Taste Testing WEIRD Polish food (Gut soup, pickled cheese, blood sausage) [Kult America] 

Ktoś powinien wytłumaczyć Autorowi, że zupa o nazwie "flaczki" czyli jak nieszczęśliwie przetłumaczył "gut soup" nie powstaje z jelit ale z wołowego żołądka. Na flaki przeznacza się wszystkie części żołądka: księgi, żwacz, czepiec oraz trawieniec (największą wartość kulinarną mają trawieniec i żwacz).

There is one thing about oscypek (or maybe more than one). This one you ate isn't actually oscypek but it's called nowadays serek górski(mountain cheese). Oscypek is very unic, it got particular weight, shape, composition and it's made through particular season. If I'm not wrong, oscypek is certified local food and it can't be produced and sold under that name without certification.

I'm from Poland but I've never eaten marinated oscypek! I have to try

Real sheep's milk oscypek can be bought only from May to October, those sold at a different time of the year are not oscypek, because they are made of cow's milk Gut soup is not a good translation, because Flaki is made from beef stomachs, not from guts or bowel as the name suggests

I have a Polish family who live next door and I've tried so many amazing things. Blood sausage is very tasty - whereas English black pudding is dense, the polish version tastes and has a similar texture to Haggis because of the grains in it.

4:35 Lard with onion on a well baked dough based bread and with sour cucumber not only won't make you sick but tastes fantastic. Same can be said about sour soup in a bread (yes, it is served inside a bread).

My Polish mother always told the story that when a suitor came to dinner and was served ducks blood soup he wouldn’t come back.

11:50 you have to taste the "kaszanka" (kashanka) with buckwheat! To do this, please visit the east-south Poland where this type of "kaszanka" is very popular!

None of the cheeses shown in this video were oscypek (which is actually quite hard to get, even in Zakopane). There were other kinds of cheese: redykołka (mostly), gołka, bundz... They're all great and worth trying. Just remember that not every cheese from the Polish mountains is called oscypek.

Another great video! I am Polish American and grew up eating blood sausage, I still enjoy it once in a while. I have never been to Poland we are planning a trip for 2024.

I can tell that kaszanka was really well made just by looking at its crispy texture

Some of the dishes you ate are present in Czech cuisine as well: we have pickled fish (zavináče), blood sausage (jelito) & tripe soup (dršťková) for example. All known and loved. We also have a traditional delicacy called "utopenci", it is basically like our "zavináče", but you use a thick sausage instead of fish. Definitely try it, once you will have a chance! In case of brotherhood, we are pretty close with Poland on this one.

I'm huge fan of KultAmerica for 7 years already, it was my first vlog in english. Keep up good work. Pozdrawiam cieplutko...

You should go to a restaurant with a Pole. He would tell you if the dish in the restaurant is good (like home made: home made always has a much better flavor) or average. "Flaki" is a dish that is made from very well cleaned, long-cooked stomachs (usually cow stomachs). Oscypek - some people eat them, others don't like them. Lard (smalec) does not cause stomach pain unless you eat a lot of it, it's almost just melted fat. It's just a very fat supplement. You have to eat it with something like bread. After that, drink something hot or drink alcohol. Marinated mushrooms - you don't eat a lot of them, it's rather an addition to dishes or vodka. Rydze and Borowiki (prawdziwki) mushrooms are one of the best Polish mushrooms in general. Herrings are not food for highlanders :) herring is a morse fish, but it is popular all over the country. Blood sausage. A separate topic. There are many varieties, and the taste depends mainly on the spices and the type of groats inside and the proportion of offal. You can find a delicious, melt-in-your-mouth, but also a cheap, disgusting product. You have many more dishes to discover. Good luck :)

Top 5 polish meals u need to try: 1. Pierogi 2. Flaczki 3. Bigos 4. Żurek 5. Uszka (only in December) Next will be: Zupa mleczna z lanymi kluskami (milk soup) Galareta Schabowy z mizerią Gołąbki Grochówka Kopytka Racuchy Łazanki!!!!! Placki ziemniaczane And all of marinated mushrooms.

