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Guys in Poland,

do you remember "murzynek"? My mom first tried it in 70-es. It was so good! Later I saw that our "murzynek" (black man) is the same cake as very typical american cake called "brownie". Actually I think that my mother's murzynek is even better.

Do you still call it "murzynek" in Poland (it is a kind of the cocoa cake?

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Every time I come to this forum I get hungrier and hungrier. With all the great photos and recepies I think no one can stay on a diet for very long. Diet? who cares about a diet? There is pleanty of time to diet when you are dead. Enjoy it now while you can. Yum, yum.

I grew up in an Italian town downstate NY. I can cook better in Italian than Polish. I made perogis once and it took me all day to get a dozen. They tasted very good but that was the last time I ever tried to make them. Next came glombki. We made my mom show us how she makes hers recently. Since she can not do them any longer as it is too much for her to cook anymore. We did not want this to slip past us. My brother makes the kapusta. One of us has yet to try to make a babka. I have a phobia about yeast. We shall see. When I went to Poland I had my cousins show me how to mak a placek with plums. Very good to go with your coffee Bob <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Recently a Polish-American told me he visited Poland in the late 1970s, and had "pizza" there - it was toasted bread covered with ketchup. <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

In 2004 I saw a sign in Krakow advertising much better polish pizza:



You guys have come a long way, although I am not sure the Italians would recognise this pizza. <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Nancy,

what a beautiful picture. We should find a recipe for this Polish pizza and attach the photo to it!

Are you sure that it was pizza? Or 'zapiekanka', Polish invention of a snack in times when there was almost literally NOTHING in the shops to make a snack of?

I was wrong about the date - it was 1987, not the 70s - but here is the comment (in response to the same picture that I posted above):

........I especially like the picture of the pizza menu in Poland. It sounds �better� then pizza did when I visited Poland in 1987. At that time pizza was warm toast topped with ketchup and grated cheese!............

Yes then you had the "Zapiekanka." As A_dam said about it's origin. It can be purchased in most of the little stands or food shops.

Polish pizza is actually quite good. I've eaten at two restaurants. One had very amazing pizza. I've also eaten homemade where the dough is tall and thick and consists of a sauce with vegetables, bacon, kielbasa, and other stuff. It's very good with ketchup.

Ahhh.... ketchup. Everytime I go to Poland, I send two or three big bottles of Heinz. Everyone says there's nothing like it that they've tried.

Ketsup....a mortal sin EeeeeK!!!!!!!

One of our Presidents declared it a vegetable .... <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />