Poland in photo riddles - part 2

Looks like granulated sugar to me.

@johnny_reb, it is granulated sugar indeed, but what do you call such "explosive" sugar in English?

Rock sugar would be my guess or Rock sugar crystals to be exact.

I don't think those sugar crystals are big enough to call them rock sugar (?), but either way - neither ordinary granulated sugar nor ordinary rock sugar "explodes" in your mouth like the one that was put in the pink glaze of that ice cream in the photo :) So, what is the name of such sugar in English or in Polish?

Shooting sugar!

I mean sugar used in popping candies.

And in the meantime another traditional street lamp. Contrary to the previous one, this one is fully operational. :) Where?

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Looks like somewhere in tricity,but there is also a street in Warsaw where everyday a guy comes and lights the street lamps.

Wow, I had no idea there are more places in Poland with that traditional lighting. But my pic isn`t from Warsaw.


Yes, those old street lamps use natural gas.

I recognize the place in the pic but I'll give others a chance.

Yes, give peace a chance,

No, I was answering the name of the kind of sugar, Cukier gazowany.

Yes! :)) In Polish it's called "strzelający cukier" (literally: "shooting sugar") and in English it's "popping sugar" or "popping candy", like, for example, American "Pop Rocks" ("Taste the Explosion!" lol). We used to eat such popping sugar sold in sachets when we were kids :)

But... That's not what this riddle is about :)) It is the first ice cream with a popping candy that I've ever eaten and it looks like Nestle decided to introduce a new version of their Kaktus ice cream with a glaze also containing popping candy after the success of the ice cream in the photo. It's also the first ice cream I've ever tasted with a bubble gum flavoured glaze (and it does taste like bubble gum :)). It smells nice and tastes good (especially the strawberry flavour), the popping sugar is fun :) (you can not only feel it but you can also hear the popping), but besides that it's an ordinary sorbet ice cream on a stick.

So... What makes these Polish ice cream (it's produced by a Polish company) so special that people in Poland would storm the shops and buy them out to the point that they would be out of stock and a popular discount introduced buying limits for those ice cream? lol Why would people put even the ice cream packages up for sale on the internet for some ridiculous prices? Why this craze?? ;D


Me too. I also recognise those funny clothes which that old-fashion gent is wearing :))

Oh ekipa ice cream? With you tube celebs on the packaging?

@Lenka, yes, bingo! :D The ice cream in the photo is the Ekipa ice cream (lemon flavoured).

And here's the story behind it:

notesfrompoland.com/2021/04/27/poles-scream-for-ice-cream-in-scramble-for-youtuber-branded-popsicles/

It's a new phenomenon in Poland - a group of young Youtubers led by Friz and called Ekipa has become so popular that the've started selling gadgets and clothes with their brand. And now this ice cream craze :)) I've even seen earings modeled on this ice cream, I kid you not lol

Really?? I meant it as a joke. hahaha


Aaaah, thanks, now I know what it is all about. Yes, I heard the news and read the titles of articles which described that craze but wasn`t interested .

That is why I was completely puzzled by your ice cream riddle.

I never had that.... am I deprived (or depraved.... or both?)

Both :)

Good answer!

If no one else wants a crack at the lamp riddle. It's in Poznań on the Ostrów Tumski (Cathedral Island) between the Warta and Cybina, more exactly on the new bridge built over the Cybina a few years ago. I've been there a number of times but never at the time of day to see the lamps lit (and had no idea they even do that.. live and learn).

Unfortunately, you are only partly right. Sorry.


No, they don`t. :)

So wrocław.... it looks so much like poznan though...

Yes! Those old Slavic cities are very similar.....

Especially the German ones!

But then I should have known that Poznań city government is too cheap to spend money on something like a lamplighter....

What do you mean???

Posen, Breslau..... Das weißt du doch!

Yes, I know there were German periods in the history of two aforementioned cities, but it doesn`t overshadow their Slavic origin. And today`s looks, either.

What this two things have in common?

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Comfort ?

Agrykola Street


;)) Yes, it looks like this is what it's called in Polish:

m.olx.pl/d/oferta/cukier-strzelajacy-150-g-kuchnia-molekularna-cukier-o-smaku-owocowym-CID757-IDs0VnD.html

@maf, meh... I made a riddle about the Wrocław's lamplighter in this thread and posted a link to a video in which he was lighting street lamps wearing those clothes... :P


"Puffiness"? Are those cookies called "puf"?

It is connected to their names but nothing "puffy" :)