Gut soup (flaki) can be a masterpiece if made correctly.

Flaki, or flaczki, is one of my favorite Polish dishes. Just like when I'm traveling in New England, I try to sample clam chowder everywhere to find my favorite variation, whenever I travel around Poland flaczki is the one I have to start a meal with anywhere. And, I might add, probably for most Americans at least, kabanosy made with horse meat would be considered weird maybe even off-putting.

My mouth absolutely flooded when I saw flaki.

I didn't know you speak polish so well. Thank you for trying out our cuisine

Śledź, chrzan, oscypek, żurawiny mmmm.

do śledzika trzeba kieliszek wódki jak sie w Polsce mówi rybka lubi pływać 😉

I love how he actually can speak polish, and i have to say you do it pretty well!

Sledź + Vodka = amazing combination

Damn dude, ur polish is very good

Śledzik w restauracji bez 100 gram to prawie świętokradztwo.

I've tried literary all of these, what you're missing is a little bit of straight vodka in between to help with the digestion

As a Pole, I've absolutely loved Your video! Made a great job explaining the flavors, glad You like our delicacies!

"Gut soup" is a standard workday lunch fare in Croatia, especially Dalmatia. French make it in several quite different ways, depending on the region. In Bulgaria and Romania they cook it with milk. Some variant of it is eaten all over Europe. By the look of it, I would say that the Polish recipe is not quite the same as ours, but with the sam main ingredient (your did mention the smell), it cannot be very different. Interesting, all these dishes exist elsewhere in Europe. Small continent...

1) Squeaky is a great description of Oscypek's texture:D 2) I am Polish and I am more or less a highlander (even if from a different mountain range) and still I’ve never even seen marinated Oscypek oO

Polish dishes are very good ... and tripe is made from a cow's stomach ... blood sausage is a delicacy ... I'm glad that it tasted

As I highlander from Podhale region I must say that this video was very entertaining! Nice to see that you enjoyed our specials ;)

Blood Sausage - Kaszanka, if you still learning, eat it with fried skin. It's the best thing in Kaszanka, it's not a trash to throw out

he called it "gut soup" for theatrical effect, when Americans make the same exact thing, it's called "tripe soup" and in Mexico, "menudo" not as weird and unique as hes making it out to be.

Gut soup ( flaki ) is my favourite winter food. Grilled kaszanka with bacon, sauerkraut and onion

I am moved. You described our food in the best possible way. I thank you for that.

ending commentary is so accurate thanks for sharing them and making neat vid

Ahh, rydze you must try fried/simmered on a butter, optionaly with a tiny bit of simmered onion🤤... Or with a scrambled eggs... Or on on an omelette... Or on a fresh *real* bread...

I also never heard about marinated oscypek. And man, you missed a good one! Fresh bread, with the lard with onions and salt sprinkled over it - perfect. Called "chlyb z fetem" in Silesia haha

Two tips to enhance your culinary experience: 1. Try śledź (the fish) marinaded in salt rather than in vinegar. It has more natural taste (not so dominated by a marinade) and nice springy texture. It comes best in its simplest form, just with onion and vegetable oil or sour cream. 2. Kaszanka (blood sausage) can be grilled in whole as you had it, but to me it is much better when mashed and fried on a pan with onion and seasonings (mostly majoram and black pepper)

I grew up eating those foods growing up in Chicago. You are what you eat.

Smalec wont get you sick :D

it's funny, I was watching this while eating my everyday dinner: sandwitches with heering (śledzik), with ham,pickled cucumber and horseradish :)

Lard especially with sausage and onion is the best you can eat (on fresh bread) when you drink strong alcohol, just add some salt and pepper to it and you will be amazed of its taste and how strong your organism will become in terms of drinking e.g.: vodka :)

Pickled cheese??? I live 40 years in Poland and never heard about it.

