Poles prefer pizza & kebab?

British people love curry and I don't hear anyone complaining.
I eat soups and pierogi every day at home. I get sick of them sometimes and wish for something new.

Wrocław, some places do seafood pizzas but it's by no means standard.

True, the sauce makes a difference. The texture of the meat is different in different places.

Vetala, well said. I am a fan of Polish food but just not every day. I'm glad that Tesco has all kinds of international food like crab sticks, fancy cheeses and good tinned foods.

The fact that these crappy foods have been ranked so highly by your common Pole does to show how much the Polish cuisine is sucking. Poland needs a renaissance in cuisine! And don't be stupid and say renaissance=pizza....an Italian will hurt you.

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Why polish people love so much kebab?

Is there any specific reason for that?

@Osmanski
I'm Polish. I had a kebab more than a year ago.

Quite not truth, I can eat it but far away from loving it.

Kebabs are clearly very popular in Poland in the same way as fish and chips are in the UK, otherwise you wouldn't see so many kebab shops all over the place. There are some kebab shops in Warsaw anyway which have been in business for over twenty years and you don't stay in business unless you have customers.

To answer the OP's question, I think there's a few reasons. They're meaty (Poles like their meat), they're cheap, they can be taken away and eaten on the go and they're very filling. They are thus a popular choice with guys who do manual labour. Any kebab shop near a building site gets plenty of customers but I know loads of upwardly mobile, professional types who enjoy a kebab at the weekends, especially after a few drinks.

If you compare the amount of Kebabs in Poland to the amount of chips shops in the UK then you're a joke.

Well now - where I live in Warsaw there are at least six kebab shops within a ten minute walk of my place.

Beats me - I like a good kebab but in Poland you need to be very drunk to enjoy those. Some are way more than 1000 calories according to something I saw in the paper. On the occasions when I have no other option to eat quickly I will normally get the felafel.

Warsaw is the biggest village in Poland and quite different from the rest of the country.

Yes dear, but you're not Polish. Poles are not known for their healthy eating. A meat based meal drenched in fat fits in quite well with some aspects of traditional Polish cuisine.


You'll find a kebab shop in any town of a decent size in Poland. There's even a kebab 'factory' in Śląsk. But according to a delightful chappie called Professor Pankowski of some university or other, "People who buy kebabs in Poland are often hooligans". Good to know. Bank manager asks hopeful entrepreneur 'So who is your target market?' 'Eh, that would be hooligans, my market research shows that there's an untapped market of hungry hooligans' :D

Oh I like meat alright and I had a lot of Polish food at family occasions when I was a kid. Golonka, kotlety, karkowka, kaszanka are all wonderful.

My issue is with the obvious poor quality of those kebabs with their greasiness masked by salt and sugar - I know it is cheap but if you want to fill yourself up as cheaply as possible then a pack of vifon is better.

I think the number of kebab shops in Poland is far higher than the number of chip shops in Britain. A bit of googling shows 10.500 chip shops. In the town where I have my summer house there are at least 6 kebab shops in a population of 25.000. I read online that 1 in 3 licensed food outlets in Poland serves kebabs - sometimes as the main event and sometimes as part of a wider offer of pizza, burgers etc

Polish and Central/Northern European food isn't very "street friendly". As in something you can grab in one hand and eat. Zapiekanki comes to mind. This is why Currywurst is so popular in Germany. When I am in the USA - I frequently eat burritos which is similiar to kebab.

A good burrito is much better than a kebab :) it is one of the things I really miss about living in the US. There are a few burrito places of various quality open in Poland now though.

I think I've only eaten Mexican once in Europe and it was in Berlin. Was decent but I think the owners wife was latin so there were some distinct differences.

Do you usually go with carne asada burrito?

