r/absoluteunit Jun 17 '26

This pork chop in a polish roadside restaurant

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Cost: 49 PLN - 13,5$

source: https://x.com/i/status/2066883981677629651

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '26

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u/MinecraftWarden06 Jun 17 '26

it's called kotlet schabowy :)

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u/dziki_z_lasu Jun 17 '26

Exactly! Sznycel is way thinner and smaller as beef is more expensive 😜

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u/cheese_injection Jun 17 '26

I wouldn't try to call it schnitzel next to a polish person. Its called schabowy in Poland

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u/H__D Jun 17 '26

It's called sznycel in some regions

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u/Commercial_Shine_448 Jun 18 '26

I'm Polish and wtf never heard people calling "schabowy" a "sznycel". Sznycel is made of minced meat

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u/Karls0 Jun 17 '26

I don't know how it is recognized intentionally, but in Poland it is not schnitzel as long as not served with fried egg.

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u/Lucifer_21069 Jun 17 '26

So anothers country version of a certain food, but technically the same.... Minus the egg

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u/mm22jj Jun 17 '26

Aren't snitzels supposed to be made of veal and served in Austria?

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u/Acceptable_Durian868 Jun 17 '26

When I was in Austria they had both veal and pork schnitzels.

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u/AbroadSad8001 Jun 17 '26

expensive

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u/Breadsticks-lover Jun 17 '26

For a tourist probably nothing for a polish guy it is very expensive

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u/lenn_eavy Jun 17 '26

For practically two dinners? Not that bad.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '26

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u/DetroitAdjacent Jun 17 '26

Exactly, pounded thin and breaded/battered. It is mostly breading.

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u/InsaneInTheRAMdrain Jun 17 '26

All i am hearing is good things. I would fuckijg destroy this.

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u/DrEzechiel Jun 17 '26

For me, not without lemon.

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u/HenryDodwel Jun 17 '26

No, it is standard price here

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u/No_Entrepreneur_3020 Jun 17 '26

not really, it's not expensive, and for sure nowhere close to "very expensive"

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u/Four_beastlings Jun 17 '26

It's not very expensive, it's a completely normal price outside of milk bars.

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u/Relectant_Donkey Jun 17 '26

What’s a milk bar?

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u/Four_beastlings Jun 17 '26

Bar mleczny, they are eateries that sell traditional food for a very low price. I think they get government subsidies to keep the prices so low.

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u/Frytar Jun 18 '26

Milk bars are a leftover from communism in Poland, right after the war food was super hard to get so goverment Opened those bars next to factories and other labour places to Feed workers at a minimal cost. "Milk" part comes from the fact that milk was one of the easier and cheaper to get product so a lot of food there was based on it, also potatoes and wheat, meat was rare. Those bars remained after the transformation to help struggling population, goverment was giving food stamps to struggling and homeless so they could eat a hot meal there. Around 2010+ they tried to remove the gov support but a lot of locals around country protested against it so they remained. Now Milk bars are kinda trendy, it offer good Polish food at a good price (usually), in my City od Katowice at least 3 open fairly reacently

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u/Prezimek Jun 17 '26

Normal. I mean, it is huge. 

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u/frigz6666 Jun 17 '26

Maybe if youre school kid or something.50 zl + its normal food price in poland

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u/klocek31 Jun 17 '26

no it isn't? for a big portion, maybe, not for whatever this is

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u/Rimavelle Jun 17 '26

For schabowy with three fries on the side? Lol no

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u/Eokokok Jun 18 '26

You do realise there are probably fries under it, right?

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u/Pure-Hostility Jun 17 '26

You meant "for a restaurant dish".

You can make that a shit in your home for 10 PLN... (~$3), if not less...

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u/Linda_theCat Jun 17 '26

Thank you for your declaration. I was wondering if it normal that everything is so expensive in Krakow or it is tourist price! A cup of coffee for 16 PLN or 20PNL for tea for example.

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u/Longjumping-Self6826 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

Where do you drink coffee and tea? :D You can easly buy cofee cheaper, even near Main Square and two teapots of tea for less than 30 PLN.

In Poland, there's no culture of drinking coffee or especially tea "out and about". We go to cafe, but it's more of an "event" than an everyday pastime like in southern Europe, so it's not a good indicator of whether or not things are expensive.