Před 5 lety Ryan udělal nedostatečné video o české kuchyni a Ryan slíbil, že udělá nové a lepší. Chci, aby dodržel svůj slib. Jestli souhlasíte, dejte mi palec nahoru, nechť to vidí. 5 lat temu Ryan zrobił niewystarczający film o kuchni czeskiej i Ryan obiecał, że zrobi nowe i lepsze. Chcę, żeby dotrzymał tej obietnicy. Jeśli się zgadacie, dajcie łapkę w górę, niech to widzi.

Do flaczków i śledzika aż prosi się o Baczewskiego.

cały słoik grzybów opierdzielil i sie dziwi ze go brzuch boli. XD

In Scotland you have Haggis, in Silesia you have Krupniok.

Your pretty good speaking polish lenguage, and when I watched this video I want oscypek the grilled version 🙉😁

It's tripe not gut, which is the muscle and connective tissue of cows stomach with the inner part of the stomach removed, washed, pre boiled to get rid of the strong smell and then finished cooking with spices and aromatics. It's actually very tasty and the texture is uniquely unlike anything else. Lovers of beef texture will love this one.

śledź z chrzanem to wielka pomyłka, jeśli śledź jest kwaśny to łączy się go z czymś łagodnym np. śmietaną z majonezem, chrzan jest ostry więc wyłącznie do łagodnych potraw typu tłuste mięsa, jajka :D

kaszanka z cebulą, krupniczek, rosół, bigos, pierogi... jadłoby się całymi dniami :) do flaków nigdy nie byłem przekonany :/

Bardzo podoba mi się to jak pięknie pokazujesz nasz kraj... bo mamy co pokazać, pozdrawiam

Pierogi z kapustą i grzybami, barszcz czerwony z uszkami, smażona wątróbka na cebulce i jabłku, golonko z piwkiem, krupnik na podrobach - z serduszkami, śląska rolada z kluskami i kapustą, placki ziemniaczane, babka ziemniaczana, kapuśniak itd itd :D

For a foreigner your pronunciation of polish is pretty good

Do flaków trzeba dorosnąć jak byłem mały też sam zapach mnie obrzydzał a teraz zjadał bym codziennie i zagryzał kaszanką

I am Polish, I recommend you to try the Silesian cuisine. Wodzionka, żymloki (bunczanka in Polish, it's a black pudding but with a bun) rosół, rolada, kluski śląskie i Red cabbage And for dessert anyżki.

That soup is made in whole europe, also in Germany, France, Italy, Turkiye. But they just seasoning that different than we do. Check out the German version - Kuttelsuppe, or Saure Kutteln on youtube. I also taste it and it's delicious like Polish, however taste different than ours.

You forgot about the Polish special - we call it - "wpierdol", most often served in the Łódź :)

Coś ty zrobił jak można pokroić śledzia ale twój polski jest świetny

Rydze are best fried with butter. Marinated....just average, a lot of the flavor is overpowered by the vinegar.

Smalec as you called it lard. Is not gonna make you sick. It will make you strong and healthy!

Hey, just to clarify, gut soup is not literally made of guts, as in intestines, although pretty close. It's made of beef stomach, more precisely the rumen, reticulum, and abomasum. Sometimes, although less often, stag or pig stomach might be used instead.

Try rydze frying with butter on a pan

Your Polish is outstanding! How long you've been learning?

Tripe was a very popular soup for the European poor. This started to change at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The tripe soup was the most popular soup and nettle soup in the eighteenth century of England. This is according to a study by scientists from the University of Cambridge.

