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Subject: What is polish food like? From: ossonflags Date: 08 Nov 06 - 11:40 AM I am going to Poland in a coupla weeks and wonder what kind of food to look out for and what to avoid.They do tell me that they eat a lot of sausages and cabbage there. Also does any one know of a folk club in Krakow? |
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Subject: RE: What is Polish food like? From: Peace Date: 08 Nov 06 - 11:45 AM Good. |
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Subject: RE: What is polish food like? From: Paul Burke Date: 08 Nov 06 - 11:47 AM They do delicious potato cake things called placki (pron. platski), also cabbage leaves stuffed with pork and rice veg, golumpki (gowumpki). Any amount of beetroot soup, (borsch), otherwise the outlook is generally bleak for vegetarians. Sue found a pub/ restaurant with a Klezmer band in Krakow last year, but no Polish folk as such. |
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Subject: RE: What is Polish food like? & Krakow Folk Club? From: GUEST,Shimrod Date: 08 Nov 06 - 12:13 PM I've spent a few weeks working in Warsaw over the last few years. The food was very good and cheap by UK standards. One of the most memorable meals was wild boar meat in cranberry sauce (I'm salivating now just thinking about it!). The beer's good as well ... |
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Subject: RE: What is Polish food like? & Krakow Folk Club? From: Big Mick Date: 08 Nov 06 - 12:21 PM As long as you are not a vegetarian, you are in heaven. The Poles, in addition to being great scholars, are a joyful people who love music, dance, and drink. Their food is splendid. If you haven't had fresh kielbasa (as opposed to smoked), you have not lived. Mick |
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Subject: RE: What is Polish food like? & Krakow Folk Club? From: Barry Finn Date: 08 Nov 06 - 12:34 PM I don't know about their folk clubs but I do know that they have a huge Shanty singing culture & that you might want to try to do a search on tha & it may lead you to some other folk going ons. Barry |
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Subject: RE: What is Polish food like? & Krakow Folk Club? From: GUEST,Martin Ryan Date: 08 Nov 06 - 12:37 PM Yes, shanty singing seems to be huge in Poland. There was a group called Banana Boat at the shanty festival in Cobh this year. The numbers of groups and the scale of the festivals they talked about was frightening! Regards |
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Subject: RE: What is Polish food like? & Krakow Folk Club? From: Dave the Gnome Date: 08 Nov 06 - 12:57 PM My Dad's Polish. Came here after WW2. He was from further east in Bialystok and was Russian cultred through his (Cossack) father so I have a blurred view of Polish/Russian food. My Grandma (also Polish) used to make fantastic food - Borscht as mentioned, always followed by pilmini (bit like ravioli) and piroshki (doughnut-style pastry) filled with meat, potato or cabbage. Kotleti were, as it sounds, cutlets of minced meat to her own recipe. And then there was always the piva, wodka and kislushki. No wonder my brain is addled;-) Noticed the other day that Easy Jet are doing cheap flights from Liverpool to Krakow. Are you on one of those ossonflags? If so let us know how you got on. Try to learn a few phrases as well - I'll start you off. Miss-spelt but phonetic - Dien Dobra = Good Day. Yak zhe mash = how are you. Dva piva prozhe bardcho = Two beers (if you) please. Dobra Nots = Good night. What more could you need:-) Cheers DtG |
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Subject: RE: What is Polish food like? & Krakow Folk Club? From: GUEST,Jack Campin Date: 08 Nov 06 - 01:16 PM We have several Polish food delis in Edinburgh now (consequence of the recent wave of Polish immigration). I like the food but find it extremely difficult to shop in them. Nothing is labelled in a language I understand (usually packaging is in Polish and nothing else). I am allergic to eggs and my girlfriend is gluten- and dairy-intolerant. In any language, there are many different ways of saying a product might contain any of those, and I know hardly any of them in Polish. So if you need to read food labels for any reason, carry a bloody good dictionary. |
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Subject: RE: What is Polish food like? & Krakow Folk Club? From: dozy rozy Date: 08 Nov 06 - 03:05 PM I have been to Poland a couple of times and visited both towns and the more rural areas.I had a fabulous time and cannot reccomend it highly enuogh.great people, and a beautifull country.And the food is a pleasure.Try everything. |
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Subject: RE: What is Polish food like? & Krakow Folk Club? From: ossonflags Date: 08 Nov 06 - 03:27 PM Wow !!!! great responce thanks to all of you. |
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Subject: RE: What is Polish food like? & Krakow Folk Club? From: Leadfingers Date: 08 Nov 06 - 03:48 PM PM sent !! |
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Subject: RE: What is Polish food like? & Krakow Folk Club? From: Roughyed Date: 08 Nov 06 - 06:10 PM My wife is Polish, although she was born and grew up in England. What you will find in Poland depends on where you go. You will find a wide variety of food in the main cities such as Gdansk, Warsaw, Poznan, Krakow and Wroclwaw etc. If you want vegetarian (and we are) you will have to work for it a bit. I would suggest selcting a mixture of items from the 'dodatki' (side dishes) and asking for them 'razem' (together). Otherwise you will find plenty to eat. Try pierogi (very filling polish ravioli) bigos (soup with sausage - better than it sounds) nalesniki (filled pancakes) szaszlik, kielbasa the list goes on. The soups are fantastic, the people are wonerful and you will fall in love with the country as I have. You will find Poles who speak English in Krakow and probably Warsaw. Elsewhere you will be OK in big hotels but don't expect it in restaurants or the street. If you would like to PM me with more details you are very welcome because I have extensive experience of the country as a tourist and visiting in-laws from 1990 to date. |
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Subject: RE: What is Polish food like? & Krakow Folk Club? From: Roughyed Date: 08 Nov 06 - 06:24 PM Sorry, I never mentioned the music. I have never come across anything resembling a folk club in Poland. Until recently bars were somewhere that serious drunks went, not 'nice' people. Latterly a cafe culture has evolved where people sit around the main square in towns in the summer but I have not come across any spontaneous or organised music making in 16 years of visits. If you want to see a living tradition I would recommend going to the Tatra mountains (Zakopane is the main tourist area) and tapping into what is going on there. There are some fantastic fiddlers around and once you get used to the yodelly style of singing it is great. There are bands such as Brathanki and Golec Orchestra that are taking the tradition into different areas as well. The culture in the Tatras is very different than mainstream Polish folk but you will find that a lot of pop/rock festivals start off with a Friday night of folk music - could you imaging doing that here?!! Anyway, just go to Poland. I would never have gone to the country if I hadn't married a Polish girl and my life would have been immeasurably poorer for it. I envy you your first visit - you will fall in love. |
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Subject: RE: What is Polish food like? & Krakow Folk Club? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 08 Nov 06 - 06:58 PM The beer ain't bad - we're starting to get it over here, for example in Wetherspoons. One of the many good things arising from the influx of Poles into this country. I assume by "a folk club in Krakow" you are looking for somewhere where they play Polish folk music. Here's a website that should be useful in tracking it down - "the English version of Polish folk music website" |
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