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Like Smoked Ham ? Get Down Your Local Polish Shop

DRD

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I visit mine far too infrequently.

I popped in today to wish the owner well and ask her how she was doing. She said that she had been given flowers and received well wishes from a few of her English customers. She had not experienced any post referendum problems. In my area 60 per cent voted to leave, and East Midlands folk are generally quite decent.

The ham sold there is simply superb. And so cheap. She gets a delivery from the wholesaler once a week. You cannot pay more than £1 for 100g of anything. The smoked hams are simply delicious. Sat in a fridge with various names that mean nothing to me. Ranging from pink to ones with a black outer shell due to the intense smoked flavour. Sliced before your eyes. So much cheaper and tastier than the easy to buy pre-packed supermarket stuff. No slime, no wet slices. I rarely get it home as it gets wolfed in the car
 
DRD said:
I visit mine far too infrequently.

I popped in today to wish the owner well and ask her how she was doing. She said that she had been given flowers and received well wishes from a few of her English customers. She had not experienced any post referendum problems. In my area 60 per cent voted to leave, and East Midlands folk are generally quite decent.

The ham sold there is simply superb. And so cheap. She gets a delivery from the wholesaler once a week. You cannot pay more than £1 for 100g of anything. The smoked hams are simply delicious. Sat in a fridge with various names that mean nothing to me. Ranging from pink to ones with a black outer shell due to the intense smoked flavour. Sliced before your eyes. So much cheaper and tastier than the easy to buy pre-packed supermarket stuff. No slime, no wet slices. I rarely get it home as it gets wolfed in the car
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One of the more unusual thread titles :-D

On a serious note, is the pork UK sourced? Continental pigs are often kept in atrocious conditions compared to their UK piggy counterparts which is one reason I will never buy euro pork products, Danish bacon etc
 
I avoid danish and dutch pork products. But to be honest, I never considered the provenance of Polish food before. Literally everything in the shop is Polish. Even the milk and medicines. My neighbour is Polish and gets her milk there which I thought was a little odd
 
Think of the food miles.
Local or even national dairies vs imported Polish cow milk.

Anyone had Iranian bread? I love that ****.
 
Monkeyboypaul said:
Think of the food miles.
Local or even national dairies vs imported Polish cow milk.

Anyone had Iranian bread? I love that ****.
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DRD said:
I avoid danish and dutch pork products. But to be honest, I never considered the provenance of Polish food before. Literally everything in the shop is Polish. Even the milk and medicines. My neighbour is Polish and gets her milk there which I thought was a little odd
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A quick Internet search will show you the 'standards' of pig farming in eastern Europe. Not good, not good at all :(
 
Excellent a thread which features immigration, animal rights and the environment. If you listen carefully I bet you'll hear a Daily Mail reader exploding with anger about at least two of these issues;)
 
Food miles is an interesting door to open in my humble opinion.

I have long thought that there is a natural tension between being liberal/ open minded/ well travelled/ ethnically diverse/ multi-cultural and concepts like food miles and their associated carbon footprint.

If food miles are an issue, so is immigration. My wife is dual south african/ irish citizen. Had i married a girl local to me I would have a substantially smaller carbon footprint than i do. Travelling to south africa and ireland. South africans and irish folk travelling here etc etc. plus the foodmiles as these foreign jonnys do like a taste of home. When they bring this taste of home with them, some Brits adopt it

Do we ban south africans ?
Ban irish people ?
Ban all immigration ?
Ban non british food and non british restaurants ?. (Could be tricky as this island only produces 60 per cent of the food we eat)
Ban holidays ?
Ban pinball events ?
Initiate a one child policy ?

Return to life before the stone age ?

A possible conclusion to food miles concerns would be to revert to pre stone age living or end all human life on earth (a la drax in moonraker ?), and leave the planet to creatures that do not transport things around using hydrocarbon fuel
 
DRD said:
Food miles is an interesting door to open in my humble opinion.

I have long thought that there is a natural tension between being liberal/ open minded/ well travelled/ ethnically diverse/ multi-cultural and concepts like food miles and their associated carbon footprint.

If food miles are an issue, so is immigration. My wife is dual south african/ irish citizen. Had i married a girl local to me I would have a substantially smaller carbon footprint than i do. Travelling to south africa and ireland. South africans and irish folk travelling here etc etc. plus the foodmiles as these foreign jonnys do like a taste of home. When they bring this taste of home with them, some Brits adopt it

Do we ban south africans ?
Ban irish people ?
Ban all immigration ?
Ban non british food and non british restaurants ?. (Could be tricky as this island only produces 60 per cent of the food we eat)
Ban holidays ?
Ban pinball events ?
Initiate a one child policy ?

Return to life before the stone age ?

A possible conclusion to food miles concerns would be to revert to pre stone age living or end all human life on earth (a la drax in moonraker ?), and leave the planet to creatures that do not transport things around using hydrocarbon fuel
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Well your last paragraph may prove quite prescient..... The human race will ultimately f*ck itself back to the stone age at some point in history imo. The population/resources time bomb is ticking.

