Is Polish food still more natural than in the West?

LOLOLOLOL, good one Southern, lol

Yeah, we being the operative word. Poles seem to know a lot about McDonalds judging by how busy the one on Piotrkowska in £ódz is anyway!


Of course not and nor do you really. Unless blind patriotism triumphs over common sense that is ; )

They only buy cheeseburger for 3 zł ;)

3 zł for a cheeseburger-----I gues there is no meat in it for that price.

i see

now that Poland is a free enterprise country,more fast food restaurants are opening up and more Poles are finding it easier to buy ready made food than cook.

McD has a good double cheeseburgers for a dollar (approx 3zł) over here. They have an entire Dollar Menu. One can feed their entire family for a few bucks.


An easy trap to fall into. Be careful or else you'll all get fat and unhealthy like us. Just takes a little personal responsibility...

The EU doesn't provide enough subsidies to corn farmers to make meat that cheap over here. Also no large meat factories, at least not to the same scale as in the US. Most of the beef is grass fed, McDonalds has pretty decent meat over here.

Their menu may vary according to the demographic location. I order the $1.00 side salad, with reduced-fat vinaigrette dressing ;)

Yeah, their salads are good. Their fries used to be great but then they went and changed (under political pressure) the oil they cook them in to something more healthy. Now they aren't nearly as good. Damn healthy... The whole idea behind fast food to to not eat healthy for one night! :p

Corporate welfare burgers :( Ayn would not be proud.

not really.

Polish meat and milk is really fat. Not healthy for the cholesterol conscious. Hard to find lean meat in Poland. Also too much kiełbasas consumed in Poland causing liver problems.

Milk? Don't you know that you can choose between 3.2%, 2.0%, 1.5% and 0.5% of fat in milk?

Btw in Poland there are different views about what is a healthy food. You americans think that everything fat is unhealthy. Fat is needed as it is full of vitamines. A,D,E,K are the vitamines which are only dispersed in fat. My parents never let me to drink milk below 1.5%. Kids should eat butter (margarine is not healthy anymore). Fat meat? what's the problem! Until its not a donought everything even fat is healthy! That's the way of thinking in Poland (also mine).

I eat lots of fat (but not fast food) and I weigh 56 kilos while my height is 170 cm (I'm rather getting close to the border of undeweight than overweight as you see). I'm very slender person.

I used to wear size 40 (uk 12, us 10) when I was 14 years old - because of eating yogurths! Youghurts! that's the real unhelathy product. Wonder how much suger there is in Jogobella strawberry flavour... So no sweet yoghurts, no sweet cornflakes and you will be all slender.

Also I don't understant why americans have such a paranoi over bread being unhealthy. Maybe white bread is not very healthy but it doesn't mean it's unhealthy.

Over here peeps just rated McD's burgers the worst:

foxnews.com/leisure/2010/09/08/consumer-reports-ranks-mcdonalds-hamburger-americas-worst

I seen this earlier today

I remember when I was in Vegas and those In and Out Burgers were good!

They dont have them in the Mid-West

Mc Donalds rated even lower than Burger King and nasty Wendys.

We have the restaurant chain in California too. Their food is better because it's made to order. I order a plain single burger and add mustard or ketchup, instead of the traditional thousand island dressing. It's also pet-friendly. They allow dogs on leases in their outdoor eating area. I buy my dog a canine burger (just hamburger patty.)

No its not, meat is meat the world over, some cuts have more fat than others. Why would Polish meat have more fat than other countries meat?


In terms of consumption causing liver problems sausage is the least of their worries, how does Kielbasa cause liver issues anyway?

Many have bashed Polish food here but the proof is in the population, where all the FAT people?

this link has info on monsanto seeds in second half

youtu.be/2O8PaPKRKC0

Polish people ate healthier during communism?

This is an obsession of mine, I am interested in what others think.

As a Canadian, I have watched my country get fatter and fatter -catching up to our American cousins. Living in Poland for the past 7 years I have noticed that Polish people have caught up to the American fat at an alarming rate. Seems that when Poland joined the EU- this point was the beginning of it all.

Kids are fat and often with black teeth. Men have now got the North American gut. Are Poles not aware of what happens when you eat over processed heavily refined garbage like McDonalds, KFC etc etc?. Every time I go to a shopping centre there is a massive line up to any of these garbage restaurants.

