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I've eat dinner in a /bar mleczny/. It's the institution which could not exist outside Poland. It's one of relics from the Poland under Soviet influence era. It's a place where you can order food from a certain group of products. The name could be translated as milk bar so many positions of a menu are milk recipes like pancakes, dumplings, and other milk, flour, white cheese, or cream ingredients ones. There are also soups like tomato soup with noodles and others. There are many only local dishes like /pierogi ruskie/. But there are also meat dishes like breaded pork chop, or minced cutlet. The base idea is to eat fast and cheap. Dishes aren't very sophisticated but they should be tasty and fresh like eating at home.
The overall experience of eating in a /bar mleczny/ is far from eating at home. Cashier gets an order and collects the money. Cook is serving a dish from big pots. There are no waiters and customer must do everything on their own, and the empty plates must be returned to a special window in a wall. In the oldest places like that we can feel like being in a factory canteen in past times.
My today's experience was tuned up by a cashier who is acting like the pre-capitalist era. Customer is the payer and they have the money but there isn't a place for any kindness or marketing. Smile isn't face of our business - she could be yelling out. Inside there were about 10-20 people but everything was on an official level with a proper amount of roughness.
I ate tasty dinner and I was soaking up the atmosphere. There aren't many places like that. The old school /bar mleczny/ like in a Polish comedy [1].
[1]
https://youtu.be/sHbDQUlD25E?si=exkGYypCGnXOManN
