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

Salt and vinegar crisps? The only flavour I'd buy.

Delicious. I see them more and more in Warsaw.

good

not really keen on those

Flavoured crisps...invented in Ireland.

Some places invented the jet engine others gave us spray cheese, some introduced high heels and the fork to society at large but Ireland gave us mankinds greatest achievement Tayto cheese and onion. The only problem is you have two Tato cheese and onion companies...tbc

Have you omitted whiskey by design?

You got me. Whiskey is Irelands gift to the world. Though the first mention of distillation in a historical text attributes it to someone called Mary the Jew. It's possible but unlikely that the said Mary was Jesus's Mom which would tie in nicely with the emerald isle.

You learn something new every day.

Like Ironside, I'm no fan of crisps but would buy salt and vinegar. Cheese and onion, or cream cheese and chives, no thanks.
Pringles (p,sin or salt and vinegar) are good and when in Africa I quote like the chilli and lemon ones they have there.

@jon357
Cheese and onion in a buttered bap is quite the thing.

@Barney
I'd try it with an open mind.

I do like both cheese and onion but not so much as a crisp flavour.

Near me is a company called Seabrooks. As crisps go, theirs are decent.

The worst I ever ate were chocolate flavour. I was running some language tests at the factory in Poland who were thinking I'd making them.

Well...a little bit of everywhere.

I'm not much of a crisps fan but cheese and onion are the only flavour I like. Don't think I could eat them in a bap though. I know quite a few people that enjoy crisp sandwiches. I find it a bit weird.

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You've separated the peanuts on the right from their skins on the left?

Apropos of nothing... one food I miss in Europe is boiled peanuts, a street food/snack in the US South

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiled_peanuts

The Cajun boiled peanuts sound really nice. Didn't know that different flavourings can be added to the water or that boiling them was a long process. We don't have anything like that here, at least that I've seen, just bags of salted KP nuts or the raw nuts in their shells.

There's also boiled crawfish... (be sure to suck the head!)

I've seen them prepared in much bigger quantities than this picture...

neworleanssaints.com/photos/photos-fans-attend-annual-saints-draft-boil-2023-nfl-draft#2c3c0535-8f53-4efb-8b35-0c99d73c4f17

Exactly except they aren`t peanuts. :):

We don't have them over here......I think. They look like big prawns. No way would I go near the head part!

My cousin has been spending the best part of 10 years trying to get me to visit her in the States.....but I have no real desire to go. The only parts I would be interested in visiting if I change my mind are New Orleans and the south in general ( for the food ) and New England in the fall.

Thanks for the photo link. That's a giant vat of crawfish! You've seen bigger amounts being prepared?


Pine nuts?

Really is the best part....


Crayfish? (often crawfish or crawdaddy in the South). Raki in Poland (though cooked very differently and not very common)

restauracjahektor.pl/raki-rarytas-w-polskiej-kuchni/

Even more glorious Irish invention, currently under protest from the French, namely the invention of lovemaking. Those Irish, invention machines

They look a bit like something between a large type of langouste or a spiny lobster. The former and similar varieties are very tasty. There are a lot off the western coasts of Britain.

These are I think freshwater though. Rather than seawater. Despite not liking river fish. I'd try them.

About crustaceans in Poland, since they simply weren't in the shops a few years ago, when they appeared, they were a rather nouveau riche thing with people wanting to show off by serving the biggest ones, often with shell still on. I still see echoes of this.

In fact, apart from lobster (and even then....) crustaceans tend to be better smaller rather than larger. If you haven't tried Dublin Bay Prawns, I recommend them.

I've heard more than one Pole refer to crustaceans as 'robaki'... (they have a point if they didn't live in water and were crawling around on land there's no way I'd eat them....)


My particular favorite used to be rock shrimp... ugly and so unpopular and a b7tch to clean (hard shell esp) but really delicious

why do u like poland so much man? why r u even here? dont tell me u fell for some braud who made u move here?

The same. Crustaceans (at least in some countries) have to be kept in clean water for several days before they're killed.

Rock shrimps (I googled them) sound nice (for me all crustaceans are ugly) however I've not seen them in Europe.

Have you had potted shrimp? You make it with Morecambe Bay Shrimps (tiny brown ones). Just the shrimps, cooked in melted butter and pepper and pressed in a small dish. You'd need to add salt if it's Polish butter. Traditionally served with toast. I've had some Morecambe Bay shrimp in freezer for the past 11 years. Too risky to eat now, however if I ever need to make a salad for r*SSians...

In your bathtub, next to carp.

No, in moving water to flush toxins out.

In your internal waterfall, then.

Sounds fun, however indoor water feature are a bit tacky and more trouble than they're worth.

Cat fountain is worth it.

If you want a 'cat fountain' wait until a tomcat is asleep next to a Roomba then remotely turn it on.. Whether you do it accidentally or deliberately, one thing is sure. You will get something similar to a fountain.

Nope, almonds. I mentioned them as an ingredient in the salad thread.