Foraging is older then that. Forest mushrooms are important part of cousine since +- XVII- XVII c. Peasantry in Poland were poor in XVII - XX c so it is older custom. Nobility also valued mushrooms on the table.
Yes, it is a much older tradition and a big part of our culture, especially in the Slavic countries. For example, the first known phrase written in Slovak language says "I will go pick mushrooms to the forest" (Pôjdem na huby do lesa) and it was written in the 14th century.
ESC Lucia Slovakia - haha, great one with this first saying in Slovak :) never knew it. Interesting that the first written statement in Polish is from a man telling his wife to rest while he will do the work :) so anti-feminist! ;) greetings from Poland
@@ESCLuciaSlovakia The Polish sentence goes more or less like this (perhaps we'll see how similar our Slavic languages are): (phonetically) "Day ut ia pobrusa, a ti poziwai", or (more contemporary spelling): "Daj, ać ja pobruszę, a ty poczywaj", meaning "Let me grind (i.e. turn the mill-stones/quern) while you take rest" (some sources say the last part should be "while you watch", meaning it's a kind of camouflaged rebuke towards the wife, as if she were doing that job not competently enough :-).
@@SlawekM. - the suggestion of "comouflaged rebuke" is total BS of postmodern critical theory or whatever. This statement is clearly about helping and resting and this was always the traditional understanding.
Let's make it clear: using plastic bags as a single item is an incredibly primitive habit; really disgusting. In my town in UK plastic bags are banned so the Polish get it right so it sounds like Americans should get a grip.
Sometimes my father (hungarian) village man from a place with about 20-30 houses in total goes Foraging and he cooks mushroom "stew" as we say it here. 😅 Full of mushrooms and spices and that's all. You can eat with pasta or anything you want. 😅
tbh my father works around 75 hours per week so we can pay off debts my mom works around 45 hours per week they always do their best for me and my younger brother to not get affected by their past mistakes i dont know how it is in us but many polish teenagers that still go to school have a part time job for various reasons i work on weekends so i can make my own money and my parents dont feel obligated to give me that much every month like they used to
@@antarktycik4550you really think many Polish teen have a part time job? When I was in high school, neither me nor my classmate/friends had it. But then I'm from small town, so there's basically nothing to do on weekends (and a few years ago, when I was a student, there were even less places to go on free time). Plus I was spending them at home (and still do, thb) so I guess I didn't need that much of pocket money then.
Mushroom foraging is one of the ways to spend free time with friends and family. The alternative of going with kids to the Zoo. It's fun and not so much about getting food but rather being in nature and being engaged in fun activity.
We have very difrent definiction of "fun" I dare too say ;) But also my family doing that. For mi it was never fun. I not into nature that much I think. But I definitly use reusable bag like always :)
We forage here in the US a lot too, but I think it just depends on exposure, what part of the country you live in and for what. I was born in the US but have Polish roots. I have been drawn to foraging, cooking and most all of the things that you mentioned in your video, since I was young. Unfortunately, I wasn't really taught or raised with any of those cultural experiences, but the more I delve into them, the more I recognize are instinctual to me, which makes me wonder about nurture vs nature in regards to our heritage.
Me, my grandma, and my cousins used to go up into the mountains near my grandmas ranch down in Mexico in order to forage mushrooms. It was about a 4 mile walk each way, but it was fun, and the mushrooms were good!
Foraging is waaaay, waaaaaaay older than communism, electricity and more. We always lived from the forest. Mushrooms, herbs, berries, meat etc. I think it's common thing in Slavic nations. Many our gods ware tied with forest. Now it's recreational foraging or a way for poor people to get some extra money if they live close to forest. Another nice vid. Regards, Trev!
Thank you for saying that. Of course there are some people who make extra money from it, but it's a side hustle. Most of my family and friends are keeping a tradition of mushroom foraging, it's a hobby, personally I don't often eat mushrooms, my dad doesn't like them at all, but in season we spend hours and hours of our time in forests picking up mushrooms.
@@wild__6799 The most important rule of foraging: do not pick up stuff you are not trained to recognize. There are so many poisonous mushrooms that look very similar to edible ones, it's insane. This, btw is a form of mimicry, and far more widespread than only mushrooms.
Im suprised you listed sincerity as something good. Because a lot of polish people think other nations see us as grumpy when asked "how are you?" we answers "not so well" 🤣
Hey man thanks for the video, I am actually American and I live in Poznan Poland, I’ve been here for over five years now and some of the things that you said are true. First off the friendliness was because you are a foreigner and they want to give their best impression, that wears off after a while especially if you talk about the way things are in United States compared to Poland. And the part about the not smiling it’s not because they are more genuine with their feelings it’s because they are genuinely really not that happy. You have to understand that Poland is not that far removed from communism and there still a sense of self-preservation, so that kind of goes with what you said about them stretching the budget. But all in all Polish people do work a lot because they don’t make a lot, and if you live in one of the bigger cities or close to it things could be pretty expensive if you’re local. For example average salary here is only about $6000 a year. And here in Poland people are very much trying to keep up with each other. A lot of people here have a lot of debt and buy most of their expensive items on credit, so they have to work a lot. Also there are a lot of holidays here so they have to get their money when they can. All in all I really love living here, it’s very inexpensive and the quality of the food here is second to none! Probably the only thing that I don’t like about Poland is that they haven’t really figured out how customer service works, it is very difficult to be able to find someone who’s willing to help you especially if you’re not speaking Polish. And these are just not my opinions these are things that I talk to my close Polish friends about, I try to run everything by them so I don’t jump to conclusions and make assumptions that are incorrect. But all these things are improving and I think it’s a wonderful place to live!
Agree with your comments about the hospitality thing. Guest, boyfriend, new to Poland, and American. Who wouldn't be friendly? When people think you have money, or you family has money - they are friendly - the world over.
One thing, that's not often mentioned. We can make alkocolic beverages from everything :) Apple wine, black currant wine, cherry wine. It's very popular hobby.
As You said - Polish people need to be creative. I still remember how my Dad was working at the garage to fix our or neighbour car, motorcycle etc. or how we went to wood to collect mushrooms every autumn season. Or making stuff like Cucumber in jars to keep them for Winter. Like American Pioneers ;)
You should watch "Szczęśliwego Nowego Jorku" ("Happy New York" by Janusz Zaorski), and brilliant scene with Polish immigrants in NY learning a lesson on keep smiling in the US and stop showing emotions. Mushroom foraging for me is more about contact with the forest, which calms me down and heals me.
Thank you. We appreciate all u have said. Unfortunately we don't work that much just to work, the answer is the rent, the credits and bills. Wish you all the best and feel this welcome every time in our country.👍🏼
There are I think many guys in Poland who are into foraging mostly mushrooms and fishing (less hunters then in USA and Canada). Preparing the mushrooms and fish is a pain in the ass sadly.
Polish People re-use plastic bags- "reklamowka" since the begging of plastic modern world and far before that!! We are the Pioneers ....We always had drawer at our parent's house with "reklamowka" "siatka" "torba". It's written in to the Polish DNA .
In amateur picking of wild strawberries (in spring), blueberries, wild raspberries, wild blackberries (in summer) and mushrooms (in autumn), the most important thing is a walk in the forest. Some do it professionally. The last rate I know is up to PLN 10 for one kilogram (about two pounds) of blueberries, PLN 18 for boletus (Boletus edulis), PLN 5 for boletus (Xerocomus badius), PLN 20. for chanterelles (Cantharellus cibarius). In the store, these flavors are at least four more expensive. You can also picking red saffron (Lactarius deliciosus), honey fungus (Armillaria mellea), goose (Tricholoma flavovirens), kite (Macrolepiota procera) and many other mushrooms. All these mushrooms "are waiting" for people in the autumn forest. Each species has a slightly different flavor. The wild fruits are smaller, but more aromatic than their garden brothers. You do not pay to enter the forest, and you do not pay for berries and mushrooms. Almost like a sale, only combined with a walk in the woods. Pleasant, healthy and useful.
Gathering mushrooms is a very popular way of getting additional or extra money particularly in the North-East during summertime.There are places where you sell your picked up mushrooms later.If you want to earn some extra money you go to the forest very early i.e.3 or 4am and return home between 9-11am.This is an old school approach of our grand and great-grandparents.
Paying for bags is present for many years in Poland. As for mushroom foraging. We like our mushrooms, mate, that's it. Mushrooms are part of, or even centerpiece of many dishes. We're like Tolkien's hobbits in that. We love mushrooms.
Yeah, i hate this poker face you talk about, when ive been in UK some guy at work every time when he saw me ask "how are u?", it was about 5-8 times per day, so finally i give up and said "in fact, i fell horrible today! I have a period, headache, feel sad cuz my bf is so far from me and im here alone" he never ask me again how am i. In Poland here we really ask you, we want to know, we wanna talk about it, exchange some emotions, it is nice and hopefull. And about mushrooms, we love walk with family at autumn (fall) to forrest (wood) and collect mushrooms, we made faboulous dinner of it, especially at xmas. About taking guest at house, i always have fresh towels and bedsheets for guest at my house, even one matress more for someone, if there will be more guest than i have beds.
