

or

"There's many a man who I've known in my day
Who lived just to labor his whole life away
Like a fiend with his dope or a drunkard his wine
A man will have lust for the lure of the mines"

I don't get it but apparently mining is more than just a job for a lot of miners (part of the message of the mining strikes in 1984-85 UK?)
mafketis   
2 Jun 2020
News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

Which why food aid to at risk children is not a handout.... not all welfare payments are handouts by any means and some government programs (like aid to banks that get in trouble or weapons sales) certainly are handouts...

I suspect the canal boondoggle is mostly made up of handouts to PiS affiliated businesses...
mafketis   
2 Jun 2020
News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

Only that culture uses the term 'handouts' UK and Aus use 'benefits'

UK benefits = US welfare (payments) or welfare program

handouts refers to welfare that has no rational basis... it's just the government giving money to people whose hand... are out....
mafketis   
1 Jun 2020
News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

Konfederacja is expanding the pool of conservative and moderate voters absorbing even many former PO voters

So social moderates are going to get behind Konfederacja's non-democratic identity politics nonsense?

Pro-Russian JKM is electoral poison and the only way K can grow is to neuter him....