Polish bakery

JohnW63

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When I am the wife were first married, we lived in the same mobile home park she grew up in. ( My grand mother said it was a bad idea to do that. We should live far from her parents so she wouldn't get ideas to move back home. ) At any rate the guy right behind us was Amil and he was polish. She had known him for years and I guess because we were now very near neighbors he would occasionally share a batch of stuffed cabbage with is. Nothing fancy. Ground beef and rice and a few spices and then wrapped in cabbage and covered with some sort of tomato sauce. He never said much and seemed sort of stand off-ish, but I guess that was just his personality.

If there was a cool bakery like the above one, I would have been a customer. Maybe bought some stuff for Amil.
 

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That's also a type of cucumber salad, no? A few years ago here in Portland, amongst the hipster food carts, a traditional old world babcia (grandma) suddenly appeared selling amazing plates of ridiculously inexpensive Polish food. Some had that salad with it, and I thought it was pretty good. When asking her about different foods, she would pile on free samples. My co-workers and I pondered how she survived and always suggested she put out the ubiquitous tip jar, which she lacked. She always shook her head. Unfortunately as expected and to our disappointment, her cart just disappeared one day. 😞
JP, I probably mis-remembered the content of the "misere" salad I had in Poland. It could have had cucumbers as well as lettuce leaves. Or, any combination of cheap greens might have been okay for that salad. In any case, it represented the poor availability of foods in Poland during the communist regime. I remember stopping at a govt. restaurant on the highway for lunch and being handed a menu, the nth carbon copy of a communist era menu. When I enquired what was available on the menu, especially the more interesting looking items, I was informed they weren't available. In the end, I had to settle for the "misere," which translates as "misery." LOL!
 
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