Your favourite Polish foods!

John357,I,d never heard it called bogracz,but that seems like the same thing.

What a joke....British food bland! a nation that invented the Curry, great lamb and wonderful beef...this from a Pole! a nation of boiled everything and centuries old pesant food!!!!!

cabbage, beetroot, little potatoes and awful pork. Apparently the UK has tighter controls on the rearing of Pork now and the farmer sold all their machinery to the Poles who will east anything...the meat hear is horrendous!

Flaki soup is the only thing i would take from Poland.... says it all!

What are some good Polish desserts?

Błędowska! Failing that, Sernik, or warm Szarlotka with ice cream.

I LOVE polish food!!! Bigos,sernik, all the zupa's,glompki (if thats how you spell it)
My polish sister in-law makes the best cakes in the world,layered cakes!!! yummy.
My boyfriends mum makes the best pork and onions - i can't make mine the same! and I love ryba po grecku! yummy!! chicken noodle soup when its cold outside! Polish kielbasa on a BBQ :)

]Can't take any criticism in regards to UK,yet he slams Poland any chance he gets.That's right English food is awful,just like English women are the fattest and ugliest in Europe,it's a fact.See taste your own medicine!

The best Polish food variety of soups and cakes,the least favourite golonka,disgusting.

You do realise that these aren't much different to what's eaten in Ireland and Scotland?


Parents can't cook, eh?

Very similar. The Polish ones are (and should be, at their best) soaked in oil and essentially the same as Latkes. A food critic in the UK who is Jewish himself (I think it was Giles Coren) wrote recently that Latkes over the years had probably killed more Jews than the Germans.

The British did not invent "the Curry". A nation that Britain shamefully oppressed did. Are there any depths that the obnoxious British chauvinists upon this forum will not sink to in their nationalist depravity?

Actually, in the form that it's known round Europe they did, Dessie. Food habits are eclectic. Especially in Britain, but also in Poland too. One of my favourite Polish dishes is Leczo, which entered the Polish culinary repertuar from Hungary. Chlodnik Litewskie and szaszlyk also look outward.

What dishes have you enjoyed whilst in Poland?

what is leczo?

Curry is from India. The British did not invent it. Your understanding of the term "invention" is as perverted as gdyniaguy's, and reading your posts upon this forum I see that you are yet another British chauvinist. Poles, we Indians know about the perversity of these sick angry British types. I am sorry that some of them are attempting to ruin your discussion forum with their reflexive hatred for non-British people and their lies about British superiority.

I tried smalec; just can't acquire a taste for it.

Native Americans eat it in the United States. They simply refer to it as bread with lard & salt.

that exactly describes it...

@ gdyniaguy and teflecat

First of all I think I have a right to an opinion so keep your wigs on.

Secondly I am not discussing the high priced restaurants run by world known cooks where people can actually be bothered to make something nice and put some effort in. I am talking generally about food. To me, unless you mix it up and add a lot of foreign ingredients, British food is boring and stuff you get in the shops is often full of crap. Anyway I have heard foreigners talk about how great the food is in Poland. Honestly I never heard a person big up Britain for its great food. Oh and the weather, that is horribly bland and boring.

Perhaps if you buy ready meals, it is.


No, only endless well-known chefs praise the food. You know, nobodies.

bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zf9vd

for instance.


Ah, Des Essientes is back I see.

Oh pardon me I think that British food sucks and I prefer Polish food but I am told that it is wonderful so therefore my taste-buds must be wrong. My bad.

delph it is amazing just how much effort you want to try to prove me wrong? Sometimes I think that you must be jealous of me. Either that or you care about me a lot because almost every post I make is met with a post from you trying to correct me and get me to think more like you.

For the record I stand by what I say, British food sucks. I pick up an apple here and eat it, it's ok. I pick up an apple when on holiday in Poland and think 'oh so that is what an apple is supposed to taste like.' No comparison. I do not know why but the same food here just tastes worse than in Poland. It seems illogical but I dunno it could be the land is ruined and will no longer be able to produce nice tasting fruit and veg.

