Polonian or Polish food better?

Polonius3Threads: 1,005 Posts: 4,833 Joined: Apr 11, 08 ♂	Jun 26, 10, 13:23 #1
Polish-style foods are produced in America (sausage and smoked and cold meats, bread, pickled cucumbers, horseradish, pierogi, horseradish, mustard, etc.) as well as imported from Poland. Which do you prefer in terms of taste, appearance, tradition, naturalness, price, etc.?

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Jun 26, 10, 19:48 #2

With all the varieties of food that we have here,the Polish people that emigrated to North America,have a greater choice of better quality meats,produce,fuits and vegetables to make the their famous tried and true recepies such as goląbki,pierogi ,sernik etc.I have been over in Poland years ago and found that just finding the items to make their specialties was a chore and they had to make do with what they could find if they could afford it.Yet,here the abaundance and variety and low cost,it's very easy to make the best of all the famous Polish recepies.

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Jun 26, 10, 19:59 #3

Polonius3:

pickled cucumbers

Never understood why ppl buy that. It's about the easiest thing to make: just take a cucumber, peel it and grate it, drop a cup vinegar to it, two or three tbl spoons sugar, a little pepper and there you go. Done in 5 minutes. Even before I learned that this was a "Polish Speciality", my grandmother and mother used to make it and I guess it's just a European dish, not particularily Polish.

Bought a pot of "Polish Salade" yesterday. It was good and tasted exactly like we in NL call "Meat Salade". Just goes to show that Dutch, German and Polish food is really not that different from eachother. But that's why I buy stuff there regularly. You have to keep an eagle's eye on the "best before"-date, but if that date is ok, you're good to go.

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M-G (haec hactenus)

beckskiThreads: 19 Posts: 2,148 Joined: May 15, 07 MEMBER ♀	Jun 26, 10, 23:01 #4
Polonius3: Polonian or Polish food better? I prefer full-fledged Polish food of course. In Southern California, I'll settle for what type of Polish food, I can get my little Polish-American hands on. Sometimes, even a Polish dog from Der Wienerschnitzel, may help fulfill my Polish food withdrawls, lol! A sincere thanks PF, for putting up with me FIVE terrific years, muah!

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Jun 27, 10, 08:24 #5

Polonius3:

Polish-style foods are produced in America (sausage and smoked and cold meats, bread, + pierogi

all of these are exactly the same as they are in PL..

Polonius3:

pickled cucumbers, horseradish, horseradish, mustard, etc.) as well as imported from Poland.

they don't make these in the USA except the pickles and kraut in a barrel

Polonius3:

Which do you prefer in terms of taste, appearance, tradition, naturalness, price, etc.?

your question really doesn't make much sense as all the foods you mentioned i split in groups by reality.. so both are what i like and both is what i get..

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Jun 28, 10, 02:50 #6

Here's some pseudo Polish food. It's from a Hungarian deli. I love their cabbage rolls and sausage. Pretty close 2nd place to real Polish food.

A sincere thanks PF, for putting up with me FIVE terrific years, muah!

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Jun 28, 10, 04:51 #7

still no comparison to good old Polish cuisine

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Jun 28, 10, 06:46 #8

MareGaea:

Never understood why ppl buy that.

Polish ogórki kiszone are prepared via natural fermentation. No vinegar is used.
The taste is different and too much vinegar is not good for health.

I do love the brine from home prepared ogórki kiszone.
Try zupa ogórkowa - the brine is used to give sour taste (besides the grated cucumbers added to the soup)
I doubt this would be very edible when done with vinegar.

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Jun 28, 10, 09:04 #9

polkamaniac:

I have been over in Poland years ago and found that just finding the items to make their specialties was a chore and they had to make do with what they could find if they could afford it.

Polish people in Poland have a hard time finding the ingredients to make Polish food? What the....?

IME American raw ingredients don't have the right taste, while the finished product may be okay it doesn't have that Polish taste. I've never had ogórki kiszone in the US that compared with Polish ones.

The same thing works in reverse, I find it hard to replicate the taste of home prepared American food in Poland. I tried using maślanka in a recipe that called for American style buttermilk and the result just wasn't the same... (I like drinking maślanka more than American buttermilk, but it's not so good in cooking while American buttermilk makes any dish it's in better).

polkamaniacThreads: 1 Posts: 514 Joined: Aug 2, 09 ♂	Jun 29, 10, 19:01 #10
I did say "years ago".I am told by my aunt in Zielona Góra that now there is everything on the shelves except no money to buy it with.

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Jun 30, 10, 09:13 #11

There's no problem in and around Detroit, Chicago, NY or anywhere you have Polish delis and groceries, but in many parts of the US twaróg (farmer cheese) seems hard to come by form the reports I have received. People therefore use dry cottage cheese, ricotta or even drained wet (regular) cottage cheese. Conversely, until the advent of capitalism (after 1989), Americans had a hard time making American-style cheesecake in Poland without Philadelphia cream cheese. None fo the twarożki available in Poland produced the right taste and texture.

sledzThreads: 29 Posts: 3,202 Joined: Sep 19, 06 ♂	Edited by: sledz Sep 25, 10, 08:51 #12
Its so nice to live across from a Polish restaurant! Heres to you that live in CA,FL etc.. you gotta drive to the windy city to be in Polonia!!! Scmaznego:) I still have some left over,Im stuffed!

plk123Threads: 30 Posts: 6,412 Joined: Aug 29, 07 ♂	Sep 25, 10, 09:03 #13
^^^ rub it in, why doncha.

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