Mushroom foraging is a way to spend your free time enjoying the forest, be close to the nature - just walk into the woods, breathe and pick some mushrooms. Then you can dry it, pickle it or whatever. Those are wild mushroom, not like the supermarket white mushrooms (champignon, button mushrooms). Much tastier :) And of course when you walk into the forest you have a container for your mushrooms - since the buckets, but I prefer hand made baskets :)
The mushroom picture is not that much exaggerated. We LOVE foraging, when autumn comes there are foragers in every forest, especially after rain. Buckets are there because they are often used as containers for mushroom-picking.
So basically: Kompot - a fruit drink made of cooked fresh or dried fruit Heroin - made from so called "papavar milk" or poppy straw - to make it you have to boil the straw and process it. Therefore Polish Heroin, made of boiled poppy straw is called Kompot but does not contain pure heroin(also contains morphine as well as codein ), the process was developed in the mid 1970s by students of chemistry at Gdańsk University of Technology The more you know :O
@@MonikaMazgola i said "fresh or dried" in my original comment, but thanks for trying to correct me. Also thank you for more info, the more the better ^^
@@akwanet I am sorry. Didn't notice you use word "fresh". I am sure you didn't need more info but thanks for trying to be sarcastic. The funnier the better.
I love Constantine movie 😄 BTW mushroom picking is big deal in Poland. Many people have a secret place in the forest where they know that mushrooms grew in the previous year. Mushrooms are dried or stored in jars for the winter. They are used, for example, in dishes for Christmas Eve.
6:45 that "proszę" thing is real, I am not an eagle from my own language but the same words can have lot of meanings like "proszę" in this meme, but with correct pronouncement, tone of speech, intensity, etc. From another example, I once saw somewhere a lecture in Polish studies or something like that, where for the equivalent of the word "game" there were a total of 120+ terms in Polish (together nouns, verbs, adjectives and others) also it's funny and tragic at the same time XD
Kompot isn't joghurt-like, it's juice-like (fruits boiled in water). And yea, kompot also means a drug in drug culture slang. It was opiate "cocktail", very impured, dangerous and cheap. And it technically disappeared after 1991 (open borders, easier way to get more better drugs), so younger ppl didn't hear about that and made a meme because same word for 2 different things sounded funny.
Disco polo is a kind of music here in Poland that nobody likes, nobody listen, but everybody knows and when somewhere is played, everybody dance to it and sing it. My polish dad likes mushroom faraging and he's able to wake up at 5 AM, drive literally an hour to the forest and spend half of the day at it... But he don't like eat mushroom xD And you need a bucket to get mushroom to the car, if you go back with every single one, it'd take few days. And "Proszę" don't literally means all of this (only "please"), but could be used in all of this situations. Near my place there are two Zabkas literally on the opposite sides of the same route xD Seriously, you exit Zabka and the first thing you see is another one.
Everyone sings and dances because these songs are everywhere so it's hard not to know them. But that doesn't mean people like them. It's more because they're everywhere.
In my work we play a game - we have a list with music genres (around 500) we roll random number and we listen to it for at least 30 minutes, no matter how bad it is (All of us are sometime in real pain, trust me, but rules are rules). One time a guy from UK wanted to show us a Polish song he enjoys. It was disco polo. We survived 30 seconds and turned it off. This is how bad that music is. Yes, I am Polish and our team is mostly Polish
7:10 Pickles and gherkins are two different things. Pickles are made using vinegar. Gherkins with salt, garlic, charlock, dill and horseradish and that's what Poles make
A lot of people in Poland who don't like eating mushrooms actually love mushroom foraging anyways 😂 It's a whole experience, morning walk in a forest, sweet tea and sandwiches in the backpack and a bucket in your hand
Gypsy = 'cygan' in polish = cy-gun ( gan and gun sounds similar in polish language. Play on words Babcia mem, also refers to polish people in uk with a knowledge of few words, and filling sentances with polish words, instead of just speaking 'correct' english - many examples on internet. Was a big mem. Proszę - pretty much, yeah😮
Mushroom foraging is a big deal in Poland. A lot of families have their own secret places in the woods where they drive to pick up mushrooms. Usually you go for a long walk with a bucket or a basket in your hand and hunt for mushrooms. I live doing that since I was a child. Children are usually pretty good at foraging.
@Rob Reacts it will be a great investment for your video series and immersion if you take a little time like 1-2 hours to go through a lesson of Polish alphabet. It will be even more cool and immersive when you read. In England there was a great vowels shift... If you learn vowels in Polish, you will also be able to read phonetically correct Italian, Spanish, German, and basically all languages who gave the pronounciation closer to each other. Secondly you will learn how to read letters that do not exist in English. For example we do mot have X V and Q. They are innemglish words only. On the other hand we have Ć Ś Ń Ó Ź Ż Ę Ą. Last, but not least, you will know double sign consonants. It will not be confisimgfor you anymore why we have sometimes so many consonants in a row. Actually some sounds are written with 2 letters. That sound like a letter that is a mox of these 2: Sz, Rz, Cz, Ci, Si, Ni, Dz, Dzi, Dż, Dź,
On the meme with cleaning rugs one can see a famous Polish strongman, who used to be the strongest man in the world. he lives close to Lodz- one of the biggest Polish cities.
Kompot is basically fruits and sugar boiled in a pot to make a nice drink ;) Also its a name of a street drug. Both are said to be addictive but im not 100% sure about the drug
With mushrooms forgings in Poland is a funny thing. There are ppl that do LOVE to go to forest at 4 a.m. look for mushrooms, collect them, fill out not only the car trunk, but every bucket they do have (me included), maka a phot, and send it to all relatives just to make them jealous and at the end, they don't even like mushrooms :D
Disco polo is (unfortunately) a polish music genre. It usually has primitive, simple music and primitive, simple lyrics about sexuality and/or money. People will tell you that "everyone says they don't like it but they will dance to it and know words very well". And that's not true. I'd say the more educated people from more urbanized areas, the less popular disco polo is. At my wedding we had no disco polo and people were dancing like crazy all night - although many will say that disco polo is a necessity at this kind of party. Personally I just hate this kind of "music" - usually it's just a simple beat and a really tacky lyrics about big boobs or having a lot o money. Sometimes it just got really obscenic, and sometimes just purely idiotic. There are some songs that are unharmful, with a bit more complex music and lyrics, but they are a rarity. Mostly it is a music garbage in my opinion. But when you're drunk, you have no music taste and you just want to mindlessly pass your time I guess it's the easiest way to do this with disco polo...
"Compote is a French dessert made with cooked fresh fruit. In Poland, people don't discard this delicious water but serve it as a summer drink. Back in 1980, during the communist regime, "kompot" was a slang word for a homemade concoction made with poppy seeds. There was a nationwide ban on planting poppy as a crop, except for a variety named "przemko" with low morphine levels. The Milicja (police during communist times) often arrested farmers and hobbyist gardeners who illegally planted poppy in order to sell to drug addicts."
Whatever you do, for goodness sake, DO NOT, under any circumstances look up examples of disco polo. It's really not worth getting cancer over a bit of curiosity.
4:00 I just want to mention that Ptasie Mleczko in Polish slang can mean something you may don't wanna know about. I leave it so you can still enjoy your food. Thank me later.
3:07 Point of buckets if that, they are used as a container when picking up mushrooms. Once they are full, they get emptied into trunk... once trunk is full and all containers are full - it's a sign it's time to go home...😂
Personally i go mushroom foraging quite a lot but im not even eating it most of the time, i give them mine grandmother ,uncle or neightbors. I like to eat only specific ones like: "Panienki" "Bździuch" "Kania" and "Rydz" some of them have different names depends where are u living. I dont imagine back to hause without full boot of mushrooms. When i went to high school i used to go mushroom foraging with class mates.
