Posted on 02/19/2006 10:35:13 AM PST by JohnLongIsland
THEY were a staple of Communist Poland, punishingly drab restaurants in which the menu was scrawled on a handwritten board above the cash register, room-temperature yogurt drinks sat lined up on the counter, and waitresses in smocks served food on trays through a small window.
They are called milk bars, and despite their utter lack of charm, they are beloved by people who grew up in Communist Poland and remain popular there today. They are so beloved, in fact, that they also endure in the traditionally Polish neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, even as the area is being fast transformed by an influx of non-Poles and artists and the prospect of development along the waterfront.
The austere Pyza, on Nassau Avenue near McGuinness Boulevard, is a replica of the milk bars that began in Communist-era Poland as government-subsidized dairy restaurants where workers could have a good meal every now and then. The restaurant reflects the fact that while many Poles immigrated to the United States in search of economic opportunity, they were reluctant to give up their traditions, even those imposed by the Communist system.
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I had to go to the source to make sure you weren't making up the author's name.
Sounds like a road trip to me. Stuffed cabbage and pirogis. It don't get no better than this.
She must have been popular in High School.
WTH are you talking about?
Amen to that. There is no better food on the planet than kapusta pierogi.
P.S. I went to school with a host of people named Slutsky.
I had to go to the source to make sure you weren't making up the author's name.
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