40 hours a week is a standard full time job. Most people in Poland work like this, as other forms of employment (like agencies) are not as popular as in other countries, which is good in my opinion, but it's changing rapidly. When it comes to mushrooms and blueberries people used to (they still do) pick them up and then sell them, but now most of them are just picking them up just to eat them themselves, because they're awesome. Mushrooms, not people:).
I will say that for polish people foraging is more like some kind of opportunity to spend time with family or friends. Most of the time we do this with friends and its like nice gathering... Its nice fun. Besides like someone say before - forrest mushrooms are delicious 😊😋
W Polsce wstęp do lasu jest bezpłatny i korzystają ludzie z tego przywileju, natomiast byłam bardzo zdziwona, że w Anglii jest zakaz zbierania grzybów i innych rzeczy. Szok.
Plastic Bags - in the last decade many European countries introduced a levy on plastic bags, the idea is that the money goes to government to use for environmental clean up, and to reduce single use plastics and make people re-use bags, although in Poland, but also in other European countries, this habit has been around long time. Wild Mushroom Picking - it's been done in Europe for centuries, nothing unusual there, younger generations don't do it as much though. Hardworking - generally, it's usually a trait of nations from colder climate, but also yes it is being mentioned quite often about Poles (and other central European nations) and likely is rooted in climate itself (you had to work harder to survive), history and psyche. Hospitality - I guess it comes from the need to help others in hard times and Poland had a good share of these over the last couple hundred years. Sincerity - this is usually noticed by people form English speaking countries and applies to many other cultures/nations, I guess due to the habit of English culture to put up a front/smile and hide their feelings, so you guys notice that other nations are more real/sincere
wow, that's probably the first time i hear a foreigner saying it's good people in Poland don't smile all the time! usually foreigners say that Polish people are sad, angry, etc.
BTW One of my best friends is American from Colorado I am Polish Irish and what I love about her is the spirit and love for life she is a sporty type and I am a scuba diver we always exchange our stories but she always supports my ambitions or even gives me a good positive comment I do the same for her. We also trade our foods. When I get a great American mustard or hot dogs for breakfast I always send her a pic what I actually had for breakfast she would tell me sth like.. oh I still use your Polish corn maize for my cooking and it tastes just so good. And of course what I like about Americans is that they are interested in talking to you they would show you a pic of their lovely family and tell you whose nickname was the coolest and why or they would show you the most embarrassing pic from high-school and have a craic about it. I think American people like transparency in people, honesty and inner strength in making dreams come true, they admire accomplishments, positivity and cool attitude. If American meets Polish of those qualities and vice versa they can suerly be quite creative and have a great friendship together.
Mushroom picking it is art , you have to know which one is good to eat, i dont know ,but my husband is wery good in it , i live in usa and it is very hard to find mushroom here, they are very delicious .
You go to the hunting. We don't have so many weapons and so many space for hunting. Bluebary or mushroms forgin is our kind of spending time in the forest and this is time for relax. I and my girlfriend every year go to the forest and we forge mushroms. Last year we went to the forest on our motorbikes.
Eng foraging mushroom and blueberries is a something like fun to polish people or time to spend time witch family Polish people like to go at 5 Am to find some mashrooms in forest and do from that soup of mushroom . Sorry for bad english I'm from Polish btw PL Zbieranie grzybów i jagód to dla Polaków zabawa lub czas spędzany z rodziną Polacy lubią chodzić o 5 rano po grzyby w lesie i zrobić z nich zupę grzybową
There was a time when I thought English/Americans greetings were so great, born and raised in Poland I found my nation as um... moaning/whining one. When you ask someone how's it going there is high chance you will hear "a, stara bieda" (same old poverty/old trouble) or "don't even ask" meaning is really bad or even worse than usually. I found it refreshing and nice that people smile and are a bit more optimistic in US. But! Some time had passed and now I'm not sure. Probably when you live somewhere and see this every day you just kinda see through it and start noticing ups and downs of things 🤷♀️ Anyway great to hear that you like it here :)
Have you watched Polish TV? We have something called 'lektor' which is sometimes weird for foreigners. It's like one person 'dubbing' the whole film. I don't like it, when I can I prefer watching movies with subtitles. I've heard it's used in Poland and Lithuania, maybe in some other countries in more eastern part of Europe.
The 5th is the first thing I've noticed and for me it's very visible. US is like a...big corporation. Corporation workers usually have to smile 8/8h and pretend to be at least ok (also in corporations in Poland) and people from US acting like this all the time.
What we Poles could incorporate from Americans is in my opinion the ability to make good self-presentation. To make good public speeches and to talk in front of people in general. If I'm not mistaken, an oral presentation is something taught in school and very common in the US. Our Polish education system lacks that, which results in adult people not being able to present themselves well, shy and incompetent in that regard.
But for fishinng you need persmission, for mushrooming not, so that's why it's so popular, you can't just go fishing or hunting to forest, but you can go mushrooming and in older times when people didn't have cars it was also something what could be done just by walk. Fishing as fun and relax is mostly product of modern time I think.
Back in the 90s when it was expensive to send out text messages (SMS) i used to writeLikeThisInOrderToSafeSpace i can remember my friend from Germany was very surprised about that. We also send each other signals. (As short as possible calls) without picking up 1 Signal, thinking about you 2 Signals I'm home 3 I'm on my way to you
Yes, when we first came to Poland, someone called TPSA the biggest thief in Europe. (The telephone company - landline). I was so in shock by how much it cost just to talk when we could talk nonstop in the USA at that time for about $25/month. (1994)
Foraging is something that we all grew up with. This is a normal part of life. It has nothing to do with being poor or rich. Also, if you like Polish hospitality you should experience a Polish wedding you would be blown away! 😆
Plastic bags used to be free for many years in PL in the past but for a couple years the bags are not free because of EU law (it's just because of decreasing the usage of plastic).
May I ask where did you take the statistics from? About number of working hours in PL and US? I Would be really grateful for this info. Thank you PS. You are doing grate stuff, the only chanel about Poland where someone really really gets our culture :) very in depth view, good job.
As for the workhours through the week - yes, we theoretically work more, but... you didn't take into consideration the fact, that we have 26 days of annual leave guaranteed by labor laws (a bit less, depending on how many years you have worked) and many holidays. You are actually not allowed to give up those days and get them back as extra cash... Of course it doesn't always work as planned, but generally makes a big difference between USA and Poland.
Honestly I hate that you dont get free plastic bags in Poland, it was much more useful when you got them. Now I have these reusable bags in my trunk and usually end up not taking them or forgetting about them, so I have to buy new ones in the store. So frustrating.
One thing you CANNOT do in Poland is refusing to eat a dish served and prepared by BABCIA, CIOCIA,(grandma,aunt) etc. generally when you are visiting somebody. Are you veggie? Doesn't matter. Are you on diet? Doesn't matter. Generaly it is very offensive , because by not eating it you show it is not tasty and you do not respect all the time and a hard work sb has spent into preparing a dish for you. So if you are visiting a girlfriend/boyfriend family guys at least try a little bit of everything.
Bardzo wielu ludzi chodzi na grzyby jest to nie tylko zdrowe i przyjemne ale dostarcza wspaniałe jedzenie 😂 sos grzybowy taki jak mama robiła ,smażone kanie :) Marynowane do gorzałki hehe ....i wiele innych
Hospitality in a Polish home is way different then a restaurant in Poland. Polish homes your guests are most important. Restaurants service is nothing like the U.S.
People in Poland aren't reusing plastig bags becouse shops are charging for them. I remember people doing it way before it was introduced. Its also not exactly to save the planet etc. Its mostly becouse people there dont like wasting stuff that isnt destroyed and can be used again. Many of us are also using them as bags in small trash cans under the sink, even if trash bags are cheap af.
Lol. That's so true. My grandma folds them nicely and organises them by colour. :D Anyway, if it's not broken it is still valuable to keep and use again. ;)
straight up i moved back to Poland not even 2 months ago and one of my favourite past times is just going into the forest (getting high) and just foraging, especially for deer antlers but you also have a bunch of history inside those forests, like abandoned homes from who knows when, trenches from the war and just a buncha stuff like that, it's amazing
@@adrian29811 on Wikimapia you can sometimes find info about historical landmarks found in such places. And there are all sorts of maps and aerial photos in Geoportal :-) Good luck!
