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justflyingin
Joined: 30 Apr 2009
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 Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 3:33 pm Post subject: "ziploc" bags! |
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I read through this thread a while ago now (like maybe a week!) and can't remember that anyone ever told some of you that you can buy "ziploc" bags (with apologies to Ziploc--or is it compliments when a brand name becomes synonymous for the product, like "bandaids" and "hoover"?)
Anyway, here's a picture of the bags you can buy commonly at Carrefour, or Carrefour Express. They have thm in 1 liter and 3 liter sizes.
You can also buy a bunch of sizes of them at a Pasmanteria Hurtownia in Warsaw near Targowa "street" (PasGal). But since most of us just need/want them for food, here's a picture.
This is the three liter one. The 1 liter bags are, obviously, in a bit smaller box. They are not freezer bags, but you could double bag whatever you want. Your relatives/friends should have found them by now. They've been here for a while.
It's obvious I don' t know how to post a picture. I tried clicking on the Img button but it didn't work.
I'll attach a link to the picture
http://family.solidrockpl.org/bagsIMG_4673.jpg |
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the new guy
Joined: 19 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 12:00 pm Post subject: |
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Food coloring. nothing at Real, Carrefour, Netto, Lidl, Tesco, Biedronka, Kaufland
 what do ppl use to color icing on cakes?? |
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Glenlivet
Joined: 21 Mar 2009
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Location: Poland
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| Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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Food coloring. nothing at Real, Carrefour, Netto, Lidl, Tesco, Biedronka, Kaufland
what do ppl use to color icing on cakes?? |
When I asked some Polish friends about cochineal (sp??) I was told it's illegal here! I brought a couple of bottles back from the UK for that authentic tandoori look to my Indian dishes. |
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wildphelps
Joined: 11 Jul 2007
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Location: Lubuski
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| Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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Food coloring. nothing at Real, Carrefour, Netto, Lidl, Tesco, Biedronka, Kaufland
what do ppl use to color icing on cakes?? |
And that was the whole point of my comments a few days ago - Poles do not eat cakes that have colored icing. In almost 15 years of living in Poland, I have never seen a cake with anything other than chocolate or white icing.
They don't use colored icing, so perhaps we should just resign ourselves to that. One can search high and low for it, get frustrated when shop assistants have no idea what you are asking for, and then eventually suggest that Poland is somehow lacking because the shops do not carry an item that has never been part of their cuisine.
Or one can just get over it. Trust me, I was much happier when I accepted that it was useless to lament the lack of things and to just make do with what was available. |
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Jack Walker
Joined: 23 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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As was mentioned earlier:no one is lamenting anything.
This is simply a friendly discussion about things we can't find here.
I'm sure none of the fine posters on here really give a shit about colored icing or Dr.Pepper.
Simply a thread to spur some importing ideas and to shoot the breeze a bit when we're bored out of our skulls.
No need to play the expert. |
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wildphelps
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Location: Lubuski
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| Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 9:29 am Post subject: |
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| Jack Walker wrote: |
As was mentioned earlier:no one is lamenting anything.
This is simply a friendly discussion about things we can't find here.
I'm sure none of the fine posters on here really give a shit about colored icing or Dr.Pepper.
Simply a thread to spur some importing ideas and to shoot the breeze a bit when we're bored out of our skulls.
No need to play the expert. |
If he didn't care, why did he use a frowning emoticon?
I'm not trying to play the expert; I am just trying to offer some advice based on my own experience.
And many of these items that are deemed to not be in Poland have actually been introduced/imported and disappeared because of poor sales and lack of interest. And many are available if one looks hard enough - the Ziploc freezer bag post is a good example.
But if people want to import products that will be ignored by the vast majority of the market, by all means go ahead. That is exactly what this Job Discussion Forum is for. |
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dynow
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| Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 11:24 am Post subject: |
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| And many of these items that are deemed to not be in Poland have actually been introduced/imported and disappeared because of poor sales and lack of interest. |
or because the shops charge 2,3, sometimes 4 times more for the product than what it's actually worth, making it a complete rip-off and therefore unmarketable.
when you live in a country that is comprised of 98% of one ethnicity of people, you can't expect a wide array of foods/products to suit the needs of foreigners, it's that simple. the people don't vary, so neither does the food. |
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maniak
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| Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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| the people don't vary, so neither does the food. |
Youd think, but I find almost everyone who has got a few zlotys to spend bored out of the skulls with galobki and kotlety schabowe and theyll go out there way to try something else. Everyone I know loves mexican, because it simply is great food. The problem is that most of the time its insanely expensive or the quality is subpar. Fix those and youve got a booming food industry taking off. |
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dynow
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| Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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The problem is that most of the time its insanely expensive or the quality is subpar. Fix those and youve got a booming food industry taking off.
