Food / How is this herring product typically served? [74]

No :) I find them too salty even after soaking for 24 hours but I enjoy preparing them and knowing that other people will enjoy them :) I like smoked fish so when Mr Atch has his fishy treats I have a nice bit of makrela wędzona or similar. He likes szprot wędzony but I really don't like the feeling of crunching through all those bones and their little heads still being attached - yikes! I like whole fish if it's larger, trout, for example. I don't seem to mind the sight of the head then.

Food / How is this herring product typically served? [74]


My husband eats matjas with bread but śledź w wodzie with potatoes.


Oily would be a better choice of adjective. Herring comes under the heading of 'oily fish' in English, whereas greasy is associated with animal fat. Grease is solid fat. Describing a food as greasy indicates that it's unpleasantly fatty with excess grease.

Classifieds / Ordering from Allergro.pl [12]

@Homiker
You've got to be careful with Allegro because it's a mixture of private and trade sellers. Avoid the private ones, only deal with trade and look for the ones with a long history of sales / good reputation. Some of them have a cash on delivery option for payment which is ideal. You can still get burned though. Somebody I know recently bought a laptop from a well established trade seller, which was supposedly new and turned out to be reconditioned. It arrived in a Lenovo box which had all the information on it in English which is the only way he knew it was not new. It was a factory recall which had had a faulty hard drive replaced. Anybody who didn't speak English would never have realised. So, Allegro can be dodgy. Sorry you didn't get your DVDs :(

Classifieds / Ordering from Allergro.pl [12]

You need to register with Allegro and log in. Then on the product listing somewhere on the right hand side you should see 'Pytanie do sprzedającego' which is 'questions for the seller'. You can contact them there. You can message me if you like but what we're talking about here could be useful to somebody else in the future :)

Classifieds / Ordering from Allergro.pl [12]

You can try. Use Google Translate to help you. If you don't understand something copy and paste it into Google Translate and if you want to write to them, compose your message in GT and just copy and paste into your email. Try not to use the word 'you' eg can you tell me, etc as the Polish language has two forms for that word, formal and informal. Google can't cope with the formal, it will give you the informal and it's very rude in Poland to address a stranger informally. So try to find a different way of saying what you want to say. For example, you could say 'Is the DVD set still available. If so I would like to buy it. Please send details of what to do.' And end your email with 'Pozdrawiam'. It's like 'regards'.

Genealogy / Do I look Polish? (my picture) [375]

Didn't you say before that your hair was thinning a bit? If it is, then I'm not sure bleaching it is a good idea. But no, you actually look less Polish than you did before and more like an aging member of Hitler Youth :)) Seriously though you look more German or Dutch than Polish.

Love / Polish women: what do you think of Polish men? Physically unattractive? [180]


That really is utter nonsense. Russians on the whole, both men and women are much better looking than Poles and the three Polish types you mention certainly do exist but there are exceptions, and plenty of them.


You should have kept him under surveillance and engineered some more opportunities for accidentally bumping into him ;) God be with the days when you could drop your hankie on the pavement :)) though apparently, men were wise to that one and it would have categorized you as an outrageous slut :)) Of course, a few of the men on this forum still think that way, though I doubt that any of them are in danger of being targeted by hankie-dropping females.

Law / How long can an object stand on my property before it is considered «Mine» ? [25]

Why don't you contact your local Urzad? Or the inspektor sanitarny because it's a kind of dumping, isn't it?

Food / Polish Salted Butter [68]


I'm glad to hear that you've discovered the dangers of salt. It is quite literally a killer. You should try not to take more than 6g per day. You should watch your children's diet too. Research shows that even young children who have a salty diet, have elevated blood pressure for their ages. You'll struggle a bit Paw, because you like many of the traditional Polish dishes which are heavy on the salt and fat. However, it's worth it. It does mean though that you'll pretty much have to cut out the wędliny, sausages, and even the smoked fish in large quantities. At least you prepare quite a lot of your own which means you can control the amount of added salt.

Butter is actually not too bad as Jon says. The amount of salt added to Kerrygold for example is 1.8g per 100g but you don't use that much butter on bread or even on spuds or whatever. If you use it once a day on your toast you'd be ok and good quality butter like the Irish stuff has lots of nutrients and vitamins which are beneficial unlike things like ketchup which are loaded with salt but have no benefits at all.

You can counteract the effects of salt with certain foods. Beetroot is great because it's loaded with potassium which lowers the blood pressure. Fresh beetroot juice every day, or fermented beetroot juice are both ideal. Of course the stuff in the shops has added salt! So make your own. Also extract of olive capsules, 1000mg per day has been shown to lower blood pressure by up to 10 points. You can use it alongside regular blood pressure meds and it helps to keep the dosage of the meds lower. They use it in hospitals in Australia for treatment of blood pressure patients as it's so effective.

Food / Polish Salted Butter [68]


You can't possibly have tasted all of them :)

Btw SEO means search engine optimization, nothing to do with 'executive orders'.


