what are the best Polish sweets?

[PlanktonSideburns]

Spending the week in gdansk - would quite like to go buy a load of Polish sweets and biscuits today, they seem to have some interesting twists on such stuff.


Any recommendations?

[madhair60]

Smartieski.

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]

Tewriesz Czoklat Orańj

[Sherringford Hovis]

Disclaimer: I've never been to Poland, but I can't pass any nationality of specialist food shop without splurging on intriguing snacks, both sweet and savoury. My dentist is Polish, so that's practically an endorsement of Polish confectionery.

Poland boasts Jaffa Cakes with lovely cherry, apricot, raspberry and strawberry goo in the top dimple instead of the default Kwik-Save marmalade analogue.

Also, imagine unmedicated Lockets - citrus boiled sweets with a proper bee-honey filling. Can't remember what they're called, but weirdly my mother-in-law bought some in Portugal thinking that they were traditional Portuguese candy but all the writing on the packaging revealed their true origin. Choccy bars with an Advocaat filling also seem to be popular - there's no greater refutation of Brexshit than this Dutch/Polish alliance.

Makowiec is traditional poppy seed cake: the more rustic home-made ones might be an acquired taste for British palates but the packaged supermarket style one compares favourably with Lidl's poppy and raisin stollen.

Last week I saw some Polish chocolate plums in the world food section of Tesco branded "Solidarnosc". The antithesis to the Peek Freans Trotsky Assortment, I guess.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Spending the week in gdansk - would quite like to go buy a load of Polish sweets and biscuits today, they seem to have some interesting twists on such stuff.


Any recommendations?

Not my area really.

Hit me up if you would like any recommendations on attractions or good bars though.

A week is a fair while for Gdansk, you could probably get to know the Tricity area well in that time. Brave man going there in February, mind.

[flotemysost]

Cyrok - little refrigerated blocks of sweet curd or Quark with a thin dark chocolate coating, in flavours like vanilla/coconut/strawberry/kiwi etc. - is originally Russian, but most Polish shops seem to sell a version (not sure what the Polish name is, but they'll be in the chiller cabinet section).

Here's a selection of the Russian ones:



Likely to melt all over your suitcase if you're looking for stuff to bring back home, but worth trying while you're there.

[Dex Sawash]

Brasso, butter and icing sugar

[PlanktonSideburns]

Thanks for all the real and hilarious suggestions! Going sweet shopping tomorrow

Thanks for the tip shoulders - your previous post on gdansk has proved very useful - our hotel is right be the Joseph k. It's also about 6 degrees which I think is pretty lucky for February

Might checkout the red light tonight - did you try that one

[PlanktonSideburns]

Cyrok - little refrigerated blocks of sweet curd or Quark with a thin dark chocolate coating, in flavours like vanilla/coconut/strawberry/kiwi etc. - is originally Russian, but most Polish shops seem to sell a version (not sure what the Polish name is, but they'll be in the chiller cabinet section).

Here's a selection of the Russian ones:



Likely to melt all over your suitcase if you're looking for stuff to bring back home, but worth trying while you're there.

Holy shit that looks the stuff!

[PlanktonSideburns]

Disclaimer: I've never been to Poland, but I can't pass any nationality of specialist food shop without splurging on intriguing snacks, both sweet and savoury. My dentist is Polish, so that's practically an endorsement of Polish confectionery.

Poland boasts Jaffa Cakes with lovely cherry, apricot, raspberry and strawberry goo in the top dimple instead of the default Kwik-Save marmalade analogue.

Also, imagine unmedicated Lockets - citrus boiled sweets with a proper bee-honey filling. Can't remember what they're called, but weirdly my mother-in-law bought some in Portugal thinking that they were traditional Portuguese candy but all the writing on the packaging revealed their true origin. Choccy bars with an Advocaat filling also seem to be popular - there's no greater refutation of Brexshit than this Dutch/Polish alliance.

Makowiec is traditional poppy seed cake: the more rustic home-made ones might be an acquired taste for British palates but the packaged supermarket style one compares favourably with Lidl's poppy and raisin stollen.

Last week I saw some Polish chocolate plums in the world food section of Tesco branded "Solidarnosc". The antithesis to the Peek Freans Trotsky Assortment, I guess.

Yea them Polish jaffa are (chef kissing his lips image)

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Red Light is decent enough yeah but should be busy.

[PlanktonSideburns]

Sure enough was rammers - hung around for a bit enjoying the hipster lynch vibe then jogged on somewhere quiet

Got a bigos hernia now

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Why the fuck are you spending the whole week in Gdansk ? Is it work related ? If not, you could do with nipping over to Krakow, or something.

[BlodwynPig]

Thanks for all the real and hilarious suggestions! Going sweet shopping tomorrow

Thanks for the tip shoulders - your previous post on gdansk has proved very useful - our hotel is right be the Joseph k. It's also about 6 degrees which I think is pretty lucky for February

Might checkout the red light tonight - did you try that one

Climb the church. I doubt there will be any boxing matches in the main square this time of year. Don't swim in sea. Buy some amber.

[JesusAndYourBush]

Dak.  They're like Penguin biscuits but with a lard filling instead of chocolate.  They're delish.

[PlanktonSideburns]

Climb the church. I doubt there will be any boxing matches in the main square this time of year. Don't swim in sea. Buy some amber.

church climb was thrilling! wobbly rotten planks, and pigeons darting out of nowhere like in a film

[BlodwynPig]

church climb was thrilling! wobbly rotten planks, and pigeons darting out of nowhere like in a film

Was the old man at the top asking for money? He's probably dead now.

[Johnny Yesno]

Peek Freans Trotsky Assortment

So that's what our long MIA poster was named after. Fuck my hat, etc.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

If you don't go to the solidarity centre you're a fucking membrane

[Cerys]

[tag]None of your beeswax[/tag]

[PlanktonSideburns]

If you don't go to the solidarity centre you're a fucking membrane

Solidarity centre was aces, as was the open dockyards - like doing urban exploring with the cheats on!

[ToneLa]

Tags: Mrs Sheen's desserts overlooked again