Saturday, April 28, 2007
The Poles are coming!
The Poles are definitely on the move and changes are popping up all around Reading. First we noticed a lot more cars with Polish plates (after at first struggling to remember whether PL meant Portugal or Poland), like these:
Then there are the dedicated food sections in Asda (we were there for cheap Easter eggs so please don't assume I go there often) where you can buy beetroot-flavoured noodles (yum). Luckily there is a sticker on the back put there by the importing company which explains what you are actually buying (in this case "instant red borsch"):
There was a "tomato soup" which seemed innocuous enough except the ingredients said "6% chicken". I expect that this is either a limitation of the translation services or vegetarian food isn't big in Poland.
And one step up from a food section is a whole dedicated shop! I didn't take time to work out what the shop sells but I guess it will be an "everything you are missing from back home" sort of thing.
Reading isn't a stranger to eastern Europeans as there has been a Ukrainian presence for many years. In the 1980s I used to play D&D at their social centre and it's still going strong. be interesting to see what permanant roots the Poles put down in the Thames valley.
Then there are the dedicated food sections in Asda (we were there for cheap Easter eggs so please don't assume I go there often) where you can buy beetroot-flavoured noodles (yum). Luckily there is a sticker on the back put there by the importing company which explains what you are actually buying (in this case "instant red borsch"):
There was a "tomato soup" which seemed innocuous enough except the ingredients said "6% chicken". I expect that this is either a limitation of the translation services or vegetarian food isn't big in Poland.
And one step up from a food section is a whole dedicated shop! I didn't take time to work out what the shop sells but I guess it will be an "everything you are missing from back home" sort of thing.
Reading isn't a stranger to eastern Europeans as there has been a Ukrainian presence for many years. In the 1980s I used to play D&D at their social centre and it's still going strong. be interesting to see what permanant roots the Poles put down in the Thames valley.
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To clarify 6% chicken on tomato soup package – good Polish tomato soup is based on broth (chicken soup). Most of the typically Polish food is meat-based. Veggies were introduced by queen Bona around 1520ad. Most of the dishes we consider Polish nowadays were developed before that period and even if slightly changed, they are still heavily based on meat and/or bread. Good example would be tatar, which is just raw meat and onions. :-)
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