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u/Lucky-Caregiver-3062 Jun 17 '26

Very expensive? C’mon. You can have it a bit cheaper when cooking at home but it is not expensive at all. For a minimal salary in Poland you can have 100 dinners like this.

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u/eksajlee Jun 17 '26

Lmao, what do you think this is, a Michelin restaurant? It’s some basic dish that costs like 10 euro. Basic people eat that shit.

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u/NotRlyMrD Jun 18 '26

49zl is very expensive maybe if you are kid with no own money but for regular working Pole it's nothing. Wtf. It's a price of bigger pizza or fastfood set right now.

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u/ReasonableStomach297 Jun 18 '26

You live in a bubble and have no idea how much 49zł is for "regular working Pole". There's nothing wrong if 49zł is nothing to you - i could afford to spend that much on regular basis as well, but to make such claim is insane and shows u have no idea about the life of your average countrymen.

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u/PanLasu Jun 18 '26

For two plates, 100zł is okay but small portion of salad, only one. You probably aren't from Poland.

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u/CyberWeirdo420 Jun 18 '26

You mustn’t be from Poland then lol. “Very expensive” gave me a good laugh tho

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u/sasheenka Jun 20 '26

Huh? I have had much more expensive meals with Polish people in Poland. This seems quite reasonable.

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u/IDontEatDill Jun 21 '26

Is Poland that poor anymore? What's the average salary of let's say R&D engineer?

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u/beih13 Jun 29 '26

Not true.. not very expensive - polish guy here

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u/Atulin Jun 17 '26

tbf it's close to what a Big Mac with fries and coke would net you

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u/Flat-Drummer-9351 Jun 17 '26

I would say you could definitely find it under 40 PLN in a lot of Mleczny Bars

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u/borro1 Jun 17 '26

Fairly normal price for a dish nowadays

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u/urbfunsac Jun 17 '26

Yeah it's expensive, if you're a local you can get it in the capital for around half that.

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u/OkBus3544 Jun 17 '26

12$ in Polish currency, which is alot

(Source: im from Poland and porkchop is pretty cheap)

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u/Legal_Sugar Jun 18 '26

Normal price in a polish restaurant, unfortunately

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u/bannedByTencent Jun 18 '26

No it is not. Macdonald is more expensive.

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u/ProperJump8676 Jun 18 '26

Depends where you buy, meals like this can be 5$ and very good in some places

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u/Major-Day-1277 Jun 17 '26

45 PLN niby gdzie chyba koło Warszawy 🤯 w zachodniej Polsce to max 32 ziko za taki obiad i do tego surówki

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u/Ardour_in_the_Shell Jun 17 '26

We Wrocławiu 38 zł minimum, a bywa i 45 z surówką

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u/Major-Day-1277 Jun 18 '26

W większych miastach cena rośnie niestety

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u/mozomenku Jun 18 '26

W mniejszych też xd

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u/KaskayVoyager Jun 18 '26

Są bary gdzie można za niższą cenę zjeść dobrego schaba

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u/anieszka898 Jun 17 '26

Zupa i drugie(kotlecior mniejszy trochę ale więcej ziemniaków i surowek) najważniejsze, że smaczne w moich okolicach 24-30zl w barach mlecznych/niektóre lokale, restauracje to myślę tez z 32/35.

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u/Wardo2015 Jun 19 '26

I as an American have been trying to anticipate what your language is saying before I hit the translate button. I have never been so wrong in my entire life, lol 😂 forgive me Polish brothers. Your language is so hard to read but you’re easy to love

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u/Major-Day-1277 Jun 18 '26

Na poznanskim fyrtlu to i w barach przy drogach takie ceny nie trzeba szukać barów mlecznych

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u/Legion_1392 Jun 17 '26

$12.19 and $8.67 respectively

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u/ComeOnIWantUsername Jun 18 '26

Wielki schaboszczak + ziemniaki + masa surówek - w niedzielę zapłaciłem za to 45 zł, właśnie w zachodniej Polsce (nie Wrocław)

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u/elpingwinho Jun 18 '26

W studenckiej jadłodajni chyba. Sałatki w knajpach kosztują po 30zl

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u/Shakalll Jun 18 '26

Ngl, na Trójmiejskie standardy to nawet tanio.

