Poles Living in the Chicago Area

How would you know???


I dont know of any "commercialized" Polish restaurants, they are all family owned around here. Its obvious you haven't been to Chicago and just talking BS as usual.


Its little Posens only income for the year so they better have good food! LOL

I've been to Chicago and was not impressed by some of the over priced voluum Polish restaurants.
Because they are family owned doesn't make the food superior. lol


You have never been here have you ?
You are jealous to think I am surrounded by much more Polish influence and culture than you could begin to think of living there in the jungle of suburbea Chicago.

Tak

Hey all you Polocks living in the Chicago area........We are having another Polish Festival coming up here in Michigan August 26th thru the 29th, 2021.

We have a whole lot of people living up here in Northern Michigan with Polish ethnicity.
Scroll thru the pictures of the events.
We will have some of the most famous Polish bands that the United States has to offer.

cedarpolkafest.org/

While you are there checkout the Polish Art Center for Polish gifts.
It's a treasury of Polish heritage.
Open year around.

polartcenter.com/Default.asp

How about some homemade globaki...

I had her add some more sauce to it. Some ppl like it with mushroom sauce, but I cant stand those slimy fungi:(

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Ive never had a Kiwi Paczki before ( from Polish deli) perhaps, its called sth else?

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@Joker

The home made golobki look good!

I have never seen kiwi fruit paczki before either and don't fancy them.

The kabanosy and boczek look good though.

Not pączki, they look more like drożdżówki than anything else


gołąbki

Also, is szpek a pol-am name? I can't say I've ever heard (or seen it) used... it comes from German Speck so maybe it's regional and taken to the US?

On the other hand, where I live no one says 'kartofel / kartofle' but I do hear it a lot in Warsaw...

I think you are right, I didn't look too carefully.

For some reason I dont like both in Polish food,I still prefer beef jerkys and Oscar mayer Bacon to that.
Had golumbki for lunch yesterday in lunch special for 27pln with ukranian borscht soup,mash potatoes and salatka.

That is understandable, boczek is not to everyone's taste as it is very fatty and some kabanos can be very dry and make you thirsty.

But I grew up with them and love them both.

I know people eat like that but I will never understand how anything can be eaten with gołąbki .

Yeah, it's a one dish meal (that is gołąbki and sauce). Though I've been known to have one gołąbek on top of mashed potatoes (with a tomato-paprika sauce and sour cream).

I like them without the sauce. Oh, I miss my mom's cooking (gołąbki) are one of those dishes that I just can't make as good as she did

I think that is your American taste kicking in.

I dont know all the names of the sweets but the assortment they have is very impressive. I started going there for the fresh baked Polish bread and wound up giving into temptation. Every paczki Ive tasted has been delicious:) Ill probably pass on the kiwi one though....


I buy those grill sausages of BBQ, its a big hit at my house:)


I wouldn't be surprised if the 2 were integrated at some point in time. I like this deli and going to try some different foods and will report back:)

Does she use a lot of rice? Im used to them being mostly meat and just a little bit of rice, it was different but good. My favorite Polish dish is Zraszy (sp) its rolled up meat with pickles inside:) Not many places seem to serve it around here.


They have a large selection of sausages, I haven't tried most of them but look good. This place gets packed on the weekend and you have to take a number and wait quite awhile sometimes.

Who has more sausages Germans or Polish?


Ill still cant get over Poles putting ketchup and Corn on Pizza! LOL

I reckon it's probably a close run thing.

But I think Germans eat more sausages than Poles.

Where is BB when we need him?

lol and some eating pizza slice with fork and knife but I think that is European thingy.Here in Warsaw lately couple of places popping up selling single slices of pizza for 7 pln,selling whole pizza was the norm till cpl years back.Cpl months back I asked for oregano & garlic powder for my 2 slices and all looked at me like who eats pizza with sprinkling that on a pizza also sausage pizza in Poland is kielbasa pizza not the sausage pizza we get again maybe European thing but in Italy its a norm.


Same around 45 miles from me,a very elegant and not formal place tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g46571-d10554464-Reviews-Pulaski_Meat_Products_Co_Inc-Linden_New_Jersey.html.

There is so much competition for Polish food in that area that here is one store selling lunch deal for 6,99, janosikmarket.com/

@Miloslaw
Germans eat potato salad and sausages for Christmas, but Polish sausage simply tastes better.

There are some very good German sausages but, in general, my preference is for Polish too.

I think cuz Polish sausage/kielbasa is smoked or smoke flavour added.we still prefer the ones with garlic flavor over the smoked ones.

what do they say instead? szpek is definetly common polish but i am from warsaw tho.

ziemniaki


It's not in wikipedia or the pwn dictionary or the wielki słownik języka polskiego

wiktionary has it as a synonym of słonina (not boczek)

Some cite it as archaic or gwara (esp Silesia)

Also urban dictionary mentions that the meaning of boczek or słoniny is passing out of usage, it's primary usage in modern slang is as word meaning marijuana (or esp blunt).

More or less equal with meat.


I'm from Silesia so basically grew up on those. The meat is ok but the gravy my mum did was to die for... I'm not too bad at it either.


Corn on pizza is a must!!!


Never heard it.

And slonina is not the same as boczek. Even on the pic you see how fatty it is

szpek means smoked ham, region - Galicja. Probably loan from the times of the Austro-Hungary rule..

Derived from "Speck", obviously, or "bacon".
Noticed many such dialect/regional words and expressions which derive from German,
but especially in the area of Silesia.

So that would explain how it got to the US since that's where lots of emigrants to America came from...

It also explains that Germanic influence.

I would find it very suprising if someone used that term for weed . skręty is the one i remember for joints. (sometimes lines)

I haven't heard it (don't hang out in those circles) but here are two sources:

miejski.pl/slowo-Szpek

slang.pl/szpek/