The point of buckets is, that even if we can have a whole truck of mushroom, there's no reason to NOT pick a little bit more if we just notice some more😂.....Poland🤷♂️
In Poland noone declare to listening disco polo but everyone knows melody and text. Disco-polo is a phenomenon cause it isn't even music ( just few sounds, beat, stupid text and vocalist who can't sing) but DP bands sells milions of their records.
Mushroom 🍄 picking is like tradition in Poland Rob, whole families having day out in the forest and using buckets 🪣 so by the end they have full car 🚗 of them. After that you clean them and start drying them, so you can store them for long. And that way you don't have to pay in supermarket, free food from mother nature.
You don't know what you missing, being up at 0300, fresh air, nature waking up around you, plenty of walking, and after the best mushroom soup 🍲 or creamy sos you ever tested. Common Rob, stop being a wuss and grab your bucket 🪣 and pick some mushrooms 🍄 😀
We do collect mushrooms from the woods ALL the time and in massive volumes. And in McDonald's there are pickles. Ogórki kiszone (gerkin -DE) taste different. Pickles - vineger used, ogórki kiszone - only water, salt, spices like koper and chrzan (horse raddish) and fermentation. No vineger.
Yes there is lots of forest in Poland and going in to forest to pick forest mushrooms is a think in Poland - not common mushrooms you bay in UK supermarket (champignon, portobello) , people in Poland harvesting in forest: butter mushroom , boletus , chanterelle , parasol mushroom ... Kompot - soft drink made by boiling water and mix of fruits ( sugar is optional ) - can be served with those fruits or without them. Kompot ( heroine ) - its slang for Poppy steam brew ( with contain heroine - crude way of extracting it from Poppy plant)
Lol! Marshmellows taste waaaay differently. You can't be Polish if You can't taste the diff. It is the same with typical British fuge and Polish krówka. Distinction is clear. Besides Wedel makes Ptasie Mleczko from a specific ingridient called "Agar". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agar Nothing what typical marshmallow is made of.
"Proszę" does mean all of it indeed :) Meaning depending mostly on the context not intonation. And those are not your typical gherkins pickled in water with vinegar and spices, those are traditional polish "ogórki kiszone" pickled in water and salt solution with some dill and garlic. To be honest i havent seen those in any other country apart of polish shops ofc.
@@duner4105 oh well direct translation of word "kisić" or "kiszone" is to pickle or pickled however u are quite right those are not pickled in western understanding of this word, similar but not the same process as producing sauerkraut. Maybe it would be better to call them brined?
No! Romani (aka "Gypsy" or "Cygani") are NOT from Romania. They are from Pakistan. You are misled because they immigrated from Pakistan not only to Poland but also to Romania.
Disco polo - the name comes from ‘pole’ - the field. Literally the entomology of that name means - disco on the field, so disco for villagers, people from the country, for simple people who working hard on the field and in the evening they are looking for the simplest kind of relax
"Proszę" - yeah, that's about right. This is why you hear Polish speakers of English (A1, A2) say "please" when a native would say "you're welcome" or "here you are"... "Ę" is nasal "E" like in French "vin" or "fin"
Disco Polo it's just... DISCO. But Polo because it's make in Poland and.... It is done on our (annoying) way 😂. Well we can truly make a masterpieces of annoying
There is the last line of this meme with English "pardon", "please" etc. vs Polish always "proszę" missing. It goes "ENGLISH: I slept with your sister. I messed up. I'm sorry. Can we get past this? POLISH: Proszę?".
6:36 It's true. But meaning depends on how you say it. It's very hard to catch for not Pole :) Anyawy it's maybe just half means "proszę". We have much more "side / situational" means of this word...
As with every lnaguage... CONTEXT, mate. _Proszę_ can mean many things in certain contexts. Basically it's "please", but all the other uses that were listed there check out, 100%.
1. Yes, disco polo is hated af but still it's guilty pleasure 2. Shrooms, yeah it is a hobby 3. "Proszę" thing - yeah, it's true!!! 4. "Blowing rugs" - it's still around 5. Kompot is life Have a great day everyone!
Why 4 buckets, Rob? Most likely the mushroom lover took those buckets for his/her mushroom picking and when they filled fast he or she started filling the trunk (boot) directly. No mushroom lover leaves a mushroom in the forest when they find one. People are greedy, Rob. While back home the harvested mushrooms have to be transported to the kitchen. Right, Rob? That's the reason and function of the BUCKETS in the picture. Mystery solved! I like your channel, Rob. Sometimes you are unintentionally funny to your Polish viewers. I am a lazy person and would NOT hike through forest just for the heck of it. With mushrooms in perspective, absolutely yes. Healful, lazy stroll in nature with delicacy as a benefit.
Disco Polo is NOT a guilty pleasure even though some view it that way. It's a music for those family picnics with beer and meat, usually for less ... demanding audience. Imagine redneck-type dance music with shallow lyrics and almost entirely about girls.
You got the worst Ptasie Mleczko possible... Only produed becasue now Wedel (biggest polish confectionaty producer) belongs to Japanese company... and they are wierd so started introducing some stupid flavours etc
Hej Rob!!! I see that We Poles have not explained the grandmother phenomenon to you clearly and their headgear. We call them old women, they are women born before World War II. These are babushka- a symbol of marriage, they protected against cold and wind in autumn and winter, they were decorations ( mine grandma had one too ).Now they are folklore, our hyraxes wear beautiful, colorful roses. Young people in the 1990s wore bandanas😊
5:22 either regular advertising of specialy painted plane during a single commercial event. There's only one Polish Airline, namely: "Lot", but 90% of people flying are using cheak airlines like WizzAir or RyanAir, or just chartered planes by travel agencies... I myself, never flew any of Lot machines (and I try to fly at least once in a year -> especialy during autumn/winter... there's nothing better than a week or two of sunbathing somewhere warmer... such vacations give a strong energy boost for next weeks/months, while waiting for spring ;))
2:23 Acutualy that's how my car would look back in 90's or 2000's. My parents would wake up on Saturday at 4.a.m. get into the car and go mushroom foraging... once they'd get back at noon, car would like just same... whole trunk filled with mushrooms, along with few other baskets/buckets inside the car... Most of mushrooms would be pickled (if you haven't tried pickled mushrooms - you need to add it to check list, next time you'll come to visit poland), fried, dried (dried mushrooms are a perfect addition to any sauce or soup...). Fresh mushrooms could be used to make mushroom soup - especialy one seasonal soup is realy popular and can be found in most restaurants: Chanterelle soup (Zupa Kurkowa, Zupa z Kurek, Chanterelle translate to Polish word: Kurka, which also means "litte chicken"). As these mushrooms naturaly grown from June to October, Summer//early Autumn is probably best time to visit Poland, if you want to taste delicious soup.
Prosze is a word we can use in different situations, what is different is the intonation, the accent you put on in and this is funny. Like the word k.... u...... r..... w..... a that can be put almost put ewerywhere but have different meanings, it depends. And the word "NO" means yes, even if yes in Polish is "Tak", but we often use to place an accent on the the yes using "NO", to mark it, so say "NO!" means "Yes of course" It's a stronger version of "tak" (yes), sometimes even "no, no!" to say "yes, yes, just this, exactly"
3:13 Dad: "Ask ur mother about ur name. She was the one who 1st inserted dat name @the hospital after it was 2late for an abortion." Mum: "Oh, our beloved son...You're surely not only "an accident", but u know... Daddy went to CityHall with ur birth certificate, but he got "sick" on the way, and has mistakenly submitted outdated version.
