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Which foods are generally disliked/unpopular in Poland? Which non-Polish foods are slowly gaining popularity? [180]
Of course they are naff compared to London - almost every city in the world is worse off than London for ethnic restaurants.poland is still quite a poor country and customers can not afford the best ingredients and chefs all the time.
Exception is sushi - apart from maybe Frankfurt and Düsseldorf I think Poland has the best in Europe and outside Warsaw most towns have some good sushi bar - it is becoming to Poles what curry is to English, a default option that you can take away or eat at the restaurant.
All supermarkets have plenty of ethnic food now - Piotr i Pawel, Lidl and Biedronka have pioneered that and the others followed. Poles returning from holidays have wider tastes and foreign travel has really taken off in the last 10 years.
I even disagree with what you say about strong cheese - it was never going to be a winner without organized retailers - many small shops in the 90s did not have chiller cabinets which are expensive to buy and run, there were few refrigerated trucks or warehouses. Now you can find a good range of French, Italian, Spanish cheeses in most supermarkets plus strong Austrian cheeses.
