Why is it that some Polish people refuse to eat anything that is not Polish?

All my life.
But, I travel around the world and even when I visit Poland, I enjoy their food and don't look at it as disgusting making others feel uncomfortable.

because food people grow up on gives them a warm feeling.

I also noticed that polish women here in Athens have a tendency to eat just polish food.(not bad if you want my opinion since it is cheaper than greek food in restaurants).1 kochanie-1 pierogi and 1 zywiec for me,not a bad account.

I don't know, but I had two friends from China years ago who wouldn't think of eating any food that wasn't Chinese. They were even racist about it, saying how superior a race they were . . . yada, yada, yada. I ended the friendship.

Frankly eyeballs, shrimp or crab are the things I would never have eaten. It has nothing to do with Polish food, these things are just digusting (for me).

And I would never have eaten anythig from foodstand. Polish or American, or whatever. I was working at hamburger foodstand as a student, and I know what kind of meat they are using. It moves on it's own.

Why so? :) Seafood seems to be healthy and (mostly) delicious.


And stretching its hands bawling "papa"? :))

Why I find sea food disgusting? Maybe because I live as far from the sea as possible in Poland (on the south, in the mountains at the south, near Bieslko- Biala). Once I have eaten pizza with sea food, I was competly drunk back then though.

And that hamburger meat had many small legs.... Even owner of the foodstand hardly could stand the smell as she was cooking... But enough spieces and people where standing in lines to buy this stuf.

Maybe today, or in other countries, with new sanitary regulatons, it is different. But I would not bet on that.

i have a Polish friend who refuses to eat shrimp because they 'look like worms' lol. i tried to convince her, give her a bit of my seafood salad and she would run away and everything ha ha. it's all in the mind i say, many foods sound or look disgusting at first but trying just a little bit will not only broaden your horizons but also convince you to experiment with different dishes in your own kitchen. i'd never even think of having poultry or meat with a sweet sauce before i came to England and tried out all the different foods available here. i was used to traditonal Polish cuisine, lovely and full of flavour but maybe too 'heavy' sometimes... i prefer lighter stuff like salads or chicken/seafood dishes myself.

I wouldn't eat crab either.It's because of the way it's prepared-killing some living creature by cooking it is to much for me.

crab meat is delicious, and lobster mmm mmm! oysters and squid are a bit chewy but i still like them :)

In my opinion, it just depends on different people, different culture and different tradition.
My Polish friends are willing to trying different kind of food. One of them have been in Japan. He tried many type of Japanese food, including uncooked squid. When he and his friends were in Shanghai, China. They also ate much chinese food which is quite wired to them, such as frog legs, shark fin, tongue and feet from ducks. Some of them even ate turtle and pigeon. In Thai restaurants, they liked to eat the curry crab, as well...

Sure. And leeches on sugar or brain of the monky it delicious too. For the right people. I, for one, would rather not find out. Thank you very much :-)

just because you're scared ;) but it's ok ;)

I tried horse penis once after a a butcher on Kazimierz sunday market told me it was great for Tartar.
I say I tried, I mean I gave it to my friends who believed it was beef.

Well, golonko IS delicious. But horses should not be eaten. It would feel almost like eating human being. As a matter of fact, some horses are more humanly then men.

Though they taste so nice.

jonni
Well that's the point, we eat what is nice and good for us. Horse is good that it contains hardly any fat, and is up there with the best beef steaks you can get.

Whether an animal looks sweet and fluffy shouldn't determined whether or not we should eat it.

maybe that's why ;D


i could never ever bring myself to eat a bunny! ;)

And humans tastes like chickens. Or was that lizards?
Now, that I call foreign cuisine.

a bit of cannibalism thrown in lol


it's not foreign, it's like next door ;D

The estern doors? I can believe that! ;-)

Indeed. Little wooly lambs look cute, but I could eat one now.


Closer to pork, in my (limited - only did it once knowingly) experience, though a smoker tastes just like smoked meat.

jonni
And if they're an alcoholic, it's a bit like cider pork.

Dont worry, Ive seen a fair few chubby looking Polish girls here in the UK, more will follow :D By the way wasnt this a thread about Polish food and not British girls? Or cant you help yourself?

As to the OP, so what if some Poles prefer their own food, what do you think the average Chinese family cook at home? spag bol?

I don't eat them coz they look like maggots. Disgusting. Some people don't eat rice because during the vietnam war they had to eat rice and in there were tiny white maggots so now they will never touch rice.

I know lot's of people that don't like lobster or shrimp but I love them ---------------------------bardzo smaczne

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My point exactly

I think is normal to prefer your own national cuisine, but can't really stand those ppl asking 'how you can eat this' or making all those sounds to suggest those kind of food is disgusting only because you not use to it. Cabbage that had been cooked for days smell and look really bad as well, so what is the issue with prawns and lobsters?

You gotta be able to try foods outside of you comfort zone.Isn't that what progress is all about????? Being able to take risks is part of life---would be pretty boring if it was always the same thing and the same meal.

Nonsense, they are very open minded - my day in Warsaw

Polish breakfast
Thai for lunch
KFC for dinner
Kebab for post club snack

Think I better stick to the salad tomorrow