0:36 Disco Polo is basicaly a name for Disco music sang in Polish and created by Polish artists... It was popular back in 90's (to the point that during 95 election between Wałesa and Kwaśniewski, Kwiaśniewski had a disco polo band write a song/made a clip for him, that was being played in public and private tv stations as part of "vote for me propaganda"). Arround 2000 or maybe a little later, general public music taste shifted from Disco Polo into Pop music and other genres and it's role now, is mainly reduced to weddings, disco's etc. Currently people listening to Disco Polo are often seen as people with bad music taste (young ones) or just old generations (many Elderly citizens likes this music). Back in 2000's most girls would immediately loose interest, if they heard guy they were looking at is listening to Disco Polo... Since 2000's Disco Polo and people listening to it, became an object of meme's...
Yes, disco polo actually is a shitty music genre, it was widely popular in the 90s and, for some reason, its popularity skyrocketed again in the last like 10 years when it seemed it had been gone. And now, like probably everything in Poland, it causes arguing between the people: East and West, rich and poor, right wing and left wing etc. Some people (like me) mock it, some love it and consider to be "their" music. Yes, mushroom foraging is almost like tradition to some people. I've actually never done this and I don't think I'll ever do, but some people do it always when possible. It is a very hard work, but hey - we are Poles, okay? Hard work for little to no payment is in our blood 😂 Ptasie Mleczko means "bird's milk", but also it can be translated as "bird's crap" 😂 This meme with two woman is very accurate, I remember when our old neighbour used to come to my grandma and they talked for fucking hours, it annoyed the crap out of me... The woman here, old and young, are soooooooo talkative, I don't know what they talk about for so many hours 😂 I don't really get all these memes about pierogi. I know, it is one of our dishes (not even Polish btw, it's Chineese, but everyone thinks it's something unique to Poland), but... is it really THAT popular? I don't know 😂😂 I eat them maybe like once for three months... This gherkins aquarium... I wouldn't say it's every Polish grandma's one, but it reminds me of all these memes about hungover and drinking gherkin water when there is nothing to drink left... Yes, here in Warsaw there are sometimes 4-5 Żabkas on one (!) street, they are not that cheap, most of them are small, they don't have anything you wouldn't find in any other shop and... they all have clients! I don't know how, but if you want to be a succesfull businessman in Poland - learn from them, really. John Paul II is also a meme here, but... I won't talk much about this Polish phenomenon, because I'm gonna get angry very, very quickly doing so. Comparing Britain in the 40s and Poland now... yeah, sometimes watching your videos I get proud of being Polish, but... that's a sad reality, seeing how backwards we are... No, it isn't yogurth drink, it's something you get boiling squashed fruits with sugar. And about this heroin... yep, it was pretty common in the 70s among Polish hippies. But now... my generation (born in '97) probably doesn't even know what it was. They get high by different kinds of shit, worse ones. And about all these vodka memes... Well, this stereotype is kinda hurtful in my opinion. It's true when we talk about the past. Then yes, everyone drank, bootlegging was wide-spread, it was probably one of the poorest countries in Europe like 40 years ago, but now we are a normal European country and if we drink... well, like everyone basically 😂😂 I see no difference between young Poles and our peers in the West. So when you see all these mustachioed weirdos with socks and sandals who drink, smoke and abuse their family, it's not the case anymore.
True that kompot is a fruit juice freshly made, but the word was(is?) used as a slang for heroin in the 70´s. It´s alsop true with "proszé", very useful word
You should be better prepared when presenting polish memes, eg. proszę. It is not difficult to check this word up in any online translator. I appreciate your work for showing polish culture and history worldwide though. Regards.
Kompot is juice from boiled fruit. It like a fruit soup, taste is extracted to water. You can make heroine soup using the same technique. Kompot is “heroine soup” upgraded by chemist like in “breaking bad”.
Disco Polo- stupid kind of polish music that i can describe as : simple stupid, repetetive words and jumpy music to dance anyway you want on weddings/ school disco/ any party with alco Mushroom foraging and picking berries from the forest are best free food activities here, not ony it's great for a peace of mind, but whit that you are sure that there is no chemistry in your food. It's addictive relaxing. PLUS! Just as in the US, children earn money by selling lemonade, so in Poland, young people earn money by selling mushrooms and blueberries by the road Oh Yeah, Proszę is this and more xD And if you think about it, KURWA can be used as replacement for every single " ! " that exist
Disco polo used to be very popular in Poland. Then a child shouted "The king is naked!" and disappeared from public life. In the sense of disco polo disappeared, not a child :D Only left for wedding feasts. In the sense of disco polo, not a child. This music is now a symbol of embarrassment. Nobody likes it, but everybody knows it because they used to listen to it. Just like today, colleagues say that the intro of the series "Peacemaker" is cheesy, but the music catches the ear. :D As for the mushrooms... Well - "we only go to Poland for mushrooms!" This is a truth known throughout the universe. And a quote from the movie "Kochaj albo rzuć". The bedding with the dinner plate probably contains a "minced cutlet". There are also many jokes and myths with the "minced cutlet". Some contain meat, others do not, because it is the pulp of bread, groats, (sometimes onions and / or mushrooms), eggs and sometimes meat. :D
1. Disco polo- its genere of music, kind of disco. rather bad, and kinda dividing people. Half thing it is garbage, and half love it. Some people love it, and they are afraid to admit it- so you are right with guilty pleasure also. 2. Mushroom picking is popular in Poland- alot of people do it, there are alot of wild kind of mushrooms u can pick, and they are much ritchier in flavour than shop ones (boczniaks, or pieczarki). Also wild mushroms are good u can sell, or but at shops, and other companies- prices of wild mushrooms depends between 10-30 euro per kg. 3.Orbit pierogis is obvious fake. 4. Proszę meme is kinda true. Proszę is kinda simillar to english cheers- it can have alot of meanings, that depends on situation and how you say it. 5. About John Paul 2 meme- actually there is open air festival in Poland (earlier called Przystanek Woodstock festiwal, now called Poland Rock festival) that gathers 500 000+ people. there were single concerts that have over half milion people on a single concert, not including people being in other zones of festival (i can send u some official videos if u want react on that)- that is probly biggest festival in Europe and its actually free of charge. 6. the thing on a sheet is probly minced meat pork cutlett (not sure if i write it right- its a cutleet made of minced pork meat. breadcrumbs, eggs, and chopped onions- very popular dish in Poland). 7. In Poland its rather rare fof babcia to clean rugs by herself, its rather normal to be made by some younger male- a son, ar a grandson, it is a typical chore before easter etc. and cleaning one medium/large size rug can take like 30-60mins, so nobody loves it. 8. Kompot is typical Polish summer fruit drink (non alcohol, just water, sugar, and alot of fruits), but it was also kinda slang name for heroin that u put in ur veins. 9. This meme with potato and vodka is direct metaphore (not sure if translated it right) to Forest Gump quote. But there is more behind this meme. The guy on in is called typical Janusz, and he is a symbol of typical "bad" Polish man. Actually he was some guy from lower politycs, or police, or other civil service, and he went to some therapy, because he became nationwide meme.
