Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA?

Selbstverstaendlich.
I know why now.
Orthodoxy Church is guilty.


Recipe is simple. I just need to borrow you my mom for a while :)

Apetite is gone.

why don't you ask him? ;-)

Because it's tasty and healthy.

(and most foods are usually one or the other)

Delicious. And beats pigs' liver, fish in pig jelly, potatoes, tripe, ketchup and decaying cabbage any day

Of course , it is true .


It smells like hell . There is nothing better than our " olej kujawski "canola oil - no aggressive smell and very delicate .

Nietzsche agrees with you, Southern, he was adamant about the need to replace butter with olive oil to improve Northern cuisine and he lamblasted German food for being frightfully overcooked and especially over-boiled.

Because Americans cry out for quality on the scale of Aberdeen Angus, good Scottish stuff from my home city. I tried polędwica on a recommendation but it had no real taste. I was disappointed as Polish meat is generally really good!

And there is no local "spicy" plants. Pepper had to be brought from far away and probably wasn't affordable for most in the old times.

You need your head examined. I was just in Poland (Warsaw, Wroclaw). Polish food is amazing there. I had the most delicious perogies and nalesniki there. Kotlet schabowy with potatoes and cooked cabbage (not sour kraut) is f'ucking delicious. Polish cuisine is much better than Anglo food for sure. Polish bread is also better than that Italian white stuff they call bread.

In Toronto, Canadians like Indian food. But curry to me looks like it leaked out of the chefs a'sshole. Indian cuisine, from a dirty, malaria infested country somehow took off. Can anyone explain this?

I am not sure if they value it as much as you claim , but I can say it is rather cheap and they serve big dishes . It is good for fat people thats why you Greeks are nation of fat people , the same as the USA .

Why don't you try to export your olej kujawski and see who will buy it instead of olive oil?


It is strong.Like feta etc.But once you get used to it there is no way back.We have lots of cheese here which taste delicious but only feta(the commercial one) is famous abroad because the rest is not produced in massive quantities.

In Germany this practice caused rapid loss of weight on this side. I was digesting two wurstchen for two days, like poisoned.

Not made for delicate southern pancreas.

Germans can digest metal, I'm sure.

Natasa, have you ever tried Polish sausage? I bought an excellent one today named 'Catalonian' :) 9 inches of goodness :) Expensive but worth it :)

Are you joking me?Cretan food is recommended as the healthiest in the world(famous diet).If you mean that our food is tasty and makes people want to eat it this is true.Foreign women gain some kilos in Greece.

Great maybe when you're just there for a holiday. But monotonous otherwise. Which is why Warsaw is stuffed with sushi restaurants and Italian places (and increasingly Indian).


A cheap brand of cooking oil. Exists everywhere.


Exactly. Two different products used in two different ways.

True, none but horseradish. Hot peppers are from America and they have transformed Old World cuisine for the better in the last few centuries, but one can still see an aversion to heat in alot of European cooking. I.E. the signature Hungarian spice, paprika, is made from red peppers, but the Hungarians remove all the seeds before grinding it into a powder and it is the seeds of peppers that bring the real burn.

Polish sausage is super.I don't say anything against that.

it seems many countries get stuffed with those and it gets boring too...

Well, yes... But in Warsaw they really are booming.


Not always.

Here indian are not succesful.Only turkish and italian restaurants are successful here.(and american steakhouses).

I hate feta and olive oil , sorry .

We don`t bother about your food but if you like it , that`s good for you .


It is healthier more than you might expect , just read about it , you will be surprised .

The amount of feta and olive oil sold in Warsaw suggests that you are, as usual, lying.


Just normal cooking oil, exists everywhere. The stuff from Kujawy is no different to the stuff from anywhere else. The same crops, the same production and storage methods.

You should taste Kalamata olives.It is sth unparalleled.They are so tasty you eat and eat and you cannot stop.

Polish food is basic and simple, but sophisticaiton is not the question. There is no more primitve food than Mexican and yet it is very popular.

I think it's the lack of a restaurant culture. When Italians went ot America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries they opeed up restaurants, cafés and of course food shops, bakeries, etc. Poles opened grocries, bakeries, butcher shops and the like but few eateries. This has somehow persisted.

Are kalamata olives Polish? No, then it's off-topic

They are if you buy them in Mini-Europa or Piotr i Pawel.

I eat them everyday and they are my favorite olives. If you only know those sour green pimento stuffed Spanish style ones Kalamata olives will be a revelation for you.

Agreed. The strangest I ever ate were Syrian, but kalamata are among the best.

It is embarrassing what ignorant i am when it comes to food.

I will ask for them. Perhaps I ate them, I know I just love olives.

Here people mostly substituted sunflower oil with olive oil long time ago.

They complained at the beginning, but who started with olive oil, didn't change his mind.

Do we export them?Korinthos grapes,Kalamata olives,Veroia pomerances,Mytilini(Lesbos) fish,Cretan graviera cheese,Cretan olive oil are considered to be the best.