Food
Well, I have successfully navigated the polish grocery store. It took me a little while, cause I figured I'd try pasta. Pasta is easy, right? Step one: buy pasta sauce. Step two: buy things like onions and garlic to go in pasta sauce. Step three: buy noodles. Step four: buy ground meat. Step five: buy cheese. Step six: combine and consume. Easy, right? Except that all the bottles of "sauce" look like salsa, with chunky things like corn in the bottem, or it just looks like tomato paste. There's lots of ketchup, and they even sell McDonalds brand ketchup which is probably the scariest thing I've seen being sold yet, even over the cow's tongue that was being sold in the resteraunt I went in yesterday. So I'm staring through all of these options when there, out of the mess of polish, I see a word I recognize. Bolognese. Amen. Once I got the sauce, the rest of it wasn't too bad, except that there's no such thing as ground meat here, and I didn't like the look of the beef, so I bought some slices of bacon as it was the only other thing I recognized, and there wasn't any chedder, so I had to get gouda, again as it was the only thing I recognized. Then garlic and onions were easy, and I found some noodles that looked pretty similar to what I'd get at home and voila. Pasta. It's... ok. The sauce was a little on the sweet side, and it could really do for some good spicing, but it's edible, so I'm satisfied. I also got some yogurt, some cookies to snack on, and a box of raspberry tea, and all for the low price of about twenty-one zloty. That's a little under seven dollars and fifty cents guys. Even with the exchange, I got all that for under ten bucks. Poland is cheap.