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jon357   
19 Jan 2025
UK, Ireland / What English food would you serve a Pole? [172]

I've never understood the appeal of beans

Nor me however the mushrooms generally work nicely.

I've never been a real breakfast person anyway

Same. My breakfast is a pint of strong coffee and a couple of cigs.

But an English breakfast is nice if you're in a hotel. Eating it every day would only work if you're doing heavy labour and need the calories.
jon357   
19 Jan 2025
UK, Ireland / What English food would you serve a Pole? [172]

no one will tell you straight to your face that they don't like English food so as not to offend you.

Not that polite and happy to have second and third helpings of something they like.

Incidentally, more and more shops are selling cheddar in Warsaw. It used to be hard to find.
jon357   
19 Jan 2025
UK, Ireland / What English food would you serve a Pole? [172]

I can't get Eccles cakes here

They aren't too hard to make. You need a light touch though; the thinner the pastry the better.

For Poles, cheddar cheeses are a taste and organoleptic disaster.

I've never met one who didn't enjoy the real thing. Unfortunately, some of the cheeses sold as cheddar in PL are not the real thing.
jon357   
19 Jan 2025
Off-Topic / Serbia etc. thread 3 [437]

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jon357   
19 Jan 2025
Life / What do Polish people talk about? [56]

We're actually talking about Poland and Poles. Not stuff you've read online.

Nonsense too. You've never been there.
jon357   
18 Jan 2025
Life / What do Polish people talk about? [56]

followed by "Wow! A cousin of a person I used to work with drove through there!" follow up.

We do the same only not as much. Even in England which is not huge, there's a disconnect between north and south.

House prices are a big topic in Britain, that and football.

Poles usually avoid this by avoiding each other while abroad

I've noticed that too.
jon357   
18 Jan 2025
UK, Ireland / What English food would you serve a Pole? [172]

Delp's behind

I would keep it to myself

hand

touch.......the above

We're actually talking about food here and cross-cultural tastes and perception.

But evidently you have a one track mind. Have a cold shower.
jon357   
18 Jan 2025
Off-Topic / Serbia etc. thread 3 [437]

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jon357   
18 Jan 2025
UK, Ireland / What English food would you serve a Pole? [172]

poked

decaying Karp

perversions

favorite plaything

How vile. So e things are best for you to keep to yourself.

Do you ever take your hand out of your trousers?
jon357   
18 Jan 2025
Life / What do Polish people talk about? [56]

discuss politics, sex, and religion

Not really acceptable in English-speaking countries. Especially with strangers.
jon357   
18 Jan 2025
Food / Which foods are generally disliked/unpopular in Poland? Which non-Polish foods are slowly gaining popularity? [180]

sardine heads were vents for the steam coming out which seems defeated by wrapping them in aluminum foil....

Anybody's guess since the dish exists more in theory than practice. But the Chinese like it.

very close to baked ham (with the bone in) which I love and which is impossible to do in Poland...

Quite. In our house we always had it as a gammon joint, criss cross the fat with a sharp knife, stick cloves in and paint it with honey. I've never seen anything like it in PAL and even their ham for baking (I sometimes do it with Coca Cola) isn't the same thing.

It's nice as gammon steaks with either a fried egg or a grilled pineapple ring. Or both.

sounds like the PRL!

Much nicer. It's fresh breadcrumbs, grated cheese (should be mild Caerphilly but I use strong cheddar) finely sliced leeks and strong mustard. Nice hot or cold and always goes down well in PL.

What I miss is the cheaper sausages. Poles hate them and consider them more of a kotlet mielony than sausages however there's something about the way the fat seeps into the rusk (similar to American biscuits) that is delicious.
jon357   
18 Jan 2025
Food / Which foods are generally disliked/unpopular in Poland? Which non-Polish foods are slowly gaining popularity? [180]

I wish they wouldn't include stargazy pie. 99.5% of British people have never seen it and 99.5% is probably made in China where they're fascinated by the fish heads poking out. Same with London pie and mash. Most people have never seen it, nobody makes it at home and there are only two shops left that sell it, largely for tourists.

People forget the 'extras' like the pickles, the chutney, Lincolnshire haslet (which is delicious), Morecambe Bay potted shrimps, Cumberland Pudding (pearl barley, leeks, nettles and cream), Halifax Dock Pudding, Glamorgan sausages (no meat in them) and the traditional cakes and biscuits, the breads (like bara brith and teabread). And gammon, which you don't really see anywhere else. The sweet puddings too are quite varied as are some of the ways with fish, particularly in Scotland and Wales.

The suet pudding they had near the end is better tied up in a muslin bag and boiled but that's trickier to do.
jon357   
18 Jan 2025
Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [955]

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jon357   
18 Jan 2025
Life / What do Polish people talk about? [56]

If you drink shyt coffee in your workplace, it is your own choice

That sounds creepily right wing. The reality is that most people don't have the time, energy or very often the money to use something other than the machine that is there.

which reminds me British small talk about the weather

Same in Poland ly the weather is less variable.

I find that in Polish workplaces, the water cooler chat is more often than not, gossip, the weather political trivia, boasting and backbiting.
jon357   
18 Jan 2025
Life / What do Polish people talk about? [56]

There are different ways to combat stereotypes. Sometimes you have to carry them ad absurdum.

Spot on. And do it with balls of steel.

teachers, who are people after all, mostly talk about:

Teachers talk about their holidays and complain about the quality of the coffee and the largely pointless paperwork.

That and (in the case of good ones who never sit down) about their backs and their feet.
jon357   
18 Jan 2025
Travel / Transport adventures in Poland [99]

in Germany" trademark has the highest value

Perhaps once. Now Germany is an analogue country in a digital world.

Germany for Germans

Some Germans are black, brown and yellow nowadays. It's not a racial term.
jon357   
18 Jan 2025
Life / Racism in Poland - the future [558]

made by modern slaves.

Sort of. Not every clothing factory od like that however the conditions are naked unrestrained capitalism without any sense of workers' rights.

Anybody has an explanation? How about you, jon?

Yes. We don't let 'businesspeople' get away with it although they would if they could. We've had more than two centuries of a workers' movement. Those countries are more chaotic and capitalism is still as violent as it inherently is.

It's not about the ruling class being black. The most egregious slavery in north west Africa is about people who could pass as Italian or Spanish enslaving people from further south and further inland.

Worth mentioning that the chattel slavery in north west Africa happens 300 miles from the nearest metalled road in places with no running water, no mains electricity, no schools and among people who can't read and have never seen tv or heard radio.
jon357   
17 Jan 2025
Life / Custom plates in Poland [103]

It's a dangerous addiction. A vicious circle...


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jon357   
17 Jan 2025
Life / Custom plates in Poland [103]

Actually, it does

Even worse.

you Polish

Why would I want that?

Anyway, we're talking about tacky vanity plates. They're for pools winners, gangster' wives and men with small cocks.

Lay off the booze.