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As everybody who lives in Britain knows, people in power love increasing taxes on alcohol and cigarettes in a futile attempt to curb drinking and smoking. Strangely enough, it would seem it worked in Poland. Of all countries. This dry press release quoting “the Polish spirits industry organization” claims that Poland registered a 75-percent drop [...]

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14 Dec, 2008

Żubrówka on my mind….

Posted by: Michał In: wódka with a W

This is what happens when I get bored on a rainy Saturday afternoon – I take pics of my own wódka collection. I’m sure there’s a name for this condition. Anyway, the picture above shows my favourite Polish drink, Żubrówka, aka the bison vodka, aka the grass vodka. The traditional one has a leaf of [...]

09 Oct, 2008

Wódka is king

Posted by: Michał In: it's a sign!

Another day, another sign. OK, this one is a couple of months old, the picture is not great (mobile, after work, grumpy), but that was probably the first advert for a Polish wódka (not ‘vodka’) I saw in London. Sobieski, named after a Polish king, was – surprisingly – advertised in Polish. ‘Król jest tylko [...]

02 Oct, 2008

Bar (not) Polski

Posted by: Michał In: links|wódka with a W

When I used to work near Holborn I used to drag my colleagues (or were dragged myself) to a little place, tucked away in a narrow passage just behind Holborn tube station, called Bar Polski. Not for patriotic resons, mind. I just loved their range of vodkas, back then almost totally unknown in Britain – [...]



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