Food & Wine - Poland...

[Puncek]

Oh no, this is so disappointing to hear. Poland is on my "Must Try" list! I guess I thought being Disney the food items would be superb like in the restaurants!

 

[disnut8]

Why couldn't they have REAL Polish pierogies?

Because it takes me an hour to make 14 of them just for my family. And I make them big so to make them a smaller size would take about two hours. So 120 minutes to make 28 pierogies is about 2-1/2 minutes for one. Now, that does include the entire dough making process, the rolling out, the filling, the sealing. That does NOT include the boiling and the frying. You can say that massive batches of dough could be made and I agree so subtract a bit but you can't take any time away from the filling, the boiling and the frying. So let's say three minutes to make one pierogie. How many of those do you think Disney World would serve in a day?

We don't get the pierogies at Disney World just like we don't get lasagna at Italian restaurants. Because we know I can make better at home.

 

[GBBTomorrow]

I am glad to hear that at least the kielbasa is good. I always laugh so hard when I see the red sausage in the grocery store labeled "Polish Kielbasa"!! Ugh!! It's not even close!

I moved from Toledo to Cincinnati, and you can't get real kielbasa in Cincinnati. You'd think with Poland and Germany being so close...but no. We buy our Kielbasa at Stanley's Market in Toledo and bring it back in a cooler. Whole car stinks for a week! I love it!

Now I've moved to South Carolina, and I don't know what the heck I'm going to do.

 

[duffy]

I'll skip the pierogi too. I can order mine from any one of a half dozen churches here at home, or get them at any festival, for way, WAY cheaper. I'm talking "2 for $1" cheaper.

And from the chuch ladies, I'd get a big helping of halushki for $2, the kind that has been simmering all day, and what the heck, get some halupki too. All that for $5.

Mass-produced in the church basement, and heavenly.

 

[burberryplaid]

Couldn't agree more with OP. The pierogies weren't bad, but I could get the same thing from a box in the freezer section.

 

[maxiesmom]

I am glad to hear that at least the kielbasa is good. I always laugh so hard when I see the red sausage in the grocery store labeled "Polish Kielbasa"!! Ugh!! It's not even close!

They must have changed it then, becuase last year it was disgusting! I'm Polish and German, and I thought the kielbasa was pretty horrible. I ended up throwing it away, actually.

Maybe it is better this year. We can only hope!

 

[4evryoung]

I may have hit a bad day, but the Poland offerings were the worst of any booth I tasted this year. Food was cold, sort of floppy gray wanton type thing (was that the pierogie?), with a dog cheW (was that the Kielbasa?), and a dribble of thin sauce (hope that wassour cream...). Add to it a really sickly "Strawberry balsamic chiller" that got binned after two sips and you are really talking about $13 badly spent.

 

[clairemolly]

I am glad to hear that at least the kielbasa is good. I always laugh so hard when I see the red sausage in the grocery store labeled "Polish Kielbasa"!! Ugh!! It's not even close!

I moved from Toledo to Cincinnati, and you can't get real kielbasa in Cincinnati. You'd think with Poland and Germany being so close...but no. We buy our Kielbasa at Stanley's Market in Toledo and bring it back in a cooler. Whole car stinks for a week! I love it!

Now I've moved to South Carolina, and I don't know what the heck I'm going to do.

I am also a Polish transplant from Toledo living in Cincinnati. I have kielbasa from Stanley's in my deep freeze...I get that and some cheese pierogi every time we go back to visit family.

Oh, and to the other Polish translplants living in Cincy...pm me if you want some, or Stanley's also takes orders they can ship to you!

 

[UncleRay]

Just got back... me and kids were excited to get pierogies in Epcot this trip! 100% Polish (well, kids are Polish/Ukes) Gotta say, quite disappointed. I make homemade pierogies, as do family members, we all make them a bit differently, and we were curious to try out the one's at Epcot - but wow, we are just certain they were Mrs. T's! They look like Mrs. T's, and there is an indentation along the whole back edges of them, just like Mrs. T's, and of course, they taste 100% like Mrs. T's (which I'm not a fan of). Why couldn't they have REAL Polish pierogies?

The kielbasa obviously wasn't Hillshire Farms, LOL, and the stuffed cabbage was authentic - but just disappointed in the pierogies. Spent the afternoon/evening in Future World, and then battled the crowds in World Showcase specifically for the pierogies - well, and a margarita from Mexico!
okay - vent over!

IMHO one should look at the F&W Festival as a chance to get an interpretation of another culture's food. Will not be a "home cookin'"

 

[emmabemmainc]

I just ate Mrs. T's last week and didn't notice any indentation--where is it??

BTW--I have a polish market right by me, and I still love Mrs. T's--I don't really look them as real pierogies though--just big, really good, potato filled ravioli with sour cream! YUM!!

 

[2BusyPlanning]

IMHO one should look at the F&W Festival as a chance to get an interpretation of another culture's food. Will not be a "home cookin'"

True, but when you move away from family that makes a certain traditional dish from your heritage, you look forward to something familiar. Not just something that is mass produced and that you can make at home from a box in the frozen section.

 

[Topper]

Now I've moved to South Carolina, and I don't know what the heck I'm going to do.

http://www.tedsbutcherblock.com/products/specialty_foods/

 

[beroh2253]

Cheddar cheese doesn't belong in pierogies!!!! My babcia (grandmother) would kill me if she saw me eat one! It's a shame most people don't know what good pierogies taste like, they are great. We make ours with farmer's cheese (sorta like a cottage cheese, but not wet and much sweeter/ smoother) with a little sugar added. Plus the dough is MUCH lighter than Mrs T's. You can fill them with anything (my Dad loves ons filled with meat, I like the cheese ones and some of the fruit filled ones)

Yep the Farmers cheese are the real pierogie but much more expensive them potato but what a difference. I had the ones in Poland EPCOT a few years back and they were cold and bad worse I ever had will pass on them this year.

 

[liriel]

So disappointing. I was hoping to try them, but if they are Mrs. T's then I won't because they are gross. I am a polish purist and have made them with my Grandmother and Step-mother for a long time with farmers cheese and potato or cabbage. We freeze them so we can make huge batches and have them every now and again for months. Guess I will just have to try the golumpkis and see if those are disappointing as well.