Food / British food products in Poland? [334]

They do stock the original Bonios, with the lab loves, but there is nothing else. The sweets are German on the whole - not British. The liquorice allsorts are not Bassetts. Kaufland do Kellogs corn flakes btw.....

Having said that....Colman's mustard.....:)

Food / British food products in Poland? [334]


What a load of old crap. Nothing to get at all excited about there jon. There's one in Gdansk, but there's nowt of any interest. They will go bust sharpish I would have thought.

UK, Ireland / Why are Polish people, especially women, so disrespectful toward the English? [437]


Rofl. Really Mr Cummins - did Johnson get you to write this drivel for you? Polish co-workers/Polish managers/Polish agency......
Whatever happened to all the other British workers in your (imagianary) job? Because you've never had a job, have you? Instead you blame your laziness on people who can get up in the morning and do a day's shift. As to Poles "everywhere", was there some sort of biological weapon let loose, that wiped out all the other vermin, but you were unfortunately immune?

Food / British food products in Poland? [334]


What on earth did you visit that scum country for Delph? Got a death wish? As for Polish cheeses, Dominic is just being nefarious. I've ben to food festivals too. The short growing season and general quality of cattle stock are not condusive to the cheese industry, with the result that Polish cheeses are just....rubbish.

You can have goat cheese, or cheese from other animals, but anyone who's ever seen the Monty python sketch "The cheese shop" knows that Britain holds top spot for variety of and class of cheese, maybe tying with France.

No contest whatsover.

Food / British food products in Poland? [334]

Lol! I forgot you are in the UK. I suppose the post was addressed to Dolno and others who have become accustomed to proper cheese. I have never tasted anything worthy of the name in Poland I am afraid. My bad.

History / History of two Neighbors: Poland - Germany Interrelations [283]


We have had this discussion before. Apologise for the deaths of 200,000 civilans, including your own (for No real reason). Just apologise for starting the war, and Europe will talk.

Everybody hates a club when they are barred at the door. You could be as rich as Croatia is now, or Poland.
Instead you live at the behest of venture capitalists who couldn't care less about your country. Enjoy your isolation, and you will only get poorer from now on.

The millions of decent Serbs will suffer because of the likes of you. You are a disgrace and will nEVER be welcome here. You are a total embarassment and the Mods here are also a disgrace for allowing a dangerous nationalist like you to post.

Shame on you Mods. You give Poles everywhere a bad name for allowing this idiot to post here.

Food / British food products in Poland? [334]


The last Lidl Stilton was rubbish Milo. Go grab this one.
It is SUPERB.

Food / British food products in Poland? [334]

British food week in Lidl from today.
The Stilton cheese is from long Clawson - the home of Stilton, and I should know, coming from Nottingham. Cheese which blows Polish "cheese" clean out of the water. Grab it while you can can. It freezes well if well insulated.

Forget the other British cheeses on offer. They are fakes.

Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [649]

Jesus! Minor farm buildings? Moving that rubble is what the wife is for surely?

Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [649]


Couldn't hurt a fly. Maybe a small one.

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Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [649]


Fantastic Pawian. My lab would sit in there very happily too.

History / Modern myths and legends about communist past in Poland [227]


Was a crime against the Polish state, and Jaruzelski and his mob should have been shot as traitors for colluding with the Soviets. That is the view of my Polish family and it makes good sense to me.

History / Modern myths and legends about communist past in Poland [227]


I was referring to the whole LP, not the song actually, and Niemen in general. Those who knew Nieman well say he hated the system, and that's why the government refused him travel, apart from generally "neutral" countries such as Sweden.

Hence the scum ruined his musical ambitions and his career.

History / Modern myths and legends about communist past in Poland [227]

Listening again for the 50th time to my original LP of Czeszlaw Niemens' Dziwny jest ten swiat.
This record is so good I'm surprised they didn't ban it. He was certainly very clever, playing the commies at their own game.

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]


Mmmm....well, I indistinctly remember the episode where wifey Karwoska was concerned by the people's deputy aka caretaker sticking his snout in, and our hero said he'd sort it - only to come back to the flat with his tail between his legs.

Obviously you didn't live in a block Pawian. The two "jobs" oft went together. There's still an old boy (now a councillor) living in our flat in Kato. I am one of the few people who talk to him (because he's pleasant enough) but my wife red-carded him because neighbours told her he and wife (pani porternia) were PDs in the 80s.

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]


Damn. Beat me to it:) Mine and millions of other's favourite take on the ridiculousness of communism. What was the name of pan engineer's sidekick?

Then there was the people's deputy who lived in the same block of flats whose job it was to "report" all the goings on in the block of flats - of which there were none of course:)

History / Modern myths and legends about communist past in Poland [227]


Lol. Driving a Seicento


That was the Emalia factory in Slawkow (Olkusz). I rememeber the pollution. Even after all these years the water table is irrevocably ruined. Today you can rent canoes to travel down the Przemsa river - for people have short memories - but that whole (pretty) area is actually environmentally screwed.

The communist authorities were mentally ill for placing such a factory in a small (1600s) country town in the first place and should have been shot.


Ah - this ones's in Myszkow. My bad. The Emailia factory in Slawkow made those metal kettles that burnt down people's houses when the brightly painted enamel on them caught fire....

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]

Interrogation?

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]


Is that the film with "It's 5 o'clock, so time for tea..." :)

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]


Never saw that one. Before my time!

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]


I did say "nearly"..:)

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]


Sorry. It was Potop. My memory is fading..🙁

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]


Mmmm.....

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]

Ah - was it the Major chappie?

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]


We are talking of Pan W, aren't we? Or is the girl not the actress I'm thinking of? The blonde in Pan W?

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]


The chap who was nearly cut in two and who she nursed back to health? Ah - that's right! It's years since I saw the film. A lot of people rate it higher than Potop; all I remember was discussion in the wife's family about the actress being voted the prettiest girl in a popular publication of the day, because of the wave of emotion for Polish patriotism.


Very interesting place Pawian, if that's the same Glogow......anyway, the protagonists always had plenty of crumpet in modern epics such as GoT, but Jerzy Hoffmann forgot about that obvious part, the films being good family viewing and all, but he was obsessed with the drinking! (not personally, one supposes.....)

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]

Well, voted the prettiest girl in Poland that year - or so I am reliably informed. The lover of Pan W.....? A sad story.

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]

Very good! And I didn't know that Potop was filmed after Pan.... mixed up, like Star Wars:)

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]


I had to read Quo Vadis at school. I did my level best to avoid Sienkiewicz after that, in a battle to stay awake for exams. A hard read.

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]

Ah Pan Wodlywoski - the one with Polands' most beautiful actress of the time - supposedly.
The best one of the triology was the second - "The Deluge" aka Potop, with the man - Daniel Olbrychski - now there's an actor!