9:00 The last one is Mielony, probably minced pork meat, Disco Polo - noone listen, everyone knows the lyrics of the song Kompot: its "juice" from boiled fruit, because it's not regular "JUICE" and the colour is confusingly similar: "Polish" heroin (also kompot and compote in drug culture slang) is a crude preparation of heroin made from poppy straw. It is an opiate,[1] used recreationally as a psychoactive drug. And Thanks for This video, all time i have fun from your reactions :)
11:00 Kompot is a home made drink made of fruit juice (strawberries, plums, apples, red/black currant - sometimes few of those, sometimes only one) and water... usualy these fruits would be cut into smaller parts, put into water in big pot, and whole things would cook just below boiling temperature.... once cooled down to room temperature kompot would be served to drink... But from all i know, kompot is also a name for extract created in XX century in 70's by chemistry students of Gdańsk Univestity of Technology. Name "kompot" was probably used by inventors to mask their mischivious doings with innocent name. it might also have similiar color to fruit based drink (as depending from used fruits kompot can have color from dark red to light brown)
Mushroom-forging is done by every coutry on the word excepted wester Europeans. Quote from Chinese exchange student in Poland fully dressed in “Louis Vuitton” she wants to do Mushroom-forging couse “they are fucking delicious “
4:20, the proper english sentence the should be on the meme: When neighbour you don't like comes by to chatter/gossip. The image that's used for meme is probably a part of known paiting from XVIII-XIX century, but I personaly don't know either name or painter.
2:00 it's probably refering to the state in which religion is Poland. In Western Europe Catholic church is rather in defensive, polite manner, being complately shifted out of every day politics, often included in state financing (so dependent from politics, who can always shut down the cash flow). In Poland it's active, priets often criticise current social and political events. Polish Churuch is an Autonomous and Indepenet Organisation that's often supported by law, that gives him a better position compared to comercial companies. It's also an active players when it comes to election (especialy that some of older generations have such attitute: what priest says: it must be right). Only country in Europe where I can see Church has similiar or even greater level of influence is Greece - there even the most left-wing parties don't try to criticize Greek Church, it would be a sucide for that party, as Greek Church was the main financial force during Greek War Independence Wars and played a key role in uniting people during the Ottoman's Empire rule over the Balkans. so, yeah, In some sence you could say, priests in Poland "are armed and dangerous" (epsecialy compared to their powerless collegues in countries like France/Spain etc.)
who picks mushrooms in the forest? at least 1 in 5 people in Poland, often entire families with children, etc. you can say it differently, but Proszę , it fits all these English forms. People complain that Polish is complicated...
Disco Polo is a kind of ludic dance music. Like polkas and waltzes on synthesizers and electronic drums. If you imagine dance version of country & western, or Bavarian folk, well - the closest ro redneckism as we can get musically. Too many Poles love it (it's our usual for wedding parties), many hate it.
11:13 Kompot in English is compote (google translate). It is a drink. A form of cheap heroine popular in 80's in Poland was also called kompot (it was made by boiling whole poppy plants).
8:33 acutally been next to one of masses dring Pope's JP2 pilgrimiges to Poland and people gathering there were counted in milions... (which is a huge result if you take into counting that Poland has arround 38 million citizens) everyone wanted to see that man and listen to what he has to say, even if these would be some few words, sometimes difficult to understand due to age of the man, but... from all I know, same things happened in Mexico, Brasil, Philipiness- all countries in the world, where there's a large group of Catholics...
Yea man, every year i try go holidays in september/august, for two weeks, just for mushroom foraging, always to forests near my hometown. How you think, we have that many mushrooms, for tasty pierogi. We don't normal white mushrooms, to pierogi. The joke about gypsy gun is funny, but you need to have a gypsy in neighberhood, who trying steal from you every single day, to understand this type of jokes.
Rob may Iask you one thing? Why tou are doing so many videos about Poland. I like them very much and I'm just courios where your interest come from. Thank you. Good job
Disco Polo is essentially a very low effort Polish disco music. It's good only to one thing. Dancing. Even if you are bad at dancing Disco Polo got you cause it's equally bad so you end up looking good. Some people say that Eurobeat music is a low bar but Disco Polo is at least five bars lower.
With John Paul II it’s not about religion but polish history. In PRL this was somthing really miningful for Polish people that pope was a Pole becose this was giving hope for better tomorrow
Most people do not fish cos they need them for food. They do it as a relaxing kinda mindless thing to pass time in peace (and forget about daily struggles). Same with picking mushrooms. You just go into forest walk and let your mind rest for few hours. A bit like hiking but with some extra bonus. And you need to carry mushrooms you foun somewhat - thats what buckets are useful for. ps: Those mushrooms are way better than supermarket ones.
A bucket is a replacement for a proper basket made of wicker. Mushrooms mustn't be put in a bag because they will become soggy. This is not the car of an average mushroom forager, but of someone who sells mushrooms, usually without a permit.
you get bucket and go to forest for mushrooms, but here you have car of "forest mashrooms". We prefer such instead of this white mashrooms you mentioned (but still use them coocked or raw). In poland we like picking mashrooms in forests. sometimes result is like in this meme.
3:55 - Rob, please, do not get name for Your child "Ptasie Mleczko". Enjoy (for next box of Ptasie Mleczko) :D 7:49 - Migos? No, I prefere bigos (polish popular food).
many poles are going on "mushroom picking" or something like that some people do that for fun 1. you need to know where you can find many nice mushrooms usually it's a forest 2. you need to know when to look for them because there are regular mushroom pickers that can start looking for them on 5am and they won"t leave much 3. prepare yourself always take rain shoes or similar ones so insects won't eat you up put socks on pants or whatever take with yourself a basket or 2 for every person and a little knife 4. enjoy it's about walking the forest, breathing the air, and looking for mushrooms that you later take home and eat or dry them so in winter you can use them to make a soup or bigos or some people even pickle them also if you have a lot then you can share with family or friends but if you've never went on grzybobranie then you are not a pole
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Disco polo is polish genre of music nobody enjoys listening but most enjoy dancing to.
Nobody except 1/3 of the nation... the 1/3 composed of rednecks
Disco polo in poland is the same as country music in American.
You named disco polo as music- it is a big abuse.
@@igi679 Country is music, disco polo is not.
especially when drinking vodka
Mushroom foraging is a way to spend your free time enjoying the forest, be close to the nature - just walk into the woods, breathe and pick some mushrooms. Then you can dry it, pickle it or whatever. Those are wild mushroom, not like the supermarket white mushrooms (champignon, button mushrooms). Much tastier :) And of course when you walk into the forest you have a container for your mushrooms - since the buckets, but I prefer hand made baskets :)
6:06 Proszę actually means all this things but the meaning depends on the intonation of the letters.
Some letters may group in pairs to make one different sound but no lettets are ever silent in polish.
@@Lenaaa662some could argue that in ch the c is effectively silent because the difference in pronuciation of h and ch has been lost over time.
@@maciejzettt ch is considered a single sound pair. Stupid but what can You do 🤔
2:20 I do. As well as most people I know. Also I enjoy foraging but I don't like eating them so I just give them away
The mushroom picture is not that much exaggerated. We LOVE foraging, when autumn comes there are foragers in every forest, especially after rain. Buckets are there because they are often used as containers for mushroom-picking.
Pov: you find out that "ptasie mleczko" means bird's milk
So basically:
Kompot - a fruit drink made of cooked fresh or dried fruit
Heroin - made from so called "papavar milk" or poppy straw - to make it you have to boil the straw and process it.
Therefore Polish Heroin, made of boiled poppy straw is called Kompot but does not contain pure heroin(also contains morphine as well as codein ), the process was developed in the mid 1970s by students of chemistry at Gdańsk University of Technology
The more you know :O
You should consider publishing "The History of Kompot in Poland"😉😉😁
Fruits don't have to be dried. You can make compote using fresh fruits as well.
Dried ones are used rather on winter, especially during Christmas Eve.
@@MonikaMazgola i said "fresh or dried" in my original comment, but thanks for trying to correct me.
Also thank you for more info, the more the better ^^
@@akwanet I am sorry. Didn't notice you use word "fresh". I am sure you didn't need more info but thanks for trying to be sarcastic. The funnier the better.
I like eating raw mushrooms too. BTW. Mushroom hunting is very popular in Poland. It's like a tradition.
YES!
