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...noticed today  a new shop opened selling just Polish foodstuffs....all the advertising etc is in Polish, which may put off any potential English customers.  I'm always up for trying out new cuisine, but haven't ever thought of Polish foods as being much beyond sausages and gherkins.

   There has been a small place, which doubled as a sweet shop, but sold some Polish stuff.....I used to buy a sausage called something like mifsliska there... ... for years, which catered for the post war emigree community.

  This new place though is just hard core Polska.....any suggestions as to what interesting ethnic Polish food might be worth looking out for and  the words for it?

Where is it Reg?

Could be worth a visit

Is that groundwell rd, I've heard good things about the old polish deli stuff from friends with polish ancestry, i'll find out whats meant to be good.

 The old one is Groundwell Road.....new one on Vic Hill.

Nice reg, I'll kep an eye out.

i have heared about the new one also, not yet payed a visit tho, i cant see maryla (the owner of the one in grounwell rd) being too chuffed about it.

a few things worth a try:
Kabanos (dried polish sausage) and various other meats (wedliny)

Golabki (translated as pigeons but not worry its only cabbage leaves stuffed with rice and minced meat and whatever you want really)

Piergoi (a large ravioli, with fillings such as potato/cheese (po rusku), wild mushrooms(Pieczarki), cabbage(kapusta), meat(miesne)and even sweet one with blue berries(jagody))

flaki (tripe, ye nuff said, keep away, i cant believe i once likes it)

barszc (beetroot soup, doesnt sound appetising but i tell you its one of the best soups ever)

I'll add some more shortly.

Traditionsal polish bread is real nice too.

see who needs bartek.

 Flaki and barszc it is then.

seriously, flaki??

nah man, its just wrong, haha, its like cows innerds, all rubbery and chewy haha,
barszc is loverly tho.

oh and bigos (hunters stew, cabbage based cassarole type thing)

polish mustard is the bee's knees too.

Might go give that a visit. Actually I vaguelly remember walking past in a drunken state.

 I was raised on post war austerity foods....tripe, chitterlings, pig's trotters that sort of thing.

  All these things sound similar, make something from what you've got, which in the early 50's wasn't as lot.

 Presumably barszc is the same as borsch....which I believe to be Ukrainian.   Poles and Ukranians don't get on too well? Is that right.

barszc is the same as borsch althought i do believe the ukrainians make it slightly different to the poles, its anoter one of those arguament where did it really orignate from, same as wodka.

i dont really know much about the polish/ukrainian relationship reg although they are in bid to co-host euro 2012 so i cant see things being too bad between em.

Flaki are cool - very sharp dish Mniammmm !!!
Try to find "żurek" or "żur" . It's delicious soup .

Yep , barszcz comes from ukraine , but it's very popular here as well .
Bigos - hhmmm...my dad make it the best  :soapy tit wank:
A diffrent kind of sausages - like for example 'biała' ("white") , but you must eat after boiled 15-20 minutes , kabanos is great as well
Kaszanka - cereals with blood of pig  :soapy tit wank:
czarnina - the soup made by duck blood  :soapy tit wank:
rosół - another soup
oscypek - smoked sheep cheese
gzik - white cheese with salt , peper and onion....and for that hot potatoes...
Enough ?  :D

And Bartek when are you coming to watch Swindon?  :mrgreen:

sounds like my kind of dish

Yeah, get yourself over here.

Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku!

  Kaszanka....sounds like black pudding
   czarnina.....mmmm duck's blood
   oscypek.....Spacey any good ?

In spacey's absent this (http://cheese.com/Description.asp?Name=Oszczypek) seems to be the closest I can find.

I like the sound of the polish black pudding.

Potatoe Pierogi with Mushroom sauce = best food in the world

Goes down nice with a pint of Zywiec

Then have some Wyborowa or Zubrowka to polish it all off.

Bigos is lovely too, especially when the weather is cold

Pączki (Polish jam doughnuts      lovely)

I'm guessing you can get  Zywiec in the Saveloy.

