ImPolement thread

[Domen]

My favourite pierogi are ones with cabbage and mushrooms, followed closely by Russkie.

 

[warpus]

Nothing beats meat pierogies smothered in bacon!

 

[Domen]

sauerkraut

Pierogi with sour Kraut ??? This might be good only for cannibals...

I prefer pierogi with kiszona kapusta, actually.

Nothing beats meat pierogies smothered in bacon!

Ah, bacon... Meat loaf filled with bacon and dried tomatoes is good! Yummy.

In general dried tomatoes are good for everything.

Mostly potato though!

Ruskie pierogi are filled not just with potatoes. Also numerous spices (pepper, salt, etc.) go inside! As well as onion, butter / bacon and cottage cheese:

http://www.kwestiasmaku.com/kuchnia_polska/pierogi/pierogi_ruskie/przepis.html

Farsz: ---> things which go inside:

• 500 g sera białego tłustego lub półtłustego ---> cottage cheese
• 500 g ziemniaków ---> potatoes
• 1 mała cebula ---> onion
• 2 łyżki masła lub słoniny ---> butter or pork fat or bacon
• 2 łyżeczki soli (lub do smaku) ---> salt
• 1/2 łyżeczki pieprzu ziołowego ---> pepper

 

[warpus]

sauerkraut = kiszona kapusta

and yeah about the filling, but the potatoes take up most of the room and contribute the most to the texture... the texture that I found so surprising when I bit into my first Russian pierog and instead of a meaty texture I encountered unsatisfactory chaos

 

[Yeekim]

Well, actually they are "Ruskie" not "Rosyjskie" so I'm not sure if we can translate this as "Russian". Rather as "Russkie" or "Ruthenian":

I doubt there is any other language besides Russian that recognizes the distinction between Rus and Rossiya.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Yeah, potato and cheese. Mostly potato though! When I was growing up in Poland my mom only made meat (pork, bacon, onions, spices) and mushroom + sauerkraut ones though.. or strawberry

And you are right, pierogi is plural.. pieróg is the singular, but it is never used. I asked my mom about it recently actually and she even claimed that a singular of the word doesn't even exist - an indication of how rare the word is.

Those all sound amazing!

I doubt there is any other language besides Russian that recognizes the distinction between Rus and Rossiya.

Ukrainian differentiates between російська and Русь.

 

[Domen]

sauerkraut = kiszona kapusta

But Kraut is also a British (somehow derogatory) word for Germans.

 

[Domen]

http://culture-shock.me/country/PL

 

[Domen]

I found a very strange yet intriguing You Tube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Polologia/about

http://www.youtube.com/user/Polologia/videos

A channel dedicated to Polology, i.e. the study of the Poles in their natural environment, without disturbing them too much. But sure; just a little.

Link to video.

 

[Gucumatz]

I do enjoy Pierogis, so overall you Poles are alright.

 

[warpus]

This is me in 2004 at the Polish Slovak border.

The sign says This is the border of the country. Trespassing forbidden. .. but as you can see there is a path clearly leading you right into Slovakia.

Yeah, I put my foot in Slovakia for a bit

Should I post a couple random pictures from that trip? It was a family vacation and we covered a lot of the big tourist places in Poland - figured we might as well since we're now capitalist Canadians and me and my sisters haven't really seen much of Poland.

 

[Domen]

I've been to Slovakia as well. Which places have you visited there?

 

[Domen]

Belarussian propaganda or truth? (video in Polish so I'm only asking other Poles):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E6QVU4b838

 

[warpus]

The only place I visited in Slovakia you can see in the photo above.

 

[Domen]

Link to video.

Book at 0:30 of the video below is "Polonizacja w trzy miesiące" ("Polonization in three months"):


Link to video.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

This is me in 2004 at the Polish Slovak border.

The sign says This is the border of the country. Trespassing forbidden. .. but as you can see there is a path clearly leading you right into Slovakia.

Yeah, I put my foot in Slovakia for a bit

Should I post a couple random pictures from that trip? It was a family vacation and we covered a lot of the big tourist places in Poland - figured we might as well since we're now capitalist Canadians and me and my sisters haven't really seen much of Poland.

So this is a picture of a Pole. Standing next to a Pole pole. In Slovakia.

Wow, such pole. Very pole. How Slovakia.

I had a friend who used to live near the Polish-Slovak border (he's Scottish), he lived in Poland but worked in Slovakia. He told me he had to learn Slovak while there for the expressed purpose of Slovaks not knowing he was Polish.

 

[warpus]

So this is a picture of a Pole. Standing next to a Pole pole. In Slovakia.

Wow, such pole. Very pole. How Slovakia.

We are very good at standing around with other poles. That's how the country got started - At first it was just a bunch of guys standing around doing nothing. One fateful day somebody got fed up and said: "what are we, a bunch of Poles, just standing around doing nothing?" Somebody else said "Yes", people agreed, then vodka was invented, and the rest of the world was created and all the other races and animals and so on. All because of Poles.

I had a friend who used to live near the Polish-Slovak border (he's Scottish), he lived in Poland but worked in Slovakia. He told me he had to learn Slovak while there for the expressed purpose of Slovaks not knowing he was Polish.

Wait, I'm confused, did he know Polish? Polish should work in Slovakia - if you speak slowly enough. Then again maybe that would annoy people..

 

[Domen]

Old Polish comedy (English subtitles):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57r5dqtnyAU


Link to video.

Modern Polish cabaret (English subtitles) - watch in full screen mode (not large enough font of subtitles):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfDwtL7_LPo#t=130


Link to video.

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I've found such a video in English, but read my comments below before watching:


Link to video.

Some of these "facts" are incorrect, maybe because author of the video (Beran Gürler) is apparently not Polish but a foreigner living in Poland.

For example the notion that hand-kissing is still popular in Poland - this is incorrect. And several other "facts" as well.

I also don't know about the existence of any "Pope channel" in Polish TV.

As for historical capitals of Poland - apart from Gniezno, Cracow, Poznań, Warsaw and Lublin, also Płock and Wrocław were temporarily capitals.

The claim that "in 1795 Poland for 123 years ceased to exist as a country" is wrong too. If it was "as an independent country" then it would be correct. But many argue that the Duchy of Warsaw was in fact independent. The Congress Kingdom was independent for more than 1 year - in 1830 and 1831.

Another misconception in the video is that "Zloty" means "gold" in Polish. It means "golden" or "golden one", not "gold".

 

[Domen]

A common stereotype of Scandinavians in Poland, is that they are veeeeery emotional people.

Another Polish cabaret sketch (English subtitles):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbt1rUDu7-E&list=PL8F2A3D6F1638F41B


Link to video.

"The Short History of Cinema" sketch by cabaret "Świerszczychrząszcz" (cabaret "Chirpingbeettle" or "Cricket-beettle" in English):


Link to video.

 

[Domen]

Coming back to discussion about Polish food - here two English guys tasting some Polish food:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNkLUpdmI2s


Link to video.