@@RobReacts1 picking mushrooms is relaxing and communing with nature. Not counting ticks and mosquitoes xD
I love Constantine movie 😄 BTW mushroom picking is big deal in Poland. Many people have a secret place in the forest where they know that mushrooms grew in the previous year. Mushrooms are dried or stored in jars for the winter. They are used, for example, in dishes for Christmas Eve.
6:45 that "proszę" thing is real, I am not an eagle from my own language but the same words can have lot of meanings like "proszę" in this meme, but with correct pronouncement, tone of speech, intensity, etc.
From another example, I once saw somewhere a lecture in Polish studies or something like that, where for the equivalent of the word "game" there were a total of 120+ terms in Polish (together nouns, verbs, adjectives and others)
also it's funny and tragic at the same time XD
Kompot isn't joghurt-like, it's juice-like (fruits boiled in water). And yea, kompot also means a drug in drug culture slang. It was opiate "cocktail", very impured, dangerous and cheap. And it technically disappeared after 1991 (open borders, easier way to get more better drugs), so younger ppl didn't hear about that and made a meme because same word for 2 different things sounded funny.
Disco polo is a kind of music here in Poland that nobody likes, nobody listen, but everybody knows and when somewhere is played, everybody dance to it and sing it.
My polish dad likes mushroom faraging and he's able to wake up at 5 AM, drive literally an hour to the forest and spend half of the day at it... But he don't like eat mushroom xD And you need a bucket to get mushroom to the car, if you go back with every single one, it'd take few days.
And "Proszę" don't literally means all of this (only "please"), but could be used in all of this situations.
Near my place there are two Zabkas literally on the opposite sides of the same route xD Seriously, you exit Zabka and the first thing you see is another one.
Not everybody knows and dances 😅
@@Axis-Libris In Poland everyone... To be honest, I don''t like music at all, not only disco polo, I hardly ever listen music, and I know XD
@@hussarya3380 I wrote this because I live in Poland all my life and I don't know nor dance.
Everyone sings and dances because these songs are everywhere so it's hard not to know them. But that doesn't mean people like them. It's more because they're everywhere.
@@MistrzSeller it's not everywhere at all! I don't know where you are using to be.
When you pulled out the marshmallow, I burst out laughing. 🤣 I'm from Poland (no need to add).
In my work we play a game - we have a list with music genres (around 500) we roll random number and we listen to it for at least 30 minutes, no matter how bad it is (All of us are sometime in real pain, trust me, but rules are rules). One time a guy from UK wanted to show us a Polish song he enjoys. It was disco polo. We survived 30 seconds and turned it off. This is how bad that music is. Yes, I am Polish and our team is mostly Polish
Mariusz Pudzianowski, the legendary strongman, starred in the meme about grandma and the carpet.
7:10 Pickles and gherkins are two different things. Pickles are made using vinegar. Gherkins with salt, garlic, charlock, dill and horseradish and that's what Poles make
and dill (koper)
@@DremoraKynmarcher I mentioned it between charlock and horseradish
@@Krokmaniak faktycznie, co ślepemu po oczach 😛
And mustard seeds (gorczyca)
@@donmak1614 I thought charlock was gorczyca
A lot of people in Poland who don't like eating mushrooms actually love mushroom foraging anyways 😂
It's a whole experience, morning walk in a forest, sweet tea and sandwiches in the backpack and a bucket in your hand
6:44 That's actually true.
Gypsy = 'cygan' in polish = cy-gun ( gan and gun sounds similar in polish language. Play on words
Babcia mem, also refers to polish people in uk with a knowledge of few words, and filling sentances with polish words, instead of just speaking 'correct' english - many examples on internet. Was a big mem.
Proszę - pretty much, yeah😮
Mushroom foraging is a big deal in Poland. A lot of families have their own secret places in the woods where they drive to pick up mushrooms. Usually you go for a long walk with a bucket or a basket in your hand and hunt for mushrooms. I live doing that since I was a child. Children are usually pretty good at foraging.
@Rob Reacts it will be a great investment for your video series and immersion if you take a little time like 1-2 hours to go through a lesson of Polish alphabet. It will be even more cool and immersive when you read.
In England there was a great vowels shift... If you learn vowels in Polish, you will also be able to read phonetically correct Italian, Spanish, German, and basically all languages who gave the pronounciation closer to each other.
Secondly you will learn how to read letters that do not exist in English. For example we do mot have X V and Q. They are innemglish words only. On the other hand we have Ć Ś Ń Ó Ź Ż Ę Ą.
Last, but not least, you will know double sign consonants. It will not be confisimgfor you anymore why we have sometimes so many consonants in a row. Actually some sounds are written with 2 letters. That sound like a letter that is a mox of these 2:
Sz, Rz, Cz, Ci, Si, Ni, Dz, Dzi, Dż, Dź,
Mushroom hunting is basically Pokemon GO XP
On the meme with cleaning rugs one can see a famous Polish strongman, who used to be the strongest man in the world. he lives close to Lodz- one of the biggest Polish cities.
Kompot is basically fruits and sugar boiled in a pot to make a nice drink ;) Also its a name of a street drug. Both are said to be addictive but im not 100% sure about the drug
With mushrooms forgings in Poland is a funny thing. There are ppl that do LOVE to go to forest at 4 a.m. look for mushrooms, collect them, fill out not only the car trunk, but every bucket they do have (me included), maka a phot, and send it to all relatives just to make them jealous and at the end, they don't even like mushrooms :D
Disco polo is (unfortunately) a polish music genre.
It usually has primitive, simple music and primitive, simple lyrics about sexuality and/or money.
People will tell you that "everyone says they don't like it but they will dance to it and know words very well".
And that's not true. I'd say the more educated people from more urbanized areas, the less popular disco polo is. At my wedding we had no disco polo and people were dancing like crazy all night - although many will say that disco polo is a necessity at this kind of party.
Personally I just hate this kind of "music" - usually it's just a simple beat and a really tacky lyrics about big boobs or having a lot o money. Sometimes it just got really obscenic, and sometimes just purely idiotic. There are some songs that are unharmful, with a bit more complex music and lyrics, but they are a rarity. Mostly it is a music garbage in my opinion.
But when you're drunk, you have no music taste and you just want to mindlessly pass your time I guess it's the easiest way to do this with disco polo...
"Compote is a French dessert made with cooked fresh fruit. In Poland, people don't discard this delicious water but serve it as a summer drink. Back in 1980, during the communist regime, "kompot" was a slang word for a homemade concoction made with poppy seeds. There was a nationwide ban on planting poppy as a crop, except for a variety named "przemko" with low morphine levels. The Milicja (police during communist times) often arrested farmers and hobbyist gardeners who illegally planted poppy in order to sell to drug addicts."
Whatever you do, for goodness sake, DO NOT, under any circumstances look up examples of disco polo. It's really not worth getting cancer over a bit of curiosity.
"Kompot" is a polish slang term meaning poor-quality, crude, and often polluted version of heroin, aka "polish" heroin.
4:00 I just want to mention that Ptasie Mleczko in Polish slang can mean something you may don't wanna know about. I leave it so you can still enjoy your food. Thank me later.
3:07 Point of buckets if that, they are used as a container when picking up mushrooms. Once they are full, they get emptied into trunk... once trunk is full and all containers are full - it's a sign it's time to go home...😂
Personally i go mushroom foraging quite a lot but im not even eating it most of the time, i give them mine grandmother ,uncle or neightbors. I like to eat only specific ones like: "Panienki" "Bździuch" "Kania" and "Rydz" some of them have different names depends where are u living. I dont imagine back to hause without full boot of mushrooms. When i went to high school i used to go mushroom foraging with class mates.
Disco polo is music that no one likes, but after a few deeper ones, he gladly sings. And surprisingly, he knows her text by heart 🤣
3:00 Mushroom foraging is quite popular pastime in Poland. These buckets are for carrying mushrooms while walking through the forest.
