Poland in photo riddles

1. Hippo
2. Rhino
3&4. Feeding time (or else that fox (fennec fox?) has a nasty cough!)

Yes, but it`s not enough.


Yes.


Yes, fox is devouring a mouse.

But develop the tortoise photo, please.

What nationality was the man??

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German

Nope.
Clue - another one very well known in Poland.

Thanks for encouraging me to try to revive the thread. Yes, I remember we had a lot of fun here.

In case one wants to look through older posts, don`t, because most pictures are lost, particularly the ones which were loaded directly from the net. A lot of useful info has been lost. Pity, but that`s life.

So, a piece of advice - if you plan the pictures to stay for a longer time, load them from your own PC into Polishforums account. Dear admin/mods, what is the capacity of the Forums` hard discs? I hope big enough.

So, let`s go. My fav topic, food, goes first.

What is this typical Polish food? It is so delicate and refined I have it only twice, thrice a year.

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I hate to say it because I'm bound to be wrong, but they look like frog's legs, not exactly typical Polish food. I do know they're eaten outside of France, but I would be very surprised if they are in Poland. Given that you only eat it two or three times a year, is it eaten at certain times e.g Easter? I thought I knew most tradtional Polish dishes, but I'm stumped with this one.........

Swedish.

Oops, I am sorry, due to required low quality of photos (only 100K), I have problem with seeing the content properly. I thought I was loading the photo with my fav shrimp pierogis ala Danzig but now, at a closer look, I see it is frog legs indeed. I am really sorry. Glasses are a must.

Here is sth really typical. What soup is it going to be?

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Binoculars even! ;)

The soup will be Żurek.

Yes.
Ok, soups continued. I like to have this one rich, namely ?

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Looks like it contains yellow split peas, is it Grochówka?

Zalaweika (or however you spell it:) )

That doesn't look like grochowka. I've never seen it with corn or potatoes

It's not corn, it's the split peas and grochowka always has potatoes.

Yes, exactly.


Sorry, zalewajka is much thinnner. That`s why I never eat it.


Actually, it is not corn but yellow peas which fell apart and got deformed during long cooking. As for potatoes, they are OK in pea soup. You should have rather pointed to the presence of carrot in it, it is not so common. But, I am not orthodox.

What is on the main plate?

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Kind of looks like kotlety schabowe but they're a rather square shape so I'm not sure - whatever they are, I bet being fried in smalec was involved :) and the veggies are bób?

Looks like fish and broad beans to me.

Yes that's it. They're the wrong shape for kotlety and too thick, must be fish.

Looks more like fried fish than schabowe. Schabowe tend to be larger. IDK what that other stuff is though. I've never been a big fan of Polish food but im always around it as thats what my family tends to eat breakfast lunch and dinner. Only when they go out do they not eat Polish food.

The other stuff appears to be bób, po Angielsku broad beans, as Chemikiem said. I've never been offered them as a guest in anybody's home in Poland, but they must be popular because they're all over the place in fresh or frozen form. I believe you call them fava beans in America.

So, kudos to Atch who guessed fava beans and Chemikiem for fish, cod exactly - those square fillets are still popular here. I remember eating them as a small boy. As for fava beans, they weren`t frozen, I grow them later than regular farmers, so instead of May/June, I relish it in July and August,.

but


No, I hardly ever fry anything in smalec, prefer veg oils. But I like smalec - I make my own one, with big crunchy chunks of melt lard, because shops offer only smalec with little chunks. I put it on sandwiches when I decide to have a rural taste.

Now, what is in the glass inside?

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That looks to be some kind of galaretka dish, although it doesn't look like it contains pork. Sometimes vodka shots are served with them, so that's my guess.

Nothing like the Galareta I know......

Galareta dishes often look different depending on what is in them. After all, they are just meat, veg etc in aspic jelly. I might be wrong, and it might not be a vodka shot either.

The only Galareta I know involved a pigs head.....all of it....in aspic jelly...sounds pretty disgusting,but I liked it.

Just the thought makes me feel ill :-(
I was once served peas in aspic jelly at a friend's house in Poland. It looked quite pretty on a plate because she had made them in moulds. Unfortunately, it didn't taste as good as it looked.......

Lol!!!!
You are not Polish are you?

No I'm not, but I'm sure there are plenty of Poles who wouldn't fancy pig's head in jelly either ;)

I am sure you are right,but some of us older folk have stronger stomachs.... :-)

Wodka... And galaretka around it.

You should make tatar next