For foreigners: Oscypek is similar to halloumi cheese but more salty and you just get thicker pieces so when you bite into it, it feels more juicy

Polskie jedzenie jest wiele smaczniejsze od amerykańskich fastfoodow 🙂 SMACZNEGO

Buddy, eat that stuff and be happy it is GMO free. 😆

Very good Polish pronunciation! I thought you were born in Polish family in States and spoke Polish at home. It's not "pickled fish". It's "pickled herring". Yes, one can argue that herring is a fish and therefore either is correct. I've never seen any other fish prepared this way though. To a Polish person in terms of food, a herring is a herring and a fish is any fish other than herring. Kinda like pieczarki are pieczarki and grzyby are any other than pieczarki. In English it's all "mushrooms" and only kind of mushroom an average person ever sees in average store in States are pieczarki. Sometimes I've heard word "fungus" used in reference to other grzyby but they are rarely seen or talked about. Anyway, going back to herring rolls, you don't unroll them. You lay them on a side, stick your fork in it and slice so that you end up eating both herring and cucumber together. You could put some horseradish on top. Usually there's more than just a cucumber inside of the ones I like. This may be regional, but the way I like kaszanka the best is to fry up some onion, remove kaszanka from casing, slice it and mix with onion, fry some more and serve with mashed potatoes. I would not eat it by itself slice by slice. I tried some Puertorican blood sausage here in Chicago. I like it better than Polish because it is spicy. The guy who served it to me had a funny look on his face as he watched me eat it. I guess he thought I was American and would puke it out once I learned what it was :)

I can say one thing about polish food ,is the best ,and I proud of it

Flaki ;D I really like this soup actually Nice video as always :D

Ohhhh you haven't heard of czernina, a blood soup, haven't you? E: ah, I see. Can't wait for this video. Also, pyry z gzikiem and pyrczok when in Poznań, thats a must

feels weird watching this after 2 semesters of PWSZ, because I've just lost my appetite and just eat a jar of pickles for supper.

"One of the most delicious dishes possible in Poland" lmao

Gut soup is a rather crude translation. The official name would be tripe, or tripe soup. Lard is delicious, true i would be weary of buying one with additives (best and only proper one is obtained by way of babcia). But a pure lard is hard to screw up. With dill pickle on a "pajda" it's great. Also you missed pork knuckle and beef tartar - both great Polish classics. As for the american angle, Cracow bagels with salt are both good and "unorthodox" variation on the bagel.

Grilled Blood Sausage is great with beer, also Flaczki (gut soup) is spicy and tasty, try it!

Thanks for the video. It's really nice to see that You like our (Polish, not polished:-) ) food. Flaki, rosół, kaszanka, pomidorowa, bigos...and a lot more, that's the peoples food, good and tasty food. Can't back in time, but if I would, I'ld show You the 90's wedding party where was only a good food...that was the good times. All the best for You. You speek Polish quite well.

Those mushrooms + vodka... 🤌🏻

smalec gotta get you sick? how many years have you been living in Poland bro

Proponuję jeszcze spróbować pyry z gzikiem, mizerię, placki ziemniaczane, roladę wieprzową z burakiem na ciepło i pyzami, grochówkę z kociołka dużo by wymieniać 🙂 Pozdrawiam z pierwszej stolicy Polski 🙂

Oscypek is a cheese made from sheep milk. It's really hard to get those, and You can buy them only from may to september (when sheeps feed their younglings). Because Zakopane is a tourist trap, cheese is made of cow milk and sold as original one. And because production must be continous, even in summer season those fakes are being sold. Sad but true. Visit Tatry, skip Zakopane ;(

@KultAmerica it's tripe soup, not gut soup. Might seem like unrelevant detail but that's the correct translation and it sounds that tiny bit nicer. BTW I love that soup and I know it takes balls for someone unfamiliar with it to try it so respect to you my friend.