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.........fix poland's subpar food quality along with terribly inflated prices and it will "take off"???
with all due respect, that's like saying, "take away America's debt problem right now and they'd be back in business." |
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the new guy
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| Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| wildphelps wrote: |
And that was the whole point of my comments a few days ago - Poles do not eat cakes that have colored icing. In almost 15 years of living in Poland, I have never seen a cake with anything other than chocolate or white icing.
They don't use colored icing, |
well... you should have come to the Asprod bakery located in the Netto in my neighbourhood, where you would have seen a cake that was pink as a rose and sprinkled with coconut.
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If he didn't care, why did he use a frowning emoticon?
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cuz i was feeling that way at the moment. who are you?? a psychologist posing as an ESL teacher? why does it matter?? |
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maniak
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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The problem is that most of the time its insanely expensive or the quality is subpar. Fix those and youve got a booming food industry taking off.
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.........fix poland's subpar food quality along with terribly inflated prices and it will "take off"???
with all due respect, that's like saying, "take away America's debt problem right now and they'd be back in business." |
Actually you are quite right. This sad fact is that that is exactly what Obama is doing right now, and you can 100% see it in Chrysler.
Same thing with food. Great fucking food is still hard to find in Poland but most people after coming back from vacation in Italy, France or Greece know its out there, and are willing to spend the coin on getting it. Why does Kuchnia Swiata exist, or places like Krakowski Kredens or EPI market ? Most Poles dont know any better because theyve never experienced good food or when they have, it cost a fortune. I am absolutely convinced things like steaks and real burgers, Mexican food, and the American knockoffs of Chinese and Thai food would easily enter a Pole's palate as long as it fit into their budget a bit. |
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Glenlivet
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Having haggis tonight and roast beef and Yorkshire pud for lunch tomorrow. How much better can it get?
Rosol? - home made chicken soup 
Wisla Krakow? Man U!
It just gets better and better  |
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Jack Walker
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| Glenlivet wrote: |
Having haggis tonight and roast beef and Yorkshire pud for lunch tomorrow. How much better can it get?
Rosol? - home made chicken soup
Wisla Krakow? Man U!
It just gets better and better |
You and your puds!!  |
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Glenlivet
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| Jack Walker wrote: |
| [You and your puds!! |
Something the Poles don't understand - pudding with meat!  Not often you see roast beef with a nice bit of kremowka  |
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justflyingin
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| Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 6:14 am Post subject: |
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| Glenlivet wrote: |
| Jack Walker wrote: |
| [You and your puds!! |
Something the Poles don't understand - pudding with meat! Not often you see roast beef with a nice bit of kremowka |
I don't "get it" either...but I'm an American, not a Pole. Not everyone is enthralled with the British food they've had.
I've found food coloring in green and red. It's in liquid form and in the decorating cakes section. I brought a bunch of paste food colorings with me from the states, but don't really use them much.
When you live here long enough, the "necessities" for importing become less food oriented and more "hobby" oriented or even techie oriented. The most practical thing I've imported so far was a phone system I bought with one base phone and 3 handsets (total of four phones), found at Target for $89.00. My husband did have to buy new transformers for the bases (at 20 zl apiece), but it is one of the best things I've ever brought back. Gives us phone extension on every floor plus one for my husband's office. It's wonderful.
I also got a Mantis tiller. I brought it in my suitcase. I've never seen them here.
Other things are coming in rapidly, esp. on Allegro. You can get a lot of things via Allegro that you can't find at your local stores. I'd like to try the Kill-a-Watt meter that tells you how much electricity a certain appliance is using. I can get it on Allegro, but my dh told me he has seen it in local stores.
I'd like a seedless grape vine or two. (I've not checked Allegro yet...)
Material for quilting is ridiculously priced if you want a nice printed cotton--if it is available at all. I've brought back a lot of it from the states. For normal "charity" quilts, I buy used clothing and bedding and curtains imported from England and other western European countries at reasonable prices.
I miss getting soft dark brown sugar (not granulated) at reasonable prices. Everyone who has them, loves my chocolate chip cookies which use it. I can buy it at 13 zl/500 grams. Sometimes Carrefour Express has it at about 6 zl/500 grams, but lately they've been sold out and I'm not sure they are going to carry it again.
I miss the fact that I can't seem to access Hulu (I think that is it) which is tv via the internet or many of the famous American episodes because I'm in Europe. It is someone frustrating that based on my IP they won't let me watch them.
Other than that, you adjust. The things you miss "back home" become that much sweeter when you visit. (bagels--though I plan to learn to make them, Dairy Queen blizzards, Hardee's burgers) Other things take their place. When we went back to the states as a family last time, my kids couldn't wait to get back to Poland where the bread was good and mom cooked. |
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