Poles prefer pizza & kebab?

Just out of curiosity on this I popped on Just Eat for my area (close to a large city centre in the UK). While there are 11 fish & chip shops, there are 28 Chinese restaurants and 55 Indian. For the sake of staying on topic, there are also 12 Kebab shops. While there is no doubt there will be some crossover (some Indian places will sell kebabs, some kebab shops will sell fish & chips) the numbers themselves tell the story that the humble chippy isn't as popular in the UK as it once was.

In saying that, last time I was in Kraków I noticed that a lot of kebab shops had changed to "noodle and rice bars" and it seemed every new fast food place to open was a gourmet burger joint...so maybe the popularity of kebab shops is waning too. That is just from the one most recent trip, and I don't have numbers to back it up, but I would be interested to see if the numbers of kebab places are falling.

@Cardno85

Yes-that's what I was telling Wulkan. Irritating when someone thinks they know better than someone who lives in the country being discussed.

As you say, there is a certain amount of crossover so Chinese takeaways may also sell chips and kebab shops too but fish and chip shops are not as popular as some might think

Agreed. They're not cheap, the tastes of people who can afford to get fidh and chips for the family have changes, people are more health conscious and the poorest among us can't afford it.

I like fish and chips still, others may want a chicken tikka masala or a beef and black bean.

The chippy near my home in the UK serves an area with a very large Polish and Baltic population. I've never seen any Poles in there. In the pizza shop across the road, there's a sign in Polish.

But they sell fish and chips and that's the point so if kebab shop in Poland sells pizza too it's no longer a kebab? I don't care that the only chip shop is a chip shop in your dictionary is the one that is run by white English with twice as big prices and if it's Bangladeshi it's not, you must be racist too :-/

I live in England 15 years and my mrs is English and she disagrees with every BS statement you have made here

I ate kebab only once in my life - about 20 years ago when the fad started.

According to data presented by reporters of the "Uwaga!" program TVN , about five million Poles eat kebabs every day. According to TNS OBOP research, kebab has become the most popular dish eaten outside the home - it is chosen by 40 percent of the inhabitants of our country. For comparison, 29 percent choose local cuisine and 23 percent choose pizza.

Kebab is served in 25,000 bars, restaurants and stands in our country. But what are we actually eating when we reach for this dish? Inspections of food quality services revealed irregularities in 80 percent. catering points. In nearly three-quarters (74.8%) of cases, these irregularities concerned ingredients that were supposed to be in the dish but in fact were not there. More than half (54%) found that the kebab lacked the declared type of meat, for example mutton, or contained chicken instead of beef.

Analysis of meat samples, commissioned by reporters of the "Uwaga!" program TVN, showed that the popular delicacy also contains wheat and soy. - We found a fairly wide composition of plant species in the samples used for two samples, even though they were not vegetarian kebabs - he told "Attention!" Michał Dąbrowski from the SGS Polska Laboratory. Contrary to the declarations of kebab sellers, the kebabs that were examined did not contain mutton. - We did not detect any mutton in any of the samples - noted Dąbrowski. - These declarations should be treated with caution - he added.

It could be worse.

In Britain they've used the bodies of murder victims. Literally.

A true 21st century horror story:

Case of Charlene Downes, feared killed and ground into kebab meat at 14, reopened as investigators probe fresh clues

Two men were charged and put on trial in 2007 for her murder, but the jury failed to reach a verdict. During the trial, the court heard the police's suspicion that Charlene's body had been ground into kebabs and her bones crushed into tile grouting.

lbc.co.uk/news/charlene-downes-missing-girl-blackpool-case-reopened/

Feared, yet oddly enough there's not one iota of evidence and the gentleman involved was found innocent in a court of law.

You do seem obsessed with cultures and countries better than your own...

Meaning?

American culture.

Violent and basic.

Kebabs seem to be becoming almost the national dish in Warsaw. Almost never with lamb.

That King Kebab chain is everywhere and has some horrible things on the menu.

What's telling is the freezers in Makro where they sell lots of different brands of diner meat for kebab shops. There's a crazy difference in price and quality between them all and it's almost always the cheapest ones that you see people buying..

I eat kebab very rarely, and if I do, it's only with chicken. I assume that chicken is so cheap that no one cheats on it. Just like they do with lamb.

Tbh the kebab in Germany is/was amazing!

They have some nice ones in Berlin.

I wish you'd been in the U.K. when kebabs were new in the late 80s. You'd have liked them. Most of the shop owners were Greek Cypriots and made the kebab meat themselves from lamb and fresh thyme.