POLISH AMERICAN

FOOD

• Eat 5 meals a day. Breakfast, second breakfast, dinner, desert and supper
• Klopsiki - A kind of meatloaf with tomato sauce
• Kurczak de volaille - Chicken steaks with butter and filled with mushrooms
• Golonka w piwie - A pork knuckle served in beer sauce and horseradish
• Knedle - Dumplings made of potatoes and stuffed with plums

DEATH

• In Poland, when someone goes missing, they may be pronounced dead after 10 years.
• A way of dealing with death is to mourn and be sad. Rarely someone will carry on and keep smiling.
• After the funeral, someone organizes a post-funeral get-together where they have speeches an eat.
• At the funeral, people wear dark clothing.
• During the funeral there will be a picture book with many pictures of the person who died.

WEDDINGS

• Dancing is a big deal in weddings. Proper, couple dancing is expected. Not hip-hop dancing.
• Sometimes go on for 2 days. The second day is known as "Poprawiny".
• The groom traditionally "buys a bride". Meaning the groom goes to the brides house and gives her alcohol.
• The wedding couples cut the cake at midnight.
• There is a dollar dance where guests pay a dollar to dance with one of the couples to raise money

RELIGION

• Most people in Poland rely on the Christian faith.
• Freedom of religion is ensured to everyone.
• 90% of Christians are Catholic.
• There are many places considered holy, to Christians, like the monastery of Jasna Gora.
• 2% of the people are Atheist.

RELIGION IN POLAND

LANGUAGE

• There are over 50 million speakers of the Polish language.
• Learn Polish and you get some West-Slavonic languages for free because they are very similar.
• Considered a very hard language to learn.
• The first complete sentence in modern polish spelling dates back to 1270.
• Has 26 letters in the alphabet.