How Americans see Europe

BIGOS - lovely!
It can be prepared in many ways and this makes a difference! So where and when you've been in Poland?

 

how about fray bentos
a pie in a tin genius

 

We have a sister company in Sosnowiec which I have visited. I wasn't terribly impressed with the restaurants in Sosnowiec or Katowice. The bigos was at a restaurant near the market square and was recommended by a colleague. Beautiful city with much better venues than Sosnowiec Really reminds me of a cozy, less glitzy/commercial version of Prague.

 

To think that I grow up 70km from Sosnowiec and it was my frequent destination when I was running own business in Poland .
So you've seen UFO in Katowice then I assume? That UFO hosted computer fair every Sunday in 90' and quite often I was going there as a teenager to pick up few parts for build I was doing. Wired old times!

BTW are you working for Symantec? I know they have sister company there and main offices in Warsaw.

 

I have only seen it from a distance. Not Symantec. Our group of companies make industrial controls for the thermal processing industry. We built a state of the art facility in an old industrial district in Sosnowiec and had our grand opening back in 2008 complete with all the local politicians. It was quite a party. Roast pork, sausages, that fat that you spread on bread and lots of beer and vodka from 3PM till 2 AM with a very good band. Since I'm a vodka drinker is was especially fun for me Oh and is it just my friend Bogusia who makes everyone drink rabid dogs?

Many of our top shareholders grew up and studied in various parts of Poland so it was a natural place to put one of our companies.

 

The danes have a cheese called Havarti that quite literally smells like household garbage. It's quite vile to have in your refridgerator as the smell/stench wafts out each time you open it up, but the taste isn't terrible.

Kinda like Swedish fermented herring... Ever had that, Mize? Its aroma is an acquired taste shall we say (mildly put), but the taste is fairly benign actually.

 

Yes. I have had fermented herring and it's not terrible at all. Havarti is one of my favorite cheeses by far and is virtually odorless compared to Limburger which is quite popular in Ohio's farm areas. Limburger smells awful but put it with onions on rye bread and it's actually pretty tasty.

 

Speaking of rye bread, that if anything is too often overlooked when Scandinavian food is rated. There are few better simple things in the world than a good chunk of sour rye bread, butter and a glass of milk.

 

Finnish sourdough rye bread is great.

There's a variety of Swedish rye hardbread being made by a company started by an Egyptian man, they use his mother's sourdough culture, secretly smuggled in through the customs lol. It tastes awesome. The resulting bread's a little sour, and saltier than other varieties of hardbread.

It's fairly expensive though, meh...

 

Oh no! Get the hell out my country!!!