Żuk — gooseberry in chocolate

Gooseberries in chocolate 125 g — Żuk truck, CocoMoto

Juicy Polish green or yellow fruits, with a slightly tart taste. Dipping them in sweet chocolate creates a perfectly harmonious flavor composition.

Ingredients: candied gooseberries 69% (gooseberries, sugar), chocolate (cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa fat, emulsifier: soy lecithin, flavor).

In addition to cocoa fat, chocolate contains vegetable fats. The product may contain milk.

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Polish roads have seen many Żuks. However, in this case, we are not talking about the popular Volkswagen Beetle, but about the Polish "delivery van" - Żuk. The name covers a whole series of Polish delivery vehicles, produced by Fabryka Samochodów Ciężarowych in Lublin between 1959 and 1998. The Żuk was a favorite of farmers, served postmen from Poczta Polska, and sometimes even played the role of a fire truck. Like the iconic Maluch, the Żuk was a hero of everyday life for many Poles.

The T-shirt features a 1967 Żuk, which is a version with a wooden cargo bed, giving it a payload capacity of 950 kg. Other variants of the Żuk were mainly used to transport food products or clothing, but passenger models, i.e., minibuses, were also produced. In 1970, Żuks even began to be assembled in Egypt, and despite the obvious analogy, they were not called "Scarab", but Ramzes. Egyptian ELTRAMCO plants assembled their Żuk-Ramzes until the 1990s, with many modifications introduced along the way.

The production of the Żuk was stopped in 1998, when the number of units released reached 587,818. And although in terms of numbers and sales it was far behind the "beetle" Beetle, it does not mean that it was not a car that particularly served the common man. Its sharply outlined rectangular silhouette and the sad expression of its front bumper became iconic, and for many years will be remembered by working Poles of the Polish People's Republic era.

The author of the drawing is the Wrocław artist Paweł Grabowski.