I don't think the average American knows much about good quality food and in particular dairy produce. I can tell from your English that you're not a native speaker so I assume you have the misfortune to live in the USA through choice rather than having the bad luck of being born there :)) American farming methods are diabastrous as we'd say in Dublin (that's Dublin, Ireland btw, not Dublin, Ohio or wherever it is in the USA).

Food / Polish Salted Butter [68]


Why do you write the name in capital letters? Looks like a paid SEO post. As for nothing comes close, we all have our preferences and maybe it suits your palate best, but you can't dismiss all the other high quality butters in the world in that fashion.

Food / Polish Salted Butter [68]


I wonder how much sunshine actually affects the quality of pasture though. Ironically it's the combination of damp and mild temperatures that make Irish pasture so nutritious.


I'm always telling everyone how great the Irish are and now you can see I was right :)) We'd never boil our enemies!

Food / Polish Salted Butter [68]

Lovely images Maf. And here's exactly the same thing from Ireland :)) I would argue that the soil along the Irish coastline is even better than Portugal.

Irish grass-fed beef won more medals than any other country in the 2018 and 2019 World Steak Challenge. In the 2019 contest, with competitors from 25 countries including Australia, New Zealand, Uruguay, USA, Canada and Europe, Ireland won a record 75 medals, more than any other competing country, including the World's Best Fillet. :))

youtube.com/watch?v=Ee8VCUDbkFg

Cows are actually lovely animals to spend time around. When I lived in the Wicklow mountains in Ireland, there were cows in the field directly across the road from our house and they were really relaxing to watch! I also love sheep :) They were in the field behind the house. Irish cows don't seem to mind the rain at all. They just graze quite happily even in a downpour.

Food / Polish Salted Butter [68]


Of course!


The unmitigated cheek of you!

I'd like to taste that Portuguese stuff and see how it compares to Irish.

I'm sure any butter produced by a small artisan dairy/creamery in the UK would be very good. I wonder what butter is like from Guernsey or Jersey cows raised in the Channel Islands. It's really the cows' diet that determines the taste.

Food / Polish Salted Butter [68]


Being Irish, I must disagree :)


How very dare you! Irish is the best butter in the world bar none :) Because of the pastures on which Irish cows are raised and the fact that they graze outdoors all year round, the butter is tastier and more nutritious. I imagine it's similar in Scotland?

Polish dairy produce is not the best, the milk here is like water compared to Irish.

Work / Digital Marketing Professional from India [29]


You're welcome Narinder. Remember, you're an educated, professional person and when this pandemic has improved a bit, there will be many opportunities for you in your profession. Concentrate on the profession for which you are trained and where you have experience and if you want to move to Poland in particular, learning the language, even just basic Polish, will give you a big advantage over other candidates from the Indian sub continent. Learn the language, learn all you can about Poland and its culture, so you will be an impressive applicant. There is really no back door into Europe through starting out in a restaurant job. Spend your time and money preparing to come in the front door :) Best of luck.

Work / Digital Marketing Professional from India [29]


That's his problem Narinder, not yours. One of the realities of running a business is that you incur certain costs/overheads. If an employer wants to bring in workers from abroad, it's the employer's responsibility to bear the costs of that. If applicants for the job let him down, that's part of life when you run a business.

In your original post, you gave the impression that you were coming to Poland to work in your profession of marketing and you were advised that it's not a good time to move because of the pandemic. Coming to work in a restaurant is a much worse situation for you as restaurants have been closed except for takeaway services for almost a whole year. Many, many restaurants have closed down permanently, gone out of business. There is a possibility that after 9 April, we will have an even stricter lockdown because the virus is getting worse and worse here. You would be better off using your money to invest in some good business English classes on an online platform or perhaps start learning Polish with an online platform, if you have a long term plan to move to Poland.

Work / Digital Marketing Professional from India [29]


He shouldn't be asking you to pay for that. Has the employer discussed with you who will pay your costs of relocating to Poland?? A good employer will pay for your flight and give you some money towards finding a place to live. An employer who is already asking you to give HIM money before you even start work for him, is somebody you should stay away from. There are plenty of good companies out there who will hire you and pay your expenses.

Work / Digital Marketing Professional from India [29]


Not a good time because of the pandemic.


The only way to get a work permit is to apply for a job in Poland. If you are successful, your employer arranges the work permit which is valid as long as you continue to work in that job. That is the only legal way to obtain a work permit. Don't give money to anybody who tells you they can obtain a permit for you, they can't. It will be issued by your employer in Poland.

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

Patrick is beautifully woven into the mythology and legends of pagan Ireland too.

For example, if you read the legend of Tír na nÓg and the ill-fated lovers Oisin and Niamh, the great warrior Oisin comes back to Ireland from the land of eternal youth, Tír na nÓg, but as he bends from his horse to help an old man move a heavy stone, his stirrup breaks and his foot touches the ground, whereupon he is transformed from the young prince he was, to his true age which is many hundreds of years old. (In some versions he falls from his horse.) The local people run to fetch Patrick and Oisin dies under Patrick's care having been converted to the Catholic faith, but also having passed on to Patrick, the tales of the Fianna, the great warriors of ancient Ireland.