I haven't eaten fast food in over 7 years, maybe this is why I notice it more, but I think that Poles ate healthier during communism. Everything was home made and grown locally. Now, supper comes in a box and over farmed fruits that come from Spain are available all year round.

Big businesses kill smaller businesses, then create monopolies, thus resulting in inferior products in the name of profit.

Its cheaper to eat unhealthy than the opposite.


yeah in Poland McDonalds and KFC are always extremely busy.

regarding the OP, it still comes down to choice.

you can't say "American food is less healthy" or "Polish food is better" because it's an entire country you're talking about. you walk into a supermarket and you can buy whatever you like. you can skip the veggie stand or buy a bunch of healthy food there. you can eat tofu and salads and skinless baked chicken....or pick up 3 kilos of kielbasa every weekend.

I just wanted to add that my post was moved- I had actually posted in another place- but I am new so whatever. My post wasn't in reference to the initial post- I intended it as new.

I was actually making reference to how fat Poles have become since joining EU. Of course I am generalizing- but there are a lot more chubsters since the joining. I have lived in Poland both before and after the join and I can see it.

Yes, it comes down to choice, but a friend of mine said that Poles are eating this food because they have never had it before. Also, Poles are still accepting that a frozen pizza is a frozen pizza and not a bunch of chemicals and over processed garbage.

you know, I dont know why some of you get all upset at del,, some of what he says is true
but I dont think its Polish Americans trying to be like anyone, its more of the corporate side of it
trying to play the fake side of Culture.

for instance.. I went to a store ( wont mention) but I bought the golubki <~sorry I cant use the
diacritics ( not set up) but.. moving on with what I was saying.

I bought this ( what was supposed to be) golubki and it was the worst tasting mock food I ever
had.. I was disgusted and thought.. ok no wonder its laughed at.

if you make something homemade.. of course we are used to our own cooking and its delicious
but you sometimes want that extra moment and want to hurry and get dinner fixed and low and
behold.. food that shouldnt be even called edible..

it was a lesson well learned.. i wont sacrafice money and time again just to serve something that
was not even close to the same food we cook.

I will admit , one thing about making them is that they require time and patience and todays
food is like rubber, you could throw it at a wall and it will bounce back at you and it should
always be fresh or your setting up for disaster.

Polish large scale farmers claim many of them grow GMO foods.
dailymotion.com/video/xflwkq_uwaga-tvn-chemia-zabija-nie-tylko-chwasty_news

What EU policies??? Why do they stick their nose in everything?? Does the EU want Poles to develop more food allergies? Why did Poland join the evil EU??

It's a European Union. To achieve that, the laws must be broadly similar in all EU countries.

It's the reason why I can jump in the car tomorrow, drive 2 hours, do a huge amount of shopping in Frankfurt (Oder) and drive back without anyone caring. The same EU allowed me to have a German-Polish party with a group of people without anyone caring or being bothered that we crossed the border about 20 times in the space of several hours.


Uh - quite the opposite. The EU actually wants minimum standards for food production, so the food can be sold throughout the EU freely and without restraint.


Evil?

You do realise that the same EU allowed 2 million Poles to find work in the EU, the same EU is pouring a lot of money into the country, the same EU is encouraging Poland to reach the same standard as the West, etc etc. Sure, some "Polish" things might be lost along the way - but the benefits far outweigh the negatives.

Please, leave the EU to the Europeans - you guys over the pond simply don't understand it.

I don't believe it. Don't you ever wonder why heavily industrialized societies, which mass produce food and package food nicely, have so many issues with weight and health? Everything from Celiac disease, to eczema, psoriasis, cancer- even mental issues can be attributed to what you put into your body. You are what you eat.

Have you seen Food Inc. ? Please watch this. I think the EU will eventually try and mass produce food like they do here in Canada and the USA.

Please watch this and open your eyes people. I hope Poland doesn't become like this.
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It's very easy to eat organically in Europe - not like America.


It won't happen. The Common Agricultural Policy will prevent this sort of thing ever happening.

Mass production just wouldn't work in Europe anyway.

In North America its very bad.

I think its probably something to do with putting too much hormones or artificial hormones.

There is more overweight people and even worst obese people.
There is more and more girls who are 14 looking like 17.
etc.