Classic Polish dessert Rugalach is chock full of sugar and spice and everything nice, more than enough to horrify Dr. Atkins and delight Julia Child. The good doctor, at age 72, left this world before his time last April, while Julia, just short of her 92nd birthday, took her leave with perfect timing last week. (Food Network photo)
"It was just like any TGI Friday’s in the USA with the waiters and waitresses wearing suspenders on with as many buttons as they could fit. The interesting thing about this one though was I noticed that a waiter at another table had a 'W '04' button on his back," writes Dave of The Hedgehog Report re his recent experience at a TGI Friday's that just opened in Warsaw:
Then when he turned around, he had a Bush/Cheney button on the front of his shrt. At first I thought it was probably just a way to “Americanize” the restaurant.
Now the group I was with were all Republicans and they noticed it too. So we called over the waiter and asked him about it. He did not speak English very well, but did managed to convey that he was a big fan of President Bush. He also compared Kerry to someone who I later found out was a high profile communist from Poland.
We asked if his boss approved of his wearing the buttons and he said his boss was also a big fan of Prsident Bush too. When he found out we were all Bush supporters, he went and told his boss and the next thing we knew, we were getting free desserts.
Donald Rumsfeld pegged it back in January of 2003 as we mobilized to take out the bloody tyrant of Baghdad: New Europe vs. Old Europe. Having suffered the boot of tyranny in living memory, the Poles know a man of honor when they see one and do not suffer fools gladly.
[via Mind of Mog blogroll]
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