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Post by lagatta on Sept 9, 2018 20:30:26 GMT
Interesting that NY's (I presume you mean NYC)Polish town was so small. I think there were much larger Polish towns in Chicago, Cleveland and in Buffalo at the other end of New York State. I was once at a wonderful Polish market in the basement of a department store in Buffalo's historically Polish neighbourhood. That was decades ago - it seems to have a new home but still lots of Polish and other Eastern European specialities: twitter.com/broadwaymktOf course there were many Polish Jews in NYC including Bernie Sanders' family - his town of origin was hoping he'd become President and put it on the map! But the kosher laws would divide the markets as pork products are so important in Catholic Polish cooking - many of the other foods are identical.
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Post by lagatta on Sept 9, 2018 20:31:26 GMT
Interesting that NY's (I presume you mean NYC)Polish town was so small. I think there were much larger Polish towns in Chicago, Cleveland and in Buffalo at the other end of New York State. I was once at a wonderful Polish market in the basement of a department store in Buffalo's historically Polish neighbourhood. That was decades ago - it seems to have a new home but still lots of Polish and other Eastern European specialities: twitter.com/broadwaymktOf course there were many Polish Jews in NYC including Bernie Sanders' family - his town of origin was hoping he'd become President and put it on the map! But the kosher laws would divide the markets as pork products are so important in Catholic Polish cooking - many of the other foods are identical.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2018 19:23:17 GMT
LaGatta , the Polish town I was making reference to is not in NYC . It is located on Long Island in a town called Riverhead (population 33,000) and is the County seat of Suffolk located on the North Shore of the island.The tiny "Polish Town" where I went used to be much larger as there was a much larger Polish population there back in my mother's day on through and well into the 1980's. We used to go there quite often while I was growing up. The Polish population in that general area has diminished considerably. My brother goes there fairly often for the fresh kielbasa as he and his wife both relish it.
I was told by one of the clerks that there is a much larger Polish Town about an hour or so away west toward NYC in a town called Bethpage but I didn't have time to go there and I was on someone else's schedule.
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Post by lagatta on Sept 15, 2018 12:09:40 GMT
Interesting! It is normal for immigrant communities to play a smaller role with the generations as younger generations become better educated (either academia or skilled trades) and better-off. Where I live is Petite-Italie, but it has been many years since a considerable percentage of the residents were Italian, and there have always been many francophones and others. Many Vietnamese settled here, as did the first real Latin American community (more a knot of businesses and services than residents, spearheaded by Chilean refugees, followed by Central American refugees (who faced more problems because they came from far poorer countries with lower literacy levels, but things are better now).
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 17, 2018 5:05:49 GMT
Interestingly enough, in France the very best source of Polish products is considered to be the Auchan hypermarket in the former mining town of Noyelles Godault. Huge numbers of Polish immigrants (and Italian immigrants) settled in northeastern France between the two big wars of the 20th century because the economy in France was booming, particularly mining and the steel industry. The families never left, so it is still a little chunk of Poland in what is now a rather desolate area. www.facebook.com/Auchan.Noyelles/photos/pcb.1609418862414683/1610314875658415/?type=3&theater
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Post by bjd on Sept 17, 2018 5:59:12 GMT
I used to go to the Polish deli in rue Oberkampf in Paris whenever I was in Paris. Nowhere to buy Polish food here in Toulouse, although there are a couple of small Bulgarian shops and a Russian one.
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