The point of buckets is, that even if we can have a whole truck of mushroom, there's no reason to NOT pick a little bit more if we just notice some more😂.....Poland🤷♂️
In Poland noone declare to listening disco polo but everyone knows melody and text.
Disco-polo is a phenomenon cause it isn't even music ( just few sounds, beat, stupid text and vocalist who can't sing) but DP bands sells milions of their records.
Well... It isn't a big deal to remember the lyrics if they're like "polka dot panties, ho-ho-ho" or similar sh.t ...🤦🏻
Yeah, proszę means all these things :D
Mushroom 🍄 picking is like tradition in Poland Rob, whole families having day out in the forest and using buckets 🪣 so by the end they have full car 🚗 of them. After that you clean them and start drying them, so you can store them for long. And that way you don't have to pay in supermarket, free food from mother nature.
Haha each to their own! 😁
You don't know what you missing, being up at 0300, fresh air, nature waking up around you, plenty of walking, and after the best mushroom soup 🍲 or creamy sos you ever tested. Common Rob, stop being a wuss and grab your bucket 🪣 and pick some mushrooms 🍄 😀
Mushroom foraging IS a thing ;)
Meme "Orbit" gum is a fake, but Polish word "proszę" is really and it's true 😂
"Kompot" is coocked fruit with or without sugar, but in Polish language "Kompot" mean heroin too.
We do collect mushrooms from the woods ALL the time and in massive volumes. And in McDonald's there are pickles. Ogórki kiszone (gerkin -DE) taste different. Pickles - vineger used, ogórki kiszone - only water, salt, spices like koper and chrzan (horse raddish) and fermentation. No vineger.
Yes there is lots of forest in Poland and going in to forest to pick forest mushrooms is a think in Poland - not common mushrooms you bay in UK supermarket (champignon, portobello) , people in Poland harvesting in forest: butter mushroom , boletus , chanterelle , parasol mushroom ...
Kompot - soft drink made by boiling water and mix of fruits ( sugar is optional ) - can be served with those fruits or without them. Kompot ( heroine ) - its slang for Poppy steam brew ( with contain heroine - crude way of extracting it from Poppy plant)
I can't get over Ptasie Mleczko being essentially Polish Marshmellows.
Lol! Marshmellows taste waaaay differently. You can't be Polish if You can't taste the diff. It is the same with typical British fuge and Polish krówka. Distinction is clear.
Besides Wedel makes Ptasie Mleczko from a specific ingridient called "Agar".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agar
Nothing what typical marshmallow is made of.
If an elephant stepped on your ear or you're drunk and you don't care, then you listen to disco polo.
How shitty it is, to be honest, I hate it.
"Proszę" does mean all of it indeed :) Meaning depending mostly on the context not intonation. And those are not your typical gherkins pickled in water with vinegar and spices, those are traditional polish "ogórki kiszone" pickled in water and salt solution with some dill and garlic. To be honest i havent seen those in any other country apart of polish shops ofc.
I wouldn't call that "pickling", they are actually fermented.. They are indeed polish creation.. I love them
@@duner4105 oh well direct translation of word "kisić" or "kiszone" is to pickle or pickled however u are quite right those are not pickled in western understanding of this word, similar but not the same process as producing sauerkraut. Maybe it would be better to call them brined?
Well Cygan means mostly in our language gypsy but also people from Romania that lived in poland from ages and have they own closed community
No!
Romani (aka "Gypsy" or "Cygani") are NOT from Romania. They are from Pakistan.
You are misled because they immigrated from Pakistan not only to Poland but also to Romania.
@@Northerner-NotADoctor thanks haha mt mistake
Both of your predictions about dico polo are correct. Sometimes it is said in our country, everyone listens to it, but no one admits it.
Disco polo - the name comes from ‘pole’ - the field. Literally the entomology of that name means - disco on the field, so disco for villagers, people from the country, for simple people who working hard on the field and in the evening they are looking for the simplest kind of relax
One mistake again: not "pierogis", because "pierogi" is plural form. One "pieróg" and many "pierogi".
More easy to use will be "polish dumplings".
"Proszę" - yeah, that's about right. This is why you hear Polish speakers of English (A1, A2) say "please" when a native would say "you're welcome" or "here you are"... "Ę" is nasal "E" like in French "vin" or "fin"
Disco Polo it's just... DISCO. But Polo because it's make in Poland and.... It is done on our (annoying) way 😂. Well we can truly make a masterpieces of annoying
There is the last line of this meme with English "pardon", "please" etc. vs Polish always "proszę" missing.
It goes "ENGLISH: I slept with your sister. I messed up. I'm sorry. Can we get past this? POLISH: Proszę?".
6:36 It's true. But meaning depends on how you say it. It's very hard to catch for not Pole :) Anyawy it's maybe just half means "proszę". We have much more "side / situational" means of this word...
As with every lnaguage... CONTEXT, mate. _Proszę_ can mean many things in certain contexts. Basically it's "please", but all the other uses that were listed there check out, 100%.
1. Yes, disco polo is hated af but still it's guilty pleasure
2. Shrooms, yeah it is a hobby
3. "Proszę" thing - yeah, it's true!!!
4. "Blowing rugs" - it's still around
5. Kompot is life
Have a great day everyone!
Why 4 buckets, Rob? Most likely the mushroom lover took those buckets for his/her mushroom picking and when they filled fast he or she started filling the trunk (boot) directly. No mushroom lover leaves a mushroom in the forest when they find one. People are greedy, Rob. While back home the harvested mushrooms have to
be transported to the kitchen. Right, Rob? That's the reason and function of the BUCKETS in the picture. Mystery solved! I like your channel, Rob. Sometimes you are unintentionally funny to your Polish viewers. I am a lazy person and would NOT hike through forest just for the heck of it. With mushrooms in perspective, absolutely yes. Healful, lazy stroll in nature with delicacy as a benefit.
Disco Polo is NOT a guilty pleasure even though some view it that way. It's a music for those family picnics with beer and meat, usually for less ... demanding audience.
Imagine redneck-type dance music with shallow lyrics and almost entirely about girls.
You got the worst Ptasie Mleczko possible... Only produed becasue now Wedel (biggest polish confectionaty producer) belongs to Japanese company... and they are wierd so started introducing some stupid flavours etc
Hej Rob!!! I see that We Poles have not explained the grandmother phenomenon to you clearly and their headgear. We call them old women, they are women born before World War II. These are babushka- a symbol of marriage, they protected against cold and wind in autumn and winter, they were decorations ( mine grandma had one too ).Now they are folklore, our hyraxes wear beautiful, colorful roses. Young people in the 1990s wore bandanas😊
5:22 either regular advertising of specialy painted plane during a single commercial event. There's only one Polish Airline, namely: "Lot", but 90% of people flying are using cheak airlines like WizzAir or RyanAir, or just chartered planes by travel agencies... I myself, never flew any of Lot machines (and I try to fly at least once in a year -> especialy during autumn/winter... there's nothing better than a week or two of sunbathing somewhere warmer... such vacations give a strong energy boost for next weeks/months, while waiting for spring ;))
2:23 Acutualy that's how my car would look back in 90's or 2000's. My parents would wake up on Saturday at 4.a.m. get into the car and go mushroom foraging... once they'd get back at noon, car would like just same... whole trunk filled with mushrooms, along with few other baskets/buckets inside the car...
