Food / Hedgehog Recipes [10]


I like meat but can do vegetarian if it's good, maybe Indian. Fish and chips too, and both my parents were from the coast so we had fish a lot years ago.

Goat and camel are normal for me though horse isn't a favourite.

It's sad that lamb isn't more popular in Poland. There's little nicer than a pot roasted lamb shoulder done the Yorkshire way. Put potatoes in mid way through to soak up the fat.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 18 [637]

That letter is unbelievable. Unhinged.

Food / Hedgehog Recipes [10]


You kill it, gut it, pack it in thick mud and bake, When you pull the mud off, the spikes and skin come off. A traditional Angloromani food, not eaten nowadays.

News / Poland is increasingly appreciating Women and LGBTQ+ community [43]


Cultures and subcultures always develop.

Life / Poles Have The Biggest Genitals In Europe [12]

The country where men have the most surgical enlargement operations is Italy.

News / Poland is increasingly appreciating Women and LGBTQ+ community [43]


It's not hard to imagine

It would be fun to live there

News / Poland is increasingly appreciating Women and LGBTQ+ community [43]


What 'rule'?


Nor can they impose old ones. Whoever 'they' are.


Religious codes apply to observant members of that religion. Others have no obligation to follow them

Food / Traditional Polish Soups. [140]


These are the ones marketed at Poles who live in cities. There wouldn't be enough trade otherwise.

Food / Traditional Polish Soups. [140]


Polish ones too. On main roads in the back of beyond, in restaurants with wooden windmills outside and various barrels and cartwheels.

News / Poland is increasingly appreciating Women and LGBTQ+ community [43]


Are they the same?


Mmmmmmmmm

News / Poland is increasingly appreciating Women and LGBTQ+ community [43]


Some Arab countries have a near 100% divorce rate for first marriages. And their family life is not always to be commended.


People have been enjoying all three of those since Europe began. If you don't want to take part, fine. Just don't tell others whether or not they shouldn't have a ball..


A foul exhibitionist and no good example of human goodness.

Once I saw the following beautiful poem written on a bus top in Doncaster:

Sex ia evil,
Evil is sin,
Sin is forgiven,
So get stuck in

Work / finance salaries in Poland [17]



Most of the people replying on this thread are Polish and the two of us who aren't have lived and worked in PL for a combined total of 60+ years.


This is correct.


This is also correct. Poland is more modern and the business/employment environment is very different. Being from and having worked in any particular foreign country including your own does not bring any real advantage. Especially as there are many many Poles with proven international experience at a high level.

You will also find out that recruitment processes may be very different from what you are used to.


All of us here do in one way or another however listening to relatives like Uncle Mietek, Aunty Grażyna or cousin Wojtek and actually surviving and thriving in a make or break capital city are different things.

News / Poland is increasingly appreciating Women and LGBTQ+ community [43]

Imagine Poland with half its literature and music missing. Even its battles would have been different with no Emilia Plater, its theatre without Count Fredro and without Miron Białoszewski and its political scene with no Jarosław Kaczyński

Food / Traditional Polish Soups. [140]


Do you know the traditional significance of czernina? Back in the old days of the szlachta. Why that was sometimes served instead of other soups, to give a certain message to a male guest...


They grow nicely from seed in a pot in the windowsill. Picked really tiny so you don't grow them for long, and a small amount makes plenty of botwinka which is a fairly watery soup anyway, never thick.

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USA, Canada / European NATO and President Zelensky loved by elderly Polish-American citizens [6]


Age often brings wisdom.

That and prostate problems, arthritis and a liking for TV game shows.

News / Poland is increasingly appreciating Women and LGBTQ+ community [43]


If we all went on strike, society would collapse in days.

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [696]


It's not about the bases. Or security. It's because he wants to be remembered as the president who enlarged the country. He wants to be on Mt Rushmore and to have Melania's nude centerfold pics in the Smithsonian.


That is a worry.

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 5 [39]


It's incumbent on society as a whole to severely punish it and take care to educate about it and discourage it. It's far rarer than you think yet gets reported in the media in part because it is abhorrent and in part to rile a certain type of reader up

Those who post links to it here rarely post links to cases where white people kill each other within the family (and most murders in Europe are within families).

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 18 [637]


Not particularly "dagerous" as the stats show.

What for you has made them now dagerous?

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [696]


They won't. And since your post President Nawrocki has spoken against the yanks.


It's. And you overestimate your country's power.

Food / Traditional Polish Soups. [140]


Botwinka is very seasonal. Spring when the beetroots have just started growing. Tiny tiny ones and you also use the green shoots.

If you know anyone who grows beetroot, that's the best way to get tiny ones in England. Or use Swiss Chard if there's a posh shop near you.


Most are the real thing. It's a distinctive taste, not like blood and not like liver. Very worth trying.

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [696]


There wasn't the leverage that developed countries have with US Bonds. It doesn't affect Germany much since the state there doesn't hold many however several other European countries hold a lot of US debt

Off-Topic / PF members MEETUPS.....everyone welcome! [127]

I'm on the 2010 to Manchester, changing planes from
Libya. On the destination thingy it says you're boarding now. Off to the duty free and then a cig on the terrace.

Yes. Nice to be in the same place and pass like ships in the night.

Let's meet sometime!

Off-Topic / PF members MEETUPS.....everyone welcome! [127]


Me too. In the McDonalds upstairs from by the top of the escalator that goes to the A and B gates. My flight's about 2 hours if you're still here and fancy a beer.

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Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 18 [637]

It looks like a duelling scar.

Some people stress about facial disfigurement however some of us don't. I regard it as a sort of pet.

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [696]

There are some reports that the other NATO countries have told trumpet that if he invaded Greenland they will all (including UK and France which hold a lot) immediately dump all U.S. Treasury Bonds that they hold. This would apparently tank their economy overnight, collapse the dollar and lead to impeachment (which the administration wouldn't survive after the midterms).

Good that a multinational force is going there too.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 18 [637]

Not quite 2 metres but a noticeably scarred face, stubble and a snarl.

Food / Traditional Polish Soups. [140]


In PL, yes. Plenty still open on main roads between cities and usually good places to eat. I was thinking of other countries.

Most of that sort of restaurant has gone from Warsaw now and they are surely missed.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 18 [637]


As a visitor (maybe 100 times) rather than a resident, it did seem safe. The only time I've felt wary was at night on Silbersteinstraße in Neukolln with all the streetwalkers, unconscious junkies and pimps/dealers in leather coats. But nothing happened. Everywhere else has always felt safe.