BREAD IN POLAND IS DETERIORATING

Polish bread is not perfect if I, and others, can find faults with it ;)

i'm sorry you feel that way.. i can't take the spongy, flaky crap here. Italians can bake some bread and the french only a baguette.. :D

Polish bread is pure joy after crappy soft sliced white loaves here in UK....it's great now all the supermarkets sell it!

I mean, it's much more than edible but not the best I've tasted. It's a matter of preference.

I like the ones which you have to cut yourself.

yeah, thank god i'm polish though. ;) :D

Are you in Poland now, sampling the bread?

No no still here in sunny UK, polski stuff in all the shops.

there is a wide range of bread. if you shop according to taste you should find a store or bakery that sells what you want.

My beef is that I can't find a decent sized loaf. the slices are too small.

The slices are too small, hmm...not the slices in the middle. At the end of the loaf, yes. You can always cut your own, Wrocław.

wiejski chleb

these are like 1.5 feet across.

i didn't make myself clear (nothing unusual there)

it's just that i pine for 'Mother's Pride' type slices

Or Mighty White :) I prefer British bread, maybe it's because I'm used to it.

Dont worry wroclaw I will post you a loaf.......I know the post to Poland is slow....but it will be fine.!

My opinion is that yes, the overall quality of bread in Poland has deteriorated somewhat in recent years. I kind of have the idea that they're whipping more air into it now (year by year it gets squishier and squishier). But I don't know enough about breadmaking to say anything sure.

This is less true in the countryside but urban consumers are notoriously less picky and will buy crap and ask for more.

On the other hand, good quality bread is less important now. In communist times Polish bread was thick and nutritious. It was easy to think a person could live off it and many people essentially did.

There's a lot more variety in affordable food available now and bread isn't really the staff of life anymore (except for the poorest who are paying nutritionally for the expanded choices of the rest of us).

Excellent bread can still be found but it takes effort and it's more expensive. The quality of the everyday stuff for most people has absolutely deteriorated and no one with a memory can really deny that.

Very true. Unfortunately.
In commie times food processing technology was in much worse shape so paradoxically bread was better. Currently most of it don't deserve to be called bread, at least everything under 2,5 zł for 0,5 kg. And, for the record it is not only the problem of price, at least not straigtforward. You see, most folks buy this cheap "bread", so bread which was typical in commie times is now kind of luxury, because is not mass produced = is expensive :-(

It is like Copernicus said "bad money displace good" :-(

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POLISH BREAD (is crap!)

Can anyone think of another name for Polish bread?

The only word I can think of is...crap!
It lasts one day, and then you have to throw it away!
FFS. I miss a loaf of Warburtons, that frigger would last all week, and still make a nice sandwich at the end of it.

I guess 80% of poles have a breadmaker at home, because when its another public holiday
(yes, there's quite a few of these!) It means you cannot buy a loaf, so your stuck with the one you had bought the day before, and thats only good for throwing at Germans.

That's why I only buy traditional Polish bread if I know that my wife and I will be eating sandwiches on that day. In that case, we buy a small loaf.

Subaru mad, I recommend that you toast it on the 2nd or 3rd day. Pop some marg on top and you have a tasty snack, trust me! Otherwise you'll be eating sth like a nun's little friend.

I sometimes go to Tesco's because its British, and the prices are so damn reasonable.
So I usually buy too much :(
I was a little dissapointed in Poland over Easter, as I couldn't fins any hot cross buns anywhere.

Luckily I'm back in England in a few weeks,
hello tasty food again, lol

(Anyone want anything bringing back? Bourbons, custard creams, wagon wheels, etc?)

I don't know anybody who would be using a bread maker of any kind. Bread and breadrolls we usually buy in local bakeries and supermarkets are usually pretty good for about 3 days. Of course fresh bread and breadrolls taste best. I toast them or put into the microwave with some cheese if its over 4 days from buying. But that's usually only for breadrolls.

