First time in Poland & eating polish food! 

I'm an American. My father's parents were from Poland. In the late 1800's and the early 1900's large numbers of people from Central and Eastern Europe came to the area to work in the coal mines. Consequently, the area where I grew up (Luzerne County, Pennsylvania) has a very strong Polish flavor. Poles are to Luzerne County, Pennsylvania what Italians are to New York City--probably the dominant ethnic group. The dumplings you had are called pierogis. They're usually filled with mashed potatoes, sauteed onions and cheese but I had an aunt who filled some of them with sauerkraut and prunes. I don't know if this is typical or not. And the sausage is called kielbasa. Where I grew up, butchers with little neighborhood grocery stores would make their own kielbasa and sell it alongside other types of meat. It's traditionally made of pork. When my uncle from Delaware came back to Pennsylvania to visit my grandmother, he would always buy about 10 pounds of kielbasa and take it back to Delaware with him. I love having it with horseradish.

Went to krakow from London UK last month absolutely amazing will be back again

Thank you, from Vancouver, British Columbia. We went to Zakopane, and we loved this city. All food, was delicious. We had a good time with polish vodka. We gave you SUB !!!. Cheers

Poland is a best + beautiful country in the world!!!! from Seattle USA

Ah lovely Zakopane. It’s amazing in any season :)

Wow Beautiful place ❤️💟 Poland is Beautiful country in the world 🌍 Nice video 🤩❤️ Good luck with best wishes always ❤️ Greetings from Italy and Pakistan ♥️

Smalec is lard with pork cracklings and onions. In old days poor people did not eat butter that was for the rich so they spread lard on slices of bread with pickled cucumber (not always)That bread with smalec helped kill hunger during the day. Its tradition: bread, smalec and pickled cucumber but you have to grow up on it to like it.

There's a little funny linguistic twist there. Polish "kotlet" refers generally to a piece of meat, that typically has been slightly beaten (with a special hammer or hand), so the meat fibers are more tender. As a result you get a piece of meat, that is large in terms of surface, but also thin. So, polish "kotlet schabowy" is a pork breaded cutlet coated with breadcrumbs, which is basically same thing as vienesse "Schnitzel". The twist here is, that in Poland (especially southern) you can also eat something, called "sznycel". The polish pronunciation of that word is almost identical to german "Schnitzel". However, what in southern Poland is called "sznycel" is actually very similar to german "Frikadelle", and it is a pan fried, slightly flat meatball made with a mixture of minced meat, onion, fresh egg and a stale bun (which has been dipped in water or milk until it became soft and runny), with some addition of spices, of course. Much like the actual "Schnitzel", also those minced meat, fried meatballs can be found in other countries, apart of Poland - Germany or Sweden for example (though in Sweden they are boiled, not fried, I think). The "fat" you had on your "appetizer plate" might have been a pork lard with cracklings. Those cracklings ("skwarki") are very tasty, and the whole preparation is actually very easy. You just need to cut pork fatback into sufficiently large cubes, and then just melt it in a deep pan. At some point, all the fat gets extracted from the cracklings due to temperature, so they are actually quite dry. Believe it or not, there's an actual polish recipe for making great , sweet cookies, which use those cracklings as a base. Also, you had those on your meat dumplings (pierogi z mięsem). These cracklings make a lot of things taste different and better. Just try to make scrambled eggs and use pork lard with cracklings instead of butter or other fat - you'll see the difference. Also, for polish people (especially older ones), there's nothing more simplistic and tasty, than a slice of fresh bread covered with some of this pork lard with cracklings and some salt sprinkled on top. Just don't eat too much of that, as it will induce heartburn.

I love how their eyes said it all when the flavors unleashed in their mouths! Thanks for sharing guys!😊

You had an amazing apartment, so cozy. Winter in Zakopane and the food look so impressive 🌲🌲🌲. Thank you for the video.

I recommend you visit the areas with the most saved up culture. Śląsk and Podlasie, aswell as the mountains, which basically didn't change over the decades.

OH WOW IM ON MY WAY TO POLAND IN 2 WEEKS THANK FOR THE FOOD LOOK.WILL TRY ALL.YUM YUM

The prices as for Poland are quiet expensive but its turistic places. Normaly on the east of Poland everything its around 3-4 times cheaper.

Really well made! Thanks for sharing

Great sharing : Like for you : I wish you a wonderful weekend : Greetings from Poland

I love Poland x

Nasza kuchnia jest smaczna, ale zwodnicza. Takie posiłki po 18 -tej i 5 kg więcej wywodzisz z Polski do Wielkiej Brytanii. Ale cieszę się, że w Zakopanem bawiliście się świetnie. Pamiętaj, że cudownych miejsc w polskich górach jest więcej. Czas poznać Sudety: Karpacz, Szczyrk, Międzygórze, Kudowę Zdrój. W Kudowie można sobie podreperować zdrowie. Tanie zabiegi lecznicze na ciało. Fajni jesteście.❤

I love your videos and wish you a lot of subs! Greetings from Tricity (sea site) in Poland :-) I love your enthusiasm, you seems so nice dude!

