Are Poles returning?

Radsteral

No thing wrong with polish food, some of it is very nice but the polish themselves are soo obsesed with it they even import/make polish bread !
These are the sort of foreigners that i would never think , they would settle or addapt anywhere to the country they intended to live.
I understand the egg and bacon thingy wasnt the best the british cousine offered, but i got on with it and as for the bread, you got howis which you may not like it but then again you got soo many kinds of different fresh breads you can buy.
The guy i employed few days, would get paranoid and a bit nervous if he didnt have the '' right '' kind of bread

bo_drinker

Radsteral wrote: »

but the polish themselves are soo obsesed with it they even import/make polish bread !

The guy i employed few days, would get paranoid and a bit nervous if he didnt have the '' right '' kind of bread

The danger being they may need to pay something into our economy, this they do not like to do. They have taken for years and hate paying back in...

BitterAndTwisted

What utter tosh! The Poles, like the Germans are obsessed by getting their hands on good bread and I really don't blame them for importing and/or manufacturing it themselves. I live in the capital and finding decent bread around here isn't easy. I go to my nearest Turkish grocer for it, there's no local baker and the supermarkets round here are utter rubbish apart from Lidl who stock vollkornbrot, thank goodness

lostinrates

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

What utter tosh! The Poles, like the Germans are obsessed by getting their hands on good bread and I really don't blame them for importing and/or manufacturing it themselves. I live in the capital and finding decent bread around here isn't easy. I go to my nearest Turkish grocer for it, there's no local baker and the supermarkets round here are utter rubbish apart from Lidl who stock vollkornbrot, thank goodness

Its not quite fair to say finding good bread isn't easy in London Bitter and Twisted. Expensive, sure, but easy enough.Paul, Maison Blanc, all the various ''cultural'' concentrations. I love Hngarian bread from a particular N. London Baker, and chollah from two particular N. London bakeries...also, tbf, the supermarkets now do stock stuff other than plastic white sliced. Morrisons even do a sour dough which is meant to be decent.

Some brits have always eaten ''decent'' loaves of various sorts, and sliced white plastic is sold...everywhere. Its weird...but people from other EU countries riducule our bread...and yet I've seen them in supermarkets in other countries....someone must buy them...which I find as odd here as anywhere else.

BitterAndTwisted

When I said "around here" I meant my own neighbourhood not the whole of North London. This is a very working-class area and I could spend a fiver travelling to Crouch End or Golders Green but I ruddy well won't just for a loaf of bread. I was in Hampstead a few weeks ago and they have a Paul's bakery there, and the sods wanted TWO POUNDS for a small loaf of rye bread. I had to buy it but I wasn't happy. The bread was outstanding, though.

White steam-baked bread is known as tostbrot in Germany so I suspect that's all our Continental brethren do with it as that's all it's good for, really Well, that and feeding to the ducks

Sapphire

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

When I said "around here" I meant my own neighbourhood not the whole of North London. This is a very working-class area and I could spend a fiver travelling to Crouch End or Golders Green but I ruddy well won't just for a loaf of bread. I was in Hampstead a few weeks ago and they have a Paul's bakery there, and the sods wanted TWO POUNDS for a small loaf of rye bread. I had to buy it but I wasn't happy. The bread was outstanding, though.

White steam-baked bread is known as tostbrot in Germany so I suspect that's all our Continental brethren do with it as that's all it's good for, really Well, that and feeding to the ducks

Polish bread that is really pretty good and you can buy here is rye bread with cumin seeds. It's a very dense bread that lasts for ages. Absolutely superb with butter and kielbasa. :T

There is also so-called Russian bread, which is very dark brown in colour, but not as good as the rye bread.

BitterAndTwisted

Sapphire PLEASE tell me what that rye bread with cumin is called. I lurve any kind of rye bread, it's in my genes.

I have a friend arriving tomorrow from the Netherlands and he's been told that he's not allowed past the front door without bringing cheese with cumin. It comes from Leiden, I think. Utterly delicious!

Sapphire

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Sapphire PLEASE tell me what that rye bread with cumin is called. I lurve any kind of rye bread, it's in my genes.

I have a friend arriving tomorrow from the Netherlands and he's been told that he's not allowed past the front door without bringing cheese with cumin. It comes from Leiden, I think. Utterly delicious!

It's called 'chleb z kminkiem'. I think it may have a small proportion of white flour in it, because it is not as heavy as some rye breads, but it is delicious. As well as being good with kielbasa, it also works well with jams and honey – but best buttered, with cold meats.

I hope you manage to get hold of some. Polish shops tend to run out of it in the run-up to Christmas...;)

P.S. I agree with what you say about supermarket bread. It's mostly inedible, tasting of chemicals and with a strange open texture. Funnily enough, I am quite partial to packaged sliced white bread when it's made into sandwiches. But the loose bread you get in supermarkets is unpleasant.