jon357
21 Sep 2017
Food / Origin of the pierogi [127]
Russia does have a bigger variety of types, however they still have the basic ones.
Russia does have a bigger variety of types, however they still have the basic ones.
jon357
21 Sep 2017
Food / Origin of the pierogi [127]
I've had that in Poland too, though in Ukraine, they tend to have skwarki as in Poland. In Romania they use dill.
except the Russians garnish them (and everything else) with dill.
I've had that in Poland too, though in Ukraine, they tend to have skwarki as in Poland. In Romania they use dill.
jon357
21 Sep 2017
Food / Origin of the pierogi [127]
It's in cyrillic.
Some of us know words from hearing them in real life rather than specially looking them up online in order to argue.
And the're exactly the same as those served in Poland, in Russia and in other places. The same recipe, the same fillings, the same..
"pyrohy"
It's in cyrillic.
Some of us know words from hearing them in real life rather than specially looking them up online in order to argue.
And the're exactly the same as those served in Poland, in Russia and in other places. The same recipe, the same fillings, the same..
jon357
21 Sep 2017
Food / Origin of the pierogi [127]
Lwowskie are the nicest, filled with a kind of Bolognese sauce.
The marco Polo legend is interesting, however more likely that they travelled west to Europe overland and perhaps earlier.
Lwowskie are the nicest, filled with a kind of Bolognese sauce.
The marco Polo legend is interesting, however more likely that they travelled west to Europe overland and perhaps earlier.
jon357
21 Sep 2017
Food / Origin of the pierogi [127]
Vladivostok? Crimea? The Volga Basin?
No, I-S, they aren't.
after all those are ancient polish lands
Vladivostok? Crimea? The Volga Basin?
No, I-S, they aren't.
jon357
20 Sep 2017
USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]
50 for the better ones (and some are of course both). The card one in Warsaw is I think 150zl though, however if you have a business class boarding pass or a gold tier card, you can get in the nicer one.
by paying $30.
50 for the better ones (and some are of course both). The card one in Warsaw is I think 150zl though, however if you have a business class boarding pass or a gold tier card, you can get in the nicer one.
jon357
20 Sep 2017
Food / Origin of the pierogi [127]
The fillings are the same - perohey and pierogi are just different names for the same thing in different places. Who mentioned China? Their filled dumplings are different from the ones that have long been a common food from Central Europe right through to Vladivostok...
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The fillings are the same - perohey and pierogi are just different names for the same thing in different places. Who mentioned China? Their filled dumplings are different from the ones that have long been a common food from Central Europe right through to Vladivostok...
jon357
20 Sep 2017
Food / Origin of the pierogi [127]
Identical in every way. As I say, those things are a staple in many many places.
Identical in every way. As I say, those things are a staple in many many places.
jon357
20 Sep 2017
USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]
Depends on the airport, the type of pass and the lounge. - ones where the terminals connect airside (a few are like that) are more flexible. Some don't allow passholders in at busy times, some passes are better than others and get you into most lounges, others are quite restricted.
It depends on the lounge. Okecie is OK, Heathrow, Berlin and Amsterdam lounges are middling, Modlin is crap, Kiev and Istanbul are excellent, and Dubai, Qatar, Abu Dhabi are amazing. Forget Liverpool ;-)
These airport lounge passes can be used by ANY TRAVELLER regardless of airline or class........only rule that I am aware of is that you have to use these passes in the terminal that you are departing from.
Depends on the airport, the type of pass and the lounge. - ones where the terminals connect airside (a few are like that) are more flexible. Some don't allow passholders in at busy times, some passes are better than others and get you into most lounges, others are quite restricted.
Lounges aren't all that great imo.
It depends on the lounge. Okecie is OK, Heathrow, Berlin and Amsterdam lounges are middling, Modlin is crap, Kiev and Istanbul are excellent, and Dubai, Qatar, Abu Dhabi are amazing. Forget Liverpool ;-)
jon357
20 Sep 2017
USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]
Which alliance and how many miles?
Warsaw to the US on Star Alliance is OK - sometimes they have a double miles promotion.
In fact just two trips to Jamaica and back is more sky miles then you have recorded in your lifetime.
Which alliance and how many miles?
Warsaw to the US on Star Alliance is OK - sometimes they have a double miles promotion.
jon357
20 Sep 2017
Food / Origin of the pierogi [127]
How does that differ from perohey?
Rosol z kury (as opposed to any other stock) is just a slightly inferior version of cock-a-leekie.
Not unique to Poland either, it's made in an identical way from Berlin to Vladivistok.
Polish pierogi
How does that differ from perohey?
jon, next you'll be telling us Rosół is chicken soup.