Ha ha yes love that - but really dig fish tacos :)). A good burrito needs meat or fish but plenty of really fresh veg and salsa

Even Rubio's fish tacos are damn good for a franchise chain. You have a point with the fresh veggies and salsa compared to the kebab. I also think when you eat Mexican food from a restaurant/taco shop with a grill - then the Kebab shop can't compare. That BBQ'd grill taste is unmatched to me at-least.

Grilled kiełbasa in a bun, paszteciki and krokiety with typical Polish fillings could be tasty, hand-held street food, but they haven't been cultivated nad promoted properly. Seems we can once again paraphrase Mickiewicz's words: "Co obcy wymyśli, Polak polubi!"

Poles eat crap food only after partying. Anglos eat crap food everyday lol. I'll never forget the view of McDonnalds in Corby, N'hants on Christmass 2015. It was full of obesed Britons. ROFL

You clearly haven't been to a chippy nation have you? In the UK there is a chip shop on every street, it's part of their culture for decades, I don't know what kind of mental benefits gives you believing otherwise but you are free to do so.


I don't know what that has to do with anything, that's very good that they like to eat some kebab after watching a football game, maybe it's a good source of energy that you need for fighting?

Yes I have lived in a chippy nation for many years.

If you go to London now you would struggle to find a chippy in the centre of town. The same would apply to many gentrified city centers in the U.K. I know this because a month ago I felt like fish and chips and on googling found not many options.

You would quickly find a kebab place in any Polish town and in 80 percent of shopping malls.

Google also tells me that there are 21.000 kebab shops in Poland and only 11.000 chip shops in the U.K. Per head then the devotion of Poles to this awful food is much stronger than the British love of chips !

Lol. Google tells me that in Poland chip shops are almost non-existent and it says that there are more than 20k kebab shops in the UK as well. Means you have 11k more of those serving crap food.

So yea lol

Wulkan may I help you out here? Hooligan does not mean violent football fan. Hooligan means any uncouth individual, usually young and male, and quite likely to cause public disorder through not necessarily football related. Thus when the Prof referred to hooligans he wasn't suggesting that only football hooligans eat kebabs, but rather that they are eaten mainly by a certain type of working class male. He's wrong of course (academics frequently are when it comes to real life). I've seen all sorts of people in kebab shops.

LMAO If you struggle to find a chippy in the city centre in the UK then you're dumber than a woodpecker on an aluminum pole!


You look like that type of a guy who asks google where is your mobile phone when you lose it. :-)


Indeed, he doesn't even understand that most chippies in the UK sell kebab too and that's how they come out in google but he looks like a CNN watcher type so we can't expect too much.


It usually is in Poland.


That's usually "dresiarz" in Poland


I haven't seen this interview that must have been in Polish as well so I can't really tell. Still I don't know what that has to do with anything? You seem to make a point without driving to any conclusion.

Please cut down on the number of quotes in your posts

God Almighty. It was just a throwaway, facecious comment.

Anyway the bottom line is that in a country with a population lower than that of the UK, and if one classifies both fish and chips and kebabs as standard/popular, cheapish fast food, there are double the number of such outlets in Poland so therefore kebabs are indeed as popular in Poland as fish and chips are in the UK as I originally suggested, here's a little flashback:


but in fact even MORE popular so I'm right - as usual. You, on the other hand are as wrong as you usually are and as usual can't bring yourself to admit it. Take the shame :)

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I'm afraid you are wrong.

There are not many traditional fish and chip shops in towns these days. Of course they are still there but for you to claim there is one on "every street" is completely wrong even taking into account that you might have been exaggerating just for effect.

Chippys used to be the only takeaway food in Britain for many years but now the market has become more competitive. Spicy Indian food is now probably more popular

They don't need to be traditional, in my city most of them are run by Bangladeshi and they also sell kebab.


Anything to back it up? :-)

I was actually disagreeing with you and not with Atch-I still haven't mastered cut and paste !

fish and chips shops run by Bangladeshis and selling kebabs are not fish and chip ships in my book