Janusz must teach mother and son "not to take a bath in their clothes,... not to steal vegetables from the allotments by the river".
At night, before she goes to sleep, she sometimes plays a computer game in which participants steal vegetables from one another's virtual farm.
In Beijing, I recently met with Binghao Cheng, the founder of a social media service named Kaixin001.com (or Be Happy) that launched in early 2008 and became wildly popular for its childish virtual games, like stealing vegetables from friends' gardens.
He admitted that he and his friends used to steal vegetables from nearby farms; bread, biscuits and fruit from suppliers' wagons, and bags of coal from the pits.
Of course, the life of a footballer in 2013 is one where Michelin-starred dinners have to be kept to under four nights a week and Maseratis are only doable on 6-month-long payment plans, so stealing some vegetables is totally understandable.
But a vegetable stole the show in hunkar begendi, in which the bed of irresistibly creamy puréed eggplant supported several large chunks of stewed lamb.
The Roma, he said, had been stealing fruits and vegetables from neighbors' gardens bordering the settlement, which was illegally built on private land.
Last year a town in eastern Slovakia built a concrete wall to separate a Roma camp from the rest of the town after the Roma were caught stealing fruit and vegetables from neighbors' gardens.
In 2010, a village in eastern Slovakia came under fire after it used public money to build a 164-yard-long concrete barrier to separate a Roma camp from the neatly manicured homes of local residents, who complained that the Roma were stealing fruits and vegetables.
It's famed for its kebabs, which were indeed exquisite, but it was a glorious mix of fried vegetables in yoghurt that stole the show for me.
