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Do Polish people really love cabbage ??


Switezianka  - | 463
18 Nov 2008   #31
However, I have a jar of sauerkraut in my fridge and I need more ideas of what I can do with it.

Add some beef, sausage, forest mushroom, vegetables (carrot, celery root, onions, anything you've got in your fridge), dried fruit, wine or whatever and cook it altogether until it becomes dark brown.
Lotnik767  3 | 145
18 Nov 2008   #32
I love all kinds of food!
z_darius  14 | 3960
18 Nov 2008   #33
You Poles think the stork still brought you.........LOL

Of course we do. So do the English, Germans and Dutch.

Don't you? :)
osiol  55 | 3921
18 Nov 2008   #34
Love thy cabbage.
Seanus  15 | 19666
18 Nov 2008   #35
Love thy cabbage as you'd like to be loved yourself

Cabbage is the ubiquitous ingredient of choice. It's so popular that they actually ask you 'without cabbage?' rather than the other way around.

When you buy a cheeseburger here, there's more cabbage than cheese in it.

In the EU, we have butter mountains and wine lakes. What would cabbage be, mounds? Mounds in Polish is kupa which also means sh*t so best not :)
EraAtlantia  2 | 106
18 Nov 2008   #36
"Polish Cabbage" is to "American Pie"....
pawian  221 | 26014
19 Nov 2008   #38
Slipped into oblivion???

see and look for this text:

A teraz przez Was moja kapusta nie rozumie, co do niej mówię, nooby!

Ok, ok, I think I can accept this slang meaning of kapusta if you insist.... :):):)

But, obviously, it isn`t too popular. Probably only in provincial areas....

I know the difference between cabbage and onions!

Are you sure of it? :):):)
z_darius  14 | 3960
20 Nov 2008   #39
Ok, ok, I think I can accept this slang meaning of kapusta if you insist.... :):):)

I don't insist that you accept on anything.
You insisted that you knew better what my Polish language experience is.

But, obviously, it isn`t too popular. Probably only in provincial areas....

Who cares. The expression functions as I wrote it does.
Sasha  2 | 1083
20 Nov 2008   #40
In Russian we also use word "kapusta" as a slang word for "money" and some do say to kids that they were either found in the kapusta or brought by "aist" (stork).

I wonder if you guys have a in Polish a legend (mostly spreaded among girls) that eating cabbage makes your breast grow?
McCoy  27 | 1268
20 Nov 2008   #41
In Russian we also use word "kapusta" as a slang word for "money" and some do say to kids that they were either found in the kapusta or brought by "aist" (stork).

same here

I wonder if you guys have a in Polish a legend (mostly spreaded among girls) that eating cabbage makes your breast grow?

if this legend is popular in russia i belive that russian girls must fart a lot
z_darius  14 | 3960
20 Nov 2008   #42
In Russian we also use word "kapusta" as a slang word for "money"

Happens in Polish too.

I wonder if you guys have a in Polish a legend (mostly spreaded among girls) that eating cabbage makes your breast grow?

I haven't heard about that one, but there is a belief that cabbage leaves can be used to alleviate some pain which on occasion is experienced by breastfeeding mothers.
Sasha  2 | 1083
20 Nov 2008   #43
if this legend is popular in russia i belive that russian girls must fart a lot

Cabbage is not a pea. :) It shouldn't be too farty.

I haven't heard about that one, but there is a belief that cabbage leaves can be used to alleviate some pain which on occasion is experienced by breastfeeding mothers

Maybe it indeed contains something...
McCoy  27 | 1268
20 Nov 2008   #44
Cabbage is not a pea. :) It shouldn't be too farty.

you don't know what you are talking about ;)
Sasha  2 | 1083
20 Nov 2008   #45
Hmm... While cooking borsch (some like beat soup) I add lots of cabbage in there. :) I didn't notice any fatal consequences.
Seanus  15 | 19666
20 Nov 2008   #46
Uwelbiają, simple answer. They adore it
regionpolski  33 | 153
23 Nov 2008   #47
When I visited Poland it seemed that every meal had three servings of vegetables. Cole slaw, red cabbage, and kapusta were the staples.
bravo  4 | 63
22 Jan 2010   #48
I am a savage.....for bacon and cabbage.
jonni  16 | 2475
22 Jan 2010   #49
Do Polish people love cabbage?

Well it's a big part of the diet. Not only here - every old apartent building from Alsace to Irkhutsk has a hallway smelling of boiled cabbage.

But red cabbage, when I cook it here, always goes down really well.
polkamaniac  1 | 482
22 Jan 2010   #50
I love cabbage-especially "cabbage Rolls"


  • cabbage_rolls.jpg
Sasha  2 | 1083
22 Jan 2010   #51
Do you call them (h)golubci? :)
aphrodisiac  11 | 2427
22 Jan 2010   #52
(h)golubci? :)

gołąbki- peagons in Polish for some reason;)

BTW: Kapusta in an y form is really good for you, so Polish, Slavs and Germans know what they are doing.
f stop  24 | 2493
22 Jan 2010   #53
Yes we love cabbage.
It's easy to grow and has myriads of health benefits.
I like it as a side veg, steamed, lately with ginger and soy sauce.
I also make many different simple salads - cole slaws variations, sans mayo.
polkamaniac  1 | 482
22 Jan 2010   #54
I also like my cabbage-bigos- and sausage especially from the street vendors.Seems to taste a lot better
pszczola  3 | 8
23 Jan 2010   #55
Delicious!!!! Coleslaw or cooked, I love it cooked with caraway seeds in chicken broth.
polkamaniac  1 | 482
23 Jan 2010   #56
Pierogi with cabbage and mushrooms is a favourite of mine---Bardzo smaczne!!!!!


  • pierogi.jpg
strzyga  2 | 990
23 Jan 2010   #57
We badly need our cabbage as there is a demographic downfall in Poland now. As you all know, babies are either found in the cabbage or brought by storks. So we need to grow more and more cabbage to make up for the decreasing number of storks.
f stop  24 | 2493
23 Jan 2010   #58
my mother makes her own sauerkraut and eats a spoonful every time she gets an indigestion/ sour stomach. Does not make any sense to me but she swears by it!
mephias  10 | 296
23 Jan 2010   #59
Yes Cabbage is loved in Poland. And there are many different salads (I don't know their name), some of them are very delicious.

Are there any salty pickles (prepared with salt and vinegar) in Poland ? (cucumber, cabbage). All I tried so far was sweet which I don't like.

every time she gets an indigestion/ sour stomach.

It really helps stomach. Sometimes I eat raw cabbage like a fruit when I have stomach problems.
strzyga  2 | 990
23 Jan 2010   #60
my mother makes her own sauerkraut and eat a spoonful every time she gets an indigestion/ sour stomach. Does not make any sense to me but she swears by it!

Sauerkraut has good bacteria responsible for the fermentation process, similar to yoghurt, so there is some sense in it.


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