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pawian   
30 Apr 2024
Food / Healthy polish food? [143]

There's plenty of goodness in them.

I mentioned scurvy which is prevented strictly with vit C so other kinds of goodness are useless in this discussion. :):):)

a poor family alive over winter.

Who knows???
pawian   
30 Apr 2024
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

Fairly obvious really..

We don`t believe you. :):):) You say so to cover your ignorance, like with the previous riddle in another thread. We still remember that brawl you started about certain leek. :):):)

Judas Iscariot spying on Jesus?

No, we are talking about judas, not Judas. :):):)
pawian   
30 Apr 2024
Food / Healthy polish food? [143]

Gherkins

Not really. Their vit C content is only 4 mg per 100 g, while sauerkraut`s nearly 15.

sorrel

Also useless coz always eaten boiled so most of vit C is destroyed in the process of boiling.
pawian   
30 Apr 2024
Food / Healthy polish food? [143]

most prefered by my kids - as sauerkraut mixed with carrot in a salad.

Sauerkraut saved millions of Poles and Polesses from getting scurvy in winter time when fresh veg and fruit with vit C were unavailable in the past.

I like this salad but my wife makes enough for herself and kids so not much is left for me. :):):)

It is both sour and sweet - my fave.


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pawian   
30 Apr 2024
History / German Sprache aka speech in Polish films [19]

Film Psy - Dogs. The time is after the collapse of the system. An ex communist secret service officer, a Pole, now a drug dealing gangster, meets his German rivals whose background is Eastern German Stasi secret service. They are discussing their drug business.

In German, of course.


pawian   
30 Apr 2024
Food / Healthy polish food? [143]

Not as much as outsiders think.

Johhny is right . Cabbage is used extensively here. Fresh, boiled in bigos or kapuśniak soup or most prefered by my kids - as sauerkraut mixed with carrot in a salad.

Cabbage (kapusta) is used in a lot of the Polish cuisine

Good you mentioned it. A few days ago a workmate who also runs a small farm apart from teaching brought me 4 cabbage heads. My wife turned it into fresh green salad and boiled cabbage which is excellent when used as a side dish for Polish fried pork chop.


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pawian   
29 Apr 2024
Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [692]

Austrian partition area

yes, it was the poorest of all and hugely overpopulated so the land was divided further and further by

brothers inherited they divided the bits

until large chunks of arable land became minute strips. Today some small farmers own a few of such pieces of land scattered all over the area.

kind of holdover from German farming?

More exactly, it is a result of taking over ex German territory after WW2. The communist state became the owner which established state farms there. They covered immense areas.
pawian   
29 Apr 2024
Life / The climate for gardening in Poland [340]

My approach bore expected fruit - I can see so many fruit buds like never before!! Ha!!!

Sorry, not fruit buds but young fruit.


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pawian   
29 Apr 2024
Food / Healthy polish food? [143]

I cut down this plant in our veg plot twice a week, put in the jar filled with water and then regularly use up leaf after leaf.

What is this healthy thing?


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pawian   
29 Apr 2024
Language / F... off or GTFOH used in Polish contexts [14]

Another cult occurence of GTFOH:

Franz Maurer says it to Russian gangsters and their Polish mates, after strafing down their boss with his AK rifle. And they obey immediately.


pawian   
29 Apr 2024
History / Why do Polish people hate to be called Eastern European? [120]

Why do Polish people hate to be called Eastern European?

Decent intelligent patriotic Poles and Polesses do. While rightist parties` voters don`t care how they are called. As long as they get their monthly benefits and some booze every day, they agree to being called whatever you wish.
pawian   
29 Apr 2024
News / PiS` magic tricks - the first budget without deficit in Poland [39]

electricity price rises in the second half of 2023.

Lies as usual. Mr Honourable Prime Holy Minister Donald Reverend Tusk`s gov commenced their rule in mid December 2023. And they didn`t introduce any price rises then.
pawian   
29 Apr 2024
UK, Ireland / "Strange " English language.. [264]

What food word is wrongly spelled as BEACH???

Jon, this food word is peach! Don`t blame me for not being able to solve it. Ha!!!

You have another chance:
What is the food word wrongly spelled as MERRY????
pawian   
28 Apr 2024
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]

I use it in cooking probably far more than you.

You use it in cooking while I munch on a few fresh leeks of my own production a week. ):):)
pawian   
28 Apr 2024
Life / Why Poles have so pro-emigration attitude? [117]

one day she will say

Are you a witch with a crystal ball and a black cat??? No, you aren`t. So stop trying to tell the future coz you sound silly. I can do it coz we have two black cats. HA|!!! One sitting on m ykepoybo0prd rioght now so I camt type prpoe[prkmjy . Sorry.
pawian   
28 Apr 2024
Life / The climate for gardening in Poland [340]

Ireland has a different climate than Poland.

Last winter the lowest temp in my area was -20 C. And it is a regular occurence coz two years ago it was -18 C.

While the lowest temp ever recorded in Ireland was - 19 C in the year 1881. Amasing!!!