Poland in photo riddles - part 2

@Lenka, you mean their names in Polish?

In the meantime - a riddle from the street lamp series - which city?

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Yes Paulina :)

Amerykanki! And the cookies are called "amerykany"

I meant that in Polish this type of furniture is called "amerykanka" and the cookies are called "amerykany", so what they have in common is "Ameryka" :) "Amerykanki" came from the US, I'm not sure about the cookies though... Are those American cookies in origin?

What do the following three have in common?

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Funny, never heard of it. In which part of Poland is it used?


I heard it once ot twice in my life. Kanadyjka was more popular, I think.

They're named after countries?

The first photo are those cookies "amerykany", I think, the second photo is "ryba po grecku" and the third looks like "placek po węgiersku" (yum!) :d

@pawian, I've never heard of those cookies either. I don't think I've ever tasted them, but apparently they were "cult" cookies. I guess not in my region or sth...

I've also never heard the name "amerykanka" used for that furniture. After running out of options (there are no "ciastka wersalskie" and those cookies didn't look like canapés ;)) I've started reading about the origin of the name "wersalka" and "kanapa" and I noticed that another name used is "amerykanka"...


I've never heard this name either ;D

That's part of it.... what else do they have in common?

@maf, they don't come from the countries they're named after?

Yes! The first Amerykany (that I saw) were very vaguely similar to oversized American sugar cookies but later when they started adding icing... no. I don't mind them but they're not American.

This is hardly unique to Poland. Often dishes named after countries aren't recognized by people from said countries. In parts of the US starting in the 1940s or 50 "Cuban sandwiches" were popular (kind of sub/poor boy type thing). An aunt of mine was visiting pre-Castro and asked for one and they had no idea what she was talking about.... And of course 'spaghetti bolognese' drives Italians crazy....

When I was a water boy scout, we slept on kanadyjki every night. :):)


The only statue of a lampligter is in Poznań. :)

Thanks for the info, I was wondering about that :)
Btw, do you know perhaps where those cookies were known? I've asked my parents and they've never heard of them...


Oh, I thought you were writing about those sofas - that they were also called "kanadyjki"... But I guess you meant this?:

pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanadyjka_(%C5%82%C3%B3%C5%BCko)


Yup :)) This statue is a tribute to all lamplighters who worked in Poznań, but I'm guessing it's called Zyga the Lamplighter after the last lamplighter in Poznań - Zygmunt Cypel ("Zyga" is Zygmunt in local Posnanian dialect):

poznanskieklimaty.pl/pomnik-zygi-latarnika-czyli-historia-latarni-gazowych-w-poznaniu/

So, there is no lamplighter in Poznań not because the city authorities are so cheap ;), but because, unfortunately, there are only two historic gas street lamps left in the city (one of them is the one next to the statue)...

I think I first saw them about 10 years ago... (give or take a couple). Very weird. Also sometimes kind of has an ammonia aftertaste (no idea why)

I think Amerykany are supposed to be based on these:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_cookie

but the size, taste and texture are all different....

Also.... what's the singular of Amerykany?

What part of Poznan is the statue located?

That's because ammonia is one of the ingredients - for this reason they're also called "amoniaczki" :):

margarytka.blogspot.com/2015/08/amerykanki-wspomnienie-szkolnych-lat.html?m=1


Here are a few theories concerning the origin of the name:

cookit.pl/przepis/146819/Amerykany


No idea... lol Amerykan? I've seen "amerykanka"...

@AntV, it's in part of Poznań called Grobla, at skwer Łukasiewicza :):

pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomnik_Zygi_Latarnika

Anybody`s got any streetlamps to show?

If not, tell us what you know about this area:

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In the meantime - what is the name of this plant? In Polish and also provide its English translation, please. Hint - it is endangered. Has always been, since my childhood.

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Is that around Giżycko? If so, then I know nothing about it at all! (other than there are lakes and a city called Giżycko)

At first I thought it might be lakes in Kujawy that I saw many years ago and then searched google maps till I found something similar to the picture....

@maf, yes, Giżycko is known as the sailing capital of Poland and the area on the map is called Kraina Wielkich Jezior Mazurskich (Masurian Lake District):

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masurian_Lake_District

That lake at the bottom of the map posted by pawian is Śniardwy - the biggest lake in Poland. Masurian Lake District is a pretty unique area not only in Poland, but also in Europe. There are many rare bird species over there, for example.

My aunt and uncle are on holiday there right now and my aunt sent a photo of a river with a very clear water - you can see many fish near the riverbed :)


Sea holly? I guess in Polish it's called "mikołajek nadmorski"?

You are correct Paulina.
It is cultivated in Poland and is edible.

Btw, I think that I can safely say that besides the mountains and the Baltic Sea, the Masurian Lake District is the third most popular tourist nature-related destination in Poland. It's a beatiful area and a sailor's paradise :)



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Ok, next riddles :) Both riddles/photos are somehow connected to a certain today's anniversary.

Riddle 1. (first photo) This is a GROM soldier at the Kabul airport helping out during the evacuation. The riddle is: does he have any weapon at all and if he does then can you see it anywhere in the photo?

Riddle 2. (second photo) What is going on and where do you think it's taking place (the area in general)?

Riddle 3. What's the anniversary about?

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Come on, guys, Riddle 1 is easy :) I made it mainly for our PF gun owners, but you don't have to own a gun to find it in a photo (that's a hint already - it's a firearm :)).

I'm not a gun nut but I do see a camouflaged gun handle (just above the blue book bag and under square bag on his vest).

The second... migrants who've crossed the eastern border? Now or earlier (there's been a trick of migrants for many years)?

Anniversary is 9/11 (mother of all conspiracy theories as every single possible explanation about what happened, including the official story, is, in fact, a conspiracy theory).

Not least because Italians do not use spaghetti for their ragu but liguine.

Yup, correct - you've guessed Riddle1! :))


Nope! There's a link between the two photos, but not through migrants/refugees. All of the men in the photo are in Poland legally (and probably most, if not all, were born in Poland) - if they weren't, they wouldn't be allowed to take part in what's going on. The area in general in the photo is, however, known for human trafficking through a border.


Nope, it isn't a well known anniversary. I don't even know if it's googable, but if you guess Riddle 2 it's going to be easier to guess Riddle 3 :) Hint: It's an anniversary of something that happened for the first time 30 years ago.

Something with the Baltics? Esp Lithuania?

If so the connection would be Russian/Soviet occupation?

@maf, nope, it doesn't have anything to do with the Baltics or the Soviet occupation. Although, if we want to play in alternative reality - if the Soviet occupation didn't end, there probably would be no such anniversary, since what happened 30 years ago was modelled on something shown to Poles by... Americans :)

Hint for Riddle 2: look at the faces in both photos. What do they have in common?

Besides being blurred?

@maf, nope - that's exactly what the hint was about - the faces being blurred :)

National Gravel Eating day? I hadn't realize that had ever been exported to Poland...