Polish Stores.

kneemos

Any hidden treats in those Polish stores or is it all Fratwurst and Gurkins.

fussyonion

They have a few different varieties of Cheetos and a good choice of different crisps we wouldn't be familiar with.

The chocolate's good too.
That's all I've bought from there.

kneemos

kneemos wrote: »

Any hidden treats in those Polish stores or is it all Fratwurst and Gurkins.

The dumplings with cheese and potato are very nice fried in a pan and served with tomato ketchup and a beer.

Also some of the sausages are great on the Barbie, and they also sell nice wafery chocolate bars and Cheetos crisps which are not widely sold in Ireland.

whiskeyman

Mr Sheen and some good cloths I guess...

Winterlong

Dont you have your own question thread?

(Is that how this works?)

lawlolawl

One near me does fresh donuts with an obscene amount of cream filling and sugar coating.

No sure if that's uniquely Polish though.

osarusan

Some of the breads are very good.

vandriver

The smoked ham is lush

Shenshen

Frozen wild mushrooms (actually wild mushrooms, not just brown button mushrooms), twaróg, pickled summer squashes, not to mention duplo and hanuta!

suicide_circus

crab juice and kalkalash

no seriously, they do these smoked lumps of pork belly, slice that bad boy and fry, serve with a creamy mash potatoe

Wibbs

they're called shops, not stores, not unless you're an American or a frontier cowboy.

frag420

Magda behind the deli counter, smells like the smoked ham but she is a stunner!!

riffmongous

Wibbs wrote: »

they're called shops, not stores, not unless you're an American or a frontier cowboy.

Sklep! The one word of Polish I will always remember

Try some Kvass if they sell it, chocolate is also good.

Jimmy Garlic

Can't get enough of that apple and mint Tymbark drink, very refreshing stuff.

Speedwell

I make a point of going to Lituanica in Sligo on my once-or-twice-a-month shopping trips into town. Things I frequently buy:

- Proper egg noodles for Eastern European chicken soup
- Celery root
- Smoked sausage that is like the Hungarian/Czech kind I am used to
- Dry sausages
- Pickled herring
- Fresh sauerkraut (not the stuff in a jar)
- Polish pate
- Balkan bread
- Russian sardines
- Pickles. So many pickles. Especially the spicy ones that are not too sour.
- Vegetable seasoning (like Vegeta)
- Different kinds of flour
- Dried beans
- Spirit vinegar
- Wrapped sweets for the Christmas tree (a Hungarian tradition from my childhood)
- Smietana (a high-fat creme fraiche for which there is no substitute in certain recipes)
- Cherry preserves
- Dry curd cheese
- Polish buttermilk
- Lecso (Hungarian peppers and onions in tomato sauce, many uses in Eastern European, French, Spanish, and Tex-Mex cooking)
- Dried spices
- Cold-smoked pork loin

Well, that's all I can think of from the top of my head. Of course my father is from Hungary, and my mother is of Belarusian descent. And I have a Romanian foodie friend. And the Czech and Polish style smoked sausages are very popular in south central Texas where I used to live before I moved here.

Sgt Hartman

Lovely chocolate in the one in Roxboro shopping centre in Limerick as well as decent fruit.

Arsemageddon

Kabanos, smoked/dried sausage that are 130% meat - proper man food GRRRRRRRR!!!!

Speedwell

Arsemageddon wrote: »

Kabanos, smoked/dried sausage that are 130% meat - proper man food GRRRRRRRR!!!!

I half live on those things when I'm trying to get to "very low carb" in the diet.

KERSPLAT!

fussyonion wrote: »

They have a few different varieties of Cheetos and a good choice of different crisps we wouldn't be familiar with.

The chocolate's good too.
That's all I've bought from there.

Do they have cruncho shaped Cheetos?

Speedwell

Wibbs wrote: »

they're called shops, not stores, not unless you're an American or a frontier cowboy.

well, now that you mention it...

kneemos

Arsemageddon wrote: »

Kabanos, smoked/dried sausage that are 130% meat - proper man food GRRRRRRRR!!!!

So meat with added meat.

Speedwell

kneemos wrote: »

So meat with added meat.

Basically 1.3 kilo of meat or more per kilo of sausage, because they're a semi-dried product.

fussyonion

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

Do they have cruncho shaped Cheetos?

They had the cruncho-type ones in the Polish shop in Tallaght.
Now, it's been about a month since I was there so I don't know if they'd still be available.
It's the shop right across from Smyth's Toystore, just adjacent to the Abberley Hotel.

KERSPLAT!

fussyonion wrote: »

They had the cruncho-type ones in the Polish shop in Tallaght.
Now, it's been about a month since I was there so I don't know if they'd still be available.
It's the shop right across from Smyth's Toystore, just adjacent to the Abberley Hotel.

Do they have different flavours!?

fussyonion

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

Do they have different flavours!?

Can't remember. They had Flamin' Hot. And another flavour I don't remember ever seeing before.

KyranW

Try the deep fried swan, it's decent.

darkpagandeath

You have not lived unless you tried the Cheese filled hot dogs. All the cold meat is also very very nice and cheap to boot. Love the yogurts. Twisty cheetos. Could go on. Main point is the cost saving.

vicwatson

vandriver wrote: »

The smoked ham is lush

Is that you Tom Kerridge?

The Rape of Lucretia

Wibbs wrote: »

they're called shops, not stores

We have neither around here. Until a couple of drugstores opened, we only had the mercantile.

enricoh

20 Marlboro lights for 6.50 in my local one. Was buying the different hams for 6 months before I was accepted into the fag purchasing bit! Some of the sausages are tip top too.

