I desparately need an emergency #Linguistics service to challenge my new-to-me-and-maybe-stupid idea that #pierogi (the most delicious food) and #pierogue (the boat) are relatives.
It‘s just too plausible, they are little ships!
I can live with being one of today‘s lucky 10‘000, just tell me it‘s true!
I don't celebrate Easter and I don't really care about the holiday, but this year my spouse can't go home for Easter so I'm trying to recreate the experience here. So naturally we're having pierogi, like you do if you're Polish, which I'm not, but whatever. I like pierogi. My spouse likes pierogi. Where we disagree is in what constitutes pierogi.
My spouse likes potato and onion pierogi with onions sautéed in butter. They claim that this is authentic. I have investigated and found that in Poland the most popular form of pierogi are filled with potato and and cheese, cooked with bacon, and served with sour cream. But my spouse insists that this isn't true and only wants the onion onion with onions pierogi.
I like onions just as much as the next person, but cheese pierogi are unquestionably superior, and bacon and sour cream? Yes please. Plus the Poles back me up on this. Maybe all the boring, bland Poles came to America. #ShotsFired
Anyway, I will be making traditional pierogi, and my spouse will be eating non-traditional, onion-based, heathen pierogi.
I am not Polish but Poland is with me. I regret that I have but one stomach to give, etc.
In fairness, I actually prefer pierogi in various non-authorized forms which the Poles would no doubt believe to be sacrilege, but if I'm going to eat traditional pierogi, I'm going to eat the cheese ones.