English cuisine week in Lidl shops in Poland

Yeah, they are the pick of the bunch so far, RL. The cheddar is as good as what I bought in Tesco. They have a good Scottish one there.

Sarsons is top quality. I didn't buy the Hatherwoods Malt Vinegar as I don't use vinegar that often. The cheapo Tesco one will do me. My fiancee generally uses it to clean the kettle :)

I was gonna get the waffles but there would've been no space. Ah well, the deal is til the end of the week so I still have time.

After trying the Hatherwood cheddar at Lidl I went back for another four packets. It is really good. The steak pie is also a treat. Cheddar is so hard to find in Poland, and it costs as much as 55zl per kilo. The Lidl cheese is half that price. Please Lidl, keep stocking the cheddar. Every Polish person I've given it to has liked it.

I agree. It's good quality stuff.

I went, but they only had one left! i felt blessed that i got it!!

It's Asian Week this week. I'm off to see what's available tomorrow :)

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thanks, I'm surely going to visit lidl in the nearest time..

Try the dimsum, frd. They are Chinese pierogi z mięsem :) I tried them in Izumo, Japan, and they were heavenly. I first tried them in Scotland.

Will try them. I've skimmed through their site and to be honest it's gonna be hard to choose something specific so thanks for any suggestions :)

Hard to choose sth specific, why?

As in "I wanna buy something, anything, but dunno what's good" ;)

Aha, it depends what you like really :) Oh, did you go to Tesco to get the cheddar?

I've heard there was Cheddar in the local M1 shopping centre so I postponed my visit in Tesco.. I was in the M1 yesterday, bought that "supposed" Cheddar (made by some unknown Polish company) and I'm really disappointed, it tastes like any other gouda chesse.. it's really soft - not "hard and crumbling" like the previous one I tried... I'm gonna visit Gliwices tesco probably this week..

Yeah, there are many poor substitutes. I guess it would be like some British companies trying to make Polish bread for the first time.

There is sushi if you like, frd. It's all translated into Polish. The sauces are particularly good. Nasi Goreng is great but Tesco have that.

I'll try that too, you know I'm trying to be cautious too, probably only 25% of those things taste close to the real thing and the rest is just some kind of a cheap variation trying to lure people with foreign letters and nice pictures...

Ah, but if you don't have those options here then you settle for what you can get. I won't be buying the sushi as my wife does an excellent job of making it :)

The curries will be well worth buying. Poland really could do with more curry places but I've found that all the foreign places have gone under here. Poles tend to stick with what they know or maybe it is that Gliwice is overly conservative when it comes to tastes.

I'm the opposite when back home. I tend to go for foreign foods and not Scottish offerings.

dim sum is just a bunch of different small dishes, like korean banchan. The chinese pierogi is giaozi, and they're awesome. The Mongolian pierogi is also all kinds of awesomeness, and is eaten breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Mystery meat mongolian buuz is highly addictive.

I like gyouza, they should have them :)

It's all about the buuz. I think half of UB eats nothing but buuz everyday...

...which of course is particularly rich coming from a citizen of the famously "cuisine free" Netherlands LOL!

Lidl need another cuisine week :) Thai would be nice. They heaped it all into one week by calling it Asian Week. Buggers! How about Jewish Week?

I think the Lidl near me is falling apart at the seams.

Rather than have a Spanish/Greek/Polish week - which they have done in the past - they seem to just have random jars and packages of stuff from a variety of countries/cuisines dotted all around the store, remnants of the last promotion. Every week is Indian/Polish/Japanese/Thai/Spanish week it appears !

Who needs British week anyway?

Yesterday my wife made me crumpets (yes, you can actually make them!) for breakfast, shepherd's pie for lunch, then a pizza from scratch, you know, flour etc

OK, admittedly, pizza isn't particularly English (!!) but my point is that so many of these things you miss can actually be made at home.

Mint jelly is better made at home (we add some white currants for extra pectin and body), as is every single sort of jam and marmalade. Bread for toasting comes straight out of the breadmaker - better than that sliced stuff they sell in plastic bags here. Apple pie, not apple charlotte! Crumble and custard (OK, we buy Bird's).

We could never get pickle to taste like Branston, though. I mean, how do they do that?

allrecipes - the best cooking website. For the best of British food, there's nothing like American expertise!!

This wont last long Poles eat mainly their own food. I love Polish food i think its the best ! mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm im hungry now....

Yeah I've noticed that. More so than most Europeans in my experience.

But when are Poles going to produce some nice sausages to cook at home?

Yeah, yeah, you can buy some truly awful sausages in England if you want to buy cheap, but you can't buy good sausages in Poland for any money ... except if you buy from the bloke who produces them for the Irish embassy.

Wrong: you can get excellent Waitrose sausages at the chippy in Warsaw.

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It's back next week :)

Cheese and pickle time!

Polish sausages are far better then English, sorry :P

I love foreign food, especially Asian, also Spanish and Mexican. Just British food doesn't really appeal.
I was never as thin as when I lived in the UK, just because I barely ate anything.

I'm gonna stock up on baked beans and Cheddar....hurray

They are just different. You possibly haven't had good ones - just as I possibly haven't had many good Polish sausages (i.e. not filled with water, fat and preservatives)

Not being funny, but in my expereince many Poles in Ireland/UK will buy very cheap stuff - obviously it's not going to be very good.