Hot Legs!
I wanted to have some people over for Sabbath dinner tomorrow, but since I have next to no time for learning let alone cooking, I decided to just be a cheater and buy everything.
Got up around 6:45 to throw in a load a laundry, and promptly after that started cleaning my room. What a disgusting mess! After Kris and Natalia's English lesson, I ran out to the store in search of a main course.
Small local shops are arranged like this: a few shelves and then a counter with a lady where you can buy alcohol and sweets, another counter for fruits and veggies, a counter for dairy type things with sometimes also has the meat. I happened to need a few things that happened to be at the meat counter. Queing in normal Polish fashion, I turned off my mind for the 5 minutes or however long I was waiting until the woman behind me ordered something and the butcher lady pulled out a large leg of a full grown pig and threw it on the slicer. I litterally gasped. They ran it over the blade five or six times and then just left it there for me to continue blushing. And I thought it was bad the first time I saw someone order a pig's heart! I don't think even Aunt Lillian's legs could compare with this bad boy!

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Polish Reality. Yup. You get that everywere in Warsaw. People really buy strange things like, um... say a hogs jaw for 'bout 1500 złotys just to take a look at it, extract the teeth and throw it away. What for? Just to use the teeth as a trophy? Don't ask me! Even though I live here, in Warsaw, many things are really strange and alien to me. Especially the secrets of the meat industry. Hell with Constar!
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Love,
Peter
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