223 zloty omg so cheap , not realizing its like 223 pounds in UK I mean amount to time u need to spend working for it

610 euro is like good minimal wage in poland. So 57 euros isnt so cheap :)

Summer time you should try Słowinski park it's real Sahara in Europe it's like you're somewhere in Arabia

This amazing totally brings me back to when i was nine years old before i went to the US. about 25 years ago

We don't eat sausage with jam, only cheese

Schnitzel or polish schabowy you got is pretty much the same thing, common in Central Europe. I guess it is served in various ways.

Sehr romantisch im Winter!

Come and visit Poland in summer🤩🤝👌

are you excited about snow? I admit that this is the first time I see someone eating a sausage with jam (cranberry) and at least in Poland it is not practiced, but how it tastes ok

It's not schnitzel it's better 💪🤤

Zakopane is soo beautiful:) It is also my favorite city in Poland. I reccomend you to taste"kwaśnica" while being here next time. It's so amazing! I always buy this kind of soup while traveling around mountain cities in Poland (and i do it often because i'm from Poland). If my grammar or structure of comment is not correct, i'm sorry:( i'm still learning english. Thank you for adoring our country ❤ (If you will go somewhere else in Poland (to the city other than Zakopane and cities like that in general) you can taste our local cuisine which is different in every other region - "żurek", "pierogi with sweet cheese", "kluski śląskie with meat and kapusta zasmażana", "barszcz czerwony" etc. :)

Pozdrawiam serdecznie was piękni I mlodzi

Lovely indeed!! The prices seem to be actually a bit higher than usually for this quality of accommodation and food in Poland, must be because this is Zakopane :) Hope you enjoyed your stay !

A good advice for the future when entering Polish houses is to take off your shoes before entering a room or bathroom.

Who need Wiener Schnitzel when you have Kotlet Schabowy looks like that! :D

In so many vlogs I noticed that they call it FAT...its a crafted lard ( fried onions, ham, bacon) best when you spread on fresh warm bread.

3:23 kiełbasa z żurawiną 🤣

There is an old saying in Poland: "If a Pole is hungry, he is angry!"😡. So he has to eat right to be good.😋😄.

I'm polish and in Poland we really have most beautiful places ❤ last weekend I was in one place and I really love it 😍

On average you have to work 1.5 day in Poland for that "cheep meal"

Polish Food is Awesome......

600 PLN for one night Omg so expensive

Beautyful city and Nyam nyam hmmmmm

Zapiekanka!

250 zł is still to expressie for most od Poles. But we try reach this level for dinner.

Zdzierstwo!!!

G-Zeus Chrysler... Those were some Krupówki prices. And you say that's cheap? The beer took the crown of mark ups. The actual price of those two jugs is about 15-20% of what you paid.

You guys should have done there years ago when it was really cheap.

Smalec = pig jam ;)

Seesing było już opcja w KRK tylko nie wyszło 🥺 znowu i znowu i dzisiaj też nic nie wyszło 🥺 znowu

Tourists praise our food ... "Good because it's Polish" 😁

I polisch. I go tu Tirol !!!

Polish food is not so bad ;-)

lol thats far from being cheap :D

Oh cheese please with jam eats taste better is dedicated 😋

Oh wow, is this real?!!!!!

the fat is smalec it's melted lard/bacon and it's delicious on bread with salt

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30 zł for beer?! that's robbery

Polish food is simple but super tasty, come on it has a lot of calories, you will lose them quickly in the mountains. It has a lot of calories because it was associated with the old climate, which has changed dramatically now - there were 4 seasons clearly different from each other, now it's only hot summer around 30 C and autumn -5 C on average. Only in the mountains there is no shortage of snow.

Do not say it is cheap! They will raise the prices next time you come! Polish teacher needs to work one and a half day to pay for such dinner.

Where are you from?

In Poland thats not a cheap im from Poland and this really not cheap

ja pierdole ale drogo

221 zl u need to work over 10 h its no cheap 10h work for 1 diner and som to drink

Guys, take this FAT on bread and eat with pickles :)

3:23 Whaaat tha f happens here. We dont do it

I believe, that if You would like to reach more polish viewers please don’t call orders “cheap” so often and putting such an emphasis on it. We can afford them, You can afford them, that’s it. Better to say “it’s good quality for the price”, “it would be much more pricy in England”. “Cheap” is somewhat degrading adjective considering place, people and quality, especially when it’s really good. We know economic differences of people throughout Europe and EU. Nonetheless, I will follow.

Is she Polish?Roots give a way .

They over payed for the rooms ... you can get same for about $50 a night if you look good.

"So cheap" Proceeds to get a single mug of beer for a f*cking 30 PLN. THIRTY, for a single mug! 😂😂😂 To be honest, it pisses me off when foreigners get ripped off like that and don't even realize it, boasting how cheap everything is to boot. 40 GBP for that tiny amount of food is hella expensive considering that an average Pole earns about 800-1000 GBP a month.

gość bierze piwo za 30zl i mowi ze tanio...

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cheap food XD For Polish peoples its so expensive.