Polish culinary dislikes

I like Good Eats with Alton Brown and Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmerman. I like No Reservations but Bourdain is too much of a cynic for me. Dont like his "tude"

Not really. We use the word grill to mean what I believe in the US is known as a broiler.
It's like a kind of oven that radiates heat from one side only. Most domestic ovens in the uk have one built in.

American barbecue sounds very nice too.

That's what it's all about. I love the fact that he's an offal chap like myself!

I have watched every episode of No Reservations and A Cooks Tour...love it to bits! Kitchen Confidential is a great read too!

I know i know, he just rubs me the wrong way sometimes. Like he is constantly unhappy with where he just was, and is only happy with where he is a present.

I love cooking, trying to make duck confit with an orange marmalade glaze this weekend...Mmm duck is sooo tasty. Oyster stuffing to go with that, saw it on Good Eats.

The best bbq is over a camp fire.

BBQ in Canada can be on a gas grill, charcoal, or wood.

Is there plenty of sushi in Poland?

amen, gotta love the tasty bits...he's a bit dickish every once in a while, but usually delivers.

I love sushi, never had it in the Great White North though...I'm banned from Quebec haha.

Try some bull testicles. Also called Prairie Oysters in Canada (Alberta). It is called "criadillas" in Spain but has different names in other Latin countries. The criadillas are the testicles of the pig. They are sliced first and then cooked with garlic and parsley, better if they are barbecued. If you don't know what you are eating, the taste is intense but in a nice and pleasant way.

Then there is one Polish dish that I cannot get my American friends to buy into - sledziki - herring with onion in oil. You sweat the onions with bit a of vinegar first. Mmmm. Polish sushi, I tell them!

And I'm crazy about the stuff. Around here, the only herring I can get is the one in wine sauce or sour cream. Both disgustingly sweet.

[quote=Polonius3]- Marmite
- whiskey
Depends on the brand.
If there is no Crown Royal in the house I'll have tea,

- peanut butter
Popular among Poles here

- marshmallows <--- wrong, this has been actually popular in Poland for decades in the form of Ptasie Mleczko

- instant mashed potatoes
wasn't that supposed to be about culinary dislikes, as in food? Real food, that is.

- Mexican food in general <--- very good, I know few Poles who dislike it
- apple pie & cheddar chese
together or separate?

- Anything spicy
hence black pepper and horse radish are.. wait! Poles us those a lot.
Isn't paprykarz popular in Poland anymore?
What about tatar? How can you eat it without hot spices?

- Lamb poles hate Lamb.
It's called baranina. Mostly consumed in the mountain regions of Poland.

Oh no! You cannot compare the delicate, with a touch of lemon, taste of ptasie mleczko to the marshmallow sugar bomb! I protest!

Ptasie Mleczko is still marshmallows. Only better.

I tasted lamb once & nearly gagged. The smell & taste were disgusting enough, to keep me away from the nasty meat for life.

It's called jągnięcina actually. Baranina is mutton, rarely eaten in Western Europe these days.

Whenever I cook lamb for Poles, they eat the lot with gusto and ask when I'm going to cook it again.

Which is a shame, I think mutton is marvellous. Sure it takes a bit more effort cooking it to ensure it's not too tough, but the flavour you get from it is incredible!

No, it's called baranina after all.
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagni%C4%99cina
Jagnięcina is still baranina.

z_darius

Dariusz, lamb is jagnięcina, mutton is baranina. Go check on the menu in a good restaurant.

By the applying the same arguentative 'logic', cielęcina would be wołowina.

Rocky Mountain Oysters in Colorado

Calf's headis is a delicacy in France. A British relative living in France raved about it so I ordered it in a restaurant. I was green until the waiter took it away. Basically, the fleshy bits of a calf's head, cooked for a long time and cut into squares, each consisting of a few strings of slimy meat and a 1cm thick layer of fat/gelatinous glop. The brain is served in the corner of the plate.yum-yum!!!!

Of course, it is a very individual matter.

I agree with the following in your list that I have tried:

- licorice
- whiskey
- marshmallows
- mint sauce (to accompany mutton)

No to the following which I always found pleasant or even fascinating to my taste buds.
- maple syrup
- peanut butter
- snails
- frog legs
- squid
- mutton
- Mexican food in general

I am surprised! In my experience so far, Poles are not particularly fond of spicy or strong tasting food. None of my friends share my passion for Indian or Mexican meals.

Strong tasting cheese is another no-no. I've never forgotten the look on one friend's face when I got her to try extra-mature cheddar. She had to spit it out. Forget cheeses such as Stilton. Maybe it's because Polish cheese is very bland by comparison.

I have a few friends here who always ask me to bring some back to PL.

The shops here in Warsaw seem to have more and more strong cheeses and also things with chilli in.

I need spicy food to arouse my stomach to produce more gastric acids. Without them, I can go on without eating for a day and I am not hungry. :):)

E.g, I have eaten raw garlic to suppers since I was a teenager - always a few cloves. I even eat it with cakes.


I never tried Stilton but as I love blue cheeses which have strong smell and taste, especially old ones, I think Stilton would be quite mild to me. :)