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Google and Polonium made them rich

Tadeusz Szewczyk [PersonRank 10]

Wednesday, December 6, 2006
17 years ago3,449 views

A restaurant gets rich by being searched for in the wake of the polonium poisoning.
Google's failure to distinguish between homonyms helps a lot:

http://news.google.com/news?rls=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&tab=wn&q=polonium+restaurant&btnG=Search+News

They are at #3 in the UK for Polonium:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=polonium&btnG=Search&meta=cr%3DcountryUK%7CcountryGB

JennyPenny [PersonRank 6]

17 years ago #

Some people are odd. I'd never eat at a restaurant that has the word "polonium" in its name. Freakyyyyy.

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

I've eaten at the restaurant. Here's my post on it:

http://ruscoe.net/blog/2005/07/polski-fodder.asp

JennyPenny [PersonRank 6]

17 years ago #

Sounds like the food you had there was yummy. Everything you ate had meat in it. I'm a vegetarian. Anyway, I still wouldn't go there... I'm scared. lol

Tadeusz Szewczyk [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Tony, you should monetize on that! Rename it to Polonium fodder! ;-)

Anyway, Bigos is really ugly, bah! Try Pierogi, my favourite dish (disclosure: I'm born in Poland).

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

JennyPenny, they had some vegetarian options (as shown on their website) but I couldn't eat those because I'm not vegetarian. ;-)

Tadeusz, from what I saw just about all Polish food is ugly. I seem to remember it tasted pretty good though – unless that was the poison...

Tadeusz Szewczyk [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Well, Polish food is not like french or italian food but "all of it ugly"? You want mass protest in front of your home? There are at least 1 million Poles over there in the UK.

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=polish+food&btnG=Search+Images
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=british+food&btnG=Search

Tadeusz Szewczyk [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

LOL!

Ludwik Trammer [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Tony – you should really delete the first comment, it's a nasty porn spam.

I live in Poland my whole live (that is 20 years) and Polish food really doesn't have to by ugly ;) Bigos (your starter) is ugly because (maybe I shouldn't tell you this...) it have to by old. Ekhm... Poles think that it tastes best when it's couple of days old. So we make it 3-5 days before the event and than warm it up everyday :)

For couple of years I don't eat meat. You really should try our vegetarian meals. For example pierogi with cabbage and mushrooms, that we server on the Christmas eve. I also LOVE Polish curd (that is basically rotten milk) and cucumbers in brine (those are cucumbers that lie couple of months to couple of years in water and salt). Sounds tasty, doesn't it? ;) Maybe not, but that is a really a great food.

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Cheers guys. I've deleted that comment now.

I don't think we'll be going back to that restaurant, but if I had the chance to try Polish food elsewhere, I'd definitely try anything (and everything) on the menu!

BTW, I was just kidding about Polish food being ugly – Tadeusz started it! :-P

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