Rosol z kury (as opposed to any other stock) is just a slightly inferior version of cock-a-leekie.
Not unique to Poland either, it's made in an identical way from Berlin to Vladivistok.
jon357
19 Sep 2017
USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]
Pretty welll what I mean - if you're a very frequent flier you go up tiers and end up top of the queue for upgrades. On Emirates between Warsaw/Iraq, I got Business and was usually upgraded to first - It was great fun. Now I'm semi-retired, I'm no longer gold tier, however it still happens, since once you've had it, your name's in their system.
Closer to the topic, now LOT are running dreamliners across the Atlantic, there should be a decent Business Class. I'm not sure if they'd configure the plane with First or much Business, however what they have should be comfortable. I've flown at the front from Warsaw to Newark (the other one, not to Nottinghamshire) and it was good. A bit stingy with the champagne though.
you turned left on boarding.
Pretty welll what I mean - if you're a very frequent flier you go up tiers and end up top of the queue for upgrades. On Emirates between Warsaw/Iraq, I got Business and was usually upgraded to first - It was great fun. Now I'm semi-retired, I'm no longer gold tier, however it still happens, since once you've had it, your name's in their system.
Closer to the topic, now LOT are running dreamliners across the Atlantic, there should be a decent Business Class. I'm not sure if they'd configure the plane with First or much Business, however what they have should be comfortable. I've flown at the front from Warsaw to Newark (the other one, not to Nottinghamshire) and it was good. A bit stingy with the champagne though.
jon357
19 Sep 2017
USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]
Very much yes. It used to be glamorous, then after 10 flights a month some months it ceased quickly to be more than a chore. Here, there are just some people who like to argue, whether they know what they're talking about or not.
Very much yes. It used to be glamorous, then after 10 flights a month some months it ceased quickly to be more than a chore. Here, there are just some people who like to argue, whether they know what they're talking about or not.
jon357
19 Sep 2017
Food / Origin of the pierogi [127]
And many other things too, a traditional food of not just one country, but a whole swathe of the world.
And many other things too, a traditional food of not just one country, but a whole swathe of the world.
jon357
18 Sep 2017
Food / Origin of the pierogi [127]
It's a variant of a word occurring in several eastern European languages, pirog, piroshki, perohej, etc. Like kasza gryczana, cabbage soup and stuffed cabbage leaves, the filled dumplings occur in one form or another from Central Europe to the Far East. With much the same fillings too, nothing particularly specific to Poland.
its a polish word
It's a variant of a word occurring in several eastern European languages, pirog, piroshki, perohej, etc. Like kasza gryczana, cabbage soup and stuffed cabbage leaves, the filled dumplings occur in one form or another from Central Europe to the Far East. With much the same fillings too, nothing particularly specific to Poland.
jon357
18 Sep 2017
Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]
Interesting...
Nobody owns a language.
we
them
Interesting...
if Poles decide to change Polish language it will be our and only our own decision.
Nobody owns a language.
jon357
18 Sep 2017
USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]
If anyone actually called it that...
And of course except when they're routed in/out of other terminals...
If anyone actually called it that...
And of course except when they're routed in/out of other terminals...
jon357
18 Sep 2017
USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]
For 2 flights a day, it's barely worth them having their own agent.
They never do that - gates are allocated on the day, and often have to be out of service for maintainance etc. The only time an airline will always use the same gate is if it has so many flights that they're using most of the gates in the place, or there's a specific consideration like security or the size of the plane on that service.
It's Terminal 5, the one for all international flights.
Ya I know its not like lots exclusive terminal
For 2 flights a day, it's barely worth them having their own agent.
Like every airport I've been in the gates at ohare are numerical its not like there's signs that say lot gate, klm gate, Turkish. ... constantly moving gates
They never do that - gates are allocated on the day, and often have to be out of service for maintainance etc. The only time an airline will always use the same gate is if it has so many flights that they're using most of the gates in the place, or there's a specific consideration like security or the size of the plane on that service.
their terminal then for the moment
It's Terminal 5, the one for all international flights.
jon357
18 Sep 2017
USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]
Quite. It's just the terminal they've been allocated at the moment,
A few do this. Okecie isn't like that. It's a single unit airport with a lot of gates in there
Like Heathrow when it was smaller, before terminals 4 and 5.
LOT uses
Quite. It's just the terminal they've been allocated at the moment,
Now that is possible, maybe Delta in Atlanta.
A few do this. Okecie isn't like that. It's a single unit airport with a lot of gates in there
They only have like half a dozen airlines with southwest pretty much dominating that airport.
