Obsession with Food?

[gardenmoma]

Admittedly, we all like to eat our hearty or elegant Polish food.

However, I like to think that we Polish are less obsessed with food than with its significance...and I offer a poem from one of my favorite cookbooks, Treasured Polish Recipes for Americans.

Gosc W Dom, Bóg W Dom

A guest in my home is God in my home.
This is our time honored greeting,
Our heritage from days of old
When brotherhood was more than gold;
The host shared bread and salt with all:
The peasant, knight, the great and small.
And friends were made while eating.
-Victoria Janda

Happy and Mindful eating to all

GM

[nancy]

An old Polish proverb:

Kto je i pije, ten dobrze zyje.
There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink.

[jimpres]

Nancy,

Wlasnie, kto nie pije nie zyje

[nancy]

Jim,

I am cheating, I copied that proverb froma book that gave me the translation. SO, for your contribution, I think it says " XXXX, who neither drinks nor eats."

I tried to look up "wlasnie" but could not find it. However, I found this phrase:

"wlali w niego pol litra wodki: they poured half a litre of vodka down his throat"
That sounds neither happy nor mindful.

[jimpres]

Wlasnie exactly.
It says he who does not drink is not living.

[nancy]

jimpres said:

Wlasnie exactly.
It says he who does not drink is not living.

AHA! Now I get it!

[jimpres]

Very good Pani Nancy

[rdywenur]

For sure.

[leslie]

;D
Some time ago I made the comment that the members of this forum were obsessed by food, both native Poles and Polish-Americans - and the reaction!!!
Can anyone explain then why the Food and drink sub-folder has the highest number of hits!!!!!
Leslie

[jimpres]

It's an accident we wanted to click on Genealogy and missed it. ; ))