Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK

A tip. Go to Makro (no card needed nowadays; you just ask on the way in) and buy the catering packs of sliced boczek. It's sliced thickly and is better quality than the vaccuum packed dreck in supermarkets. The good bit is still missing but the quality is sometimes very good.


Prince Fvcking Polo. Yuk.

@jon357
Nice one, will be sure to give it a go next time I'm out in the outskirts near one.

It's not that Prince Polo is disgusting or anything, it's just that it's not enjoyable. It strikes me overwhelmingly as something very PRL, from a time people didn't have anything better. "National supplies of expensive cocoa are too low to make western-style 'chocolate bars'. Let's send it all to State Wafer Biscuit Factory #11 and we can coat their product very thinly with it."

do you know how supply and demand works - think about it and you will know

Is there high demand for British food from anyone besides British people?

I hope you understand this is in fact a rhetoric question

There are not enough bacon-eating, tea-sipping Brits in Poland to have their food readily available.

well in fact it isn't /wasn't a rhetoric question (I actually now reread it) - and no, there is little to no demand for British style food products in Poland (not counting the Brits here) - it's not like I personally dislike British style food products in general - it's just how reality looks on the ground here

@mafketis
I sense a very tired dig there. Like there are Polish restaurants all over the world, right? There are a handful in the UK and the only ones who ever, ever go to those are Polish people. Everyone's queuing up to eat tripe soup and meat/fish in gelatine, aren't they?

can you name a single restaurant that serves traditional British food in Warsaw? (maybe I'm ignorant so please enlighten me)

@gumishu
There's all kinds of things you can't get in Warsaw - not exactly the world's most cosmopolitan city. Funny little place - seems big to Poles though.

Only reason there are any Polish restaurants in any other countries of the world is because Polish immigrants go to them. Around a million Poles in the UK, tiny handful of restaurants, because nobody else wants to eat your food.

@gumishu
The best Poles can manage is flattened pork fried in breadcrumbs and served with boiled potato, which is only exciting if you're from Central Europe, and an incredibly fatty pork joint. The aforementioned guts soup and savoury jelly are horrorshows, as is the godawful herring, as are the endless hardboiled eggs, as is the festive carp, as are so many things. Polish food is usually either bland or horrifying. It's one of the worst things about living here. Sorry but you lot are the last people on Earth who should ever start sh*t about food. People who eat boiled hotdog sausages for breakfast can't really start throwing stones here.

sure, you can complain like that all the way or start cooking for yourself - choice is yours - btw Warsaw is the most cosmopolitan city in Poland and there are many restaurants serving exotic food - for some reason there is no British one, curious, no?

@gumishu

Not really, mate - ever see a Polish restaurant in Thailand or Vietnam, for instance? I never have. Or even seen one in any country that Poles haven't flooded with their 'emigres'. Curious, no?

Warsaw is only cosmopolitan for Poland, which really isn't saying much. You've only recently just managed to have a handful of semi-decent Indian restaurants and even most of them dramatically tone down everything to meet the local tastes, which regard dill, garlic and salt as basically all the flavor they could ever need.

I do cook for myself. I'm pretty good at it. I've got more variety of spices in my cupboard than the rest of my Warsaw neighbourhood combined (at least the Polish ones) - see the part above about dill, salt and garlic.

you have been reminded of that kettle pot thing on a couple of occasions here, already, that's one - two: who are you to criticize people's tastes: some kind of a higher being from the enlighted spheres? - three: you forgot to add black pepper, bay leaves, piment and marjory to the list of the absolute spice must haves of every Polish housewife

No.


No.

British food is boring for non Brits.But some Polish food does attract Brits.Kabanos,Okorki Kiszone,Kapusta,Pierogi,Golabki and Bigos always goes down well with Brits.

@Miloslaw
Pfff. Bigos? Cabbage stew with mushrooms? A lot of people of any nationality would be very turned off by that.

