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Expats' Polish food favourites


Seanus 15 | 19,674
13 Jun 2011 #61
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 ;) ;)
Antek_Stalich 5 | 997
13 Jun 2011 #62
No, vodka ;-) Gorzoła pija sie na halby ;-)
It's good you are inherently a gorol ;-) Though... Scottish might be the hanys in UK ;-)

youtube.com/watch?v=KYPRg7Uolxk
Seanus 15 | 19,674
14 Jun 2011 #63
Even stuffed cabbage rolls aren't Polish. What is one uniquely Polish food?
Antek_Stalich 5 | 997
14 Jun 2011 #64
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?
Seanus 15 | 19,674
14 Jun 2011 #65
Coffee? Jakobs Kronung. Tea? Dilmah. Neither are Polish ;)
Antek_Stalich 5 | 997
14 Jun 2011 #66
Szones... na Boga! We neither grow coffee nor tea here!
ShawnH 8 | 1,497
14 Jun 2011 #67
Jakobs Kronung

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

:-)
delphiandomine 88 | 18,163
14 Jun 2011 #68
(Similarly, English teas made for Polish market are different from those one can buy in UK).

And better, I think.

At least, I think so :/

(fond of weak tea)
Seanus 15 | 19,674
14 Jun 2011 #69
Yeah, it's Kenco in the UK, Shawny. Mighty fine stuff :)

Modern day, yes.

I love offshoots of oscypek, a lovely cheese :)
Antek_Stalich 5 | 997
14 Jun 2011 #70
Coffee? Jakobs Kronung.

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

(fond of weak tea)

Believe it or not but until recently I had to privately import PG Tips from UK :-)
Seanus 15 | 19,674
14 Jun 2011 #71
Chicory is VERY different, AS. My mum used to drink it and it's a far cry from Jakob's.
Antek_Stalich 5 | 997
14 Jun 2011 #72
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 ;)
Monia
14 Jun 2011 #73
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 ?
Seanus 15 | 19,674
14 Jun 2011 #74
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.
ShawnH 8 | 1,497
14 Jun 2011 #75
wild boar roast in todays Poland would go as uniquely Polish , don`t you think ?

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?
Seanus 15 | 19,674
14 Jun 2011 #76
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.
Monia
14 Jun 2011 #77
pig roast,

I am not sure if we are talking about the same animal .
ShawnH 8 | 1,497
14 Jun 2011 #78
Domesticated versus Wild... No?
dtaylor5632 18 | 2,004
14 Jun 2011 #79
I'm not sure we're talking about Polish food so please get back on topic.

God awful cheeseburgers with crap loads of cabbage from cheap kiosks....now that's Polish :P
Monia
14 Jun 2011 #80
Domesticated versus Wild... No?

There is a big difference in taste , have you ever tried wild boar roast ?
PennBoy 76 | 2,432
14 Jun 2011 #81
Stuffed cabbage rolls are eaten by 97% of Croatian women around the age of 25.

Most Polish food has a foreign origin. I tried arguing with a Bosnian a while back that Golabki are Polish, i was wrong.
Seanus 15 | 19,674
14 Jun 2011 #82
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 ;)
ShawnH 8 | 1,497
14 Jun 2011 #83
I'm not sure we're talking about Polish food

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?

have you ever tried wild boar roast ?

Honestly? No. Is it that unique of a flavour? More gamey?
Monia
14 Jun 2011 #84
I'm not sure we're talking about Polish food so please get back on topic.

May I tell you that Polish food is also about large wild game food , if you are not aware of it read about it .
Antek_Stalich 5 | 997
14 Jun 2011 #85
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
Seanus 15 | 19,674
14 Jun 2011 #86
Lentils are not Polish either, AS.

Shawny, keep going ;)
Antek_Stalich 5 | 997
14 Jun 2011 #87
..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.
Monia
14 Jun 2011 #88
Is it that unique of a flavour? More gamey?

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.
Seanus 15 | 19,674
14 Jun 2011 #89
I have a Polish cookbook but almost all the recipes are foreign. My wife will confirm that.
Antek_Stalich 5 | 997
14 Jun 2011 #90
You left me lost, Sean. What's your point? ;)


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