TWO "COMMUNITY SUPPORT OFFICERS" (do clickonit for a hilariously unrepresentative image) are harrassing the local cashpoint beggar. I pinged in here to avoid them...
For 35p just now I purchased "Knorr Goracy Kubek Zupa Pieczarkova z grzankami... Bez konserwantow..." As manufactured by "Unilever Polska S.A. ul. Domaniewska 41, 02-672 Warszawa" It looks pretty tasty compared to the CUCUMBER flavour (again Polish) cup-a-soup it was next to...
I will let you know how I get on with it.
There were even Polish people swearing chattering away "tak tak tak! Proszę!" on the bus and swearing "kórwa! kórwa!" when it refused to stop at the stop that says in English "bus stop closed" all over it. We now have a million Poles in this country. They are our newest immigrant invasion, and in my opinion the most inoffensive. (Ooo! Am I racist for implying immigrants can be offensive?!? Well a goodly lot of them DO take the flagrant pee-pee out of our system and somehow end up with free houses etc that the English people can't get hold of. So...)
Anyway if it weren't for Central European immigrants (as they like to be called) we wouldn't have a decent bakers for miles around. The Hungarian bakery on the high road sells NORMAL SHAPED sliceable bread covered in seeds of various types... before they came along the ONLY bread you could get round here (except for at the hypermarket) were flatbreads ("pides") of various Turkish types...
Well I'm off to get sundried tomato bread now I've remembered ... something to go with Goracy Kubek Pieczarkowa!
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And of course my mind strays... to "Polish Heroin", the so-called "Kompot" (kompot is a dessert made of stewed apple or other fruit puree - like pie-filling), but the Polish "heroin kompot" was a product extracted from poppy straw and "uniquely dangerous to inject" in the Soviet days when addicts in the Eastern Bloc must have lived in utter outer darkness...
Here are the links
1. Wikipedia Polish "heroin" Kompot
2. Danish Drug Users' Union info Polish Kompot Heroin...
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Videos
And I advise you watch them in this oder:
1. Cancer Research Ad: Fields of Gold
2. Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold
3. X-factor's Penelope Somewhere Over the Rainbow + Fields of Gold audition...
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AND LAST AND CERTAINLY NOT LEAST, Olive, the Aussie lady, who takes the prizewinning crown as World's Oldest Blogger is 108 years old!
Click for her birthday message to the world... (plus a link to her blog...)
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News feature of the day:
"Boy, 3, comes unstuck playing Harry Potter with road cone" ...
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Clickhere for beautiful cheap Belgian farmhouses priced in Euros (only E160,000 each!! that's barely $200,000 for a detached HOUSE!!)
Geez, that's a mouthful! Just a warning though, Knorr products are full of MSG. Enjoy the bread! We only have english bakeries in our town.
ReplyDeleteHi Gleds ~~ Sorry you had a few crook days and hope you are doing well now, no more coughing and spluttering. And
ReplyDeleteI hope you have been doing some writing. Thanks for your comments.
Glad you enjoyed the jokes. I cannot
even imagine being 108 years old and don't think I want to be, unless I am as bright as Olive is. Take care of
yourself, Regards, Merle.
I'm particularly fond of a certain noodley yellow soup that Knorr markets in Germany. In the US it's a chicken soup, but the German version doesn't seem to be (is it pork perhaps?). But alas! it's quite salty. Not that that stops me from having some every now and again.
ReplyDeleteThat shameless photo from Kent PD smacks of authoritarian propaganda. Smiles everywhere! Although the little girl seems to have some proper fear in her (unlike her mother, who is no doubt being paid well for her role in the photo opportunity). "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you." Yeah, right.
I'm learning these days about all the dangerous stuff in our American drug supply, but that kompot takes the cake. A nasty one, that was. I've got a week left in treatment and I seem to be doing well. No relapses for over a week now, going on two. Wish me luck.
It's probably hot cucumber soup in Polish.
ReplyDeleteWe don't have many poles here. Or we might have and I don't know. Really, why did I bother writing that sentence?
V V! You must live well far out! The nearest proper English bakery to me (far as I know) is over 3 miles away!!!!
ReplyDeleteMerle: Coughing and spluttering's hopefully coming to an end!!
Marty: BEST OF LUCK!! So they let you use internet in the recovery facility? That's big of them...
& I'll say it again:::
BEST OF LUCK MARTY!!!