The_Valeyard

Would they get fired for speaking Polish? :P

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Big bags of rice for my dogs. Never really look at anything else in there. They're a bit odd with their food.

Mister Vain

Polish bread is far superior to Irish bread. I wouldn't get anything else out of a sklep though.

rainbow kirby

Krakow sausage is delicious

I'd be a lot more likely to buy things from Asian shops though - bulk spices and great value on things like rice, tomatoes and chickpeas.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Every single post I see about people admiring the Eastern European sausage makes me very happy

Day Lewin

LARD!!!

(The real and genuine pork lard. Very hard to find nowadays. Essential for the best flaky pastry. East European shops often have it!)

Slunk

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Can't get enough of that apple and mint Tymbark drink, very refreshing stuff.

Throw some zubrowka in there too!! The smoked ham and cheeses are quite nice as are some of the breads. Sausages and pork neck are good for the BBQ

The Wolverine

Wibbs wrote: »

they're called shops, not stores, not unless you're an American or a frontier cowboy.

Dude why you do you have to be such a douchebag?




:pac:

kupus

find a packet of spice called vegata and stick it into anything you are cooking. Youll be called Jamie Oliver and everybody will want to know your secret!!
oh and sausages any of the sausages. Good god one sausage can feed you for a day. yummmy.

muddypaws

paprika crisps

Thespoofer

I go to them regularly. They can have a great selection of fish, preserved food and sauces which a lot of the time would have a nicer more natural taste as they are grown/produced without nasty additives etc.

It's not only Polish food but you can find a good selection from a good number of other Eastern European countries ( Russian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Romanian and so on )

They have a great selection of herbal teas at a fraction of the cost you'd pay on the high street.

Alf Stewart.

A few pages in and no one has mentioned any or their beer yet?

Kasztilan is one of the nicest beers I have ever had, 5.6% of Polish amber nectar, that leaves me completely and utterly hangover free next morning.

Zywiceh (prob spelt wrong) again, 5.6% hangover proof juice. (€6.50 a 4 pack)

And perla, 6% (hangover proof)

They have some others that I haven't tried yet, but my Polish customers swear by, (Bosman being one.)

All cheaper than your local Tesco/Aldi/Lidl etc.

Thespoofer

Alf Stewart. wrote: »

A few pages in and no one has mentioned any or their beer yet?

Kasztilan is one of the nicest beers I have ever had, 5.6% of Polish amber nectar, that leaves me completely and utterly hangover free next morning.

Zywiceh (prob spelt wrong) again, 5.6% hangover proof juice. (€6.50 a 4 pack)

And perla, 6% (hangover proof)

They have some others that I haven't tried yet, but my Polish customers swear by, (Bosman being one.)

All cheaper than your local Tesco/Aldi/Lidl etc.

Where are these Polish stores located ?

Alf Stewart.

Thespoofer wrote: »

Where are these Polish stores located ?

Any shop with the name "Polonez" above the door.

There's a fair few of them scattered throughout ireland at this stage.

SeanW

Polish ham is seriously nice. They also have meat snacks, various names mostly Paluski.

They will have a good selection of Lays and Cheetos, their chocolate is nice as are the chocolate biscuits. Definitely worth a visit.

Thespoofer

Alf Stewart. wrote: »

Any shop with the name "Polonez" above the door.

There's a fair few of them scattered throughout ireland at this stage.

Nice one. I didn't know they sold beer. I normally go to the Mercury ones. That's my weekend sorted. Thanks

Alf Stewart.

Thespoofer wrote: »

Nice one. I didn't know they sold beer. I normally go to the Mercury ones. That's my weekend sorted. Thanks

I think they only hit their license to sell gargle in the last year or less.

Its the "real" Polish beer too. (Apparently Tyskie/Lech etc that we get here is brewed in UK now, though IDK if that's a fact)

0lddog

Anyone mention :

Chicken livers ?

and what about broad beans

and many ( fat content ) variations of sour cream

and what about the saltiest 'low salt' pickled herrings ever ?


WRT "Shops" dont forget Polo Stores ( www.polostores.net/stores )

Uboat

kneemos wrote: »

Any hidden treats in those Polish stores or is it all Fratwurst and Gurkins.

What Polish stores? Lidl?

Widdershins

Speedwell wrote: »

I make a point of going to Lituanica in Sligo on my once-or-twice-a-month shopping trips into town. Things I frequently buy:

- Proper egg noodles for Eastern European chicken soup
- Celery root
- Smoked sausage that is like the Hungarian/Czech kind I am used to
- Dry sausages
- Pickled herring
- Fresh sauerkraut (not the stuff in a jar)
- Polish pate
- Balkan bread
- Russian sardines
- Pickles. So many pickles. Especially the spicy ones that are not too sour.
- Vegetable seasoning (like Vegeta)
- Different kinds of flour
- Dried beans
- Spirit vinegar
- Wrapped sweets for the Christmas tree (a Hungarian tradition from my childhood)
- Smietana (a high-fat creme fraiche for which there is no substitute in certain recipes)
- Cherry preserves
- Dry curd cheese
- Polish buttermilk
- Lecso (Hungarian peppers and onions in tomato sauce, many uses in Eastern European, French, Spanish, and Tex-Mex cooking)
- Dried spices
- Cold-smoked pork loin

Well, that's all I can think of from the top of my head. Of course my father is from Hungary, and my mother is of Belarusian descent. And I have a Romanian foodie friend. And the Czech and Polish style smoked sausages are very popular in south central Texas where I used to live before I moved here.

I love your list. Lots of inspiration there. This could be a silly question but is Polish buttermilk different to other buttermilk?

uck51js9zml2yt

My wife likes the buttermilk. Drinks it straight from the carton.
They are great for herbal teas.