@@januszstrzelecki4440 thanks bro ive Been using a metal detector out there and wikimapia seems like the Perfect tool to help me find more treasure I appreciate it
@@adrian29811 Remember that it's not exactly legal to do that here in Poland.. now having said that you should hook up with these guys facebook.com/SEHSzaniec/
@@adrian29811 but you know that to use the metal detector in Poland you have to have allowance of both "konserwator zabytków" (something like an office responsible for historical buildings) and the owner of the place where you are serching? Also when you find something that has a historical, artistic or scientific value than you're not the owner of this thing but Poland is and you are obligated to give it to "the nearest administration office". Otherwise you will have to explain in court why did you steal it. :P How can you tell if something has this kind of values? I have no idea.
Who doesn't reuse bags??? What do you do with them after you get a new one? I'm confused...every person I have ever met - Polish, English, anyone European does this
(For Walmart bags). I'd say the most common use is using them for the bathroom trashcan liner. Other than that I use them to put my boots in if I don't want to get mud on stuff and I'm transporting them. The issue is, they aren't like your bags that you get at H&M which are of a nice quality, Instead they're extremely cheap and will rip easily.
@@jagodam5837 i must say that i mostly use them to collect plastic waste and for cats litter, but to be more eco i don't buy them i go to the shop with large bacpack and cloth bag
@@diooverheaven6561 Yes I totally get you - most of the time I use the big reusable bags meant for food shopping or a tote bag whenever I go somewhere, but every now and then a plastic one happens to turn up at the house so I have to go out of my way to get the most use out of those cheaper, thinner ones
Yeah I use them in the trash cans, for kitchen scraps that I dont want in the big grabage, for wet cloths after swimming, and if im taking something to someone where I want to leave it.
I wonder how much of your subscribers are actually outisde of Poland. I feel like we, Poles, are watching you just because of our curiosity about what outsiders, so called "zagraniczniaki", think about us.
Much of it has to do with our Polish immigrant grandparents refusing to speak to us in Polish. I had to wait for them to get vodka drunk, and then intentionally mispronouncing Polish words to get them to speak to us in Polish. I still feel chills from the stare I got mispronouncing "smacznego."
I remember when I was little girl, we have english lesson, techer try to tell us about this "Hi, have are you" things. Childrens used to tell that "I understend your question but I don't know enought english to give you the answer" and our techer said that we should say "I fine, thank you". It dosen't make any sense to us. And I remember that she said "I don't need to have a sense they just do that" ;)
I hate this question and all the small talk, especially at work. I always feel that my "I'm fine" answer is fake :P and I am usually irritated by people starting the conversation like this- just get to the point already, I just wanna know what the hell you want from me, not lying to you that I'm fine! :D
i grew up in australia and i still hate this question - am overseas, met an aussie, and they said "how are you" and my brain shut down. they laughed at that, "how can you be an english teacher when you don't know the most obvious answer!?" ..... because it's a stoopid question and i hate it :T hmph. so normally, I go with "alive" - because it's true. however i actually feel, i am in fact alive. if they don't care much, they'll think i'm a weirdo - well, they'll realize that sooner or later anyway so no problem. if they care about me a bit more, they then have freedom to check if i'm actually okay.
Our "sincerenity" is usually mentioned as a flaw. You know, when you ask anyone from outside Poland how they feel, they'll respond with something like "I'm fine, and you?", and if you ask a Pole how they feel, they'll respond with "It's horrible! My aunt's ill, my dog just died and my boss is driving me crazy! And oh, I forgot to mention how little money I currently have! It seems my children will have to learn how to live without food next month! And my oldest one has so much trouble in school, this bitch-like teacher is messaging me almost every day about him! I have feeling she's sleeping with my dumbass husband... Oh yeah, have I told you, we're getting divorced? You better prepare a tomb for me, I don't think I'm gonna come out of this mess alive!"
A plastic bag was designed to be used multiple times. That's the way they are more ekologic, the same as an accumulator is more ekologic when used multiple times.
do you know the differences between mushroom and "pieczarka"? I think it is the same in the USA :) walking in the woods with the family and picking mushrooms is very pleasant .. it's not poor
Mushrooms in Polish cuisine are a tradition of several hundred years. Recipes for dishes with mushrooms can be found in medieval writings. So it has nothing to do with communism :)
HARD WORKING: Eight hours a day are full time working hours so 40 hours a week is a typical working time. FORAGING: Forest mushrooms are delicious. I have eaten white truffle once and it was not half as good as, for example, parasol mushroom cutlet. And self foraging makes it tastes even better! SINCERITY: Oh boy, you really start to sound Polish. Your Slav genes must have been activated through contact with foreign culture! It's a bit funny to watch your awakening but nice at the same time. Please just don't start to complain all the time :D
Sincerity is very important to me, and I always loved it in my country. Year ago I moved to UK, because I fell in love with a British and moved here to be with him, and sometimes I really struggle, because here (similar to US) also everybody is nice. And I can never say, what they really think about me. I had a situation, when girlfriend of my boyfriend's cousine was really nice to me, and I thought we really got along, and then after they left our place, I completely lost contact with her. And then I got the information from wife of my boyfriend's brother, who have a lot of contact with her, that for some reason she really doesn't like me. And I find it really confusing abroad, because I have no idea, who I can trust, with who I can make friends, and who I should avoid, because this person doesn't like me. So although I understand it is me, who moved to other country, so obviously I can't expect people to behave like they are from Poland, but I think it would make everything easier if only people would be more sincere with each other.
Wielu Polaków po wizycie w USA lub UK jest zachwyconych takim zachowaniem i narzekają na Polaków. Na krótką metę to może być miłe wrażenie, kiedy ale każdy się do ciebie uśmiecha, ale na dłuższą metę rzeczywiście trudno budować trwalsze relacje, kiedy wszyscy noszą tę samą maskę.
@@jula5417 Dokładnie. Bylam i w stanach i w anglii, troche widziałam na wlasne oczy takich zachowan a jeszcze wiecej sie o nich nasłuchałam od róznych osób. Niby mili a potem sie okazuje co tak naprawde mysla. Szczegolnie anglicy tacy sa. W pracy usmiech do kolegi a za chwile leci na skarge do przelozonego;p
W Stanach ludzie udają szczęśliwych, a my często udajemy nieszczęśliwych. Szczerość jest najważniejsza, jak nauczysz się ją udawać, reszta jest prosta.
HARD WORKING: 40 hrs per week is standard full time job time, in some cases ppl take "overhours" to get paid more in scale of month (we are mostly paid monthly not weekly) FORAGING: i asked my father about it and he replied "nie, to tradycja, zawsze się zbierało grzyby" [no, its a tradition, always mushrooms were foraged], i think its very fun activity for most polish ppl, it might be even more about walking in forest than foraging PA PA: cześć [best word for welcoming someone or saying goodbye, but sometimes shouldnt be used, like for example towards uknown or elder people]
It is part of point 5. We are sincere and honest in telling what we feel about everything. If we have some problems we just spill it out and complain a lot. We do not suppress our pain and problems, so they do not toxicate us from within, at least not as much as if we keep them inside. And it is always a chance that someone who heard our complaints has some solution to our problem or at least a legit advice.
Mushroom foraging is not really about food supply as they are not really nutritious and can't work as staple food. They just add to the flavor and variety, sort of like non-exotic spices from before global food market existed. Old customs, traditional cuisine
And it is so relaxing to go out there in the wild and pick stuff that mother nature serves to us. Me, myself dont like the mushrooms but I still enjoy picking.
@@uceee1 Yes, most of people are doing it for relaxing, some people are fishing and some people are mushrooming, I don't understand what is weird about that. Honestly, fishing is weirdest for me, many of people are fishing as sport and not for food and I think it's stupid, they should eat that fishes or let them be.
Ooo mylisz sie bardzo, grzyby maja bardzo duzo wartosci odzywczych, glownie mineralow (wszak rosna na lesnym podszyciu) ale i witamin jak rowniez maja duzo bialka dlatego sa tak popularnym zamiennikiem miesa. To mit powielany od lat, ze nic w sobie nie maja wiec nie ma sensu ich jesc...
The interesting thing about Polish hospitality is that in Poland guests arę very important. When they come we provide him as Good food as we can and we treat someone as Good as we can. This is our culture. You can find reference to this in Polish book written by Aleksander Fredro called 'revenge' - you are my enemy but in this moment you are my guest and as long as you are my guest i won't do anything to you.
Just try polish mushrooms in cream, bigos with mushrooms, forest berries in dessert or cake, pierogi - dumplings with mushrooms or blueberries... Not communism but Polish tradition, a nice time in nature and it is out of passion for unique and good taste. Greetings from Poland
Lukasz Anonim This culture is a blessing and a curse. Curse for me bc I absolutely despise mushrooms in all shape and form and our cuisine tries to implement mushrooms in every single dish. So each time in restaurant or in family meeting I have to ask for a mushroom free dish.
