Food / Poles prefer pizza & kebab? [73]


They have some nice ones in Berlin.

I wish you'd been in the U.K. when kebabs were new in the late 80s. You'd have liked them. Most of the shop owners were Greek Cypriots and made the kebab meat themselves from lamb and fresh thyme.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

@Alien
There's no love without jealousy....

Food / Poles prefer pizza & kebab? [73]

Kebabs seem to be becoming almost the national dish in Warsaw. Almost never with lamb.

That King Kebab chain is everywhere and has some horrible things on the menu.

What's telling is the freezers in Makro where they sell lots of different brands of diner meat for kebab shops. There's a crazy difference in price and quality between them all and it's almost always the cheapest ones that you see people buying..

Food / Poles prefer pizza & kebab? [73]

American culture.

Violent and basic.

Food / Poles prefer pizza & kebab? [73]


Feared, yet oddly enough there's not one iota of evidence and the gentleman involved was found innocent in a court of law.

You do seem obsessed with cultures and countries better than your own...

UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [283]

With these criminals, there'll presumably be a POCO order over the next few months adding years to their sentences unless they repay the money they stole.

" A shameless couple stole £720k from the UK taxpayer and used it to fund their lavish lifestyle - splashing out on designer clothing, a spa day and a Rolex."

They certainly liked the high life...

"Wiktoria Packowska and her partner Wojciech Kowalski, both 28, created false bank accounts, identity documents and utility bills to make more than 80 false benefits claims across three years."

And where there's a POCO, there's no possibility of them being allowed to transfer to a foreign jail.

" Packowska was heard whimpering as she and her partner were led from the dock to begin their jail terms.".

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13572657/Benefits-fraud-couple-taxpayers-money-scam-jailed-Channel-Tunnel.html

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]

Iść za exists.

I once had a lot of fun pretending to misunderstand instructions and to confuse "idź za nim" and "idź zanim"...

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]


But not to follow a person in the street nor follow a profession nor follow a football team or some of the other meanings.

You won't hear many native speakers of Polish in Poland who use the word follow.

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]

@Lyzko
It means an awful lot more than that. Quite a complex concept. I use the word often in Polish but when translating professionally would choose a rendering specific to the situation. There's no exact cognate in English, just as Polish doesn't have an exact cognate for the English word "follow".

Food / Polish mustards [134]

Smoked mustard is quite nice.

Food / Polish mustards [134]

It's daily nowadays.


In Worcestershire.

Food / Polish mustards [134]

It's actually a daily event now.

Food / Polish mustards [134]


It is. It's a new tradition. It happens daily now, except for leap years when they have World Hendo's Day

Food / Polish mustards [134]


Every day is mustard day.

What's the difference between muster and mustard?

Food / Polish mustards [134]

I don't trawl the web looking for pictures.

It's a nice enough name for a ready made mustard though.

Do you believe in the blood group diet? It's generally considered a scam to sell books. Certainly there's no known scientific evidence.

Food / Polish mustards [134]


Not particularly scientific.

If you like mustard, enjoy it.

It's probably nothing to do with blood groups though.

Food / Polish mustards [134]

I suppose it has to make up for its shortcomings somehow.

Food / Polish mustards [134]

This one's quite jolly. The original Mustard Museum in Norwich.

I went there once as a kid.
whichmuseum.com/museum/colman-s-mustard-shop-and-museum-norwich-4212

Travel / Poles as tourists in foreign countries [93]


It depends what country they're in, in terms of level of training and policing culture.

In some places it's mostly a graduate profession with a good gender mix and first class training, in others it's thugs and killers.

Travel / Poles as tourists in foreign countries [93]


To evade justice or to defect.

Off-Topic / Let's talk about shoes [334]

Indeed. I 8now a priest who always wears them. Perhaps the name appeals.

I was wrong though, it isn't Church's. It's Loake's that the shop sells. They're an old British brand. I had some years ago and they were good.

loake.com/

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]


Nor is the U.K., however yes there are massive differences. The U.K. has half as many people again and a very different economic base. Nevertheless, the two countries compliment each other well and there could be a case for another union od fully independent sovereign states in Europe (with a few countries elsewhere), perhaps overlapping with the EU like a sort of Venn Diagram.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


Here's another famous car from the PRL days. The car actually still exists however its famous owner has long been scrapped.

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Food / Polish mustards [134]


A lot are novelty products, made in factories for short runs. More sauce than mustard.

I read about something last night, not strictly mustard. A traditional German one made with horseradish, apple and chives. I'd try that.

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]


Or hobbled by tiny states able to exercise a veto .

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]


That happened many years ago in the U.K. until it was banned. Any teacher who tried that now would be in a courtroom and unable to teach or work with under 18s.

News / France and Germany plan to flood Poland with illegal migrants. [199]

No, much much worse.

Politicians in modern liberal democracies can be held to account if they tell lies.

Random people on social media (including r*SSian, Chinese, Iranian, Endek or trumpist bots can and do say anything they like without consequences.

News / France and Germany plan to flood Poland with illegal migrants. [199]

Not a generally reliable source.

Off-Topic / Let's talk about shoes [334]


I just googled him. You're on holiday in a nice place. Not cheap though.


That's over £400 and over 2000zl however some people pay more than that for ones that are mass produced so it seems a good price. They would probably last a very long time and fit like a glove.

The city Imspend most time in when in the U.K. has a shop which sells Church's shoes. Not quite handmade but almost. Certainly hand finished. They're not cheap but I'm thinking about it.

Travel / Poles as tourists in foreign countries [93]

Do you see that often?