I would always put animal welfare over food miles, there is just no reason in the 21st century for such suffering to be caused to farmed animals. I'm not someone who says we shouldn't farm animals, but that their lives are made as comfortable, natural, stress and pain free as possible.
 
Trying to teach Business Ethics to teenagers is an eye opener. As a group they really struggle to see why farm animals should be well treated ""cos we eat them anyway, don't we like...."
Going down the Halal vs stunning route is also always good for 30 mins of arguing.

With DRDs points holiday's are very much a minefield of ecological damage vs awareness.
 
I live and work in Wolverhampton which was and is one of the most Brexit areas of our nation. My job is to serve a community that are largely third generation unemployed families who have little or no options other than to live in a closed and non mobile community with little or no prospect of employment.

No dynamism and nothing to do but collect the 'benefits' that are owed to them and fill the emptiness with complaints about immigrants and the public servants that help them.

I'm sure many cities have also made these communities who are proud but lost all at the same time. I don't blame them if they are indignant and negative.

I employ a polish girl whom they hate and are outwardly racist towards.

It's a shame - they are all good people who are being exploited by opportunist journalists who masquerade as politicians.

This country is in a bad way. Divided and engineered by the elite who purposefully disconnect themselves from the problem.

Bring on the revolution.

Yes, I've had a bad day at work [emoji6]




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3rd generation unemployed. There's something so wrong with our country's psyche that we've allowed this to happen. I also work in an area with huge amounts of inter-generational unemployment (but ironically also huge amounts of unfilled jobs due to skills mismatches). How on earth though are we in a situation where people moan about other people travelling hundreds of miles to different countries to relocate for work when they won't move out of their local area to help themselves?
I know it's hard to move away form family / friends etc but I came from an area with no jobs so had to move, my wife grew up in Cornwall and also had to relocate. The vast majority of my friends live and work in different areas than they grew up in.
I see a lot of the money that gets thrown at the problem at work and so often it's counter productive. We had KPMG come in for our 6th form to offer a fantastic opportunity to the yr12s. 6 years paid work @ £17.5k. Full tuition fees paid at Durham University + accommodation paid for, a company car, pension and a guaranteed job at £43k after 6 years. Not one of our students applied for it:mad: The reason being is that it would involve them moving out of Tower Hamlets.

We also run holiday clubs / sessions. Most of these opportunities are fantastic. I was talking to my yr10s about some of the activities that they were being offered for free, one of which was horse riding for 3 days. This 15 year old asked me if she would get paid for going on it as "it's not fair for them to ask me to give up my time unless they pay me". Another A Level 6th form student discovered that if she got a job after leaving school then she would have to pay tax. She was genuinely dumbfounded. Her belief was that the government was there to give you free money and it was unfair that they would take money off her.

Some times it's so frustrating

Sorry none of this has anything to do with pinball and little to do with Polish meat.
 
The benefits system has created a lot of perverse incentives and moral hazard

People make rational choices, but these may often be path of least resistance choices

Adrian Chiles did panorama this week. Going back to his childhood home in the midlands to interview brexiters.

One guy had 6 kids. Said that he could get work but that this did not pay enough to replace the benefits he received.

Paying people to have large families and offering them enhanced housing opportunities was a huge mistake. But folk who say this get trolled
 
johnwhitfield said:
We had KPMG come in for our 6th form to offer a fantastic opportunity to the yr12s. 6 years paid work @ £17.5k. Full tuition fees paid at Durham University + accommodation paid for, a company car, pension and a guaranteed job at £43k after 6 years.
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wow, that's an incredible offer. even the free tuition fees and accommodation is a forty grand handout, even before the rest of it.
/dons hijab and pretends to be one of John's 6th formers to apply for new life in Durham
 
DRD said:
A possible conclusion to food miles concerns would be to revert to pre stone age living or end all human life on earth (a la drax in moonraker ?), and leave the planet to creatures that do not transport things around using hydrocarbon fuel
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Pretty much. And there are far too many humans on earth, all using far too much hydrocarbon fuel and leaving lots of hydrocarbon-based waste products in our path. :popcorn:

Klaatu: If the Earth dies, you die. If you die, the Earth survives.

Perhaps we should go back to discussing ham?

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This is scary. If we all go back to the stone age, will the only machine we have left to play on be The Flintstones?
 
What you call a guy with polish pig on his head? Hamhead

What you call a guy with 2 polish pigs on his head? MoreHamHead
 
Err Dave there's only about 31,000 muslims in Poland. Guess your joke would work better with a different country (possibly a non EU one)
 
Dan, the KPMG offer isn't conditional on any area of the UK (Our own kids could apply) but to be honest we hit the diversity quota right on the button for most things. Our SEN dpt is like gold dust -- female, muslim, inner city, low income parents, kids with learning disabilities and physical disabilities. It's like a wet dream come true for large companies trying to tick boxes;)
 
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