The Standard of St. George

The Grenadier Guards in infantry Basic Training.

Music: The Standard of St. George by Kenneth J. Alford [AKA Major Fredrick Joseph Ricketts] composed 1930 inspired by watching The Trooping the Colour at Horse Guards Parade.

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[freeman8128]

@TurboRatownik We also make several kinds of Vodka: the best English Vodka is made from Potato in Herefordshire. It is not cheap - but the best things rarely are.

We have had a Polish community since WW2. My Uncle fought alongside the Poles in WW2 & said they were great & tough warriors - he said, "Poles didn't just kill the Germans - they Murdered them".

The best teacher at my school was Polish - as was the best Officer when I did my military training (many Poles served in British forces).

[freeman8128]

@ErichFung1981 I am not in a position to judge between to 2 armies, but in a documentary I saw about the PLA I had very great sympathy for the training Officer. Some recruits were so stupid & slow to learn - he was telling & showing them so many times until eventually he was saying "If you get this wrong one more time I will hit you". He was a patient man & a good Officer because, having once had the same job as him, I would have hit them long ago.

[freeman8128]

@TurboRatownik I have a special fondness for Zubrowka Vodka. A glass of Zubrowka in one hand & of English (Somerset) farm Cider in the other - Perfect.

(I think I will go & do it now...cheers:)

[freeman8128]

@TurboRatownik With the Poles we are among the biggest drinkers in Europe. Beers Ales & Stouts come in very many varieties. Ciders (apple & pear) & Cider Brandies - as well as our famous Whiskeys. We make home wines out of many things such as Birch Bark, Parsnips & every kind of Berries (& much more). Our small commercial (Grape) wine industry is much prized.

Our traditional staples are Beer, Pork, Potatoes & Cabbage superheated with Mustard and /or Horseradish.

We need not eat like Muslims.

[freeman8128]

@TurboRatownik Thanks for the information on Polish Tartars, I will do some research.

As well as black pudding we have white puddings, polony, Haggis & a great variety of sausages. We eat tripe & onions, Liver & onions, chitlins (pigs intestine) & have a fabulous variety of cheeses. we like Pork, Lamb, Mutton served in very many ways & many excellent wild game: Boar, Venison, Hare, Rabbit, Pheasant, Partridge many varieties of edible mushrooms, some edible snails. As for alcohol.! (more later)

[TurboRatownik]

@freeman8128 I know that you have the second best cuisine in the world (the best is Polish- you must discover pierogi, bigos and vodka:D) and the best pork and beef:D

[freeman8128]

@TurboRatownik We don't only eat curries kebabs, fish & chips or Roast Beef. Many people (even some Brits) do not realise that traditional British cuisines can be very varied & interesting. Mainly similar to the other cuisines of Northern Europe. eg: black pudding- a sausage of pigs blood & fat which we often like with bacon & chopped cabbage mixed with a little onion. We have a great many fish dishes, including eels, whelks & shellfish of every kind, many ways of eating herring & sea plants. 

[TurboRatownik]

@freeman8128 those divisions were composed of muslims from Bosnia; Polish tatars come from a clan that had a quarel with Girey's and had to run from Crimea, Duke Vitaulias granted them the privlige of staying muslim and converting their christian wifes to islam.

[freeman8128]

@TurboRatownik I have never heard of the muslim tatars of poland, but I do know that there was a muslim division of the SS.

[TurboRatownik]

@freeman8128 I don't like middle eastern scum as much as you, but we can't kick muslim tatars from Poland- thay fought with loyalty and valor not only against germans in 1939 but against ottoman empire and Crimean khan as well :)

tatars live in Poland since times of king Jagiello and duke Vitold.