Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK

They're still not proper roast potatoes.

Just stuff from a recipe website from America run by a woman called " Hey! I'm Julia".

There are pictures of roast potatoes above.

That thing shown below from her website is just a website recipe. Nice enough to eat and has stuff on top, but still from a foreign website made by someone called Hey! I'm Julia who's probably never had roast potatoes.

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How about those
Because they are better

Why better? Have you made the recipe from the person's website?

That must have been quick since your owner only googled it a few minutes ago.

They look burnt and have got stuff on.

And are just some American person's website recipe rather than something eaten by the million.

@jon357, for me both British and American sites are "foreign" ;D

Either way I've eaten both "baked potatoes" and "roast potatoes" - it's not some kind of "revelation" to Poles :)


Eh? 🤨

It is quite a revelation. Unless the ones I've served them to many times over the decades are just being polite. That and hungry since there are never any left.

Yorkshire pudding too. Always goes down very well, especially if it's done properly.

Glamorgan sausages always go down very well in PL. I do them with Cheddar and a bit of Parmesan though rather than Caerphilly. A milder one lie, that would be closer to the Polish taste though.

No, it isn't. I mean, it's nothing new or unheard of. Although people usually wouldn't bother to make just such roast potatoes as the main dish or something, I guess.

If we would bother to bake potatoes then it would be more likely to be zapiekanka ziemniaczana (potato casserole). My family have two versions - with eggs and without eggs. The one without eggs done by my father is to die for - very tasty and aromatic *drools again* 🤤


I'm sure some Polish foods would go down well among Brits too if done properly :) I've never tasted any British food, but I'm not some kind of "food chauvinist" and I'm sure you have some good stuff too. I'm generally curious about different cuisines.

It's very rare though, and of course never a main dish. And not at least weekly.


That sounds interesting, like a gratin.


Klopsiki in dill sauce goes down well, as do baked cheesecakes.

@Paulina


I'll remember that line the next time I encounter Poles gleefully sh*t-talking British food online - usually after about 2mins on YouTube or Instagram. youtu.be/-DML6mZ5njI?si=o6sCzUt5vAPWQB79


We have that in common, at least. Well, to be fair, I don't find it offensive (unlike sledz) but I'll never pick it over anything else and I certainly wouldn't choose to go and eat it at a restaurant. Why there seems to be so much f*cking sushi in Poland is a mystery to me.

I've eaten "ash-roasted potatoes" (baked potatoes) on cub scout camps as a kid, cooked in the campfire embers. Chestnuts are also nice cooked in a fire - did that on the beach during family holidays as a kid. You should go to Scotland - there are takeaways there that serve baked potatoes skin-on with fillings like cheese, haggis, etc. These aren't 'proper' roast potatoes though, with the crispy outer later - they don't really exist in Poland and they're about 50,000 times better than the sad boiled potatoes with dill / lumpy mash you get served with Polish food most of the time.

I would say that the kotlet schabowy and boiled ziemniaki basically take the same culinary 'position' for Poles as roast chicken/beef/pork and roast potatoes (with gravy) do for Brits. I'll take the latter over the former in a heartbeat.

Big shock and buhuhu
People have cultural preferences, big deal? I think not! Italian kitchen is best in Europe anyways

@Mr Grunwald
People have preference but certain cultures seem to be a bit more polite those preferences and others seem to find great glee in gathering en masse on social media channels to insult other cultures' food among themselves: youtu.be/-DML6mZ5njI?si=d0AsrU9nFul8LGlA

Poles are terrible for this kind of behaviour. It's especially egregious when you consider that many of the ones in the comments here, and the video creator himself, actually live in the UK. Would Poles tolerate this from Ukrainians, for instance? Would they f*ck.

Italian food is overrated. I will take Greek, Spanish or Portuguese anyday. But tbh European food as a whole is completely put in a box and buried by Asian. They must see Italians and Poles insulting British food and crowing about the superiority of their own a bit like Real Madrid / Chelsea would see Sunday league teams arguing about which is the best. Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese and Thai food, for instance, absolutely smoke anything Europeans can do in the kitchen. Compared to the flavours Indians have in their arsenal, Italian food looks like Polish or British.

Fine by me :)


I'd like to try that since it's a traditional dish and I actually heard of it :)


I actually quite like young boiled potatoes with dill and sour cream. I associate them with spring or early summer. My mother would pull our ear lobes every year when we would try first młode ziemniaczki :)

I don't like the mush potatoes-like thing though (unless it's with a gravy). So boring and dry ;P


Well, I've eaten roast meats and roast potatoes and I would choose Polish kotlet schabowy in a heartbeat. I love that thing when done well, sorry :)))

Sorry, but that's in no way exclusive to Poles. The British living in Poland have been doing it for years on this forum and not only about Polish food, but also everything and anything Polish. So, cry me a river, snowflake...