I think it's difficult to claim pickled cucumber as 'Polish' given that all kinds of different countries eat them.

If you mean kapusta in terms of sauerkraut, nobody except Poles and Germans are really interested in that - the korean version is spicy so that's a bit better but still a pretty specific thing that not everyone is going to like and a lot of people will reject. I'll probably eat it if they've put it on my bar mleczny plate as a side dish but I won't enjoy it and I would never specifically order it.

Kabanosy are basically Peperami. They're alright for a snack but that's as far as it goes. I don't even really like them myself anymore - only occasionally for something to eat if it's late at night and I don't fancy cooking. Nobody in any country (except Poland) is or would be crazy about kabanosy.

In summary, Polish food is pretty boring for anyone but Poles and other central Europeans who love going heavy on the cabbage, pork and hardboiled eggs, too. Many western and southern Europeans, for example, are not going to feel the same way. A few will though.

In the same way, there are things in Britain some Poles like. Those who can get their heads around the idea of eating lamb will enjoy a Sunday roast (I would imagine roast potatoes are a revelation when you've just been eating them boiled or as 'pancakes' your entire life). Our meat pies. Fish and chips (the chips are so much better than 'fries'). A full English breakfast is amazing compared to eating boiled hotdog sausages, hardboiled eggs, open-faced sandwiches, etc. Haggis. Our huge range of amazing cheeses, which make Poland's look pretty pathetic in comparison (when people chat sh*t about British food, they forget who invented f*cking cheddar).

Something else to consider: where does whiskey come from? And what's better, scotch whiskey or vodka? Vodka is some vile sh*t - any alcohol that you have to either throw down your neck as a shot or mix with something else isn't a good drink.

@Miloslaw
I guess you saw my comments about there not being Polish restaurants in any city/country not flooded by Polish economic migrants btw? And how said migrants are the only ones who eat at those restaurants?

Also, focusing specifically on Polish festive foods: the ones Poles eat at Christmas and Easter are challenging if not revolting for many.

Nobody else but a Russian is going to look at ryba/mieso w galarecie with anything but horror. Sledzik is disgusting. And so on.

Let's take Easter. You wake up in the morning and then almost immediately have to face about two kilos of hardboiled eggs in various forms (including devilled - very 1970s) and a 'salad' that's essentially peas and carrots floating in a lot of mayonnaise. Yum.

Or Christmas. So, eating a freshwater fish mostly known for tasting of mud and being bony is better than a roasted bird with roasted potatoes and vegetables? Accompanied with said 'salad'? What a treat.

I can't think of anything worse than being a Polish-British (or any other Polish- hyphenation) child and going to Polski Babcia's house for one of these religious occasions and being fed horror after horror. Cadburys chocolate egg on Easter morning? Nope, 50 kinds of hardboiled eggs at 9am. Nice bit of roast turkey for Christmas dinner? Nope, mudfish and mayonnaise soup! Poles don't see this though because it's completely normal to them.

The mudfish is for Christmas Eve, not Christmas Day.

Polish ovens are not set up for turkeys... if you need a bird for Christmas I think goose tastes much nicer.

But damn, now I would like a nice bowl of mayonnaise soup!

@mafketis
You know what I mean, though. Christmas Eve basically IS Polish Christmas Day, food-wise.

Goose is alright. Bit too fatty. Tbh I prefer chicken, lamb or beef anyway, but when you're roasting those every other Sunday anyway...

Russian Salad.

They don't like that being the name in English.


Mine isn't.

There doesn't seem much variety in what they serve at the festive season.

@jon357
I cannot stand the stuff (sledzik), think it's completely vile. Learned to just politely say "nie dziekuje" when I'm offered it in home settings, despite a little bit of astonishment/offence in response.

