Life / Polish women who made amazing careers against patriarchal society [128]

What a strange thing to say.

Then again, your Facebook page is all sweetness and light, pro-Democrat, anti-trumpetcűnt and anti-gun stuff.

Enjoy life each day!

Life / Polish women who made amazing careers against patriarchal society [128]


Fine examples, though one isn't Polish and another lives elsewhere.

Life / What do Polish people talk about? [56]


Not really acceptable in English-speaking countries. Especially with strangers.

Food / Which foods are generally disliked/unpopular in Poland? Which non-Polish foods are slowly gaining popularity? [180]


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


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.


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.

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.

Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [970]

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Food / Which foods are generally disliked/unpopular in Poland? Which non-Polish foods are slowly gaining popularity? [180]


People only mention the same few things. In fact it's a rich and very varied cuisine, especially away from the capital.


I'm not surprised!

Life / What do Polish people talk about? [56]


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.


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.

Life / What do Polish people talk about? [56]


Spot on. And do it with balls of steel.


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.

Travel / Transport adventures in Poland [103]


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


Some Germans are black, brown and yellow nowadays. It's not a racial term.

Life / Racism in Poland - the future [558]


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


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.

Life / Custom plates in Poland [103]

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

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Life / Custom plates in Poland [103]


Even worse.


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.

Life / Custom plates in Poland [103]

At least it doesn't contain ethanol.

I only use it in chłodnik.

Life / Custom plates in Poland [103]

What a silly thing to say. You've been listening to Elon Musk too much.

You're talking about (or trying to) 36 people, all in jail.

The rest of us are talking about car number plates.

Drink less.

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

Absolutely delicious but best bought somewhere decent than made at home.

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



Leave it out and go and have a cold shower.

I'll post a nice fish recipe this weekend for you to get fruity about.

Life / Custom plates in Poland [103]


I'm surprised it's legal. In the 80s a few nomarks tried that in Britain and all got fined heavily.

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


Of course.


Don't tell me he's got a food fetish too. I once heard about someone in Olsztyn who used to like lying on the kitchen table and being smeared with squashed tomatoes.


Yes, with 20 times as many Michelin starred restaurants as Poland and Germany put together.

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]


She was evidently a good judge of character.

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


The sausages are what I miss most; I always bring them back when I've been there and much prefer them to anything easy to find in PL. Paw and the fishy bird have probably only had the cheap kind.




I bet you ejaculated while you were writing that.

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


Delicious is what they are. There's no substitute.

Not hard to make if you can stuff the sausage skins.


Champagne also goes with English Breakfast however I'd recommend Lincolnshire sausages with that.

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


Not for English breakfast. They would spoil it.. They don't work at all. You could try kielbasa biała as a second choice or make English sausages.


Champignons is just the French word for mushrooms.

Ordinary ones are traditional but you can also use field mushrooms (the brown ones).

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


I recommend British (or Irish) sausages. They make a difference. And I'd use ordinary mushrooms (pieczarki). Home picked are best but any will do.

Lean bacon (Lidl sell an approximation of it) works best.

The beans are optional and the egg shouldn't be overdone. Fried bread is traditional with it but not healthy.

In London they often have their southern version of bubble and squeak (they do it like a patty down there). In the north we don't, but you can have fried potato (the precious night's boiled potato sliced and fried.

Lorna sausage is a Scottish alternative and easy to make at home.

It must always, but always, be washed down with a mug of very strong tea with a little milk.

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




Vile.

Life / Is it worth returning to Poland in old age? [168]


Yes, Ziobro.

Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [278]


Is unnecessary.

A courthouse is about the law and justice. These are secular and for all.

Only the most conservative in society favour mixing religion and state. Why should the rest of society accept the wishes of its most conservative elements%?


trumpetcùnt can do nothing.

Good when Satanic groups assert their rights to have their emblems in those cases where red states have allowed religious texts in inappropriate places.

Life / Is it worth returning to Poland in old age? [168]

That's an issue too.

Years ago there used to be a pollution monitor in Warsaw with a big display. It was near DH Smyk. The council had to take it down because all the displays were pretty well always on red.

Where we are has forest on three sides which helps a bit.

For retirement, perhaps a summer house on the edge of Warsaw but near the metro. Somewhere in the Med for winter.

News / Good news: Poland's PiS to rule at least 12 years -- Morawiecki [91]

A good Stilton, made in one of the six villages that make it, is hard to beat.

Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [278]


I gather that part is optional and in any case it has no relevance to having religious texts displayed on the public estate.


He was there already and is no stranger to suffering a horrible death.