When you said about sincerity.. My bf is from asian country and at the beginning I told him that being honest with emotions is really important to me, even if it means "being mean". Well.. at first it seemed to be very unusal for him as well, now I think he kinda used to that, but sometimes he's still shocked about the thing how much honest I can be 😅
Mnie to zawsze nurtuje jak w innych krajach ludzie mogą żyć ze sobą i słodzić sobie w twarz a za plecami być totalnie obojętnymi albo wrogimi. Nie mam nawet pojęcia jak to działa....
History of polish cooking is cusine from forest. In history we were living so close to forest and we use more than now some forest rich goodies. Also in forest was living the old lady who help people with herbs from forest for the people who were living in village.
Picking mushrooms is polish National Sport like a football in Brazil :) Nowadays more like a hobby, or hang out with friends&family doing something useful, over all we love mushrooms - pickled, fried, dried mushrooms to add them into many dishes such as Bigos ( jumble cabbage ) and many many more :)
About foreging, I think it's about homemade food. Many Poles likes to make their own jams, alcohol, kiełbasa and many more just to show off. I might be wrong but I love to make jams (I have a large garden) and share them with my friends, talking about adventures in forest, how many mushrooms I've found and how big they were and they'll envy me because they live somewhere in a big city in a flat and can't do the same ^^ I love that I can make something delicious by myself and I know it's best quality. And this mystic knowladge of which mushrooms are good to eat and which can make you ill is satisfactory too.
It's not about showing off. If you make your own shit, you know what you eat. There is no chemical crap in it unless you put it there yourself, and generally it's much more delicious. Find someone who's making his own sausages or vegetables in a traditional way and you'll notice the difference between real food and that crap we are being fed by the industry.
@@beckypetersen2680 lolz sure, you can stretch it like this but it will be you that envy others. Pole will take out what they have the best and they will serve it to their guests, talk about process, how it was made and with what ingridients. It is called "being proud of hard work". Its not only about making someone envy.
Well, we work this much bc we are poor and everything is rather expensive for us 🙄 About those mushrooms... I feel offended 😆 it wasn't like this! We didn't eat mushrooms due the communism, because we had no food 😆 it's much older traditon.
Maybe do it the other way now ? You can talk about some American habits that are not really known outside of the US but popular there. Idk I just like hearing out your opinions on our country and comparing it to yours
@@ZanHellish It is true. The US is about the size of the whole continent of Europe -so how does one compare a whole country to the equivalent of a state? We could choose say, NY to Poland.
40 hours a week is pretty standard full time job here, and it's established by "work code / law of work" that full time = around 160h/month. Many people work more than that tho as overtime or just they have second part time job. There are few reason why people do that, but most common is that there are many low paid jobs so they have to get more hours just to meet their ends, or they have mortgage on their house that they want to pay as quickly as possible. But speaking of work we have to speak about prices as well, and those are getting closer and closer to euro zone while payment is still about 4 times lower. For example cars and almost all electronics is just 1:1 ratio from euro, and while in for example Germany average net salary is ~2.5k euro which is about 10k zloty, in Poland average net is about 3.5k zloty which is 780 euro. So basically we earn 3 times less than in western Europe while still having similar expenses.
yes - about the expenses and costs. I see that international companies pay 1/3 of the salaries to people here than what they would pay for another country farther west. And the products aren't cheaper to buy (Thinking about companies like the juice companies, Coca Cola, other international companies. When I first came to Poland I assumed that things like Levi jeans would be cheaper here because wages were so much less. However, it was OPPOSITE. Levi 501 cost more than double here than what I could walk into a Levi store in the USA and find (back in 1994). I was so surprised. Then I saw that something like Orange Juice cost about what it cost in the USA and people made a pittance. Electric bills - higher than in the states and employees make so much less. Where is the money going???????????
Foraging is fun. I went once with my colleagues from work. We pick up like 8 mushrooms only but we spent time together in the forest. It is great. It is true it is a very, very long tradition. Over 20 years ago I visited my friend in the UK. She took me to the forest for picking up mushrooms. It was a course with a man who explained which one is safe and which one is deadly. And afterwards I saw people throwing all of them away. Even those edible. Well I thought when you are used to pick up mushrooms from the supermarket you will not appreciate the staff nature gives you☺
As a Polish guy, l enjoy forging mushrooms when I'm in the woods because of a few reasons. First, I normally live in a big city and don't have the opportunity to eat fresh, wild food. Second, forging mushrooms is a really challenging task because they're not that easy to find, so it feels like a mission and once you find them it's like a reward. And third, when I eat something I've just freshly picked it feels a thousand times more healthy than anything from a store :)
Ah yes, the hospitality. The greates offense my parents commit when we go to visit my grandma is not calling when we are getting closer to her town, and we always hear "why didn't you call, I haven't prepared the dinner yet!"
About last one: I remember when I was learning English language, I could not fathom the "How are you doing?". If you're asking, why don't you want to know...? I was really confused about that one.
And One thing you didn't mention - slippers and taking off shoes. That is something that Poland and Japan has in common :D Foraging goes back to pre-kingdom times. Slavic people were always close to nature and it is not about gathering food, but also spending time with people and relaxing. I know people who finalize business contracts during foraging or fishing. It is also a tradition of making preserves after harvesting season - meat, mushrooms, vegetables, fruits. During food shortages people were acquiring quality food from countryside, from farmers and breeders. Countryside always has food to offer.
Foraging is older then that. Forest mushrooms are important part of cousine since +- XVII- XVII c. Peasantry in Poland were poor in XVII - XX c so it is older custom. Nobility also valued mushrooms on the table.
Yes, it is a much older tradition and a big part of our culture, especially in the Slavic countries. For example, the first known phrase written in Slovak language says "I will go pick mushrooms to the forest" (Pôjdem na huby do lesa) and it was written in the 14th century.
ESC Lucia Slovakia - haha, great one with this first saying in Slovak :) never knew it. Interesting that the first written statement in Polish is from a man telling his wife to rest while he will do the work :) so anti-feminist! ;)
greetings from Poland
@@kojak8403 Haha, that's cool. Greetings!
@@ESCLuciaSlovakia The Polish sentence goes more or less like this (perhaps we'll see how similar our Slavic languages are): (phonetically) "Day ut ia pobrusa, a ti poziwai", or (more contemporary spelling): "Daj, ać ja pobruszę, a ty poczywaj", meaning "Let me grind (i.e. turn the mill-stones/quern) while you take rest" (some sources say the last part should be "while you watch", meaning it's a kind of camouflaged rebuke towards the wife, as if she were doing that job not competently enough :-).
@@SlawekM. - the suggestion of "comouflaged rebuke" is total BS of postmodern critical theory or whatever. This statement is clearly about helping and resting and this was always the traditional understanding.
In every polish home and kitchen you will find the drower of Siatkas or just Siatka full of other Siatkas.
In my region we say zrywka if it's a thin plastic bag
Let's make it clear: using plastic bags as a single item is an incredibly primitive habit; really disgusting. In my town in UK plastic bags are banned so the Polish get it right so it sounds like Americans should get a grip.
So true
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Indeed 😊
Foraging mushrooms and blueberries is not from communist times. It is much older and used to be an entertainment as today.
find me one american that knows anything from history more than 100 years ago...
@@RemcoStoutjesdijk Timothy Snyder :D We should not be so harsh. ;)
We should not be harsh but please find xD
Yep. I like walking all day in the forest, mostly for fun of foraging. Some mushrooms are just a bonus.
Sometimes my father (hungarian) village man from a place with about 20-30 houses in total goes Foraging and he cooks mushroom "stew" as we say it here. 😅 Full of mushrooms and spices and that's all. You can eat with pasta or anything you want. 😅
Too many people in Poland work more than 40h a week just to make the ends meet. Sad, but true.
It depends on the type of work you're doing. College educated person is more likely to get a standard 40hrs/week job offer in office.
tbh my father works around 75 hours per week so we can pay off debts
my mom works around 45 hours per week
they always do their best for me and my younger brother to not get affected by their past mistakes
i dont know how it is in us but many polish teenagers that still go to school have a part time job for various reasons
i work on weekends so i can make my own money and my parents dont feel obligated to give me that much every month like they used to
@@antarktycik4550you really think many Polish teen have a part time job? When I was in high school, neither me nor my classmate/friends had it. But then I'm from small town, so there's basically nothing to do on weekends (and a few years ago, when I was a student, there were even less places to go on free time). Plus I was spending them at home (and still do, thb) so I guess I didn't need that much of pocket money then.
@@kollina it may be just a coincidence, but many of my friends and classmates have a job. so im just saying what i see on daily basics
@@antarktycik4550 I understand, so I guess it must be a coincidence. What we need is a research 🤣
Mushroom foraging is one of the ways to spend free time with friends and family. The alternative of going with kids to the Zoo. It's fun and not so much about getting food but rather being in nature and being engaged in fun activity.