Like Heathrow when it was smaller, before terminals 4 and 5.
jon357
17 Sep 2017
USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]
That's how most airports work. Very few have a dedicated terminal for one airline, and in that case, it's rarely for a foreign one.
but that's the terminal for all international flights
That's how most airports work. Very few have a dedicated terminal for one airline, and in that case, it's rarely for a foreign one.
jon357
17 Sep 2017
USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]
Terminals at major airports are generally used by quite a few airlines. There is no 'LOT terminal".
'Nuff said.
Terminal 5 is also the Aer Lingus terminal as well as many others.
Terminals at major airports are generally used by quite a few airlines. There is no 'LOT terminal".
Don't invent phone calls, for a start.
'Nuff said.
jon357
17 Sep 2017
USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]
Just a quickie. A lot depends on the size of the plane, i.e. how many people are going to be waiting for it, as well as the routine mainainance of the fingers - they like to rotate them.
For non-Schengen, some destinations have extra security requirements and tend to go on the furthest 2 gates at Okecie, others. e.g. to the UK tend to be at the nearer non-Schengen gates,
They also like passengers for richer destinations to have to walk past as many airport shops as possible.
Just a quickie. A lot depends on the size of the plane, i.e. how many people are going to be waiting for it, as well as the routine mainainance of the fingers - they like to rotate them.
For non-Schengen, some destinations have extra security requirements and tend to go on the furthest 2 gates at Okecie, others. e.g. to the UK tend to be at the nearer non-Schengen gates,
They also like passengers for richer destinations to have to walk past as many airport shops as possible.
jon357
17 Sep 2017
USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]
There's some. Aside from the Schengen/non-Schengen thing, they sometimes try to put the cheap 'n' nasties on the front gates near the non-Schengen barrier. Ones that aren't too tight to pay for a finger go on the gates on the other side, Germanwings flights go on the mid gate, LOT and KLM slightly higher up, domestics on the low-numbered gates. This is just a basic description of what they did the last dozen or so times I was there this year, they change allocations as per need - sometimes they allocate a gate you don't expect, for whatever reason.
Do they even have their own gates? I've been in transit through Okecię a few times and never seen any logic to the gate allocations.
There's some. Aside from the Schengen/non-Schengen thing, they sometimes try to put the cheap 'n' nasties on the front gates near the non-Schengen barrier. Ones that aren't too tight to pay for a finger go on the gates on the other side, Germanwings flights go on the mid gate, LOT and KLM slightly higher up, domestics on the low-numbered gates. This is just a basic description of what they did the last dozen or so times I was there this year, they change allocations as per need - sometimes they allocate a gate you don't expect, for whatever reason.
jon357
17 Sep 2017
Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]
It isn't about that.
For what reason?
You think someone in Africa cares which European country is which? Most people here assume it's part of Russia...
In Poland we don't really have a problem with
It isn't about that.
You're black? Then you're refered to as black.
For what reason?
we never took any part to enslave Africans
You think someone in Africa cares which European country is which? Most people here assume it's part of Russia...
jon357
14 Sep 2017
Travel / Bus or Street Car in Warsaw [12]
No difference, depends where you are going in the city. The same tickets work on both buses and trams.
I prefer trams, unless it's a route with only a bus on.
Is it better to use a bus or street car to get around town in Warsaw?
No difference, depends where you are going in the city. The same tickets work on both buses and trams.
I prefer trams, unless it's a route with only a bus on.
jon357
11 Sep 2017
Work / I am being offered 6000 PLN/month. What is the cost of living family of two (Warsaw)? pls advice. [2]
Is that gross or net?
Is that gross or net?
jon357
11 Sep 2017
UK, Ireland / Who can transport my car by trailer from UK to Poland? [23]
Hi Lufi, his post was three years ago, so you're probably out of luck.
Hi
Hi Lufi, his post was three years ago, so you're probably out of luck.
jon357
10 Sep 2017
jon357
9 Sep 2017
Life / Tap Water quality in Poland [44]
The mains water in Warsaw is the opposite of 'tasty' (who would want 'tasty' water anyway), especially from someone used to drinking water straight from the hills of Yorkshire. It won't cause short term problems though - long term maybe, but you won't get a stomach upset from it.
It may be not tasty in Warsaw
The mains water in Warsaw is the opposite of 'tasty' (who would want 'tasty' water anyway), especially from someone used to drinking water straight from the hills of Yorkshire. It won't cause short term problems though - long term maybe, but you won't get a stomach upset from it.
jon357
9 Sep 2017
Life / Tap Water quality in Poland [44]
No it wouldn't mean that.
that would mean showering is a problem.
No it wouldn't mean that.