English cuisine week in Lidl shops in Poland

Is that Cheddar any good? How does it compare to that Old Irish stuff that's usually on sale around here?

It's back with us again. There should still be virtually everything available on Wed when I'll be popping along as it's a national holiday tom.

"English" and "cuisine" two words I dont expect to read in the same sentance TBH :)

Well, to be fair, the best stuff is Scottish and not English. Cheddar and scampi, for example.

I gave up years ago trying to figure out what "English " food was... I was brought up on things like kedgaree (sp?) which I thought for years was some local fish dish, turned out to be something first ate by Brits out in India as a sort of halfway between "civilised" food and a good curry ;)

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Yes. I can`t wait to buy original haggis in Liedl.

could you take out a road map and point to where you think Cheddar is? :-)

and whilst you are at it, please complete this sentence

'big prawns dipped in batter and fried to buggery taste better in Scotland because.......'

is it because the Scots use languostine or Dublin Bay prawns or Norway lobster tails?

@ Pawian
Haggis with mashed potato and neeps (which is a turnip like vegetable called swede) is truly excellent
I cannot understand why Poles do not grow swede. It is an excellent root vegetable
there must be a reason for this as Poles grow most things that grow in the UK
come to think of it swede is the only UK vegetable that they do not grow in Poland
then again I have not seen too many brussel sprouts over here
I know you can get them though

When I asked my mother-in-law about this, she said that brukiew were fed to people in the camps during the war, and perhaps that is why they are now fed only to livestock. She got hold of some seeds and grew some for me a few years ago. Delicious cooked with carrot and then mashed with a little butter and black pepper.

Last October/November I bought 12 packets of Lidl's cheddar and finished the last packet in, I think, March this year. The last packet had a few calcified crystals but it had kept really well in our always-cold storehouse. I'm going for 15 tomorrow.

They don't grow butternut squash, or parsnips here and Jerusalem artichokes, the favourite veg of fancy chefs in the UK, is considered cattlefeed. There are piles of black turnips and horseradish root everywhere (I mean - how much of that stuff can you possibly need!!!). It's a weird place, Poland...

I am sure I have seen parsnips and butternut squash

never seen jerusalem artichokes

You may have seen the root vegetable part of parsley. It looks very similar.

how is Cheddar and scampi Scottish exactly? You sweaty socks crack me up, you blindly deny any responsibility for colonialism, and yet want to grab anything good in Britain for yourselves.

BTW CHeddar is in Somerset if you failed to locate it near Stenhousemuir.

farmers grow that which brings most profit. i remember about ten years ago when a load of them switched from wheat to sweetcorn.

things like parsnips might be coming from ukraine.

in the wroclaw area it's: wheat, sweetcorn and not much else. smaller farms seem to produce spuds and other things.

I never buy Polish sweetcorn. The European Corn Borer kills up to 90% of the crop, so those nice folk at Monsanto do great business here among maize farmers. I've proofread scientific articles on the ECB and pest control and it's scary stuff.

thanks. i couldn't think of the word.

Black peas, parkin and treacle toffee. Do the ex-pats celebrate Bonfire Night in polska?

No. Believe it or not, it's illegal.

It would be a little difficult to explain to the neighbours that the party was in celebration of the hanging, drawing and quartering of a Catholic for trying to blow up a Catholic-persecuting parliament.

Joking aside, it's not a bad idea to have an ethnic party from time to time. My Bloomsday party always attracts a good crowd.

Illegal, gasp!

The fireworks anyway. And most people in PL are horrified at the idea of parkin, when you explain it. Until they actually try it, of course.

What is it?

Johnny are you from Lancashire?

Wow, many bait takers out there ;) As for fish and chips being 'English', why is that the Dolphin chippie and Ashvale often win the top awards? It's actually British Week, not English cuisine week.

Yorkshire


A heavy duty ginger cake made with dripping and sometimes served with strong cheese. The culinary opposite of szarlotka and kremowki.

Could do with banning them here, until the weekend of course.

Or rutabaga (ROOT-a-bay-ga) in the US. I like them sliced thinkly and quickly deep fried. yumm Polish people are prejudiced against them though : (

Lovely stuff! A friend who holds a Burns' Night here has to bring them from Scotland.

Are parsnips big in Poland? Did anyone mention rhubarb crumble?

lol, you really wont like who actually invented Fish n Chips..............and it wasnt the Scots, twas the other tribe of Gods chosen people ;)