We have very difrent definiction of "fun" I dare too say ;) But also my family doing that. For mi it was never fun. I not into nature that much I think. But I definitly use reusable bag like always :)
Wirka1991hi Many people find it fun. Not everything is about you 🙂
@@Asus_ek me not mi, "I'm not" or "I am not", not " I not"
@@monikazalewska6549 It is not?! Good to known :"D
@@wiktoriawolny Literówka xD
People forage mushrooms becouse forrest mushrooms are delicious!
And blueberry as well yummy.
Because they’re free. You pay 0 PLN😜
We forage here in the US a lot too, but I think it just depends on exposure, what part of the country you live in and for what. I was born in the US but have Polish roots. I have been drawn to foraging, cooking and most all of the things that you mentioned in your video, since I was young. Unfortunately, I wasn't really taught or raised with any of those cultural experiences, but the more I delve into them, the more I recognize are instinctual to me, which makes me wonder about nurture vs nature in regards to our heritage.
Me, my grandma, and my cousins used to go up into the mountains near my grandmas ranch down in Mexico in order to forage mushrooms. It was about a 4 mile walk each way, but it was fun, and the mushrooms were good!
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Foraging is waaaay, waaaaaaay older than communism, electricity and more. We always lived from the forest. Mushrooms, herbs, berries, meat etc. I think it's common thing in Slavic nations. Many our gods ware tied with forest. Now it's recreational foraging or a way for poor people to get some extra money if they live close to forest.
Another nice vid. Regards, Trev!
Mushroom and berry picking is very popular in Scandinavia too! Spending time in the forest is good for your health.
But last few days "Fakty" i "Wiadomosci" were about guy who sell mushrooms to some peoples and they are dead...
@@danielsantesson1404 That's what I wanted to say. Whole Europe once was forest so Teutons, Celts and Slavs made a living from the forest in the past.
Thank you for saying that. Of course there are some people who make extra money from it, but it's a side hustle. Most of my family and friends are keeping a tradition of mushroom foraging, it's a hobby, personally I don't often eat mushrooms, my dad doesn't like them at all, but in season we spend hours and hours of our time in forests picking up mushrooms.
@@wild__6799 The most important rule of foraging: do not pick up stuff you are not trained to recognize. There are so many poisonous mushrooms that look very similar to edible ones, it's insane. This, btw is a form of mimicry, and far more widespread than only mushrooms.
Im suprised you listed sincerity as something good. Because a lot of polish people think other nations see us as grumpy when asked "how are you?" we answers "not so well" 🤣
Hey man thanks for the video, I am actually American and I live in Poznan Poland, I’ve been here for over five years now and some of the things that you said are true. First off the friendliness was because you are a foreigner and they want to give their best impression, that wears off after a while especially if you talk about the way things are in United States compared to Poland. And the part about the not smiling it’s not because they are more genuine with their feelings it’s because they are genuinely really not that happy. You have to understand that Poland is not that far removed from communism and there still a sense of self-preservation, so that kind of goes with what you said about them stretching the budget. But all in all Polish people do work a lot because they don’t make a lot, and if you live in one of the bigger cities or close to it things could be pretty expensive if you’re local. For example average salary here is only about $6000 a year. And here in Poland people are very much trying to keep up with each other. A lot of people here have a lot of debt and buy most of their expensive items on credit, so they have to work a lot. Also there are a lot of holidays here so they have to get their money when they can. All in all I really love living here, it’s very inexpensive and the quality of the food here is second to none! Probably the only thing that I don’t like about Poland is that they haven’t really figured out how customer service works, it is very difficult to be able to find someone who’s willing to help you especially if you’re not speaking Polish. And these are just not my opinions these are things that I talk to my close Polish friends about, I try to run everything by them so I don’t jump to conclusions and make assumptions that are incorrect. But all these things are improving and I think it’s a wonderful place to live!
Agree with your comments about the hospitality thing. Guest, boyfriend, new to Poland, and American. Who wouldn't be friendly? When people think you have money, or you family has money - they are friendly - the world over.
One thing, that's not often mentioned. We can make alkocolic beverages from everything :) Apple wine, black currant wine, cherry wine. It's very popular hobby.
As You said - Polish people need to be creative. I still remember how my Dad was working at the garage to fix our or neighbour car, motorcycle etc. or how we went to wood to collect mushrooms every autumn season. Or making stuff like Cucumber in jars to keep them for Winter. Like American Pioneers ;)
Love this video.. promotional, honest and informative 🇺🇸 God Bless America !
@thr eG of course Poland too 🇵🇱❤️
You should watch "Szczęśliwego Nowego Jorku" ("Happy New York" by Janusz Zaorski), and brilliant scene with Polish immigrants in NY learning a lesson on keep smiling in the US and stop showing emotions. Mushroom foraging for me is more about contact with the forest, which calms me down and heals me.
Thank you. We appreciate all u have said. Unfortunately we don't work that much just to work, the answer is the rent, the credits and bills. Wish you all the best and feel this welcome every time in our country.👍🏼
There are I think many guys in Poland who are into foraging mostly mushrooms and fishing (less hunters then in USA and Canada). Preparing the mushrooms and fish is a pain in the ass sadly.
Preparing mushrooms is far easier than preparing fish xd
No tak zgadza się choć wolę bawić się z rybam.i
Polish People re-use plastic bags- "reklamowka" since the begging of plastic modern world and far before that!! We are the Pioneers ....We always had drawer at our parent's house with "reklamowka" "siatka" "torba". It's written in to the Polish DNA .
In amateur picking of wild strawberries (in spring), blueberries, wild raspberries, wild blackberries (in summer) and mushrooms (in autumn), the most important thing is a walk in the forest. Some do it professionally. The last rate I know is up to PLN 10 for one kilogram (about two pounds) of blueberries, PLN 18 for boletus (Boletus edulis), PLN 5 for boletus (Xerocomus badius), PLN 20. for chanterelles (Cantharellus cibarius). In the store, these flavors are at least four more expensive. You can also picking red saffron (Lactarius deliciosus), honey fungus (Armillaria mellea), goose (Tricholoma flavovirens), kite (Macrolepiota procera) and many other mushrooms. All these mushrooms "are waiting" for people in the autumn forest. Each species has a slightly different flavor. The wild fruits are smaller, but more aromatic than their garden brothers. You do not pay to enter the forest, and you do not pay for berries and mushrooms. Almost like a sale, only combined with a walk in the woods. Pleasant, healthy and useful.
Gathering mushrooms is a very popular way of getting additional or extra money particularly in the North-East during summertime.There are places where you sell your picked up mushrooms later.If you want to earn some extra money you go to the forest very early i.e.3 or 4am and return home between 9-11am.This is an old school approach of our grand and great-grandparents.
Paying for bags is present for many years in Poland.
As for mushroom foraging. We like our mushrooms, mate, that's it. Mushrooms are part of, or even centerpiece of many dishes. We're like Tolkien's hobbits in that. We love mushrooms.
I like how everyone whos watching it is from Poland xddd
Poland were eko (siatkas xD) before it was trendy.
Yeah, i hate this poker face you talk about, when ive been in UK some guy at work every time when he saw me ask "how are u?", it was about 5-8 times per day, so finally i give up and said "in fact, i fell horrible today! I have a period, headache, feel sad cuz my bf is so far from me and im here alone" he never ask me again how am i. In Poland here we really ask you, we want to know, we wanna talk about it, exchange some emotions, it is nice and hopefull. And about mushrooms, we love walk with family at autumn (fall) to forrest (wood) and collect mushrooms, we made faboulous dinner of it, especially at xmas. About taking guest at house, i always have fresh towels and bedsheets for guest at my house, even one matress more for someone, if there will be more guest than i have beds.
40 hours a week is a standard full time job. Most people in Poland work like this, as other forms of employment (like agencies) are not as popular as in other countries, which is good in my opinion, but it's changing rapidly. When it comes to mushrooms and blueberries people used to (they still do) pick them up and then sell them, but now most of them are just picking them up just to eat them themselves, because they're awesome. Mushrooms, not people:).
I will say that for polish people foraging is more like some kind of opportunity to spend time with family or friends. Most of the time we do this with friends and its like nice gathering... Its nice fun. Besides like someone say before - forrest mushrooms are delicious 😊😋
W Polsce wstęp do lasu jest bezpłatny i korzystają ludzie z tego przywileju, natomiast byłam bardzo zdziwona, że w Anglii jest zakaz zbierania grzybów i innych rzeczy. Szok.
We just like mushrooms and most can’t be farmed . Forest is the only place you can get them . Also it’s fun to pick them .