    What's Wyborowa and Zubrowka?

Wyborowa is (white/clear) vodka as opposed to cherry vodka which is for the ladies. You can drink Wyborowa all night without fear of a hangover as long as you don't drink anything else.

Yes, it is



It's kind of vodka . My grandfatehr was a boss of distillery  :soapy tit wank:

 OK I'm into vodka at the moment....but have orange in it as an expression of my solidarity with the Fan's Consortium.   I suppose that's a bit gay....but I'm at ease with my sexuality.

 So its a label, like Smirnoff...yes.  Think I may have seen it or am I wrong?

Yes ,  it is

the same as for example Żytnia :-) (the lowest price , but heaven in the mind  :soapy tit wank: )

Bartek, is there a polish brandy called Shlivowitz (sp?)

I used to live in a block of flats and had drinking sessions with a bloke from Sweden who had a Yugoslavian wife. They used to pour gallons of the stuff down me and I am sure it was Polish.

Bloody lovely anyway.

another favourite polish food of mine are the simple yet effected ziemniakowe placki, topped with gratted chedder cheese, its basicly potato fritters.

You can get zywiec, tyskie and okocim on savoy, tyskie is my personal fave.

As for wodka zubrowka is loverly, dont worry if you can pronounce it, its easy to spot as you will notice a green tint to it, this is from the blade of grass taken from a field where bison have grazed (probably pissed and shat on it aswell as the legend goes)

Rest easy Reg, orange is okay, just don't have a gut full of Wyborowa and then start drinking ale or other spirits. Mixers are okay.  :thumbs:

Slivovitz actualy originated from the balkan peninsular but production soon continued in most eastern euopean countried such as poland, etc etc.

Just how many Polaks are there on this forum ?

 I tend to work the other way around....have a gut full of ale, then hit the vodka....don't really take too much notice of brands either, working on the basis if you drown it with a mixer it makes little difference.....should I be more discerning?

about 7.

i dont know, you could ask how many polaks on here are real swindon fans, well theres one i can think of right away to take off that list.

poor seb. he's feeling neglected :(

i just had some wholegrain biscuits with a bit of stilton and brie. not in the slightest bit polish...

stilton  :chunder:
brie  :toppost:

damn you i want some cheese and crakers but i just brushed my teeth, damn it.

It's not originaly from Poland , but we can make it as well...but of course not for sell  :soapy tit wank:

both stilton and brie are pretty ace.

Brie as to be served at room temperature, you are ruining the experience if you eat it straight from the fridge.

 :bow1: . I am surrender :surrender: . Chubbs,  you will be mine Polish God...I will call you master and boss of all Polish people who want to talk about Swindon Town FC !!!

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

just the polish monster will do fine, how long has that been under my name, im looking at you sonic.

Bit like the Greece/turkey joint bid? They get on really well! :soapy tit wank:

A full bodied cheese made by sheep in the Polish rainforests, it is similar in taste and texture to a cheese made by reindeer in the German outback called Donner unt Blitzen.

we have a resident cheese guru??? bloody hell the townend cheese emporium soapy tit wank

bit of hoch y brig for me my good friend

Well my Grandparents were born in Poland (but moved here after the war).  They taught my parents, who then taught me polish ways of life and tradition.

I like to call myself Polish, even though i was born in England.

And yes, i've been to many a Swindon game,  :D   so yes i am a true fan etc :D

Tell it to Chubby our Polish guru  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

you can get a polish beer in southampton station spar called 'Lech' - I only bought it because it sounded like 'letch', but in fact it seemed rather decent to me.

The best beer is 'Tyskie' .

All Scottish love it  :twisted: (th family of McDavish as comercial said)  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

I have a tyskie pint and half pint glass which i 'borrowed' from one of the bars while there  8)

I know someone called Tyskie!! I'm not going to drink the ugly bastard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAMLIlpRB2w