"Getting the dignity of a homecooked meal", that was beautifully said. I am an American, but have lived in Kraków for 11 years. I love our milk bars!

I loved milk bars when I lived in Poland. The food there was cheap and delicious. Kluski Slaskie (Silesian dumplings) smothered with melted butter and sprinkled with powdered sugar were my favorite.

Ruskie pierogi means: Ruthenian dumplings. Russian dumplings in Polish would be: Pierogi rosyjskie.

Michals sense of humour wins. Great video!

You had very smart guides👍👊

That extra energy came from lots of sugar we ate the first day! :) Thanks for making me a part of it :)

Schabowy is the KING of Polish cuisine!!! Amen!!!

Kasza is the groats. I love it. It is so helthy the more you eat it the slimmer you will be and full of energy.

I was once in Poland and really fell in love with the food. We have a lot of vendors selling Döner Kebab here, but I never met a single shop that serves polish food, which is strange and a pity since there are also a lot of Poles in Germany, maybe even more than Turks, I guess.

What a beautifully made video, you did milk bars justice!

Went to a krakow milk bar,wonderful and so cheap

Kluski slaskie are made of patetoes and out of patetoe storch and an addition of 1 egg. I love the so much.

"Kopytka" with butter and sugar.

1:50 it have caffine and teobromine :) it is in the end Cacao

whole country run on milk bars

Cracow in Polish is Kraków which is pronounced like: Krakoov.

damn only a few thousand subs? well made video here. Thanks!

Fun fact, coca actually does have caffeine, just much less than coffee.

Sprinkling sugar on everything is a regional feature of the central part of Poland. They put sugar in salads, in soups, in sauces. In addition, the service in milk bars is sometimes rude to the core. 1. It happened to me that when I asked for a pinch of salt in my porridge instead of sugar, the cook knocked the head letting everyone around know I'm crazy than pointing at me and screaming loudly: "He's a moron! He ordered SALT to his oat!!!" (1982 Bar Uniwersytecki, Warsaw). 2. Another time my friend still felt hungry after eating his meal. He asked for a next portion of mashed potatoes. The cashier called the cook, and she came out holding a large cauldron. She dipped her bare hand there, scooped up the mash, and put it on my friend's plate (1985 Bar Żelazny, Warsaw's district Praga). 3. Not only students and retirees visited milk bars these times. Sometimes people known from TV and movies appeared there. One evening in a bar I met a very famous actor and director in the company of a very attractive young lady (the actor was already well into his sixties, she was barely twenty). They ate a dinner of dumplings and chattered lovingly to each other. Suddenly one of the cooks couldn't stand it anymore, she walked up to the table and hit the table with a wet cloth and she said: "Mr. Hanuszkiewicz! You can fuck around in hotels like Victoria or Forum (most posh places those days). Get outta here!".

Milk bars, Amber, and salt. Krakow is awesome.

I think I have the right to write to you that Polish farmers can provide up to 200 million people with healthy and durable food products. They could, but the EU doesn't allow it! Moreover, the culture of Polish cuisine combines all the needs of every person from any climatic zone. Polish cuisine has an extraordinary wealth of dishes from game, pork, beef, poultry, sea and inland fish, etc. But, Polish cuisine also offers plenty of soups, dairy dishes, vegetarian dishes, vegan dishes, dishes with vegetables, fruits and mushrooms. The cook of the Polish king, Jan III Sobieski - Stanisław Czeniecki wrote the first real cookbook in Europe. This is an incredible wealth for anyone who appreciates good food. Personally, I recommend drinking fruit compote (with the last money left in your pocket) at a Polish milk bar. You won't be full, but you will fall in love with Polish cuisine and forget about Coca-Cola or Pepsi! SMACZNEGO

No soup!? Usually i eat soup in this bar

Great video, I wonder how the milk bars make money, unless they are subsidized by the govt Cheers

Not sweet cheese but with sweet cottage cheese or curd.

To add to this history lesson. Yes ruskie pierogi supose to be translate into Ruthenian "dumplings" but its not just ruthenia. Its red ruthenia which was part of poland. So yes. It is ukrainian land but from times when it was polish. Thats why i fiding this offensive to call them ukrainian. Bc its like calling English language AMERICANISH and suggesting that people in UK speak american.

