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pest toast, please ignore
Yes. A measured response.
Crunchy on the outside, fluffy on the inside
If white people can't handle heat then explain this spicy polish pastry
the easy explanation is that Polish people aren't counted as white by white people
Them and the Irish can wish all they want, but they will never be white!
Fuck, I entered a bakery in Vienna once that was flooded with wasps everywhere. I asked about it and the person just went 🤷♀️. Still haunts me.
Whenever I go to Germany it's the same thing! What is it with european bakeries and wasps? Wait a second... the europeans must be undercover wasps and they let and don't mind the wasps eating their food because they're their kind! It all makes sence now!
Do they just like, not have screens over there? I stayed in Germany once and the whole house had no screens on the windows, then I started noticing that I couldn't see them anywhere I went.
Serious question, are the wasps as likely to get diarrhea eating that as I think they are, and will the hive reject them at the entrance if they're doing the insect equivalent of shitting their pants the way hives do with drunks?
I'm pretty sure [spicy chemical I can't spell] is toxic to insects. I'd double check but I can't spell it at the moment
Can't say I'd be delighted about this, but they'll very quickly leave when the food's disturbed and wasps - like bees - don't leave behind diseases or eggs. The same cannot be said for flies - if those were flies I wouldn't touch anything in the shop.
My experience with wasps are different. They'll fucking attack you it you're anywhere near their food.
Africanised bees will be like that, but we don't really have them in europe as far as I know.
Wasps usually only get really stingy if you disturb their nest or come way too close to it.
You'll find wasps in almost any bakery in summer. Also in and around garbage cans.
You grab the pastry and they will usually fly away and settle onto the next one a bit later.
There seems to be a vast gulf here. American wasps will fukin attack you for fun. So you kill them first.
Do they really attack on sight?
Here it's usually that they seek out the breath because of the monoxide and people start panicking because the ly fly into their face and seemingly wont go away. So they Start swinging their arms at the wasp and it feels in danger and attacks.
Easiest solution is to hold breath and walk away if they bother you.
If you are too close to the nest, they will send out scouts, and then you can expect an attack. Kill them first.
That's true and it's kind of bad to have them where you're walking daily. That's when I would do something as well.
I already said that in my first comment.
Theyre an important part of the ecosystem though. Pest killer number one. If there's constantly wasps settling near you, there's a reason.
Wait, this is a common occourrence? It's normal to see wasps on pastries?
I'm from germany, and it indeed is in summer, even in large cities. Wasps come in with the customers and wont leave.
Do German wasps attack you unprovoked like ours do?
Apparently that's a myth according to every source I could find about wasps in the US.
They seek out your breath, so people start panicking swinging wildly and running away, which in return might be considered a threat for the wasp.
Hold your breath and walk away.
Killed wasps on the other hand attract other wasps out for revenge, if the nest is somewhere nearby.
The nest is my primary target. Cover up, knock it down, destroy it, walk away for a bit, they all leave. Fuk wasps.
Hmm. When you consulted "every source I could find about wasps in the US" apparently you chose to disregard the direct feedback of people on the front line. Hmm.
Yes, I value scientific research over some subjective random comment on Lemmy. Weird, I know.
- it would be illegal to go after the nest in Germany. At least generally. There are of course exceptions, but you’d need to get the authorities involved and a specialist remove them.
- you’d often need to dig, because the most annoying wasps (common wasp and German yellowjacket) often have their nests underground
What is it with European bakeries and bees? I've seen memes and stuff about it, and this one youtuber, a Vietnamese woman who's German BF never shows his face, I can't remember her name right now. She showed a bakery in Germany with bees everywhere. Why is this a thing?
I think those are actually wasps. It's particularly common in countries like Germany and Luxembourg where native wasps are protected species. As for Poland and other parts of Europe, it's hard to keep them out when you keep the doors propped open in lieu of central AC (and they're attracted to the fresh sugar), and wasps and bees don't transmit disease anyway, so people just get used to them
I'll never understand why people call wasps "bees". They are extremely different. It's like calling deer "horses". Why is this a thing?
Ya, that's an odd odd thing. I know people that live around actual bees, watching the commercial hives swarm in the fields during pollination. They really know what bees are. And then when a wasp shows up, they are like "Fukin BEES!!!" and break out with a can of poison.
Because I just glanced at the picture while hiding my phone from customers and thought they were bees
A bee is a type of wasp, is it not? I think techniclly ants are wasps too.
No no, I'm pretty sure that's a Bienenstich.
Sweet Jesus
As an American, I can say most Americans barely know Poland exists. They know the name and little else.
I'm not personally familiar with these jokes, but the signage does appear to be Polish or some similar language. This may not have been the intent?
Ah lol I wouldn't have viewed this as a "stupid poles" joke because I lack the context and have often called food with bees on them spicy.
But, if it's a thing, I guess it's a thing.
Ah that makes sense. I thought maybe the jalapeños were inside or something, but honestly your explanation is more likely and I'm just kind of a dumbass
I took thought it was actually jalapenos on the inside and wondered why wasps would be attracted if it was spicy and not sweet
Fuk me. I'm of slavic descent and have heard a lot of polish jokes, but I had no idea what was going on here. Thanks for the explanation.
The text on the pastry is literally Polish. It is a pastry in a Polish bakery. You don't need to be outraged on behalf of someone else.
It is Polish. No idea why the dude even went there, it is a Polish bakery with wasps on the food. Not uncommon to see over there with some places that are outside or keep doors open.
Um ... you aren't getting the joke?
It's a Polak joke. They are a bit out of style in the US. More of a 60's thing. But it was huge.
Are you pretending that this isn't happening?
There is no joke, the text is in Polish and this happens all the time in bakeries with sweet shit laid out like this. So you want it to be a "polak joke" when it isn't. This isn't someone being racist / nationalistic / making this about haha those stupid Poles, this is literally a bakery in Poland with wasps on it, which isn't uncommon to see.
Um ... Ya, there's a graphic. And then there's the post title. And together they tell the joke.
It's ok. You don't have to get it. It will be fine.
(Hint ... there are no jalapenos in the pastry.)
Jesus christ, yes, there are no jalapenos in the pastry. Because there are wasps on it. Making it "spicy". What your post and the petulant "hint" glosses over is the fact that it is a professional bakery selling pastries, with Polish text on it, Polish currency and Polish units on it (szt). What it glosses over is the fact that had the text been in German, it would've been a German spicy pastry. Had it been in Greek, it would've been a Greek spicy pastry.
As I said, I have seen this EXACT thing hundreds of times in Poland, it isn't anything new and it isn't a "haha Polak so stoopid" joke.
So chill out and stop being outraged just to be outraged.
Lol. Nobody is outraged. Its a shitty joke in the shitpost comm. We come here to do that. Accept it.


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