Poland in photo riddles - part 2

Is it your działka?

:):) Jon, you guessed it is a działka, or an urban plot/allotment, but not mine, of course.

And this?

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Is it Midsummer Night?

I don't see a yellow triangle house being burned, so...... now. It's two early for Noc Kupały or Noc Świętojańska

It's about the right time for the Malta alternative theater festival in Poznań (full of random events like this) but I don't think he'd be there and the geography looks wrong....

The group I belong to just do a bonfire with a small ceremony then release Wianki into the river.

The date is close-ish though.

Its #0000 steel wool (extra fine)

Did you use a 9V battery to ignite it?

An attempt at light painting, but not a very good one.

Perhaps, with some practice you might be able to take a decent photo someday:)

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I thought we are supposed to present riddle photos, not the masterpieces of photographic art. As usual, you didn`t read the title of the thread where you are posting. hahaha

jon and maf, yes, I think we can accept your replies - it is a special event - not national Night or whatever, just an annual holiday of the housing estate we live in .

Pandemics shopping continued: What two kinds of produce can you see in the very middle of the photo?

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There are globe artichokes (karczochy) there. I can't figure out what's to their left, wrapped in plastic. They look like yellowish ogórki kiszone but maybe aren't.

Yes, artichokes - my fav. And indeed, we need the name for the FRUIT to the left.

@pawian

star fruit is what it's called where I'm from

Wow! Exactly, In Poland it is called karambola. Funny name. I buy it from time to time but having a sweet tooth, I don`t appreciate this fruit too much.

What is this and why?

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Probably too obvious but is it part of Dożynki/harvest festival?

Yes, we can say so - it took place on 15.08.

What? nearly a month has passed without a riddle?

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End of term bribes for Teachers?, I can see you enjoy a drop of the hard stuff

But it is wasted on me coz I hate those smelly perfumed alcohols. Yet, everybody thinks that if I am an English teacher, I should enjoy whisky. How wrong! So, I offer it to my family members and friends during various occassions - they have no objections whatsoever.

I know you would like some, too. hahahaha

What model planes can you see?:

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No I stopped drinking hard liquor in my 30's now its a glass of red with a Sunday roast.

But was I correct? was it end of term presents?

How is whiskey a smelly, 'perfumed' alcohol?

Whiskey is not perfumed. It's a smell of malt and oak barrels.
Anyway, of all the alcohols in the world cabernet sauvignon smells the best

Malt spirits have been produced in Poland since the 15th century.

So the whole notion that the Anglo-termed whisky/whiskey equivalent (also dated back to 15th century) is unique to the British Isles only is simply a marketing myth.

I see. I suspected you of worse drinking coz sometimes you go so wild in the forum, you are totally not yourself and I attributed it to alcohol.


Yes, of course, except that they were farewell gifts from private lesson students (or rather their parents). In regular schooling I receive flowers most of which I leave in the staffroom. Cats nibble at them at home and puke all over the floor later on.


Well, probably it isn`t but that`s my subjective opinion. If I had to drink a glass of whisky in a few gulps, I would puke. I wouldn`t in case of Polish clear vodka.


Malt is OK coz I even like malt beers, buit those oaks are disgusting. Yuk!

The picture you posted shows Starka which is made from rye, not barley and the rye is raw, not malted- or at least that's the traditional way of making it anyway.

People with access to grain have been distilling alcohol from it for God knows how long, but that doesn't make it whiskey. The oldest licensed producer of malt whiskey in the world is Bushmills in Ireland. Even the name whiskey, comes from the Gaelic 'usice', pronounced 'ish-ka'. Whiskey as in a malt whiskey, at least triple distilled is definitely Irish, Scotch is somewhat different, bourbon and so on are different again.

Absolutely. Going all the way back to the Kingdom of Poland and the subsequent Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Even today former Polish lands such as today's Belarus also continue the ancient tradition of producing malt spirits.

Well, actually, if anything the Starka Malt is the marketing myth - at any rate it's a new product. The exact recipe of original Starka is a secret but here's the general gist:

Szczecińska Fabryka Wódek's general process is:

They begin with distilled rye spirits. The raw distillate is then diluted to approximately 120 proof. The diluted alcohol is aged in large wooden vessels for approximately a year. After a year, other (secret) ingredients are added to the raw distillate and then this mixture is put into barrels for aging. The aging lasts from 3-70 years. At some point in this process, the liquid is subjected to freezing temperatures. After the appropriate aging, the alcohol is allowed to warm to ambient temperature, bottled and distributed.

Finally, Starka is also marketed as a vodka, it's not really considered a whiskey and I don't think it originated as a malted drink. That's not to say that other countries haven't malted their grains but I don't think it's really a 'thing' outside Ireland and Scotland. If it were, then European countries such as Germany and indeed Poland would have a long history of whiskey distilling and they don't. Malt seems to have been confined to beer in those countries.

Yes.

But still some guys claim Starka is whisky and the main point which proves it is the use of wooden barrels. Check this article

ciekawostkihistoryczne.pl/2019/03/27/starka-staruszka-starzona-najstarsza-polska-whisky/


This history isn`t too long but I remember Polish whisky from communist times. But I didn`t try it.

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The message 347 still has a riddle pending and in the meantime:

What dish is it?

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Some kind of soup? maybe grochówka (pea soup)? (judging the color maybe)

Yes, pea soup. And the occassion? In general.


It was also produced in pre-war times.

blog.czajkus.com/2014/07/19/polska-whisky-czesc-22/

too late for boże ciało.... maybe some local church thing (like rekolekcje)?