Kielbasa, pierogi, and sauerkraut. Didn't know about the cheeses, thanks for telling me. I'll have to see if my local supermarkets sell them.
Oh man, you haven't even had real pierogi, I'm sure. Is it just from the supermarket? That stuff isn't close to legit pierogi. It's an abomination. It's offensive cultural appropriation. Usually the supermarket stuff is just shitty dough around potato, not true pierogi.
So you're not going to find those cheeses anywhere outside of Poland. Maybe you'd find some version in Chicago, I've heard it's sold there in some Polish delis, but I have no idea how legit it is.
Stuff you might be able to find in America or make yourself... bigos, barszcz (borscht), flaczki, golabki, zurek, makowiec, and placki ziemniaczane you will have best luck with finding in America or making yourself, whether Polish or a similar variety, and maybe at some deli you can find headcheese to get an idea of some other strange things that Polish people eat. Of these flaczki will probably be the hardest to make and find because it uses beef tripe. Way better than Mexican menudos. It can be hard to get the placki ziemniaczane just right but they're so good.
If you visit Poland, you will have to snack on kabanos. They're basically like much superior, less greasy and possibly less carcinogenic Slim Jim. Other foods to try there you can't get in America so easily would be things like fresh smoked sprats.
There's a narrative that the world is going insane, that happens a lot here as well, and yet I know people who are very normal politically moderate individuals who make fun of all the modern hysteria, they think the trans stuff is as clownish as any sane person, and at this point live in nice houses (even though millennials are all supposed to be broke), working middle class jobs and making more than enough money to support their lifestyle and are even looking towards having kids.
There are pockets of people who sort of float above it all and don't seem conflicted in the slightest. They come off so much more well adjusted, I spend time with them, sit outside drinking martinis and eating fine cheeses, and it makes the doomsaying seem almost childish.
The whole thing is really nice, just go to work, be prudent with your resources and relationships and things will be fine.
Then you deal with other people and everyone's an angry broke maladjusted motherfucking whacko who can barely exist in polite society, or ones who may as well live in a pod because working and consuming is their whole personality, and I go back to being convinced there's no possible way the system as we know it is going to last so you shouldn't put your chips on it.
I sort of wish society and economy would make up its mind as to where it's going so that it was easier to know what to do.
I'm fine with whatever option, it is what it is, but the establishment really needs to decide whether it's going to go off the rails or not and hit me up to let me know because this weird state of flux everything seems to be in really makes things difficult.
It really does seem like the well-adjusted people are few and far between though. I've known a great deal of people who went woke, stayed broke, I've known a statistically remarkable number of people who went tranny, and almost everyone I used to know never got out of little kid consoomerism. I've learned to limit who I associate with to remove the headaches. I've basically threw away most of my memories and mementos from youth because everyone associated with them went bonkers. Sometimes I don't know what other people on the farms talk about, so many people I've known or went to school with went so far left wing that I the only thing I can conclude is that other people haven't payed attention to how much other people have changed.
I have an in-between position. World is absolutely going to shit, propaganda is changing the world left and right and there really isn't hope for society long term. There's just no social forces and the dominant cultural narratives are pretty bleak. Millennials / Gen Z are much more receptive to socialism than prior generations, they care more about being offended than freedom, yadda yadda standard spiel. Regardless though there's a huge world outside of people and things to do. I can't stand what society has become so I just sort of disregard society. Anyway you'll find that usually the best option is, when you can, just don't compromise too much for the expectations of other people in this crazy society.
Too many people today care about being liked by many people, and don't worry about the quality of those people. I say most people are trash, and people think that's me being an edgy misanthrope, and while I'm just stating facts, the uplifting part is that it's only
most. As long as you have a good solid foundation (which still can be hard to find!) you should be content with that and not this tiktok celebrity culture where everyone is a spineless twerp worrying about what people think. How many of us have seen "shitlord" friends prostitute their values because of some girl or friend group that ended up treating them like trash anyway? Care about your circled wagon and laugh at the rest of the
hoi polloi, that's one reason I browse the farms.
I've learned to embrace it. Unless I need to be liked (employment-related or whatever) I just say whatever crazy shit I want for laughs. The people that get offended? They were never worth getting to know anyway. They were gonna stab you in the back eventually anyway even if you didn't open your mouth. These perenniel losers are also just plain awful people. It's because they have no self-discipline and can't say no to themselves.
Whatever happens I've already sort of personally prepared for it anyway. I didn't think things would get
this bad, but I knew it was going to get worse, I just didn't realize the left would end up caring about buttsex more than their faggy economic programs. I've had a lot of "I told you so"s though.