You need to try/show "wodzionka" which is a bread soup. Might seem strange to someone from outside but as one Polish song has it "wodzionka to je ósmy świata cud"

Mniamsiu,cudowne,marynata to z maślaków i dużo gorczycy coś pięknego,śledzika z chrzanem nigdy nie jadłem,oscypek dobry na zimno i bez dżemu.,a kaszanka (krupniok na Śląsku)lub bulczanka (to to samo,bulczanka jest z dodatkiem bułki)mogę jeść nawet prosto z sklepu bez podgrzewania grillowania,aa i flaczki muszą być też z odrobiną octu. Brakuje jednak czegoś, bo wszystkie te dania spożywa się z wódką 😜 Pozdrawiam serdecznie i świetnie się ogląda,powodzenia 🤗

Blood sausage is pretty common dish worldwide, for sure it is eaten in France and Spain as well as in numerous Asian countries. I think gut soup is also present in Spain. As for raw herring, it is pretty common dish in Scandinavia. Pickled mushrooms are also available in Germany and, like most of the pickled food, you do not eat them alone . From what I heard from my foreign friends, the most strange thing for them to eat in Poland seems to be soured milk - some people do not even dare to try it.

The "gut soup" is actually tripe soup on steroids. The "blood sausage" is black pudding 2.0. Both absolutely delicious and unique. Oscypki in (squeaky) texture are similar to haloumi cheese. The marinated oscypki is a tourist trap.

The rind of "kaszanka" is a pig intestine and it's delicious ♥️♥️♥️ thx for what you're doing we love our food and for us it's just normal not wierd in any point that's how we live that's how we grow. I love that you like our food god bless you 😀

Superb delicious. Polish food no USA rubbish USA got nothing to offer Polska Gira 💪

The thing about OSCYPEK is that it is hard to come by even in Zakopane. What you buy in typical tourist locations are counterfeit oscypek most likely made of cow milk. Real oscypek is made of sheep's milk mostly (minimum 70% required for certification), is hand-made and smoked and can be obtained from the head shepherds at their huts. Best way to find one (the shepherd's hut) is to ask local craftsmen (if you ask local sellers at tourist spots, they will most likely mislead you to get some of your money). Basically if you see a shepherds hut with a smoke house then you know you are in the right place. Regardless of its cow/sheep milk ratio, they are definitely worth trying and are lolovely cold or hot. My favourite is sliced oscypek from the frying pan.

In USA, in the Polish-American Community, Kaszanka is also known as Kiszka. There was even a very popular polka that cracked the billboard 100 called "Who stole the Kiszka" even mainstream radio stations were playing it. I was going to an Irish Catholic School at that time. I remember my fourth grade teacher Mrs. Dixon, asking me what was Kiszka. When I told her. You should have seen the look on her face. "That's disgusting", she said

Here in the Chicago area, there are many different manufacturers of blood sausage (Kiszka). The one our family loves and buys is made by Ashland sausage, it is very tasty and delicious…..yummmmm! Smacznego….Jim

There was no skin on that herring. This type is never marinated with skin. Only smaller herrings (moskaliki) are usually sold with skin and tail. Plus, a good marinated herring shouldn't taste too much of vinegar. I'm afraid you might have visited a lousy restaurant. 😬

Lard is awesome on a sourdough with sour cucumber on it! It’s 👍

Hey. I Just found your Channel. What a nice guy you are, mate! And thanks God! i found some marinated śledzie, with chilli pepper, in my fridge... Highly recommend bro! Was in Zakopanem and didn't tried kwaśnica? Come on!? XD

my oh my, grilles oscyperk with cranberry jam is something pretty new. 20 years ago noone really sold it this way. its delicious though.

so good but you've been to Zakopane, there are a few areas in Poland where people, culture, and variety of word pronunciations differ significantly from standard Poland. The largest and most popular: Kaszuby, Śląsk, Zakopane (most of the mountains). Each of them has a different folk dialect, culture and character. Zakopane is inhabited by people called Highlanders, they have their own highlander dialect, which in pronunciation and other vocabulary differs from ordinary Polish.

Congratulations, you speak Polish very well! My note, if I may, the herring dish you have eaten is called Rolmops and it does not need to be unroll but you have to cut into slices. Just like roulades. Cheers!

The thing with chernina (duck blood soup) it is very hard to find a place that really can do it right. Similar thing with flaki, the gut soup. Not every place serving them makes them right, however it is easier to achieve than with chernina.

The gut soup is one of my fav polish soups