Food / Polish head cheese [46]

damn, I'm really not into discussing such disgusting things, so it's my last post on the topic :)

but it looks like you got several Polish dishes mixed up in your memory, because there's actually another dish made of frozen pigs leg meat in gelatin, it has different names, in my area (between Warsaw and £ódź) it's usually called "zimne nóżki" or sometimes "nóżki w galarecie", but in the western parts of Poland I heard a different name, I just forgot it.

Food / Polish head cheese [46]

1/ what the heck is "head cheese" ? I thought cheese is made from milk :)


- maybe czernina (pronounced like "charnina" - but it's a duck blood soup,
other yucky food - vegetarian here :) - I can think of is "salceson" made of pigs head

btw, pigs head meat is Głowizna like Osiedle_Ruda said

Life / Famous Polish people (that we have actually heard of) [231]

This discussion so reminds me of the one in Seksmisja ("Marie Curie-Sklodowska was a man!").
But seriously, "famous" is such a misleading word, you can be famous by doing something really bad (Hitler, Stalin) or nothing worthy (Britney Spears), and remain virtually unknown to the wide masses despite of doing some great things in your area of expertise, it's all up to the (in the widest meaning of the word) "pubblicity" you get, and Poland usually didn't get much exposure.

for me an "unknown soldier" is more famous than Michael Jackson, for the world it's viceversa

Life / Price of cigarettes in Poland? [192]

Only a person who is 17 yrs (the exact birthday date decides) or older may bring alcohol and tobacco products to/from Poland.

if you want to bring something from Poland to another EU country, you must check this country's regulations.

strazgraniczna.pl/faq#q16
If coming TO Poland from an EU country, you can bring with you:
800 cigarettes;