Plastic Bags - in the last decade many European countries introduced a levy on plastic bags, the idea is that the money goes to government to use for environmental clean up, and to reduce single use plastics and make people re-use bags, although in Poland, but also in other European countries, this habit has been around long time. Wild Mushroom Picking - it's been done in Europe for centuries, nothing unusual there, younger generations don't do it as much though. Hardworking - generally, it's usually a trait of nations from colder climate, but also yes it is being mentioned quite often about Poles (and other central European nations) and likely is rooted in climate itself (you had to work harder to survive), history and psyche. Hospitality - I guess it comes from the need to help others in hard times and Poland had a good share of these over the last couple hundred years. Sincerity - this is usually noticed by people form English speaking countries and applies to many other cultures/nations, I guess due to the habit of English culture to put up a front/smile and hide their feelings, so you guys notice that other nations are more real/sincere
wow, that's probably the first time i hear a foreigner saying it's good people in Poland don't smile all the time! usually foreigners say that Polish people are sad, angry, etc.
BTW One of my best friends is American from Colorado I am Polish Irish and what I love about her is the spirit and love for life she is a sporty type and I am a scuba diver we always exchange our stories but she always supports my ambitions or even gives me a good positive comment I do the same for her. We also trade our foods. When I get a great American mustard or hot dogs for breakfast I always send her a pic what I actually had for breakfast she would tell me sth like.. oh I still use your Polish corn maize for my cooking and it tastes just so good. And of course what I like about Americans is that they are interested in talking to you they would show you a pic of their lovely family and tell you whose nickname was the coolest and why or they would show you the most embarrassing pic from high-school and have a craic about it. I think American people like transparency in people, honesty and inner strength in making dreams come true, they admire accomplishments, positivity and cool attitude. If American meets Polish of those qualities and vice versa they can suerly be quite creative and have a great friendship together.
Mushroom picking it is art , you have to know which one is good to eat, i dont know ,but my husband is wery good in it , i live in usa and it is very hard to find mushroom here, they are very delicious .
Thank you for being so honest. I like to buy you a drink! In US and Poland.
Berry-foraging? Must be something very nice for sure :3
You go to the hunting. We don't have so many weapons and so many space for hunting. Bluebary or mushroms forgin is our kind of spending time in the forest and this is time for relax.
I and my girlfriend every year go to the forest and we forge mushroms. Last year we went to the forest on our motorbikes.
They got rid of free plastic bags in stores in New Jersey last year.
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foraging mushroom and blueberries is a something like fun to polish people or time to spend time witch family Polish people like to go at 5 Am to find some mashrooms in forest and do from that soup of mushroom .
Sorry for bad english
I'm from Polish btw
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Zbieranie grzybów i jagód to dla Polaków zabawa lub czas spędzany z rodziną Polacy lubią chodzić o 5 rano po grzyby w lesie i zrobić z nich zupę grzybową
There was a time when I thought English/Americans greetings were so great, born and raised in Poland I found my nation as um... moaning/whining one. When you ask someone how's it going there is high chance you will hear "a, stara bieda" (same old poverty/old trouble) or "don't even ask" meaning is really bad or even worse than usually.
I found it refreshing and nice that people smile and are a bit more optimistic in US.
But! Some time had passed and now I'm not sure. Probably when you live somewhere and see this every day you just kinda see through it and start noticing ups and downs of things 🤷♀️
Anyway great to hear that you like it here :)
W końcu jakiś komentarz po polsku ;)
Have you watched Polish TV? We have something called 'lektor' which is sometimes weird for foreigners. It's like one person 'dubbing' the whole film. I don't like it, when I can I prefer watching movies with subtitles. I've heard it's used in Poland and Lithuania, maybe in some other countries in more eastern part of Europe.
The 5th is the first thing I've noticed and for me it's very visible. US is like a...big corporation. Corporation workers usually have to smile 8/8h and pretend to be at least ok (also in corporations in Poland) and people from US acting like this all the time.
What we Poles could incorporate from Americans is in my opinion the ability to make good self-presentation. To make good public speeches and to talk in front of people in general. If I'm not mistaken, an oral presentation is something taught in school and very common in the US. Our Polish education system lacks that, which results in adult people not being able to present themselves well, shy and incompetent in that regard.
3:35 - no, the custom of foraging food is much earlier. It's done for fun and for contact with nature, just like, for example, going fishing.
But for fishinng you need persmission, for mushrooming not, so that's why it's so popular, you can't just go fishing or hunting to forest, but you can go mushrooming and in older times when people didn't have cars it was also something what could be done just by walk. Fishing as fun and relax is mostly product of modern time I think.
Back in the 90s when it was expensive to send out text messages (SMS) i used to writeLikeThisInOrderToSafeSpace i can remember my friend from Germany was very surprised about that.
We also send each other signals. (As short as possible calls) without picking up
1 Signal, thinking about you
2 Signals I'm home
3 I'm on my way to you
Yes, when we first came to Poland, someone called TPSA the biggest thief in Europe. (The telephone company - landline). I was so in shock by how much it cost just to talk when we could talk nonstop in the USA at that time for about $25/month. (1994)
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Foraging is something that we all grew up with. This is a normal part of life. It has nothing to do with being poor or rich. Also, if you like Polish hospitality you should experience a Polish wedding you would be blown away! 😆
Plastic bags used to be free for many years in PL in the past but for a couple years the bags are not free because of EU law (it's just because of decreasing the usage of plastic).
for polish people in Poland everything is EXPENSIVE !!!!! and thats why they work so hard, also payment is too low to live properly.
May I ask where did you take the statistics from? About number of working hours in PL and US? I Would be really grateful for this info. Thank you PS. You are doing grate stuff, the only chanel about Poland where someone really really gets our culture :) very in depth view, good job.
As for the workhours through the week - yes, we theoretically work more, but... you didn't take into consideration the fact, that we have 26 days of annual leave guaranteed by labor laws (a bit less, depending on how many years you have worked) and many holidays. You are actually not allowed to give up those days and get them back as extra cash... Of course it doesn't always work as planned, but generally makes a big difference between USA and Poland.
Remember about your kapcie (slippers) when entering Polish house. But don't worry, we have many of them there
all over Europe and Great Britain reuse shopping bags im American currently living in UK 10p per bag adds up
Honestly I hate that you dont get free plastic bags in Poland, it was much more useful when you got them. Now I have these reusable bags in my trunk and usually end up not taking them or forgetting about them, so I have to buy new ones in the store. So frustrating.
How you get that statisctic about working? In Poland is 40 h per week and in US is 43...
One thing you CANNOT do in Poland is refusing to eat a dish served and prepared by BABCIA, CIOCIA,(grandma,aunt) etc. generally when you are visiting somebody. Are you veggie? Doesn't matter. Are you on diet? Doesn't matter. Generaly it is very offensive , because by not eating it you show it is not tasty and you do not respect all the time and a hard work sb has spent into preparing a dish for you. So if you are visiting a girlfriend/boyfriend family guys at least try a little bit of everything.
"You can go on the woods and find your food there" hahahah this is true but sounds so funny
Picking up mushrooms is an OLD tradition and they taste delicious not like " plastic white pieczarki" from the super market.
"Polish people are the best" - I, one of them:p (but they really are)
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Na grzybobranie nie chodzi się z głodu. To po prostu jest zdrowe i przyjemne.
Bardzo wielu ludzi chodzi na grzyby jest to nie tylko zdrowe i przyjemne ale dostarcza wspaniałe jedzenie 😂 sos grzybowy taki jak mama robiła ,smażone kanie :)
Marynowane do gorzałki hehe ....i wiele innych
Hospitality in a Polish home is way different then a restaurant in Poland. Polish homes your guests are most important. Restaurants service is nothing like the U.S.
Poles have a killer work ethic.
Foreging is about competition - we compare YtY, make photos of best findings ....😎
My dad is from Lomza he was there during communist times. He is an expert mushroom and berry hunter.
Mushrooms from the forest in a plastic bag. Poland. Grzyby w reklamówce, Pozdrawiam :D
People in Poland aren't reusing plastig bags becouse shops are charging for them. I remember people doing it way before it was introduced. Its also not exactly to save the planet etc. Its mostly becouse people there dont like wasting stuff that isnt destroyed and can be used again. Many of us are also using them as bags in small trash cans under the sink, even if trash bags are cheap af.
Lol. That's so true. My grandma folds them nicely and organises them by colour. :D Anyway, if it's not broken it is still valuable to keep and use again. ;)
Americans are smiling untill they need plastic bag for something at home. :-D
It’s our polish zero waste thinking. We kve got that far earlier that it has become fasionable 🤣😂
@@Isabelle-xg2oy Zero waste really great not enough in Poland though
not all shops charging
Foraging mushrooms is like fishing - you get something to eat as a result but it is not the real reason you do it.
straight up
i moved back to Poland not even 2 months ago and one of my favourite past times is just going into the forest (getting high) and just foraging, especially for deer antlers but you also have a bunch of history inside those forests, like abandoned homes from who knows when, trenches from the war and just a buncha stuff like that, it's amazing
@@adrian29811 on Wikimapia you can sometimes find info about historical landmarks found in such places. And there are all sorts of maps and aerial photos in Geoportal :-) Good luck!
