Expats' Polish food favourites

Makowiec is Silesian? I don't think so. I love Polish hospitality. So many good foods on the table and all you have to do is to lend a listening ear. All, he said ;) ;)

No, vodka ;-) Gorzoła pija sie na halby ;-)
It's good you are inherently a gorol ;-) Though... Scottish might be the hanys in UK ;-)

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Even stuffed cabbage rolls aren't Polish. What is one uniquely Polish food?

Rosół wołowy i ziemniaki z gotowaną wołowiną z tego samego rosołu. YUCK!

Let us change the subject for awhile. I know that the same coffee, known as Nescafe Gold, tastes differently in any country where it is being made. (Similarly, English teas made for Polish market are different from those one can buy in UK).

What do you, expats/immigrants, drink for coffee and tea here in Poland?

Coffee? Jakobs Kronung. Tea? Dilmah. Neither are Polish ;)

Szones... na Boga! We neither grow coffee nor tea here!

Effin good stuff! Worth the premium to get it here in the local sklep spozywyczyiey.

:-)

And better, I think.

At least, I think so :/

(fond of weak tea)

Yeah, it's Kenco in the UK, Shawny. Mighty fine stuff :)

Modern day, yes.

I love offshoots of oscypek, a lovely cheese :)

Now I have a real story!

My Dad was a slave labourer in Germany during WWII. In 1990's I could finally buy good coffees, and I made a cup of Jacobs Kronung to my Father. He had drunk it, thought a longer while, then commented:

-- Chicory... This coffee reminds me the times at the camp during the war...
:-)))

To cheer you up, my Dad had far too many memories of that kind. Once at a shop in Podkowa Leśna some lady was praising the bread of the Dworak bakery. My dad replied: Yea, the same bread as made here during WWII. The woman brighten up and said: Oh, yes, such great tradition, experience... My dad: Yea, they still make it from clay mixed with sawdust.

:-D


Believe it or not but until recently I had to privately import PG Tips from UK :-)

Chicory is VERY different, AS. My mum used to drink it and it's a far cry from Jakob's.

It's pity you cannot explain it to my Dad since he is not among the living anymore :(
I'm sure whatever you said, he'd nicely smile and in quiet good English and with innocent blue eyes he would correct your views :-)

I'd say you would not get Krakowska elsewhere.
To pre-empt your hasty answer, I'll tell you that Krakauer is not Krakowska, ask Bratwurst Boy ;)

Mammoth T bone steaks would certainly come as Polish food in stone age Poland or a wild boar roast in todays Poland would go as uniquely Polish , don`t you think ?

And off the spider scuttled ;) ;)

Bigos is Polish? Then I ask, 'Who was Jogaila?' ;) It has a German stem, I think. Bigos was doused in wine back in the day and that was a German thing.

No, Monia, I don't think that at all.

We had Croatian neighbors that went back to Croatia. At almost every event, they did a pig roast, more than I have ever partaken in whilst in PL, or associating with people from PL. That said, is there something unique about the way it is done in PL compared to other places?

Stuffed cabbage rolls are eaten by 97% of Croatian women around the age of 25. That's more than Polish women eat it. That doesn't make it Croatian. Like most cabbage thingies, it was passed down from Asians, largely through Celts.

I am not sure if we are talking about the same animal .

Domesticated versus Wild... No?

God awful cheeseburgers with crap loads of cabbage from cheap kiosks....now that's Polish :P

There is a big difference in taste , have you ever tried wild boar roast ?

Most Polish food has a foreign origin. I tried arguing with a Bosnian a while back that Golabki are Polish, i was wrong.

Gołąbki is the Polish name but MANY countries eat stuffed cabbage rolls. Us Celts had cabbage before Slavs but we weren't the first either :(

That's Polish adaptation, david ;)

So what qualifies a food as "uniquely Polish"? Is it the fact that the ingredients are to be found in no other place in the world? Is it in the blend of ingredients, say a particular spice or seasoning? Is it the manner in which it is prepared (fried / grilled / boiled or a combination of all three)?? Does it really need to be uniquely Polish, or can it be because of a long tradition of eating it throughout a region and across nations?


Honestly? No. Is it that unique of a flavour? More gamey?

May I tell you that Polish food is also about large wild game food , if you are not aware of it read about it .

Ah, now I do remember. In 14th c. Kraków, someone unable to pronounce "soczewica" was executed on spot as a German mutineer. Yes, we had lentils for food at that time ;)

(And a warning for big mouth immigrants, too) :-DDD

Lentils are not Polish either, AS.

Shawny, keep going ;)

..then say: "koło, miele, miecz". Then you say: "Soczewica, koło, miele, miecz". Then: 'No to co że ze Szwecji?" ;-)

I will say what. Mead. You might have had that, you do not have it anymore, and Poland holds the what-is-this-name, no, że tylko w Polsce można robić. O. And Żubrówka. And 96% Spirytus.

It is different , but I don`t like it though .

Seriously, the best idea to find out about Polish food is to buy a Polish cookbook and experiment for yourself . There are so many tasty soups , dumplings , meats , salads which are very specific and at the same time tasty , you cant believe it.

I have a Polish cookbook but almost all the recipes are foreign. My wife will confirm that.

You left me lost, Sean. What's your point? ;)