I've just been to the Polski Sklep

There’s a great Asian Supermarket in Limerick, always little Asian Ladies in there so you know it’s good.

Some of the Sausages in those Eastern European shops are top notch, had polish neighbours that had weekly house parties/bbq every week come sun hail and wind. That we’d regularly end up at, fantastic food

The wines in the Polish shops tend to be a big sweet... some ppl will lap that up but not for me.

Polo stores have interesting selection of meats eg pork neck, chicken thigh fillets. Great for kebabs or slow cooking.

There's a really dodgy, unwelcoming sex shop near me. It's possibly Uzbekh - I've never ventured in.

Go to Eurasia in Liffey Valley to stock up on stuff every so often - it is mostly Indian subcontinent cuisine but they have other stuff too (and conventional non-food groceries to some extent, but no real value in those). Spices, frozen specialist ingredients or breads, spices, etc. If you've a big family and use a lot of rice or pulses you can get bags ranging from large to ridiculous.

Lockdown 1's mad bread addiction drove half the Food forum in to the Polski Skleps, because they usually sell fresh bread yeast.

They have the best crisps in those shops

Fresh jelly cake, mushroom and cabbage rolls in breadcrumbs, pineapple yoghurt, strange milka bars in flavours you can only imagine, pizza flavoured cheetos...I have a long list when I go into my recently discovered one. My only sorrow so far has been banana flavoured jaffa cakes, they were really awful.

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly wrote: »

There's a really dodgy, unwelcoming sex shop near me. It's possibly Uzbekh - I've never ventured in.

Likely story ! Pull the other one

Zaph wrote: »

That's hardly exotic, my local SuperValu has pineapple yoghurt, and it was the only flavour I ate when I was a kid in the 70s.

These are strange foreign ones though and they're ten times nicer than any I've tasted before

Okay, I do have a question about Polish food that's going to sound stupid, but shur here we are - in any Polish shops or food sections, there are always a load of jars of creamy white sauce. Are Polish folks absolutely mad for mayonnaise or is it something else? I'm curious but apparently not enough to just buy a jar and find out.

20 marlboro gold for e8 in my local polish shop -great job! Had to do a month or two buying ham before he'd sell em to me though!

my favourite beer in poland is Książęce czerwony never seen that here, normally use the polski sklep for dried mushrooms, various pickles - gherkins muhrooms, sauerkraut. horsradish sauce etc etc
make my own pierogi - cant stand shop bought ones

Winiary brand for sauces - mayonnaise, mustard, tartar, horseradish.

Prymat brand for seasonings.

Zott jogobella apple yogurt. I don't even usually like yogurt but I always get one of these because its so nice.

Those wafer rolls mentioned aswel, they really are addictive.

jill_valentine wrote: »

Okay, I do have a question about Polish food that's going to sound stupid, but shur here we are - in any Polish shops or food sections, there are always a load of jars of creamy white sauce. Are Polish folks absolutely mad for mayonnaise or is it something else? I'm curious but apparently not enough to just buy a jar and find out.

I’m not Polish, so I could just be off the mark here, but I do venture in now and again, and it sounds like you are describing the horseradish sauce (as per a couple of posts above) - they’re mad for the stuff.

Also, pickled beetroot, have you noticed? Pickled beetroot everywhere. It must be a national staple. (I can’t stand the taste of it myself. There’s just something about its pungency... yuk )

There's a really good Asian shop near me where I normally get curry spices and chicken seasoning from. The chicken seasoning is fantastic for making my own homemade chicken goujons. I got a plantain in there recently which I'll use to make a plantain bread I found on YouTube. In the same area there's a Polish shop with some really nice sausages.

Also there's an off licence which I believe to be Lithuanian owned. The owner gets in quite a lot of Lithuanian beers and ciders. I think I've tried all of them at this stage, my favourite one being Bison Disel which comes in a silver can. The last one I tried from there was a 1litre blue and gold can of some Russian beer. I couldn't tell you what it was called because the name of the beer was in Cyrillic alphabet on the can. They also sell a really nice strong 5.9% Polish beer called Kasztelan. I was impressed also with a Lithuanian Blackcurrant wine and a nice Moldovan red wine.

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I go sometimes to the german shops

What chainsaws are doing in supermarket,
il never fully understand though

You should see the selection of guns in my in-laws local Walmart.

The local Polo store have lamb sausages to die for.
Lovely under the grill, but gorgeous on a barbecue.
Plus a huge range of beers to try, some lovely stouts from the Baltic countries.
Great range of fruit and veg, too.

Zubrowka vodka with the bison grass is focking delicious.

Sugarlumps wrote: »

Zubrowka vodka with the bison grass is focking delicious.

Absolutely incredible stuff. Puts any other vodka I've ever had to shame.

Comerman wrote: »

There's a Moldova shop opened recently in Kilkenny, anyone got any recommendations?

Moldovan wine is quite good if they stock it