I know an American guy who used to live here who is a pescatarian (so couldn't eat a lot of Polish traditional foods) and would always order XL servings of sledzik 'for the table' when we went to Polish restaurants in Polish company, I think to fairly performatively demonstrate his appreciation of the national cuisine (and one of its more challenging manifestations). Ah, great, a big platter of slimy, cold herring to share. It's stomach-turning IMO.

A lot of it is.

I'm away at the moment, back in a couple of weeks or so. Come round ours and I'll do a śledzik that you'll like.

Generally, we don't have or want much Polish food in our home. Neither of us like it much, except some of the soups. If course some of the soups, plus things like pierogi, gołąbki, schabowy etc are generic Eastern European, findable from Szczecin to Vladivostok.

It's called russian salad in most European languages, except russian where it's cалат оливье (Olivier salad, named after the inventor).

śledzik is a different story for me, I really like some forms and can't stand others...

I like the simple kind, drained and rinsed matyas filets cut up with onions in oil with salt and pepper.
A friend makes herring in sour cream infused with garlic or horseradish... both are very good

I've had very good and very awful salads with herring.... śledź w miodzie (herring in honey) despite the odd-sounding name was pretty good and I'd eaten a lot before I knew the name (had I heard the name first I'm not sure if I would have tried it at all).

rolmops on the other hand.... meh..

And Ukrainian. They have quite a nice version.


Use the kind in jars. Snip the fillets into pieces. If you use matjas, soak first for 2 days at least, changing water.

Chop a couple of green eating apples finely. Same with onion. Mix with the chopped herring, add mayonnaise (not cream) and press under a plate for at least 24 hours, draining any liquid off. Refresh with mayonnaise before serving. Stir in chopped dill.


I could live on those.

There is nothing else that is recognized worldwide. It is funny, you're going about cuisine and restaurants, and food. British food is generally not existing outside Britain, except the English breakfast, ah, and maybe fish and chips if you are lucky. A dish that is not even original or exclusively yours.
There is nothing special about European food; there is local variation in some staple foods. Only the French managed to make a difference. There is northern European food, southern European food, and French food.
Hence, Chinese, Korean, or whatnot foods are such a success here.
To sum it up, you don't like the local version of the same staple food you have in your home country. Who cares? Eat aartappels.
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Of course not lol


You can say the same about British food :)))


I've been eating ash roasted potatos (from a campfire in the countryside) since I was a kid and I've eaten them roasted in an oven, but nothing beats Polish potato "pancakes" for me o_O


Dude, I absolutely love herring in oil with onion (it has to be fresh though, or it gets disgusting) and I couldn't care less if any foreigners like it or not! ;D

I find sushi vomit-inducing though, so go figure...

I also love the veggie salad with mayo - it's childhood food that we've been all accustomed to, like you've been accustomed to your lamb or whatever :)

Our food is not for foreigners to love. Get over yourself lol

That's baked potatoes. Not roast.

@jon357, I've googled it and that's what I've found, among others:

happyfoodstube.com/ash-roasted-potatoes/

"Ash-roasted potatoes can be cooked in the ashes of a campfire or charcoal grill."

I've never heard of these "Ash-roasted potatoes, cooked in the ashes of a campfire or charcoal grill", but have been eating roast potatoes for too many decades, have made them hundreds of times, and probably into 4 figures, including last night and at least weekly in Poland.

Too much hassle to make the "ashes of a campfire or charcoal grill" on a wet Tuesday teatime. Much easier just to use the gas or leccy oven or the Yorkshire range back in the day. And easier still nowadays to do them in an air fryer.

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@jon357, I've googled to find out what's the difference in English between those two and apparently "baked potatos" are when you bake them whole and "roast potatos" are when you cut them in pieces and bake them. In Polish both would be "pieczone ziemniaki".


They aren't "mine" - I literally gave you a link in English *shrugs*


Well, they don't taste exactly the same if you bake them in the oven and you do it in the summer during holiday with your whole family in the countryside :))) The main attraction though was always homemade Polish sausage with mustard of course *drools* 🤤