Life / Asking cost of living in Poland [24]


So you bought a house even though you have no concrete or viable plan to support yourself, and essentially nothing to offer on the Polish job market, especially in Kielce? With three kids and a wife to support, as well? Whatever were you thinking?

You should have nailed down a steady, reliable and adequate source of income before deciding to move to Poland and buying a house there. It might be impossible now, if it ever was possible.

Sorry, but going from what you have written, I don't see much hope. Perhaps there's something you haven't written that might convince me that this is more than an utterly harebrained scheme that doomed to fail?

Law / How to get custody of my children? I am a foreigner on a Poland's karta pobytu (temporary residence card) [29]


Talk to a lawyer.

Genealogy / Easy way to find out which Polish coat of arm/Clan you belong to. [105]

Of course you're not finding anything. You're spelling it wrong. It's spelt Modliszewski.

Genealogy / Easy way to find out which Polish coat of arm/Clan you belong to. [105]

No. Modrzejewski is a completely unrelated name based on a completely unrelated stem.

Food / What Polish foods and brands do you miss when you go to other countries? [216]



More like the used to have Pie and mash shops that served jellied eel as well. Pie and mash shops are a dying breed, and only a handful of the remaining ones still serve jellied eel, which is all cooked by a single shop in the East End. He supplies the few others, who each might serve a serving or two a day, if that. People have become quite squeamish about eating it, and are reluctant to even try it. Shame, because it's quite tasty. They are also turned off by the idea of anything savory in aspic (galareta).

Demand for eel has plummeted to the point where there is no longer any commercial eel fishing conducted in the UK for human consumption. What little ends up in the nets is sold to producers of cat food. All of the eel sold in the UK for human consumption is sold by a single fishmonger in Billingsgate, who imports it from the Netherlands. Most of it is consumed as sushi, and only a piddling and ever decreasing amount for jellied eel. Very few people cook it at home, and very few fish for eels anymore.

Also, the meat pies used to contain mutton, which, like eel, has fallen out of fashion and has been replaced with beef.

So British people rarely, if ever, eat eel nowadays, even though it was once quite popular. If they do, it is likely to be as sushi.

The reason for the odd combination of meat pies, mashed potatoes and jellied eel is that many of the poor working class were Catholic Irishmen who couldn't eat the eat meat pies on Friday. Since the owners of these shops were mostly Catholics themselves, they were glad to oblige. Hence, eel to the rescue. Curiously, MacDonald's started serving fish filet sandwiches for essentially the same reason.

Food / What Polish foods and brands do you miss when you go to other countries? [216]



There is no "eel pie". Where you got that idea from, I don't know. The eel served in those shops was jelled eel, served alongside meat pies.

A few shops have started supplying meat pies by mail order. None supply jellied eel, which cannot be shipped by mail.

Food / What Polish foods and brands do you miss when you go to other countries? [216]

However you got the idea that eel pie exists is beyond me. It doesn't. Nor does the firm you cited deliver eel pie. Can't deliver what doesn't exist.

The firm you linked to is not a traditional pie and mash shop, for one. It's a startup by some woman from Felixstowe.

They do deliver jellied eel, MEAT pies and mashed potatoes by special (refrigerated) culinary courier fresh to your door on certain days of the week, but they don't ship them by mail.

Your reading comprehension could do with some work.