On a slight side-note I am definitely feel a lot of anti Polish sentiment from British people on this forums. Even in a topic on food you cannot give your own opinion, they immediately attack you and talk of how great their food is and how terrible Polish food is. Funny but this behaviour was to be predicted when it was known a lot of Polish people would be moving there when Poland got itself in to the EU but still is is slightly sad that some British people have signed up to this forum just to attack Poland over and over. I really do feel like saying, why do you care so much? I do not particularly care for some of the, what I consider, strange law in certain Arab countries, but do I sign up to a forum over there to attack people from there? Of course not. I do not care for Russia but again I have not signed up to one of the Russian forums to attack any Russians. Funny that it is considered so British to be tolerant and sensible and yet you make one comment and a British person sees it and goes 'ah that was by a Polish guy' and then starts to release verbal diarrhea on Poland and Polish people.

Firstly, my sample likely isn't the scientifically recognised definition of "representative". However, in my own experience, i see an overarching state of self-loathing among the Poles. There is a predominant "must get away from this country" attitude, and - while this may be in part because of the type of people I meet in my profession - this attitude is also prevalent amongst the majority I meet outside of my work. The Polish may bash many elements of their own country and culture, but by the heavens if you mention food then they'll lose their shizzle. The Poles are highly proud of their cuisine and will argue unto the end of the earth about its supremacy over the British.

WielkiPolak, it's amusing that you come up with comments like "British food sucks" and "stores are full of crap" then moan about how we attack you. Actually, contrary to your assumption, I don't see many British people declaring how brilliant our food is on these forums but I see a lot of Polish people doing just that. Unfortunate though that they often tend to do so using faux-experiences: "Yeah, English bread is awful compared to Polish bread. Here our bread is fresh, and not this dry stale crap you buy in England", while having only bought standard bread at a local corner shop instead of going to a bakery or the bakery section of a supermarket. Unbelievable! Freshly baked bread tastes better than Hovis best of both!? Obviously English bread sucks. Much the same, the Polish might attack British sausages, citing the quality difference between kielbasa from a local mieso i wedliny and frozen walls' sausages. Evidently we have been outclassed at every turn...

On topic: I truly think Polish dairy products (milk / butter / cheese) are dreadful. But I'll give them one thing, they know how to turn nothing into something great (cauliflower and bread crumbs - genius). What was the name of that egg-brand that did the advertisement, where they'd open the fridge and there'd be an egg and a few other random things and the narrator would say "courgette patata", was it Lion or something similar? That's the Polish ethic on an everyday basis.

Thank you for bringing it back to topic Nightglade,Teflcat;What is Sernik and Szarlotka and what are some other well known Polish desserts?

sernik is cheesecake and szarlotka is apple pie.

To elaborate on pgtx's response:

Szarlotka is basically an apple pie, but sometimes it's filled with other things such as cream.

Sernik is cheese cake, but not like the traditional cheese cake you can find in Britain. Often it comes in 3 layers, the top being a thin chocolatey (or honey) layer, the second the white cheese and the third a spongey base. My local Cukiernia used to make a delicious one, but then they cheated on the recipe by using a cheap white-cheese substitute to fill up the weight because it was denser than the cheese they had before.

I forgot kaszanka! My dad used to fry it on a little bacon fat with sauteed onions. Add to that a garlic pickle, fresh rye bread and cold buttermilk, you have perfection.....My wife, the Flip, likes to add an egg and some rice :)

Rybnik,Are you familiar with Boston or Cambridge,do you know any good Polish joints to go and get some good eats?Sorry to admit it but

I've never looked

sorry p3 but I'm not but I'm certain the Forum does ;)

Thank you;Rybnik

pgtx,thank you for telling me what sernik and szarlotka are.Rybnik,do you know any good Polish desserts and perhaps,how to make any?

p3, I remember the naleśniki (sorta like Polish crepe's) my mom made and filled them with cream cheese. Pycha!
I also remember the layered cakes my ex-mother-in-law used to bake. Her inspired creation was her tort orzechowy (nut cake). Unfortunately, I don't bake.

Rybnik,wow the nalesniki really sound good.Could you write out a phonetic pronunciation?If you wouldn't mind.

sure p3, my pleasure: nah-lesh-knee-key. I remember them being simple and easy.

Rybnik,thank you,I shall look up a recipe and make some and when I do I'll be sure to let you know how they turned out and how easy or

difficult they were to make!I don't know if you read my post about the potato dish my grand father use to make it's in this thread.I was

curious if you had had them before and if you knew what they were called.If you haven't you could make them yourself and I bet you would

like them.They are very easy to make,just as I have posted.I think he called them Ska vaat key

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