@@januszstrzelecki4440 thanks bro ive Been using a metal detector out there and wikimapia seems like the Perfect tool to help me find more treasure
I appreciate it
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Remember that it's not exactly legal to do that here in Poland.. now having said that you should hook up with these guys facebook.com/SEHSzaniec/
@@adrian29811 but you know that to use the metal detector in Poland you have to have allowance of both "konserwator zabytków" (something like an office responsible for historical buildings) and the owner of the place where you are serching?
Also when you find something that has a historical, artistic or scientific value than you're not the owner of this thing but Poland is and you are obligated to give it to "the nearest administration office". Otherwise you will have to explain in court why did you steal it. :P How can you tell if something has this kind of values? I have no idea.
"(...) I saw a BABCIA walking around (...)"
Everything, all story in english and this one and only word in polish, that sounds so freaking funny 😂😂
Right?? 😂😂😂
babcia in polish is granny :)
@@Gamerspa0 No dzięki, jakbym nie wiedział 😂
Polakiem jestem.
Babcia is not just a polish name for granny. It's a freakin' institution :)
He also said „dzien dobry” at the very beginning of the video
Who doesn't reuse bags??? What do you do with them after you get a new one? I'm confused...every person I have ever met - Polish, English, anyone European does this
(For Walmart bags). I'd say the most common use is using them for the bathroom trashcan liner. Other than that I use them to put my boots in if I don't want to get mud on stuff and I'm transporting them. The issue is, they aren't like your bags that you get at H&M which are of a nice quality, Instead they're extremely cheap and will rip easily.
@@Trev_in_Poland Right..okay, I get you - but I would still argue that everyone should try and reuse bags, especially plastic ones!
@@jagodam5837 i must say that i mostly use them to collect plastic waste and for cats litter, but to be more eco i don't buy them i go to the shop with large bacpack and cloth bag
@@diooverheaven6561 Yes I totally get you - most of the time I use the big reusable bags meant for food shopping or a tote bag whenever I go somewhere, but every now and then a plastic one happens to turn up at the house so I have to go out of my way to get the most use out of those cheaper, thinner ones
Yeah I use them in the trash cans, for kitchen scraps that I dont want in the big grabage, for wet cloths after swimming, and if im taking something to someone where I want to leave it.
I wonder how much of your subscribers are actually outisde of Poland. I feel like we, Poles, are watching you just because of our curiosity about what outsiders, so called "zagraniczniaki", think about us.
I’m from USA
I'm from US and hope to visit poland one day, not many youtube channels talk about things from poland, so his channel is awesome 🤣
@@rachelj5593 I hope you'll like it here :)
Much of it has to do with our Polish immigrant grandparents refusing to speak to us in Polish. I had to wait for them to get vodka drunk, and then intentionally mispronouncing Polish words to get them to speak to us in Polish. I still feel chills from the stare I got mispronouncing "smacznego."
Interesting, I'm from Poland and I've never heard or saw a word "zagraniczniaki". I can't spell it without looking at it lol
I remember when I was little girl, we have english lesson, techer try to tell us about this "Hi, have are you" things. Childrens used to tell that "I understend your question but I don't know enought english to give you the answer" and our techer said that we should say "I fine, thank you". It dosen't make any sense to us. And I remember that she said "I don't need to have a sense they just do that" ;)
I hate this question and all the small talk, especially at work. I always feel that my "I'm fine" answer is fake :P and I am usually irritated by people starting the conversation like this- just get to the point already, I just wanna know what the hell you want from me, not lying to you that I'm fine! :D
I just wrote exact same thing. It was SO confusing.
i grew up in australia and i still hate this question - am overseas, met an aussie, and they said "how are you" and my brain shut down. they laughed at that, "how can you be an english teacher when you don't know the most obvious answer!?" ..... because it's a stoopid question and i hate it :T hmph.
so normally, I go with "alive" - because it's true. however i actually feel, i am in fact alive. if they don't care much, they'll think i'm a weirdo - well, they'll realize that sooner or later anyway so no problem. if they care about me a bit more, they then have freedom to check if i'm actually okay.
Our "sincerenity" is usually mentioned as a flaw. You know, when you ask anyone from outside Poland how they feel, they'll respond with something like "I'm fine, and you?", and if you ask a Pole how they feel, they'll respond with "It's horrible! My aunt's ill, my dog just died and my boss is driving me crazy! And oh, I forgot to mention how little money I currently have! It seems my children will have to learn how to live without food next month! And my oldest one has so much trouble in school, this bitch-like teacher is messaging me almost every day about him! I have feeling she's sleeping with my dumbass husband... Oh yeah, have I told you, we're getting divorced? You better prepare a tomb for me, I don't think I'm gonna come out of this mess alive!"
oh god, that's so accurate, i can't stop smiling. you described our behaviour perfectly!
@@sholterek it happens everyday lmao
I love this type of polish sincirety, and I can't stand the small talk of "oh I'm fine thank you and you? " it drives me crazy!
This is too accurate I'm literally in fits
Complaining is the Polish the national pastime :P
A plastic bag was designed to be used multiple times. That's the way they are more ekologic, the same as an accumulator is more ekologic when used multiple times.
W angielskim akumulator to car battery panie ;)
Ostro typ daje ponglisz half na pół 50/50
do you know the differences between mushroom and "pieczarka"? I think it is the same in the USA :) walking in the woods with the family and picking mushrooms is very pleasant .. it's not poor
mushroom = grzyb champignon = pieczarka
Trudna w wymowie w innym języku jest kurka.
Mushrooms in Polish cuisine are a tradition of several hundred years. Recipes for dishes with mushrooms can be found in medieval writings. So it has nothing to do with communism :)
Exactly!
medieval communism! :P
HARD WORKING: Eight hours a day are full time working hours so 40 hours a week is a typical working time.
FORAGING: Forest mushrooms are delicious. I have eaten white truffle once and it was not half as good as, for example, parasol mushroom cutlet. And self foraging makes it tastes even better!
SINCERITY: Oh boy, you really start to sound Polish. Your Slav genes must have been activated through contact with foreign culture! It's a bit funny to watch your awakening but nice at the same time. Please just don't start to complain all the time :D
Sincerity is very important to me, and I always loved it in my country. Year ago I moved to UK, because I fell in love with a British and moved here to be with him, and sometimes I really struggle, because here (similar to US) also everybody is nice. And I can never say, what they really think about me. I had a situation, when girlfriend of my boyfriend's cousine was really nice to me, and I thought we really got along, and then after they left our place, I completely lost contact with her. And then I got the information from wife of my boyfriend's brother, who have a lot of contact with her, that for some reason she really doesn't like me. And I find it really confusing abroad, because I have no idea, who I can trust, with who I can make friends, and who I should avoid, because this person doesn't like me. So although I understand it is me, who moved to other country, so obviously I can't expect people to behave like they are from Poland, but I think it would make everything easier if only people would be more sincere with each other.
Wielu Polaków po wizycie w USA lub UK jest zachwyconych takim zachowaniem i narzekają na Polaków. Na krótką metę to może być miłe wrażenie, kiedy ale każdy się do ciebie uśmiecha, ale na dłuższą metę rzeczywiście trudno budować trwalsze relacje, kiedy wszyscy noszą tę samą maskę.
@@jula5417 Dokładnie. Bylam i w stanach i w anglii, troche widziałam na wlasne oczy takich zachowan a jeszcze wiecej sie o nich nasłuchałam od róznych osób. Niby mili a potem sie okazuje co tak naprawde mysla. Szczegolnie anglicy tacy sa. W pracy usmiech do kolegi a za chwile leci na skarge do przelozonego;p
W Stanach ludzie udają szczęśliwych, a my często udajemy nieszczęśliwych.
Szczerość jest najważniejsza, jak nauczysz się ją udawać, reszta jest prosta.
HARD WORKING: 40 hrs per week is standard full time job time, in some cases ppl take "overhours" to get paid more in scale of month (we are mostly paid monthly not weekly)
FORAGING: i asked my father about it and he replied "nie, to tradycja, zawsze się zbierało grzyby" [no, its a tradition, always mushrooms were foraged], i think its very fun activity for most polish ppl, it might be even more about walking in forest than foraging
PA PA: cześć [best word for welcoming someone or saying goodbye, but sometimes shouldnt be used, like for example towards uknown or elder people]
I always thought mushrooming is common everywhere.
Regarding hospitality, there is a proverb: "Guest at home, God at home." As for mushrooms, I just like the forest - I calm down there.
Sometimes it's hospitality, but sometimes it's just showing off like keep up with the Joneses
But there's also "Guest at home, sugar to the drawer" :) Always make me laugh.
