News / Building regional alliance to stabilize Eastern Europe. [236]


That wouldn't sell well, however since the pre-eminent European political leader at the moment is Sir Keir Starmer, it would make sense for others to sign up to the Coalition of the Willing, as Poland is likely to anyway.


Has any other country except of course Ukraine had a chemical weapons attack from r*SSia?

News / Russian agents plan sabotage acts in Poland??? [74]


The more the merrier.

News / Building regional alliance to stabilize Eastern Europe. [236]


Precisely.

He missed Spain as well, even though they have a reasonably stable government and a competent army.

News / Building regional alliance to stabilize Eastern Europe. [236]


Germany is mentioned in the list.

Probably Turkey is a better bet due to its growing economy and infrastructure however Erdogan is 71 and waiting to see how things progress is a good idea. Germany needs to sort out the r*SSia supporting elements in the east, especially in public life before anything else.

Hungary is an odd country to have in the list, largely due to its r*SSophilic fascist President and deteriorating human rights (Turkey isn't perfect however they are at least growing and developing).

The strangest omission is the U.K. Europe's main scientific, technological and cultural powerhouse, its main financial centre, its most politically stable major country and one of its two nuclear states.

Food / Polish dishes with foreign origin in the name [99]

Rather you than me.

I remember when Marks and Spencer opened their food hall in Paris and the papers reported that a French woman had angrily returned a bag of pot pourri. She'd apparently thought it was a herbal tea and tried to drink some.

Food / What Polish foods do foreigners generally not take to? [140]


It's a real continuum. You sometimes get similar thing in North Africa. Maybe the continuum ends in Alsace with choux farci.

Always nicer with kasza than rice too.

Food / Polish dishes with foreign origin in the name [99]


Ewww, nasty. I've never seen the appeal.

Communists drink that fruit 'tea' stuff.

Because for them, all proper tea is theft...

Food / Polish cookbook - down to earth hearty Polish cuisine [33]


This place sounds like a dream. Apparently at any one time, a small percentage of their customers are all dressed up for their final restaurant meal; very much a place for very elderly north Londoners.

They do all the 70s posh stuff like Steak Diane and Veal Holstein and have an amazing dessert trolley.

Proper old fashioned with peach wallpaper and not a retro hipster place.

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Food / Polish cookbook - down to earth hearty Polish cuisine [33]


Sadly I never got a sniff at that. Too much Home Counties wedding reception food to really penetrate pit villages.


Mmmm. The Berni Inn was where we always went for special treats. Never the steak though and always "we'll have the coffee at home" to save money. I miss them. The local Berni is now a Wetherspoon's and not the same.

Findus crispy pancakes were lovely. Viennetta too when it came out despite being basically a Soviet idea (and you used to see those 'icemastry' places in Poland doing them from scratch.


I never had that chance. It was always "get out of my kitchen". It was always presented as something of a mystery where more could go wrong than right. When I had to start cooking, I got the Delia complete cookery course on special offer and never looked back.

Prawn cocktail? Maybe the nicest food I've every eaten in any restaurant in Poland was a prawn salad that was basically a humongous prawn cocktail. That was in Gdynia, just by the port.

Food / What Polish foods do foreigners generally not take to? [140]


Not for millennia and pretty well everywhere in Europe was covered by that once.


Not that chasseur has ever been a hunting term.

As I say, dishes come in families. Things like gołąbki exist in their own way in many countries, borscht we know about and it's much the same with cabbage/processed pork dishes.

Food / Polish cookbook - down to earth hearty Polish cuisine [33]


There's an overlap between devilled eggs and the more 60s suburban egg mayonnaise. Half a boiled egg slathered with mayonnaise flavoured with Dijon mustard. Real mayonnaise so a little runnier than bottled.

We never had them at home, though I'd eaten them at other houses. I'd have one out of politeness (being happy if I never ever saw an egg, except maybe poached once in a blue moon).


It's time for a 70s and 80s food revival. Not just stuff like arctic rolls but tinned salmon instead of tuna (a much better product) and things like chicken Maryland or for an ultra special occasion Tournedos Rossini.

My late ex was a few years older than me and used to cook in a 70s way, mackerel pate and toast etc. I learnt from Delia Smith so am sort of a bit stuck in the 80s. Her recipes always work though.

Food / Polish & US heat & eat foods? [23]


The big ones are marrows. Don't taste of much and the skin's tough but you can stuff them.

There are also recipes for marrow jam however that doesn't sound nice.

Food / Polish & US heat & eat foods? [23]


Courgettes? Nice just blanched in roundels or quick pickled.

Food / Polish cookbook - down to earth hearty Polish cuisine [33]


Pretty much. Never liked them.


I find the opposite, however we used to have home made. Easy to make stronger or weaker.

Food / What Polish foods do foreigners generally not take to? [140]


Remember that nowadays, France and Poland are a day's drive away and dishes tend to come in families depending on available ingredients and economic need. Sometimes looking for a single origin for a type of food is fruitless; the best you can do is look for its first written mention.

Food / What Polish foods do foreigners generally not take to? [140]


As the French made choucrout.

Food / Polish cookbook - down to earth hearty Polish cuisine [33]


We have/had something very similar in the U.K. in roughly the same period; it had a sort of a 50s/60s feel to it. Not popular nowadays and I never liked it.


Nothing nicer on a beef and dripping sandwich.

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Food / The most typical ingredient used in Polish cuisine [40]


It always does. Looks nice though.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

Germany is now advising people to stock up on cheese and sausages.

This is called the Wurst Käse scenario.

Food / The most typical ingredient used in Polish cuisine [40]

At that address, they eat Angel Delight

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


Poles do that anyway.

If there's any combined military force among European and/or other countries, the coalition of the willing which includes the U.K., Malta, Canada, NZ, Australia, we know the language already :-)

History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]

I've been to maybe a dozen or so but always as part of a group.

I'd guess they're findable online as Ośrodki Wypoczynkowe although a lot won't have websites.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


Why would they be?

History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]


Some of the various holiday centres are excellent. Especially the ones belonging to Trade Unions and not for profit organisations.

A real bargain for group holidays and often nicer than hotels.

Food / What Polish foods do foreigners generally not take to? [140]


That makes it bearable.

Most places in Europe had aspic however it started to die off when refrigeration appeared.

Food / The most typical ingredient used in Polish cuisine [40]

Quite. Rather overused.

There are some nice alternatives but not so often found in the shops.

Food / The most typical ingredient used in Polish cuisine [40]


Poland must be the world capital of marjoram.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]

The best things are

Language / Polish vs English tongue twisters [45]

"I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son, and I'm only plucking pheasants 'till the pheasant plucker comes."