Which foods are generally disliked/unpopular in Poland? Which non-Polish foods are slowly gaining popularity?

Actually I don`t need to know how to cook it. It was enough for me to look at a piece of mutton with that yellow fat and smell it to feel disgusted. :):)

Which is strange coz I like strong smells and tastes, e.g., goat milk or cheese are delicacies for me. But mutton - bweee.

I guess if you are not used to it then lamb does have quite a strong flavour.
But not as much as venison, which I hate.
Do you like venison?

Have you tried farmed venison? Very different to game venison, much milder in flavour.

I assumed the venison available in supermarkets was farmed.
So, no, I don't know which I have eaten.........

But it seems you use mutton and lamb interchangably, while I only object to mutton coz I had lamb a few times and it was OK.

Venison which I had was OK coz it was processed - I mean deer or wild boar sausage. As for raw meat, I ate one as a young man which was a long time ago so I don`t remember now. That meat is available here but I don`t fancy buying and eating it. I am put off by potential parasites in it.

They obviously have a similar flavour but mutton is stronger.
I prefer lamb.

I've had it a time or two in the US (cousins in the country who hunted).... it pretty much tasted like lean beef.... buffalo also tasted like beef....

I miss nutria... there used to be a store that sold nutria thighs just around the corner but the building was torn down to build apartments... there are a couple of places in town that have it but they're not close.

Nutria tastes a bit like very light, lean beef (imagine beef as a light meat...) very tender.

How did they check it for parasites?


You mentioned it before but I didn`t know it was sold in shops, I thought it was some private source, an individual grower. Amazing - never heard of eating nutria coz they are kept basically for their skins.

hmmmmm how to put this..... (dadburn city folk!)

You mean they don`t check it? Perhaps they believe hot temperature during cooking kills all eggs.

They were cattle ranchers so I gave them credit for knowing how to handle meat....

A lot of people reject tatar - raw minced beef dish.

While I love it and make it once a month. Be careful to use the meat which you have frozen for a few days to kill all parasites it it!!!

My comfort food - when I feel down, I eat tatar:

What can we see here?
raw minced beef
yolk
chopped onion
chopped pickled cucumber
sardines
pickled noble mushrooms
spices: oregano, pepper, ginger, curry
olive oil
soya sauce

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Disgusting.......

@Miloslaw

Wow finally Milo and I can agree about something.

I forgot to list buns or white bread. Normally I eat brown bread but it is too savoury and overshadows the taste of tatar so I turn to white one.


Now I can reveal it : I use the tatar dish to distinguish between tough people and sissies. hahaha

The beginning: (hey, hunters, don`t haunt me for eating this piece of meat, it wasn`t me who killed the supplier of it)

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I love it two (though anymore I just buy the pre-packeaged type). I also always make sure to have vodka with it (disinfectant) and I use.... mayonaise rather than raw egg.... (heresy I know....)

Yuk!

I did only once when I was truly desperate and then stopped after reading the long list of all additives. :):)

I can`t drink vodka to a dish. Only solo when my wife`s uncle visits us. :):)


Heresies are welcome in accordance with individual preferences. E.g, I use powdered ginger and curry coz I like their flavour.

No, Mr. former president. Poles definitely do not eat dogs or cats.

Now and again on the TV news they report in old people arrested for selling dog lard. However that's a. used externally as an embrocation or liniment or whatever, b. illegal and c.rare nowadays.