Where do I begin? I do appreciate opinions from both sides, but I don’t accept insulting comments or personal attacks. I did not write that she should start her own blog if she didn’t like something. However as she blunt demanded me to change the blog post I responded that that decision is up to me since it’s my blog.
The comments above were rude and when it later evolved to personal attacks regarding my “very bad knowledge of the polish language” and that “they could not understand me because of my bad writing” it’s not even a discussion anymore. But still I kept the comments on the blog.

But now back to the soup. In Poland chłodnik is just a cold soup. There are many variations of the cold soup containing beets or no beets at all but other vegetables or cucumbers or tomatoes or sweet or spicy, etc. And most often they are refered to just chłodnik. That is why I just decided to call my version chłodnik – cold Polish beet soup.

All dishes have an origin somewhere and I find food history and development a very interesting subject but it doesn’t really matter. In the end we just want to eat good food.

/D.

Just take for example the Hungarian goulash, how many nations have copied it and cook it al over the world? I can only think in horror of all the foreign nations, who then should be allowed to call goulash their own and believe me that the szczecińki gulasz, the German or American goulash and all others are a far cry from the original Hungarian one! They’re like cheap counterfeit, bootlegged, pirated copies of bad quality!

One big mistake they all make, when copying goulash, is that all foreigners just don’t care, how to make it, just don’t pay ANY attention, so what do they do? They just throw in tons of tomatoes, so the whole thing tastes like some Italian dish, ridiculous! Little do they know that in the authentic Hungarian goulash it’s the paprika – and NOT the tomatoes – that dominates! Aha, did you wake up? Yes, that’s how it’s done! So please, just don’t tell me about foreigners cooking just as good a goulash or chłodnik, as the creating nation of that dish! Yes, they might add their own contributions to it, but then it’s not a goulash or chłodnik any more and no way better! It may be good, but only as long as the person trying the fake one hasn’t tried the original one yet! Because once he tries the original version, the original wins out a 100 times over the foreign one, every single time!

Now what about this comment? You didn’t like it, either, huh? So will you leave it posted?

You proved yourself to be really, authentically Polish by rejecting even the slightest criticism from Rasa Rawicz-Stanowska on September 6th, 2007 and getting offended like a baby. Hope, you didn’t cry…

Obviously you haven’t heard of free speech and that on the Internet you will encounter criticism, too. Too bad, you only like people, who praise you, so you are quick to point out that this is your website, which is so childish. Keep it, nobody wants to take it away from you. People just write their honest opinions, which you don’t always like. And how low was it from you to write that if somebody doesn’t like something, they should start their own blog/website, but God forbid never ever post any criticism on Dagmar’s blog, because she might get a heart attack!

Now after my above criticism I’m sure you will remove my posting, but at least YOU’ve read it!