Most of mushrooms would be pickled (if you haven't tried pickled mushrooms - you need to add it to check list, next time you'll come to visit poland), fried, dried (dried mushrooms are a perfect addition to any sauce or soup...). Fresh mushrooms could be used to make mushroom soup - especialy one seasonal soup is realy popular and can be found in most restaurants: Chanterelle soup (Zupa Kurkowa, Zupa z Kurek, Chanterelle translate to Polish word: Kurka, which also means "litte chicken"). As these mushrooms naturaly grown from June to October, Summer//early Autumn is probably best time to visit Poland, if you want to taste delicious soup.
Prosze is a word we can use in different situations, what is different is the intonation, the accent you put on in and this is funny. Like the word k.... u...... r..... w..... a that can be put almost put ewerywhere but have different meanings, it depends. And the word "NO" means yes, even if yes in Polish is "Tak", but we often use to place an accent on the the yes using "NO", to mark it, so say "NO!" means "Yes of course" It's a stronger version of "tak" (yes), sometimes even "no, no!" to say "yes, yes, just this, exactly"
3:13
Dad: "Ask ur mother about ur name. She was the one who 1st inserted dat name @the hospital after it was 2late for an abortion."
Mum: "Oh, our beloved son...You're surely not only "an accident", but u know... Daddy went to CityHall with ur birth certificate, but he got "sick" on the way, and has mistakenly submitted outdated version.
0:36 Disco Polo is basicaly a name for Disco music sang in Polish and created by Polish artists...
It was popular back in 90's (to the point that during 95 election between Wałesa and Kwaśniewski, Kwiaśniewski had a disco polo band write a song/made a clip for him, that was being played in public and private tv stations as part of "vote for me propaganda").
Arround 2000 or maybe a little later, general public music taste shifted from Disco Polo into Pop music and other genres and it's role now, is mainly reduced to weddings, disco's etc. Currently people listening to Disco Polo are often seen as people with bad music taste (young ones) or just old generations (many Elderly citizens likes this music). Back in 2000's most girls would immediately loose interest, if they heard guy they were looking at is listening to Disco Polo...
Since 2000's Disco Polo and people listening to it, became an object of meme's...
Yes, disco polo actually is a shitty music genre, it was widely popular in the 90s and, for some reason, its popularity skyrocketed again in the last like 10 years when it seemed it had been gone. And now, like probably everything in Poland, it causes arguing between the people: East and West, rich and poor, right wing and left wing etc. Some people (like me) mock it, some love it and consider to be "their" music.
Yes, mushroom foraging is almost like tradition to some people. I've actually never done this and I don't think I'll ever do, but some people do it always when possible. It is a very hard work, but hey - we are Poles, okay? Hard work for little to no payment is in our blood 😂
Ptasie Mleczko means "bird's milk", but also it can be translated as "bird's crap" 😂
This meme with two woman is very accurate, I remember when our old neighbour used to come to my grandma and they talked for fucking hours, it annoyed the crap out of me... The woman here, old and young, are soooooooo talkative, I don't know what they talk about for so many hours 😂
I don't really get all these memes about pierogi. I know, it is one of our dishes (not even Polish btw, it's Chineese, but everyone thinks it's something unique to Poland), but... is it really THAT popular? I don't know 😂😂 I eat them maybe like once for three months...
This gherkins aquarium... I wouldn't say it's every Polish grandma's one, but it reminds me of all these memes about hungover and drinking gherkin water when there is nothing to drink left...
Yes, here in Warsaw there are sometimes 4-5 Żabkas on one (!) street, they are not that cheap, most of them are small, they don't have anything you wouldn't find in any other shop and... they all have clients! I don't know how, but if you want to be a succesfull businessman in Poland - learn from them, really.
John Paul II is also a meme here, but... I won't talk much about this Polish phenomenon, because I'm gonna get angry very, very quickly doing so.
Comparing Britain in the 40s and Poland now... yeah, sometimes watching your videos I get proud of being Polish, but... that's a sad reality, seeing how backwards we are...
No, it isn't yogurth drink, it's something you get boiling squashed fruits with sugar. And about this heroin... yep, it was pretty common in the 70s among Polish hippies. But now... my generation (born in '97) probably doesn't even know what it was. They get high by different kinds of shit, worse ones.
And about all these vodka memes... Well, this stereotype is kinda hurtful in my opinion. It's true when we talk about the past. Then yes, everyone drank, bootlegging was wide-spread, it was probably one of the poorest countries in Europe like 40 years ago, but now we are a normal European country and if we drink... well, like everyone basically 😂😂 I see no difference between young Poles and our peers in the West. So when you see all these mustachioed weirdos with socks and sandals who drink, smoke and abuse their family, it's not the case anymore.
True that kompot is a fruit juice freshly made, but the word was(is?) used as a slang for heroin in the 70´s. It´s alsop true with "proszé", very useful word
You should be better prepared when presenting polish memes, eg. proszę. It is not difficult to check this word up in any online translator. I appreciate your work for showing polish culture and history worldwide though. Regards.
Kompot is juice from boiled fruit. It like a fruit soup, taste is extracted to water. You can make heroine soup using the same technique. Kompot is “heroine soup” upgraded by chemist like in “breaking bad”.
Disco Polo- stupid kind of polish music that i can describe as : simple stupid, repetetive words and jumpy music to dance anyway you want on weddings/ school disco/ any party with alco
Mushroom foraging and picking berries from the forest are best free food activities here, not ony it's great for a peace of mind, but whit that you are sure that there is no chemistry in your food. It's addictive relaxing. PLUS! Just as in the US, children earn money by selling lemonade, so in Poland, young people earn money by selling mushrooms and blueberries by the road
Oh Yeah, Proszę is this and more xD And if you think about it, KURWA can be used as replacement for every single " ! " that exist
Disco polo used to be very popular in Poland. Then a child shouted "The king is naked!" and disappeared from public life. In the sense of disco polo disappeared, not a child :D
Only left for wedding feasts. In the sense of disco polo, not a child.
This music is now a symbol of embarrassment. Nobody likes it, but everybody knows it because they used to listen to it. Just like today, colleagues say that the intro of the series "Peacemaker" is cheesy, but the music catches the ear. :D
As for the mushrooms... Well - "we only go to Poland for mushrooms!" This is a truth known throughout the universe. And a quote from the movie "Kochaj albo rzuć".
The bedding with the dinner plate probably contains a "minced cutlet". There are also many jokes and myths with the "minced cutlet". Some contain meat, others do not, because it is the pulp of bread, groats, (sometimes onions and / or mushrooms), eggs and sometimes meat. :D
1. Disco polo- its genere of music, kind of disco. rather bad, and kinda dividing people. Half thing it is garbage, and half love it. Some people love it, and they are afraid to admit it- so you are right with guilty pleasure also.
2. Mushroom picking is popular in Poland- alot of people do it, there are alot of wild kind of mushrooms u can pick, and they are much ritchier in flavour than shop ones (boczniaks, or pieczarki). Also wild mushroms are good u can sell, or but at shops, and other companies- prices of wild mushrooms depends between 10-30 euro per kg.
3.Orbit pierogis is obvious fake.
4. Proszę meme is kinda true. Proszę is kinda simillar to english cheers- it can have alot of meanings, that depends on situation and how you say it.
5. About John Paul 2 meme- actually there is open air festival in Poland (earlier called Przystanek Woodstock festiwal, now called Poland Rock festival) that gathers 500 000+ people. there were single concerts that have over half milion people on a single concert, not including people being in other zones of festival (i can send u some official videos if u want react on that)- that is probly biggest festival in Europe and its actually free of charge.
6. the thing on a sheet is probly minced meat pork cutlett (not sure if i write it right- its a cutleet made of minced pork meat. breadcrumbs, eggs, and chopped onions- very popular dish in Poland).
7. In Poland its rather rare fof babcia to clean rugs by herself, its rather normal to be made by some younger male- a son, ar a grandson, it is a typical chore before easter etc. and cleaning one medium/large size rug can take like 30-60mins, so nobody loves it.
