can make wildly varying dishes taste identical. Salty cardboard springs to mind.
Well, that's a talent as well and deserves credit. At least I wouldn't know how I would go about making something taste like salty cardboard :))
the only food I can say that I have found interesting in Poland.
I found a few more, though. Especially in the soup division:
barszcz czerwony is quite unique,
grochowka and
fasolka po bretonsku in winter. Not sure tho that asking for the latter in Britanny would result in understanding faces ;)
I recommend
flaki with a decent amount of pepper or tabasco for hangovers. Mushroom soup is also good.
Pierogi in all its different varieties is interesting as well. That sums it up, I guess, for my taste.
I could actually imagine missing these dishes, would I leave Poland.