6. We Poles complain a lot about our country, but we hate when anyone else does it :))
It is part of point 5. We are sincere and honest in telling what we feel about everything. If we have some problems we just spill it out and complain a lot. We do not suppress our pain and problems, so they do not toxicate us from within, at least not as much as if we keep them inside. And it is always a chance that someone who heard our complaints has some solution to our problem or at least a legit advice.
I totally agree with that.
Mushroom foraging is not really about food supply as they are not really nutritious and can't work as staple food. They just add to the flavor and variety, sort of like non-exotic spices from before global food market existed. Old customs, traditional cuisine
And it is so relaxing to go out there in the wild and pick stuff that mother nature serves to us. Me, myself dont like the mushrooms but I still enjoy picking.
@@uceee1 Yes, most of people are doing it for relaxing, some people are fishing and some people are mushrooming, I don't understand what is weird about that. Honestly, fishing is weirdest for me, many of people are fishing as sport and not for food and I think it's stupid, they should eat that fishes or let them be.
@@Pidalin did u know that they release the fish when fishing for short?
@@uceee1 Yes, but fish is already hurted and probably dies. Or you think fish with damaged mouth can survive in nature?
Ooo mylisz sie bardzo, grzyby maja bardzo duzo wartosci odzywczych, glownie mineralow (wszak rosna na lesnym podszyciu) ale i witamin jak rowniez maja duzo bialka dlatego sa tak popularnym zamiennikiem miesa. To mit powielany od lat, ze nic w sobie nie maja wiec nie ma sensu ich jesc...
The interesting thing about Polish hospitality is that in Poland guests arę very important. When they come we provide him as Good food as we can and we treat someone as Good as we can. This is our culture. You can find reference to this in Polish book written by Aleksander Fredro called 'revenge' - you are my enemy but in this moment you are my guest and as long as you are my guest i won't do anything to you.
This^ We even have a powerb for that: When Guest is home,God is home( Gość w dom,Bóg w dom) 🙂
That's exactly why I hate quests.
I am planning to move to Poland. Watching this video to get to know more about Polish people.. I hope I'll have good time there.
Just try polish mushrooms in cream, bigos with mushrooms, forest berries in dessert or cake, pierogi - dumplings with mushrooms or blueberries... Not communism but Polish tradition, a nice time in nature and it is out of passion for unique and good taste. Greetings from Poland
Lukasz Anonim This culture is a blessing and a curse. Curse for me bc I absolutely despise mushrooms in all shape and form and our cuisine tries to implement mushrooms in every single dish. So each time in restaurant or in family meeting I have to ask for a mushroom free dish.
When you said about sincerity.. My bf is from asian country and at the beginning I told him that being honest with emotions is really important to me, even if it means "being mean". Well.. at first it seemed to be very unusal for him as well, now I think he kinda used to that, but sometimes he's still shocked about the thing how much honest I can be 😅
Mnie to zawsze nurtuje jak w innych krajach ludzie mogą żyć ze sobą i słodzić sobie w twarz a za plecami być totalnie obojętnymi albo wrogimi. Nie mam nawet pojęcia jak to działa....
@@LUCIAN8016 i po co????
@@dorotabarbowska2184 A ty czego ode mnie chcesz?
Mushroom and wild fruit foraging and hospitality is older than Poland itsefl. Its a part of our Slavic heritage.
History of polish cooking is cusine from forest. In history we were living so close to forest and we use more than now some forest rich goodies. Also in forest was living the old lady who help people with herbs from forest for the people who were living in village.
Not Baba Jaga I hope LOL😂
Trev you got to learn about Baba Jaga.🤣
When you are invited for dinner to a Polish person's house, you walk out five pounds heavier...no joke.
The amount of XD in the end of subtitles shows you are spending a lot of time with Polish people;)XD
Picking mushrooms is polish National Sport like a football in Brazil :) Nowadays more like a hobby, or hang out with friends&family doing something useful, over all we love mushrooms - pickled, fried, dried mushrooms to add them into many dishes such as Bigos ( jumble cabbage ) and many many more :)
About foreging, I think it's about homemade food. Many Poles likes to make their own jams, alcohol, kiełbasa and many more just to show off. I might be wrong but I love to make jams (I have a large garden) and share them with my friends, talking about adventures in forest, how many mushrooms I've found and how big they were and they'll envy me because they live somewhere in a big city in a flat and can't do the same ^^ I love that I can make something delicious by myself and I know it's best quality. And this mystic knowladge of which mushrooms are good to eat and which can make you ill is satisfactory too.
It's not about showing off. If you make your own shit, you know what you eat. There is no chemical crap in it unless you put it there yourself, and generally it's much more delicious. Find someone who's making his own sausages or vegetables in a traditional way and you'll notice the difference between real food and that crap we are being fed by the industry.
Now that's a Polish mentality - do something so that others will envy you. Sigh.
@@beckypetersen2680 lolz sure, you can stretch it like this but it will be you that envy others. Pole will take out what they have the best and they will serve it to their guests, talk about process, how it was made and with what ingridients. It is called "being proud of hard work". Its not only about making someone envy.
Well, we work this much bc we are poor and everything is rather expensive for us 🙄
About those mushrooms... I feel offended 😆 it wasn't like this! We didn't eat mushrooms due the communism, because we had no food 😆 it's much older traditon.
Maybe do it the other way now ? You can talk about some American habits that are not really known outside of the US but popular there. Idk I just like hearing out your opinions on our country and comparing it to yours
Poland can be omparing to one state in US not whole county.
@@ZanHellish It is true. The US is about the size of the whole continent of Europe -so how does one compare a whole country to the equivalent of a state? We could choose say, NY to Poland.
@@beckypetersen2680 USA is 9 834 000 km². Europe continent is 10 530 000 km².
40 hours a week is pretty standard full time job here, and it's established by "work code / law of work" that full time = around 160h/month. Many people work more than that tho as overtime or just they have second part time job. There are few reason why people do that, but most common is that there are many low paid jobs so they have to get more hours just to meet their ends, or they have mortgage on their house that they want to pay as quickly as possible. But speaking of work we have to speak about prices as well, and those are getting closer and closer to euro zone while payment is still about 4 times lower. For example cars and almost all electronics is just 1:1 ratio from euro, and while in for example Germany average net salary is ~2.5k euro which is about 10k zloty, in Poland average net is about 3.5k zloty which is 780 euro. So basically we earn 3 times less than in western Europe while still having similar expenses.
yes - about the expenses and costs. I see that international companies pay 1/3 of the salaries to people here than what they would pay for another country farther west. And the products aren't cheaper to buy (Thinking about companies like the juice companies, Coca Cola, other international companies. When I first came to Poland I assumed that things like Levi jeans would be cheaper here because wages were so much less. However, it was OPPOSITE. Levi 501 cost more than double here than what I could walk into a Levi store in the USA and find (back in 1994). I was so surprised. Then I saw that something like Orange Juice cost about what it cost in the USA and people made a pittance. Electric bills - higher than in the states and employees make so much less. Where is the money going???????????
Foraging is fun. I went once with my colleagues from work. We pick up like 8 mushrooms only but we spent time together in the forest. It is great.
It is true it is a very, very long tradition.
Over 20 years ago I visited my friend in the UK. She took me to the forest for picking up mushrooms. It was a course with a man who explained which one is safe and which one is deadly. And afterwards I saw people throwing all of them away. Even those edible. Well I thought when you are used to pick up mushrooms from the supermarket you will not appreciate the staff nature gives you☺
In Poland:
-how's going?
-aaa, stara bida! :D :D
As a Polish guy, l enjoy forging mushrooms when I'm in the woods because of a few reasons. First, I normally live in a big city and don't have the opportunity to eat fresh, wild food. Second, forging mushrooms is a really challenging task because they're not that easy to find, so it feels like a mission and once you find them it's like a reward. And third, when I eat something I've just freshly picked it feels a thousand times more healthy than anything from a store :)
Ah yes, the hospitality. The greates offense my parents commit when we go to visit my grandma is not calling when we are getting closer to her town, and we always hear "why didn't you call, I haven't prepared the dinner yet!"
Foraging is thousands years old in this areas of world. It's really slavic stuff in europe. Cheers
What equipment (camera, microphone) you have? Nice video by the way.
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About last one: I remember when I was learning English language, I could not fathom the "How are you doing?". If you're asking, why don't you want to know...? I was really confused about that one.
And One thing you didn't mention - slippers and taking off shoes. That is something that Poland and Japan has in common :D
Foraging goes back to pre-kingdom times. Slavic people were always close to nature and it is not about gathering food, but also spending time with people and relaxing. I know people who finalize business contracts during foraging or fishing. It is also a tradition of making preserves after harvesting season - meat, mushrooms, vegetables, fruits. During food shortages people were acquiring quality food from countryside, from farmers and breeders. Countryside always has food to offer.
He mentioned that in other videos.
People pick mushrooms and then sell them on the side of the road. It is a very common sight in Poland. So it's not just about relaxing.