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Why is it that some Polish people refuse to eat anything that is not Polish? [120]
nyctrader
if you're from the US then I understand why Poles eat... ok... let's call it "Polish" food. Although I believe it's not about actual "Polishness" of food, rather than about the way it's cooked. For instance if I had a choice between shrimps cooked in the US and in Russia at the same price, I would stick with Russian-cooked ones, because in average they would taste better. Same I bet with Polish food, moreover same with European food compared to American. Of course there're lots of exceptions in the US, but they offer
worthy food at a totally different price range.
The irony is that you can easily find all the ingredients for the final dish in a good quality and at a moderate price in the US. Cheaper than in Central Europe or in Moscow Region. One can cook really nice stuff, but a few in fact do.
Another Polish woman went with us to a violin concert. There was a reception afterwards. Cold cuts, crackers, cheese, deserts, punch, etc.
You think she touched anything?
She was hungry, but would not eat American food.
Krysia, for how long have you lived in the US? :) Firstly their food is nice, mostly because it's somewhat really different, but then there's a moment when your stomach tells you "Sanja... maybe it's better to starve?!". So every time I switch to self-cooking: borsch, kotlety, grecha (buchwheat... now I see Americans looking up the word in dictionaries), pancakes, pirozhki, plain but healthy salads including plenty of vegies as contrary to American "caesar's" etc.
