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A King Bee

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| rok = 1975
| url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100107002245/http://www.zswsucha.iap.pl/STREFA_N/WiLeHi/lektury/kronika/0003.htm
}}</ref> Was this a reference to the Biblical "land flowing with milk and honey" or mockery made of the northern savages who, rather then feed on bread, wine and olive oil (like the civilized Mediterranean farmers did), made their living by hunting, gathering and herding? Hard to tell; perhaps it was a little bit of both. Anyway, my point is that it's difficult to imagine Polish cuisine without honey cakes and honey-flavoured gingerbread, honey-sweetened tea, mead , and honey liqueurs, such as ''krupnik'' or ''kramambulakrambambula''.
But the bees' culinary role doesn't stop at their sweet secretion. Poland is one of the world's major producers of temperate-zone fruits largely thanks to these little fluffy workers in black-and-yellow stripes that tirelessly pollinate all those Polish apple, pear, cherry, plum, peach and apricot trees, not to mention berries, buckwheat, cucumbers and canola.<ref>{{Cyt

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