Liz: You might not even notice the Poles... for one thing they work & so don't hang out unemployed or doing dodginess all day... another thing: unless they open their mouths & speak you wouldn't even KNOW they were foreign they look totally the same as us... though having said that they ARE a little fairer overall than the Welsh...
Hey Gleds,
ReplyDeleteA fine choice today of Eva Cassidy. She is off the hook! I think she should sing all of Sting's catalog.
I would definitely buy it.
Good luck with your bread eating.
They have some real nice looking houses there in Belgium. Not at all expensive. I wonder what the taxes are like.
ReplyDeleteWhat a giggle that Penelope's audition was. And little Charlie Thomas .... it was the t-shirt that made him put that wizard's hat on It got it's wish *!*
ReplyDelete.... my dear old dad was letting off steam over the phone about the latest wave of immigrant invasion - same sentiments as you and how too easy going the English are .... unlike the Swiss who have now decided to stop fence sitting and jump to the right *!*
while you are having a craving for delicatessan bread, im having a craaving for french fries. However, i dont have my drivers license and my parents wont go out and get me some. Its alright though, i wouldnt want to go out at nine o clock at night to buy my child french fries either.
ReplyDeleteI hope that family continued to play Harry Potter or some other fun game while waiting the 45 mins. for Devon fire fighters to come. I guess they were sure his little brain wasn't starting to swell from the pressure of the attached cone or they might have hurried the rescue up a bit.
ReplyDeleteNice that you left Olive a little birthday greeting. Hmm... 108...I guess if you're happy and healthy enough it could be interesting to live that long but I seriously doubt I can go 65 more years. Not even close.
Around here.... seems that every Donut business, atleast Dunkin' is Indian owned or operated and many gas stations too, and alot of Greeks run the diners. I'm not racist, I just wonder why that is.
Immigrants do breath new life into a city. Hopefully, they bring the best parts of their culture with them and leave old conflicts behind.
ReplyDeleteDoing any NA these days, Gled?
Just dropped by to say hello and thanks for stoppping by my blog from time to time. Hoping all is well with you.
ReplyDeletePeace today, ~ RS ~
Poland and Hungary have been allies in the history a lot times. A Polish girl told me a proverb once that there are no better friends than Hungarians at drinking and pub fighting.
ReplyDeleteAlexys Hang on! I thought Sting was singing out of Eva Cassidy's catalogue... hey but... O I dunno. I only know the song from the Cancer Research Ad really...
ReplyDeleteMolson: yes that is a realy good point. where property is cheap property taxes tend to be high!
Bimbimbie: I don't blame him it's bc so many of the incomers are blatantly taking the pee!!
Squamer: Burger King used to do these really complicated spicy fries... they were quite nice actually... surely they had 'em by you as well?
Tho I'm not sure why they stopped doing them
I've eaten so many fries in my life I'm pretty much all fried out...
Crytal: there was a band here called Cornershop bc they were Indian... I can tell you why so many Indians run grocery stores. BC in their caste system one caste is a shopowning caste and that's ALL they're meant to do so when they emigrate elsewhere they keep up the tradition...
ReplyDeleteWhitenoise: I haven't been NA for ages I'm afraid...
Rubyshooz: That's good, take it easy...
Ropinator: Never heard that one b4!!
Well, what a lot I've learnt about Poles in Britain! I left just before this benign invasion, Gleds.
ReplyDeleteThey're not bad, seriously.
ReplyDelete1. they CAN'T claim DSS until they've been here WORKING for 2 years and pay is so brilliant compared to Poland they don't WANT to scrounge dole
2. I know I didn't really go into this in my post but we really do feel here like we're being inundated by people from halfway across the world, from places with which we had NO prior relationship who are just sponging and scrounging off us...
I'm talking about places like ALBANIA, ROMANIA... FRENCH AFRICA. What connexion have these countries with us that we should let in a slew of them to claim OUR dole?!?
I never used to feel so vehement but when you realize that some of them (not all, fair enough) are so blatantly taking advantage it just makes you MAD!! ;->...
Don't forget people that Poles coming to your country to work are the poorest in polish society. If you do not like the fact feel free to write letter to EU, otherwise don't think all Poles are poor waiting for your mercy. Ewww.
ReplyDeleteAnyway I've seen this attitude in Ireland where usually people think -Oh bc you're polish it's impossible you have US citizenship. They've been nasty at the airport wherever I went and beside my perception of Europe as small and stinky place after 10 years from my last being here I was having vomit response to how I was treated. So I was like "this is my last trip to Ireland". But then again somebody told me GB is more fun then Ireland. LOL