Poland: the new success story?

[garbon]

It's not a disease in a sense like cancer or something like that.
Homosexuality is disordered though. Kind of like an addiction, drinking too much alcohol is not good, yet the addict has the impulse to keep drinking.

OMG, I'm addicted to cock!

[Ideologue]

I wonder if the author of those words would like to turn his high-powered perceptions upon how heterosexual men view sex with women.

IT'S DISORDERED.

[Josquius]

Certainly I remember from when I visited Poland that every day stuff is a hell of a lot cheaper.

[Capetan Mihali]

I have a Polish roommate who make delicious bigos, my favorite.    I love Polish food so I buy sausages, sauerkraut, and mustard made in Poland from time to time.  I don't drink much vodka but I just bought a bottle of Luksusowa to make Bloody Marys with, since it was marked down to $12.  I tried it on its own since potato vodka is supposed to be different, and it was fine. 

Polish beer doesn't seem to have caught on in the US, but there were bars in the Polish (-American and emigre) neighborhood in Philadelphia that had it, and it was pretty good.  O.K. Beer was at least OK if not better.   

[Duque de Bragança]

On topic: Over here the foreign language you read more often in product's labels is Portuguese.

Not really foreign in Galicia though  A real shock for hinterlandish Castile though .
In Portugal, there are yet too many games who only have a translation in Spanish or English at best. Sony and Nintendo started to localise their games recently though. Other than that, football games such as FIFA or PES were the first to be in Portuguese.

As for Germany, the Leibniz-Keks biscuit inspired by French petit beurre gets its ingredient list translated in half of dozen languages like English, French (nearly impossible to find here in Paris), Italian, Dutch and Swedish as well as Danish.

[Zanza]

I had a look around in the super market today and while I found produce from places like Brazil, Namibia or Australia and products from all over Western Europe, I found just one thing that said it was packaged in Poland: British Tea.

[The Minsky Moment]

Both you guys please do me a favor and next time you're in the ubermarkt scan around and see if spot any Polish labels.

Not sure what this will prove.

Over 40% of Polish exports by value consist of electromechanical products.  Which is kind of extraordinary.
What this suggests is what the OP article indicates: that Poland has developed its own Mittelstand, which is fully integrated into the original German version as a supplier of decent quality but reasonably priced manufactured goods.

[Phillip V]

Unlike France which has banned fracking, Poland may soon become an exporter of shale gas, reducing Europe's dependence on energy from Russia.