8. Kompot is typical Polish summer fruit drink (non alcohol, just water, sugar, and alot of fruits), but it was also kinda slang name for heroin that u put in ur veins.
9. This meme with potato and vodka is direct metaphore (not sure if translated it right) to Forest Gump quote. But there is more behind this meme. The guy on in is called typical Janusz, and he is a symbol of typical "bad" Polish man. Actually he was some guy from lower politycs, or police, or other civil service, and he went to some therapy, because he became nationwide meme.
9:00 The last one is Mielony, probably minced pork meat,
Disco Polo - noone listen, everyone knows the lyrics of the song
Kompot:
its "juice" from boiled fruit, because it's not regular "JUICE" and the colour is confusingly similar:
"Polish" heroin (also kompot and compote in drug culture slang) is a crude preparation of heroin made from poppy straw. It is an opiate,[1] used recreationally as a psychoactive drug.
And Thanks for This video, all time i have fun from your reactions :)
7:43 maybe a reference to spanish "Amigos?", but replay is" thank you, i prefer bigos", i also don't understand what author had in mind....
The meme with a duster. The guy looks a lot like Mariusz Pudzianowski...
11:00 Kompot is a home made drink made of fruit juice (strawberries, plums, apples, red/black currant - sometimes few of those, sometimes only one) and water... usualy these fruits would be cut into smaller parts, put into water in big pot, and whole things would cook just below boiling temperature.... once cooled down to room temperature kompot would be served to drink...
But from all i know, kompot is also a name for extract created in XX century in 70's by chemistry students of Gdańsk Univestity of Technology. Name "kompot" was probably used by inventors to mask their mischivious doings with innocent name. it might also have similiar color to fruit based drink (as depending from used fruits kompot can have color from dark red to light brown)
Mushroom-forging is done by every coutry on the word excepted wester Europeans. Quote from Chinese exchange student in Poland fully dressed in “Louis Vuitton” she wants to do Mushroom-forging couse “they are fucking delicious “
4:20, the proper english sentence the should be on the meme: When neighbour you don't like comes by to chatter/gossip.
The image that's used for meme is probably a part of known paiting from XVIII-XIX century, but I personaly don't know either name or painter.
2:00 it's probably refering to the state in which religion is Poland. In Western Europe Catholic church is rather in defensive, polite manner, being complately shifted out of every day politics, often included in state financing (so dependent from politics, who can always shut down the cash flow).
In Poland it's active, priets often criticise current social and political events. Polish Churuch is an Autonomous and Indepenet Organisation that's often supported by law, that gives him a better position compared to comercial companies. It's also an active players when it comes to election (especialy that some of older generations have such attitute: what priest says: it must be right). Only country in Europe where I can see Church has similiar or even greater level of influence is Greece - there even the most left-wing parties don't try to criticize Greek Church, it would be a sucide for that party, as Greek Church was the main financial force during Greek War Independence Wars and played a key role in uniting people during the Ottoman's Empire rule over the Balkans.
so, yeah, In some sence you could say, priests in Poland "are armed and dangerous" (epsecialy compared to their powerless collegues in countries like France/Spain etc.)
who picks mushrooms in the forest?
at least 1 in 5 people in Poland, often entire families with children, etc.
you can say it differently, but Proszę , it fits all these English forms. People complain that Polish is complicated...
Disco Polo is a kind of ludic dance music. Like polkas and waltzes on synthesizers and electronic drums. If you imagine dance version of country & western, or Bavarian folk, well - the closest ro redneckism as we can get musically. Too many Poles love it (it's our usual for wedding parties), many hate it.
Polish Major Suchodolski died yesterday in Bombas distict. Lets pray for his soul.
11:13 Kompot in English is compote (google translate). It is a drink. A form of cheap heroine popular in 80's in Poland was also called kompot (it was made by boiling whole poppy plants).
8:33 acutally been next to one of masses dring Pope's JP2 pilgrimiges to Poland and people gathering there were counted in milions... (which is a huge result if you take into counting that Poland has arround 38 million citizens) everyone wanted to see that man and listen to what he has to say, even if these would be some few words, sometimes difficult to understand due to age of the man, but... from all I know, same things happened in Mexico, Brasil, Philipiness- all countries in the world, where there's a large group of Catholics...
Mushroom picking (harvesting?) is like fishing. Long walk, many hours to find bigger, the best, helthier and most rare mushroom :D
you know that the word gherkin actually comes from the Polish word ogórek which means cucumber :D
Yea man, every year i try go holidays in september/august, for two weeks, just for mushroom foraging, always to forests near my hometown. How you think, we have that many mushrooms, for tasty pierogi. We don't normal white mushrooms, to pierogi.
The joke about gypsy gun is funny, but you need to have a gypsy in neighberhood, who trying steal from you every single day, to understand this type of jokes.
Rob may Iask you one thing? Why tou are doing so many videos about Poland. I like them very much and I'm just courios where your interest come from. Thank you. Good job
Disco Polo is essentially a very low effort Polish disco music. It's good only to one thing. Dancing. Even if you are bad at dancing Disco Polo got you cause it's equally bad so you end up looking good. Some people say that Eurobeat music is a low bar but Disco Polo is at least five bars lower.
Disco Polo is both - quirky dodgy music that somehow ends up being everyone guilty pleasure that no one admits (until get drunk).
With John Paul II it’s not about religion but polish history. In PRL this was somthing really miningful for Polish people that pope was a Pole becose this was giving hope for better tomorrow
Most people do not fish cos they need them for food. They do it as a relaxing kinda mindless thing to pass time in peace (and forget about daily struggles). Same with picking mushrooms. You just go into forest walk and let your mind rest for few hours. A bit like hiking but with some extra bonus. And you need to carry mushrooms you foun somewhat - thats what buckets are useful for.
ps: Those mushrooms are way better than supermarket ones.
A bucket is a replacement for a proper basket made of wicker. Mushrooms mustn't be put in a bag because they will become soggy. This is not the car of an average mushroom forager, but of someone who sells mushrooms, usually without a permit.
you get bucket and go to forest for mushrooms, but here you have car of "forest mashrooms". We prefer such instead of this white mashrooms you mentioned (but still use them coocked or raw). In poland we like picking mashrooms in forests. sometimes result is like in this meme.
Scrambled eggs with forest mushrooms. Boletus, butter mushrooms (Suillus luteus) or chanterelles. The best thing in the world.
The carpet guy is Mariusz Pudzianowski. Google who it is and you'll understand the meme :)
I don't like mushrooms personally but mushroom foraging... I love it! It IS a thing in Poland
If you wanna see a lot of ppl wach movies from Poland Woodstock. Best ones ware befor pandemic. There was like 1 milion ppl there;)
3:55 - Rob, please, do not get name for Your child "Ptasie Mleczko". Enjoy (for next box of Ptasie Mleczko) :D
7:49 - Migos? No, I prefere bigos (polish popular food).
3:30 - ptasie mleczko (bird milk), but ptak may mean bird, but its also mean "dick " in slang...🤣
many poles are going on "mushroom picking" or something like that
some people do that for fun
1. you need to know where you can find many nice mushrooms
usually it's a forest
2. you need to know when to look for them because there are regular mushroom pickers that can start looking for them on 5am and they won"t leave much
3. prepare yourself
always take rain shoes or similar ones so insects won't eat you up
put socks on pants or whatever
take with yourself a basket or 2 for every person and a little knife
4. enjoy
it's about walking the forest, breathing the air, and looking for mushrooms that you later take home and eat or dry them so in winter you can use them to make a soup or bigos
or some people even pickle them
also if you have a lot then you can share with family or friends
but if you've never went on grzybobranie then you are not a pole