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Taste of food in Poland vs other countries [186]
I actually have the same feeling about the UK food - it's really hard to find something decent. And I don't work in a menial job, I own a business.
Bread - I think the English took care to evolve their whitest and spongiest bread into something so white and cottony that it lost all taste. I bet that they can't concieve why Poles would eat grey rubbery bread - but to me chleb just has more texture, taste, and nutritional value.
Meat - the one in the shops is just poison. The one from the butcher's is all right, I know the best butcher in town. When English complain about meat in Poland, they mean steaks - and we don't have steak meat, because we don't have steaks in our cuisine.
Fish - there are some fish, you can find fish markets in cities. Outside of cities the best bet is Tesco's - the fish is fresh, but no sweetwater sifh, sadly.
Vegetables - no variety, no quality. I forgot how the tomatoes taste. Or what can I eat apart from green beans abd brocooli. shudder. One funny thing - they eat swedes (brukiew), but not turnips (rzepa).
Coffee - pathetic. I import from Germany.
Tea not as I would expect, it's normally very strong and has a different flavour range. No tangy bitterness, a lot of that mellow aftertaste that's sickening to me.
Eggs - ok.
Milk - it's not milk, it's white water after all other products are taken out. But, as with everything else, if you research long enough you can find something excellent. There's one variety of milk in one shop that tasted good - Dairy Crest, small glass bottles with metal cap, 0,4l. No label.
Juice - tastes like cordial, not juice, but of course there is one shop in vicinity which sells one variety in glass bottles that is actually good.
So - if I'm prepared to drive around town for hours, to pick every article in a different store, then I can eat well even in the rainy land. I've even found some President plums once. Oh joy.
