tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post545131772395153229..comments2024-03-28T20:47:24.292-05:00Comments on Althouse: "On the side streets, I come across the occasional small hut selling the basics that I knew from childhood: sorrel for soup, flowers, pickles..."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-25752738976056257472009-04-25T17:46:00.000-05:002009-04-25T17:46:00.000-05:00Lovely story and a nice little reminder to leave c...Lovely story and a nice little reminder to leave cash tips for your waitstaff.Pennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02094488084214911115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-63116121563027665322009-04-25T14:20:00.000-05:002009-04-25T14:20:00.000-05:00Not to go all Peggy Noonan, but it does seem there...Not to go all Peggy Noonan, but it does seem there is a greater ability to enjoy the simpler pleasures in the "old country".Wincehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15002449963597087316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-50800563816033599042009-04-25T14:07:00.000-05:002009-04-25T14:07:00.000-05:00Seeing living Polish men and women is the greatest...Seeing living Polish men and women is the greatest miracle. The Germans and the Communist Russians both killed off immediately as many of the Polish leaders and intelligentsia as they could find 70 to 65 years ago.They worked the rest to death in war production slave labor camps. It seems that the Poles were a great inconvenience to both of the two great Personality Cult Men in power in those days.traditionalguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05706120413005530014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-15216030845692504272009-04-25T09:56:00.000-05:002009-04-25T09:56:00.000-05:00I see her dad made her Polish menudo: mmm mmm good...I see her dad made her Polish menudo: mmm mmm good.<br /><br />LOT flies from Chicago to Poland -- I wonder how much more expensive that would be.former law studenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15196697206046544350noreply@blogger.com