Also, of course, not all Brits are like this and not all Poles are like this either. So calm down lol

@Paulina
Lol, here on this old, obscure forum. That's cute. Poles are flapping their big, rude mouths all over the internet, and they're most certainly the worst for it I've ever encountered, and those nationalistic folks would never accept it from any immigrants in their country. Poles are the bigmouths of the internet - because they know that if they went on that way in real life in a country they've flooded, they'd get a slap.

Please though, if I'm wrong, show me a video like the one I posted that insults Poles, from Brits, Ukrainians, anyone else. With thousands of likes and rude comments. Let's see it.

I laughed out loud at this! A 100% accurate description of my childhood Easters.

One could see, on the television, what American children were eating for Easter. Marshmallow ducks, chocolate eggs, gummy bunnies, and what have you.

My eggs, dyed in different shades of brown using boiled onion skins, were quite underwhelming in comparison. Actually not all were brown. The green ones had fate notes of dill, and the red ones of beets. Sometimes they smelled of kerosene. But all were... in the end, undeniably egg.

It wasn't just hard boiled eggs, however. We also got to eat a tall cylindrical cake called a kulich, which was so dry it absorbed atmospheric moisture. It contained about as much sugar as an eggplant.

Anyways, eating candy on Easter is for Imperialist Americans. In Russia, sugar is for funerals. Easter is for protein.


Hahaha!

I spat out my coffee!

It was the biggest forum about Poland in the past and had many more active members than now :)


And what is your proof for that? :)


And you're wrong again :) There are all kinds of Poles living in Poland and abroad, not only nationalistic ones :))) Poles are often very critical about Poland.


You can sat the same thing about the British - including yourself :)))

I eat it in Scotland, in the Highlands. It is edible and nice, and warm on a cool spring day. Nothing outstanding though.
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What a thin-skinned people! Some people don't like British food, and a great many like it. I see nothing wrong with British food. I would say the British complain more about their food than anyone else, but as soon as some foreigner chimes in, oh, that is offensive. Just grow up, will you?
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Make it for yourself and stay on this healthy diet.
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If that is your way of asking for a slap, don't be shy, you can be straightforward.

*say


I can repeat that for your amusement :)))

I'm serious though. My mother's Japanese colleague from work brought us some traditional Japanese sweets straight from Japan. As you can imagine - I was excited :) So, it was yokan in a traditional, tasteful packaging with every piece of yokan wrapped separately in elegant piece of paper. It looked expensive. When I heard we are getting Japanese sweets I was expecting something like that WarSore's chocolate egg - European type of sweets. But it was nothing like it and it was awful. We also got something that looked similar to pierogi with anko filling - and, again, for me it was awful. I wouldn't call it "sweets" at all. The only thing I liked was a sort of crab cookie/cracker - sweet on one side and salty on another.

But I'm guessing lots of Japanese like this yokan, etc. stuff or it would die out *shrugs*

If you're talking about nationalistic Poles in particular then of course they wouldn't - nationalists in any country usually aren't exactly the most objective and non-hypocritical people ever to exist lol :))) 🤦

lol
It's babka wielkanocna in Poland.

Didn't you have any other cakes though? Our mother, aunts and grandmas would bake all kinds of yummy cakes for Christmas and Easter.

A trait shared with a certain culture that was very much present in Poland in the past that contributed to Polish culture and way of life. Complaining too

@Paulina

There's like three cakes in Russia.

Medovik (honey cake). Napoleon (kilogram of cream squished between wafers). Bird's Milk (soufflé cake made from mysterious substance called bird's milk).

Okay the first channel you link to is annoying and I couldn't listen to more than a few minutes.

But what do you have against "Londyńskimonolog"? He's thoughtful, explains his positions clearly and isn't hysterical but rather calm.

I assume he's missing some things but most people without experience in things like cross-cultural communication wouldn't be able to explain.

From what he says, it sounds partly like a difference between an 'ask' culture and a 'hint' culture.

"ask" culture - you ask for what you want directly, understanding that the answer might be 'no', when somebody asks you for something it's okay to say 'no' with no further explanation

"hint" culture - it's impolite (or subjectively very unpleasant) to turn people down so people evolve to making very few direct requests, instead they drop hints that are meant to elicit an offer. if the person being hinted at doesn't bite then that's okay... and it's okay to ignore hints (and more polite to do so than to say 'no').

The US is split between the two (partly by region, partly by class, partly by race, etc etc etc) and this causes no end of misunderstandings and hard feelings.

Poland is definitely an 'ask' culture while I think that Britain is more a 'hint' type of place.

