My Polish diet consists of three staples: soup, sweets, and apples. Most days after class, Nina and I go on a soup hunt. STP has the best barszcz (a dark red soup made from beet root) in the city center, and it's only 1.99zl a bowl. If there's no STP barszcz, we either stay there and try whatever soup they happen to be serving that day, or we wander down the street to see what the other milky bars are serving.
Today, I met Lance for lunch at Misz Masz, since he had never been there. There was no barszcz today...or jarzynowa (vegetable soup), so I thought I would just try something new. Bad idea. I ended up with flaczki. At first glance, it looked like chicken soup...if chicken was long and stringy. It was icky...very, very icky. I ate about three bites and that was the end. I got mashed potatos instead and then used my plate to cover what was left of the soup because it smelled so bad.
When I got home, I looked up "flaczki" on the internet and found that it's made from pig's stomach. I was a little grossed out. I told Kasia about my lunch-time flazki adventure (at this point, I was expecting a little sympathy for my tramatic expirience), and she responded with "I love that soup!"
Options for the "Lesson Learned from this Expirience":
1) It's best to completely remove soup from my diet and just focus on the apples/sweets.
2) Always bring Nina along to supervise your soup choices.
3) Don't trust Kasia's list of "soups that are good in Poland"
4) Eat barszcz and only barszcz from this point forward
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1 comment:
"It's best to completely remove soup from my diet and just focus on the apples/sweets."
I concur. More specifically, I think this is a good idea, because whenever I think of "Polish" and "Soup" I think Czarnina.
You'll have to tell me what kind of yummy sweets you've fallen in love with so I can try and find them at my new Global Market store!
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