UK, Ireland / BBC launches new Polish language news service [87]


You'd like my local pubs. That's one thing they do very well over there.

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [194]

The cranks are out and about...

Life / Why there is always around a horrible smell of sweat in Poland [220]


Straight from the Oval Office

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [194]

Do you read the Daily Telegraph?

Very unpleasantly rightwing sometime, catering for its 75-95 audience.

Life / Poland is horrible and I have to live here - somebody call a whambulance! [95]


We all are, however there's a strange kind of gloom among all of them, probably emanating from a whirlpool in the Baltic with Cthuluski at the bottom.

UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]


It's very rare though, and of course never a main dish. And not at least weekly.


That sounds interesting, like a gratin.


Klopsiki in dill sauce goes down well, as do baked cheesecakes.

Life / Poland is horrible and I have to live here - somebody call a whambulance! [95]


This is a fair comment however Poles are the exemplar of those.

Georg Mikes (who was last in Poland in 1939) wrote about the unhappy expressions on people's faces on trams in Warsaw, people looking as if they wanted to be anywhere else except that.


Miserable buggers too.

UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [295]


All in this thread are either criminals, victims or possibly witnesses and grieving relatives.


All pleasant places to live,


Do tell.

In a more appropriate thread of course.

UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]


It is quite a revelation. Unless the ones I've served them to many times over the decades are just being polite. That and hungry since there are never any left.

Yorkshire pudding too. Always goes down very well, especially if it's done properly.

Glamorgan sausages always go down very well in PL. I do them with Cheddar and a bit of Parmesan though rather than Caerphilly. A milder one lie, that would be closer to the Polish taste though.

UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]


Why better? Have you made the recipe from the person's website?

That must have been quick since your owner only googled it a few minutes ago.

They look burnt and have got stuff on.

And are just some American person's website recipe rather than something eaten by the million.

Food / Do you call it kiszka or kaszanka? [61]


Fry it (or bake it in foil) with chunks of green apple. If you do it in the foil, put whole mushrooms in too.

That works nicely.

UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]

They're still not proper roast potatoes.

Just stuff from a recipe website from America run by a woman called " Hey! I'm Julia".

There are pictures of roast potatoes above.

That thing shown below from her website is just a website recipe. Nice enough to eat and has stuff on top, but still from a foreign website made by someone called Hey! I'm Julia who's probably never had roast potatoes.

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UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]


I've never heard of these "Ash-roasted potatoes, cooked in the ashes of a campfire or charcoal grill", but have been eating roast potatoes for too many decades, have made them hundreds of times, and probably into 4 figures, including last night and at least weekly in Poland.

Too much hassle to make the "ashes of a campfire or charcoal grill" on a wet Tuesday teatime. Much easier just to use the gas or leccy oven or the Yorkshire range back in the day. And easier still nowadays to do them in an air fryer.

Here are roast potatoes

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Life / Poland is horrible and I have to live here - somebody call a whambulance! [95]


What "lie"?


Good idea.


It is.

UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]


That's baked potatoes. Not roast.

Life / Poland is horrible and I have to live here - somebody call a whambulance! [95]


It must be made undesirable for rich and poor alike from unnecessarily bringing personal vehicles into the city centre.

UK, Ireland / BBC launches new Polish language news service [87]


No.


Many if not most Poles (and certainly most Ukrainians) have never eaten it.


Many of not most are very nice, not nasty-ass London £5+ a pint pubs, but proper ones.

UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]


And Ukrainian. They have quite a nice version.


Use the kind in jars. Snip the fillets into pieces. If you use matjas, soak first for 2 days at least, changing water.

Chop a couple of green eating apples finely. Same with onion. Mix with the chopped herring, add mayonnaise (not cream) and press under a plate for at least 24 hours, draining any liquid off. Refresh with mayonnaise before serving. Stir in chopped dill.


I could live on those.

UK, Ireland / BBC launches new Polish language news service [87]


A couple of decades ago, a little after the 2004 influx, I was in a kebab shop in Preston, listening to a couple of young men with shaved heads (Probably called Przemek and Karol) trying to persuade a rather daft looking young woman (maybe an Aldona) to try a doner kebab. They were explaining that in fact it's really nice but she just seemed terrified at the thought.

After all, It might be "ostry" and contain lamb and actually taste of something.

UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]


A lot of it is.

I'm away at the moment, back in a couple of weeks or so. Come round ours and I'll do a śledzik that you'll like.

Generally, we don't have or want much Polish food in our home. Neither of us like it much, except some of the soups. If course some of the soups, plus things like pierogi, gołąbki, schabowy etc are generic Eastern European, findable from Szczecin to Vladivostok.

UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]


Russian Salad.

They don't like that being the name in English.


Mine isn't.

There doesn't seem much variety in what they serve at the festive season.

Life / Poland is horrible and I have to live here - somebody call a whambulance! [95]


They don't.


There are too many cars in the city and very good public transport. It is the role of the council to reduce congestion and the need to leave vehicles somewhere

News / Will Elon Musk apply for political asylum in Poland or Russia? [39]

Poznan and Gdańsk are full of dogs' eggs.

Life / Poland is horrible and I have to live here - somebody call a whambulance! [95]


It's a valid point. People in PL often block pavements and entrances. Very bad for wheelchair users and others with impaired mobility. U de EU disability discrimination rules, people who park so badly that they impair access are supposed to be fined. I would give points for parking that badly.


I did that in the U.K. once. It was for something elective but still annoying so it wasn't a priority. He put me on a list he had of patients who were in a trial (the trial was a nurse doing the procedure) and it was sorted within weeks.

Life / Poland is horrible and I have to live here - somebody call a whambulance! [95]


He's spot on.

Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [149]


Often. They're very very dark, aren't they?

UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [295]


They sometimes are...

Po polsku / Koniec Tuska [17]

Wygrał wybory uczciwie. KO ma całą kadencję, zanim będą musieli to zrobić ponownie (zakładając, że żadne dupki nie opuszczą koalicji).

Niech Nawrocki i PiS żrą gówno i zdychają.

UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [295]


You see drink driver and drug driver nowadays. We like compound nouns

Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [149]

Leon Tarasiewicz, Poland
Untitled, 2020

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