And I'm sure that British people can tell the difference between a sincere "that's great! and one that's about to be followed by "...but" long before that word gets spoken.

That said, there's nothing offensive in what he says unless you're so culturally thin-skinned that the mere idea of doing things differently bothers you.

Could you link to a recipe?

My mother has baked this one and it's very good :d:

przepiski.pl/miodownik-przepis/


Is this it?:

przepisy.pl/przepis/tort-napoleon


lol
You mean this?:
alyonascooking.com/birds-milk-cake-recipe-ptichye-moloko/

Btw, didn't you eat the traditional "pascha" for Easter?

Dude... it's like a cuntillionth time that you mention this here. :-/

I don't know British customs all that well (Poles are, in general, rather indifferent to cultures they regard as inferior) but even in your country saying the same thing for the umpteenth time must be frowned upon. I mean, when you talk to an intelligent person and you say the same thing twice... OK, maybe three times, then they will be annoyed, and they will think that you are either some kind of a retard or you consider them retards.

But when you keep saying the same thing a million times... in the real life people would run away at the very sight of you; online... that's just low quality trolling.

Maybe WarSore is related to Novichok? ;D

@mafketis


Ok, fair. It's not so much him as the comments in this case, which I think he knows he'll provoke. The same tired old insulting sh*t that places Poles on a pedestal: "we are real and they are fake, we are honest and they are duplicitous, we are direct and they bumble around, hihi". I'm so tired of this stuff from a people who address each other in the second person and chuck 'sir' and 'madam' around like verbal confetti out of 'politeness'. Very 'direct".

@torq
You just very accurately summed up how I feel about Poles after seeing thousands of them making the same stupid, boring old insults, 'jokes' and 'observations' all the time, all over the internet. Like I said before, do you see us, or the Ukrainians, or any one else making YouTube hit-pieces which are then responded to with hundreds of nasty comments? I asked Paulina this too. I don't think you do. So, the "bigmouths of the internet" evaluation definitely still stands.

How do you know it's 'thousands of them'?

Maybe it's the same, bored or frustrated 100 people out of hundreds of thousands that emigrated to the UK? A negligible fraction of a percent.

Look at yourself - you managed to make well over 100 posts on the same topic in a couple of days - now imagine what a 100 of you would be able to do in over 20 years (Poland entered the EU in 2004, and that's when Poles started emigrating en masse to Britain). How do you know it's not a hundred or so of your Polish equivalents? :)

I think I found it! It's Nama Yatsuhashi - Kyoto's most famous dessert apparently. It looked exactly like the ones in the photo here:

easytraveljapan.com/shopping-category/products/nama-yatsuhashi-kyoto


Firstly, Poles don't do that all the time and all over the internet. Just stop watching those particular videos. Why are you obsessing over this so much?

And why are you even in Poland? o_O


Eh? I don't seek out such videos. But as I wrote already - we've had enough of Brits and other Westerners sh1t-talking about Poland, Poles and anything Polish on this forum for years. To the point that I lost most of my curiosity about what foreigners think about Poland, Poles, etc. and I wanted this forum to die a natural death. But at one point I've concluded for myself that they can all go f*ck themselves :)))


No, it doesn't - you provided no proof for this. You remind me of Novichok and his stupid lies that only women behave badly when getting arrested by the police - and he's basing his "observations" (lies) also on "over a hundred videos" he watched on YouTube lol

Oh, don't even get me started... we had some of that sh*t on ATP too but over there BB and I had the 'Ban' button he he

I'm throwing Russians under the bus here... but it's actually quite a popular genre on Russian YouTube too. And in general in Russian comedy.

We had a guy throughout the 90s and early 2000s, Mikhail Zadornov, that built a whole career around "American" jokes. All his jokes boiled down to, "Geez, are these Americans stupid or what?"

After Zadornov died, a whole army of Russian YouTubers decided to carry on his legacy. The usual premise is: Russian YouTuber on the street in Times Square or Venice Beach, asking the "locals" a series of questions.

The questions are inevitably Russian-focused. Like, "Can you name the first man in space?" or "What's the name of the largest lake on Planet Earth?". When the Americans answer "Lance Armstrong" and "Lake Superior", laughter ensues.

Another favorite rubric is "America is a decaying sh*t hole". For these, the Russian YouTubers descend on the projects, and film close up reels of every fentanyl junkie.

Finally - there is the classic - "Let's humiliate service industry workers". This involves displaying towering Russian intellect versus check out clerks at Walmart or Burger King.

I hate this sh*t, because I feel like it feeds people exactly the type of fuel they need to maintain their sense of superiority.

You could do the same "blitz interviews" in the Russian street, and form the same opinion that Russia is a country of retards. But for some reason, this is the content people adore and always beg for more of.