I also noticed that bakery products from different supermarkets tend to differ in the time they stay eatable... For instance Kaufland is pretty bad on that matter while my local bakery is much much better...

Tesco is doing really well at the moment, seeing in record profits. I did a big shop there just the other day. I tend to buy the toasted bread options. In that way, I don't need to force myself to eat tuna or meat when I don't really want to.

When it comes to some British products, I just imagine myself eating it. That way I don't get fat :)

Takes a while but i like it now well some brands not the dark grey kind of bitter variety i stay away from that. Keep searching finding the right bread takes a while, i have it nailed down now.


Only because its totally natural and not full of crap additives. Most traditional bakeries in the UK produce bread that starts to firm after 8 hours, the sliced varieties dont as they have corporate boffins packing shite into the recipe.


last time i was in the UK i ate a lot of sliced bread man i had indigestion and i dont get indigestion, dont you think its a bit strange a loaf of bread staying fresh for over a week, thats not natural.


Tip - buy and freeze straight away, most Polish rolls are great toasted two days after purchase without freezing.


I have guests at the moment and they brought me Walls pork sausages, a fat sausage sandwich was in order this morning and it was lovely.

!FILLET STEAK!

Theres been confusion over this, i saw some yesterday in Auchen so i took a photo of it, i'll post when i can be bothered to rip the file from my phone. 80 PLN / kg with official Polish name and everything.

Walls sausages are the dogs bolloc*s! Proper Lincolnshire skinless sausages are legendary :)

Subaru, WB is right and he has mentioned this before. I don't have such a big freezer but I'd do what I did in Scotland and pop it in if I did. Defrost the bread and, voila, you have a brilliant sandwich. Failing that, just toast it.

yeh the one thing that never agreed with me here is the kiełbasa, ive tried and tried just dont like it. Cant beat a good English posk sausage and bacon ofcourse.

This may seem like a stupid question, WB, but I'll roll with it. What make of bacon did you use back in England? Scots tend to use Lurpak which is, as you know, Danish. I had to laugh when some Poles asked me if they had heard of the new butter here, Lurpak. LOL

Bacon butties :) :) Bangers and mash :) :)

Oh, a comment on Polish bread. I like the sesame crust ones.

My freezer is tiny I'm afraid, 1 frozen lasagne in there and its full.

As for sausages - I think I heard that a traditional sausage from Poland has the contents of...HORSE.

Konnier kewbaskie, hard to find, but a traditional sausage

Some might, subaru.

You should try some of the whole loaves where you cut them by yourself. They tend to last a bit longer.

Agreed, when you buy a whole loaf and keep it in a bag or a bread container there's no much air circulation and the bread stays fresh longer...

Ive always mixed butters to be honest but Lurpak is my favourite, I actually bought two packs on Tuesday used one for pastry the other for bread and bought another two yesterday for the sausage butties and such. Lurpak is indeed the name of the game in terms of butter right now.


I made a chicken pie yesterday, it will be awesome in fact i have to get my ass moving in a minute and cook for 7.

You know what really annoys me about food in Poland? KFC, i had a specialny menu last night with extra chicken, so thats three pieces, i got a wing, a drum and a thigh. The portion of chips was below the level of the puny bag, they shaft you at the drive through.


me too, sometimes they go a bit crazy with that though.

I would prefer those additives, E104 is my favourite, lol.
AND Warburtons stays fresh for longer because...Its in a wax packet, and people refridgerate it after opening. Its superb bread, and still ok to use after the best before date.

Living in Poland doesn't half make you watch the pennies!

I'm waiting to see the photo of this, 80zl a kilo, WTF?! who can afford that in Poland? It must be priced up for tourists.

So, Lurpak is for choice. For bacon too?

Britain is streets ahead when it comes to pies. Even the mince pies you get at footie matches with Bovril are the stuff of legends!

I just like it when some knock Polish bread as they seem to treat it as out of this world. I've tasted bread as good back home and also in the Baltic States. It's just preference, not better or worse.