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Dr. Crowder's Poland Fun Facts

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  • Pizza in Poland does not contain tomato sauce. The waiters bring sauce to the table in a pitcher, and you pour it on top. Sometimes the sauce is just catsup.
  • When American movies are dubbed for Polish TV, one man reads all the parts, even those of women and children.
  • Ads on Polish TV show mothers calling their children in from play in order to feed them candy.
  • The biggest section of any grocery store is the candy section.
  • The biggest section of any bookstore is books on the Pope (John Paul II).
  • Street sweepers use brooms made of bunched-up twigs tied to a stick. These clean the sidewalks better than noisy blowers.
  • Vitalis—a smelly hair tonic in America—is a breakfast cereal in Poland.
  • Some Polish beer is ten per-cent alcohol.
  • Advent and Christmas occur without anyone’s ears being assaulted by “The Little Drummer Boy.”
  • There is a Pope channel on TV. Anytime one needs to see the pope, one can tune him in.
  • Hair permanents do not stink in Poland.
  • Polish toilet paper is made of crepe.
  • In Poland, people know which end of celery to eat—the ugly knarled root tastes much better than the stringy stalks that Americans eat.
  • A big head of cabbage costs 30 cents.
  • The largest cauliflower I’ve ever seen costs 60 cents.
  • Although Poland’s lawyers have pronounced the Unites States’ invasion of Iraq to be a violation of international law and although seventy-one per-cent of the Polish people were against the invasion of Iraq, the Polish government sees itself as the humble servant of the United States in Europe.
  • There is an M.D. on board every ambulance.
  • Doctors do not make as much as English teachers do in Poland.
  • The teaching of the German language at any level was forbidden in Poland for forty years after the end of World War II.
  • Poles peel bananas from the blossom end, not from the stem end.
  • Poles always carry cut flowers upside down.