"Pierogi ruskie" means 'Rutheranian dumplings' This boy spoke untruthfully about the name of "ruskie" dumplings/pierogi. The name is not derived from Kyivan Rus, but from the name of the historical land of Red Ruthenia, which was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, as well as the former Polish Eastern Borderlands. Shame on you for misleading people. "Ruskie pierogi" does not mean "Russian pierogi". The word "Ruskie" in this case is an adjective made from the word "Ruś" / “The Red Ruthenia” - that is a historical name for a land located basically in north-western Ukraine and south-eastern Poland (this land once was in Poland) so "Ruś" is not synonymous with Russia or Ruś Kijowska/Kyivan Rus (which back then was and still are different places). The correct translation is 'Rutheranian dumplings', definitely not 'Russian dumplings'.

15:20 What? Kluski is flour based? Since when? Pierogi's dough is 100% wheat flour based, kluski's dough is 100% potato mash plus eggs plus potato starch for adding gummier texture.

I always wonder why YT clips on Polish food are 95% fantasy, with people describing some weird family quirks as "traditional Polish cuisine" and distant childhood memories as "history":).

16:20 Ruskie ≠ Rosyjskie, thats a diffirent words, een in coloquial language ofen we say Ruscy/Ruski but it perojative word to name Russians(Rosjanie) wic we dont like overall in Poland.

It's good when the guide knows the history! Unfortunately, yours mostly told fairy tales. These two boys know nothing about Polish cuisine. Too many mistakes to straighten it out. The slogan "Sugar strengthens you - Cukier krzepi" was invented by Melchior Wańkowicz, a journalist and writer, in 1931. In everyday use there was a paraphrase of this advertising slogan; Sugar strengthens, but vodka does so much more.🤣🤣😂 The first milk bar, called "Mleczarnia Nadświdrzańska"(Today, in this place there is building , the pre-war, majestic building of BGK - Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego at Aleje Jerozolimskie 7) was established in 1896 in Warsaw by Stanisław Dłużewski, a member of the Polish nobleman , landed gentry. Although the typical bar mleczny had a menu based on dairy items, these establishments generally served other, non-dairy traditional Polish dishes as well. The commercial success of the first milk bars encouraged other businessmen to copy this type of restaurant. As Poland regained its independence after World War I, milk bars appeared across most of the country. They offered relatively cheap but nourishing food, and thus achieved even more prominence during the economic depression of the 1930s and World War II. Poland became a communist state in the Eastern Bloc. Contrary to official propaganda, the majority of the population was poor, and even moderately-priced restaurants were derided as "capitalist". During the post-war years, most restaurants were nationalized and then closed down by the communist authorities. In the mid-1960s, milk bars were common as a means of offering cheap meals to people working in companies that had no official canteen. They still served mostly dairy-based and vegetarian meals, especially during the period of martial law in the early 1980s, when meat was rationed. After the fall of communism, milk bars gave way to dynamically developing normal gastronomy. Due to their good locations, milk bars often fall victim to gentrification and are defended by activist groups. Today milk bars are privately owned, but partly subsidized by the state and local governments, which allows it to offer low prices. The quality of food in milk bars is poor. It doesn't remind me of home-cooked food, nor does it remind me of my grandmother or mother. Ruthenian dumplings (pierogi ruskie)come from Red Ruthenia, which is now the Podkarpackie Voivodeship and part of western Ukraine. Saint Jacek Odrowąż popularized them in the crown already in the 12th century. The only correct English translation is Ruthenian dumplings. Ukrainian dumplings are nonsense. Dumplings from Russia are pelmeni, and from Ukraine they are varienki.

You should have concetrate on🎉 food, showing it trying it and less on talking with too young "experts" who do not know the history and evolution of bar mleczny institution.

Pierogies originally came from China

16:20 Your "guide" is talking nonsense. Idiot bar owners call Ruskie Dumplings Ukrainian dumplings. These dumplings come from the lands of "Red Ruthenia" - an area that was part of Poland for hundreds of years. Ukraine as a country was established after 1989, so what kind of "Ukrainian dumplings" are we talking about? If someone wants to translate this name into English, they should translate it as Ruthenian Pierogi. I also didn't notice that, apart from locations full of foreign tourists, some idiots changed the Polish or English menu and called it Ukrainian pierogi...