POLISH FOOD TOUR | Krakow

Yesterday, Charlie and Jill left us. We're very sad. We already missed them. But we decided to take the day off of vlogging, and we caught up on some work on our computers. We ate a lot, we snapchatted.

And it was a great day to catch.

Up on some work. Today we are leaving Krakow to go to Bratislava in Slovakia, but we're taking a night bus that leaves at like, 11:30.

So we have an entire day here in Krakow, and we're gonna go on a food tour.

We're not exactly sure what that is, but we get to eat, walk around.

The city, learn some history.

So excited.

Should be fun. Hello.

First and foremost, do you guys have a bottle of water with you right now?

We do not.

So grab a little bottle of water because it's hot and it's better to have it now.

Sure.

I love all the tours that we do. I worked for nine years in IT now, and the food is by far my favorite.

Thank you very much.

My name is Maciek, and welcome to the food tour.

Starting our tour, we just learned that we're going to have 15 courses.

Including.

Including Polish tapas ch soup. I don't even know what else.

I think we made a good decision.

I'm really excited.

First, we're having some traditional Polish soup. This one is beetroot, the root and the actual beet. This one I can't remember.

Oh, sounds like Zurich nowadays. Very often. Yeah, it sounds like Zurich in a.

Plate made of bread. It's pickled flour soup of the regular people.

So it has stuff like that.

Except for, like, later on, we're going to eat a dish which traditionally just come in a bowl.

This is so good.

It's super.

I'm quickly learning that food is my favorite way to learn about a country's history. Like the white soup that we had, the dessert soup, or whatever it was in the east, it was made with potatoes, and here it's made with sausage because Krakow didn't want to seem poor, so they put sausage in it that was more expensive. And they will not put potatoes in here.

Pretty cool.

First and foremost, 85% of Poland is flat. It's a perfect country for agriculture. So agriculture has always been and is, until the very day, the most important Polish industry.

And that's it, guys.

That's just no comparison.

So we moved on to the next course, which is bread, goat cheese, and two different types of sausage. Apparently you don't say kielbasa sausage in Poland because it basically means sausage. Sausage. Because kielbasa means sausage. He Also told us that this cheese right here was made by squeezing goat milk into a sock and then squeezing out all the liquid. I already don't like goat cheese. Sock cheese.

I love goat cheese cheese.

It's not as strong as the goat cheese that I used to have.

Good.

Got kind of a spongy consistency.

Interesting.

Apparently Polish people eat 80 kilos of sausage and 60 kilos of bread per year. Per person? Per person. Explain in the next portion.

Pickled stuff is a huge part of the Polish cuisine. Our guy just went and bought this stuff from the little market that we walked around earlier. He said that the mountain people step on the cabbage with their feet for two hours. They even have some songs that keep up their stamina. Apparently it's really hard work. Oh yeah. They don't use vinegar to pickle anything here. They use a lot of salt, dill, a bunch of other things. But vinegar is a note.

For example. So what we did, we started sending it to China.

He said it was an acquired taste.

Tastes like the. I'm just kidding.

Sweet cabbage.

How's the sweet cabbage?

Very fresh.

Crunchy, like a less good apple.

How many courses have we had?

I don't know if it counts how many food things we eat or like how many times we've stopped. We've stopped wise. And I think we have like six. Five. I'm getting kind of full five food things.

We need to walk. They're going to leave us.

This smells interesting.

Off to the next place to be grabbing dumpling.

So I need to correct myself. We're eating pierogi, not dumplings with cheese and potatoes and onions on top.

And it's delicious.

Right now is something called compote.

Water, sugar, and a mix of.

Cheers.

We had pierogi one other time, like a few days ago, and those were way better. Apparently the dough is super simple. It's just water and flour. But you have to pound it out for two hours. That's why nobody makes it home and they go out to eat.

And you just.

We are about to have some Polish vodka.

Apparently it's the. Shoot the vodka and then wash it down with hair.

Smells like rubbing out.

Do you want my serving?

Why did they do it like that?

Apparently the fish gets rid of the taste. Doesn't taste that good.

Bread, some kind of meat and stuff.

We're now eating bagels.

With pickle cabbage.

Anything else which you still have left at home?

This is so.

So for dessert, we went and we tasted four different artisanal vodkas and they were all flavored differently it was interesting.

They were good. I so enjoyed this food tour. No offense to the city tours that we've been doing, but this was so much better.

Food tours are the way to go.

There is so much culture in food, and I always knew that. But we've never really had someone there to explain to us. Like, I wish somebody in Asia would start a food tour like that. Where you see, like, where this food literally came from. Like, the dumplings we ate are because Mongolians invaded, but they left their food.

Potentially.

They're not even Polish.

I prefer to learn history through food.

Yeah, we learned so much. And the poppy seed dessert that we had. Poppy seeds were banned for, like, 10 years in the 90s because people were making heroin. They burned all the fields.

Now everybody's back into poppy seeds. We learned so much through food.

It was super cool. I would do one of these in every city, but I don't feel like they're as popular.

Highly recommend it if you come to Krakow. This is one of the things you have to do before you leave. We're gonna end today's vlog here. We're gonna pick back up when we get to the bus station. So an overnight bus from Krakow to Bratislava is all in vlog. I think that makes the most.

I did not think you ate your half of the pickle cabbage. There's so much left in.

I was saving you some.

So nice of you.

So I need to correct myself for eating Kogi pierogis pierogi.