One of the lovely and unique things about Irish Christianity was the respect it kept for the old legends and Pagan faith. The monks wrote down and preserved the entire cycle of legends (it puts Lord of the Rings to shame!) at the same time that they were making copies of the Bible.

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

@ Poloniusz, your photo/slogan needs rephrasing:

Everyone is a little Irish on St Patrick's Day, except the Polish, we're still Polish - except for the 200,000 or so of us who live in Ireland and whose children speak better Irish than the locals, and who are learning to play hurling and Gaelic football. We're even more Irish than the Irish themselves!

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

Bless me Mod, for I have sinned :) But as long as I have the last word, that'll do me nicely, so thank you for intervening :))

However, on the subject of the thread, I didn't see this mentioned, the Fundacja Imienia Sw. Patryka (FISP), a non-profit organisation run by Irish volunteers based in Poland. They usually hold a ball on St Patrick's Day to raise funds for good causes in Poland. During the virus, it's been a virtual event.

//irishball.pl/charities/

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]


"One of the most famous lights in Ireland is the light that shines from an upstairs window at Áras an Uachtaráin.

Visible from the main road through the Phoenix Park, the light is a symbolic beacon, lighting the way for Irish emigrants and their descendants, welcoming them to their homeland."

You really don't know anything about Ireland, do you?

Btw, just how long ago do you think I 'left' Ireland?? I'm not a hundred year old emigrant in some parish in Boston.

Please get back to something that resembles "St Patrick's Day in Poland"

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]


I believe there are some in Dublin. I can't imagine one in a small town or village though. Thank God!

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]


Yes Jon. Rural communities are really being affected in Ireland by the pub closures. The pub in Ireland, like the UK is an ancient tradition, a gathering place for all the people be they eighteen or eighty and the elderly in particular are missing it terribly.


Expand on that, as Larry King would say. Go on, give us a laugh :))

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]


Your main problem with that post is that in this case you really have no clue at all what you're talking about . You've never set foot in the rural counties of Ireland, so how could you. Btw if you ever make it to Warsaw you can join Cumann Warszawa and learn how to play Gaelic games here in Poland :) Cumann is the Irish word for 'league'. Let's start on your Gaelic education now, shall we :)

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

Don't try to do irony/sarcasm, Pollyanna. You're not nearly clever enough to pull that one off :) Actually one of the areas where Ireland has always scored is our ability to Gaelicize people who settle there. It happened with the Vikings, they assimilated completely, as did the Normans and even the Cromwellian settlers either left or just became properly Irish.

Some people worry that by focusing on Inclusion and Diversity we will water down the GAA, making it into something that caters for everything and stands for nothing. This is most definitely not what Inclusion and Diversity are about.

The GAA remains the Gaelic Athletic Association. That means we're proud of and celebrate our Irishness; that we focus on Gaelic Ga mes and activities; that we're community-based; and that we cherish our amateur an d volunteer bases. We don't compromise on those fundamentals. The GAA Club doesn't become a one-size-fits- all organisation. The few ethnic minorities we have in Ireland tend to integrate well. They're welcome to identify as Irish, simple as that. The Gaelic Athletic Association puts it very well:

Some people worry that by focusing on Inclusion and Diversity we will water down the GAA, making it into something that caters for everything and stands for nothing. This is most definitely not what Inclusion and Diversity are about.

The GAA remains the Gaelic Athletic Association. That means we're proud of and celebrate our Irishness; that we focus on Gaelic Games and activities; that we're community-based; and that we cherish our amateur an d volunteer bases. We don't compromise on those fundamentals. The GAA Club doesn't become a one-size-fits- all organisation.

We remain and are proud of what we are but in doing so and in remaining true to all that, we should be open and welcoming to others.

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]


Yes, they've been closed for a year. The ones who serve food ie a full hot dinner, which very few do, were allowed to reopen for a few weeks but what we call the 'wet pubs' have not reopened and there's a real fear that some of them never will. Pubs that have been in the same family for generations will be gone - very sad.

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]


I just checked and they don't specify matrilineal descent, just lineal descent. Could it have changed? My sister's husband is a member of the Blackfeet tribe by adoption. He lived with them for two years in Montana and they gave him membership after that. He has the feathers and the whole kit and caboodle :) It's actually really lovely watching him when he does his offerings and prayers to 'Mother Earth' and 'Father Sky'.


Why? On a point of principal? Or do you think they'll do something sinister with it? I can't imagine what that could be. Sod them. If you're a Choctaw, you should know about it.


You'd get that anyway. Just tell them Atch sent you ;)

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]


I do! Ha, ha! :))


You can't knock the recipe, it's authentic :) And we still have contact with the Choctaw. The Irish people sent them donations last year during the first wave of Covid 19. There's a lovely sculpture dedicated to them in Co Cork.


Not that simple.

A Polish nobleman, Paweł Edmund Strzelecki is also honoured in Ireland for his efforts to provide relief during the Famine. He was actually distributing funds on behalf of a private British charity - that's an example of understanding the difference between the British government and 'the British'.