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Poland lost the fewest work hours among EU states in , at 2. The animal will accept food but not allow itself to be touched or harnessed. We can only do this thanks to your support! We are an independent, nonprofit media outlet, funded through the support of our readers. Starka "Old" - A vodka traditionally aged for years in oak casks. Of Lithuanian origin. Deluxe more expensive brands include Chopinand Belvedere. Most Poles consider these brands to be "export brands", and usually don't drink them.
There are also dozens of flavoured vodkas. The availability of different brands can vary in different regions of the country.
But with a new law passed in , this has changed and Polish wines are also available in retail stores. As for imported wine, apart from the usual old and new world standards, there is usually a choice of decent table wines from central and eastern Europe, such as Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Moldova, the Balkans, and Georgia.
It winter, many Poles drink grzaniec mulled wine , made of red wine heated with spices such as cloves, nutmeg, and ginger. A similar drink can be made with beer, although wine is the more popular method.
Mead is brewed from honey and has excellent unusual taste similar to wine. Sometimes it can be very sweet. Today Poles have a strange relationship with mead. All of them have heard of it, almost none have ever tried it. Poles are very keen on beer and vodka, and you'll find that cocktails are often expensive but can be found in most bars in most major cities. Throw stereotypes out the door. The traditional hot drink is tea herbata while coffee kawa although known in Poland since close contacts with Turkey in 17th century, became more popular in last twenty five years.
It is very common behaviour that if you visit friends at home or start a formal meeting you will be firstly asked: "coffee or tea? Refusing a hot drink in this situation may be seen as impolite. It is rather unusual to talk or to meet with somebody without drinking one of those hot drinks. When ordering a coffee, you'll find that it is treated with respect reminiscent of Vienna, rather than, say, New York. Which is to say: you'll get a fresh cup prepared one serving at a time, with table service that assumes you'll sit down for a while to enjoy it.
Mass-produced to-go coffee remains highly unpopular, although chains such as Coffee Heaven have been making inroads. I guess quite a few even though their heads are not that good as the Polish ones :. Doctors tell us that that having 2 standard drinks per day ie 2 glasses of wine or beer is the maximun you should have, binge drinking refers to 10 or more standard drinks in one session.
As we all know having two drinks would'nt even touch the sides and I doubt any pole would stop at having only two drinks. Although alcohol and drug abuse is rife in all western countries accessibility is a big issue, In Australia alcohol is cheap in relation to wages and is not limited to beer and spirits, wine is very, very popular and cheap.
Alcohol is not expensive to produce, it is what government tqke out in tax duty. The price of alcohol came down in poland because of national cry out, as governments tried to cash in on drinkers, undoubtedly when thinks get better in poland so then will the government put up alcohol taxes. The price of cigarettes in poland shoud be doubled, half going to hospitals to care for patients suffering from smoking relating diseases..
This is the case in Austalia. Thanks for your comments and attachments rafic, I would love to meet you and all others on this forum including wujek over a glass of beer and vodka.
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