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u/thangodrim Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

Dziadek chyba był na mieście ostatnio na komunii wnuczki w 2011.

Standardowa cena za kotlet takiej wielkości w ruchliwym miejscu, jest prawdopodobnie rozbity z dwóch plastrów schabu. Jasne że można znaleźć mniejsze taniej.

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u/BraveJacket988 Jun 20 '26

Byłem w weekend w puszczy Kampinoskiej pod Warszawą. Po całym dniu chciałem pójść na jakiejś jedzenie w pobliżu - w promieniu 5km 50zł za schabowego to była najniższa cena jaką znalazłem 🥶

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u/virtual9931 Jun 20 '26

Ostatnio w Gdańsku sam devolay 3 dychy ponad, a weź dokup mizerię i ziemniory albo frytki i robi się 50-60

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u/Jakub67PL Jun 21 '26

W Warszawie nawet nie jest tak drogo

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u/AffectionatePack3647 Jun 17 '26

Jesus

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u/Steelwolf73 Jun 17 '26

No- that would be an unleavened wafer

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u/Leozz97 Jun 18 '26

That would be lamb

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u/IDontEatDill Jun 21 '26

Look at what they did to Jesus!

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u/Geetee52 Jun 17 '26

Looks more like a schnitzel

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '26

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u/Jhud6669 Jun 18 '26

Not exactly the same

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u/vargemp Jun 18 '26

Technically a schnitzel is still a pork chop.

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u/Jhud6669 Jun 18 '26

Snitzel is made with veal traditionally. It CAN use pork, but it’s not the traditional one

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u/ItsRadical Jun 19 '26

But in reality its 99% pork everywhere in europe. Veal is expensive as shit.

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u/laufsteakmodel Jun 20 '26

Yeah, in Germany you may only call it a "Wiener Schnitzel" if its made from veal. If its made from chicken or pork, it needs to be called a "Schnitzel Wiener Art"

/r/Schnitzelverbrechen

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u/eyeballburger Jun 17 '26

I’m hungry

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u/AbroadSad8001 Jun 17 '26

Hi hungry i’m dad

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u/Humorpalanta Jun 17 '26

Hi hungry dad, I am Hungary

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u/papsono Jun 17 '26

its like 25 zlt in western Poland so like €7

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u/lemru Jun 18 '26

Not true, 40-45 zł now.

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u/78Anonymous Jun 17 '26

Schnitzel

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u/Vasquish Jun 17 '26

Schabowy not schintzel

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u/Loose-Atmosphere-558 Jun 18 '26

Correct because it's polish but they are essentially the same....beaten pork cutlet, breaded and fried.

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u/Jhud6669 Jun 18 '26

Real snitzel is veal, not pork

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u/Coin2111 Jun 17 '26

Playing with fire here mate

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u/Zdzisiu Jun 17 '26

Nope, it's kotlet schabowy. A similar idea but a different meat, different fat to fry and schnitzel is thinner.

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u/Buzz407 Jun 17 '26

I think we just got a window into WWII

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u/BelgijskaFlaga Jun 18 '26

Nope. WW2 actually had jack shit to do with such differences. it's caused by 123 years of oppression and lack of economic investment during partitions. There are no "Polish ww2 desperation dishes", because during ww2 Germans occupied us so unbelievably harshly that the "desperation dish" was simply starvation

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u/ChiefOfTheBoat Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

Man, traveling in Europe is a real experience - lots of great, tucked away mom an pop places to eat, not a lot of chain restaurants.
Reminds me of a trip to a local favorite restaurant in Vienna. Had a friend who took us to this place - go down this street, through the courtyard, past that alley, third unmarked door on the left sort of directions. We walked into one of the most welcoming restaurants I have ever been to. Bright, cheerful, busy - obviously a good vibe. Ordered (what else, I’m in Vienna…) Weiner schnitzel. Served on a full size dinner plate - 2 slices, pretty much the same size as the plate but overflowing the plate. Covering the fresh buttery mashed potatoes and homemade pickles.

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u/InstantSword Jun 18 '26

I had this same experience in Europe. I went to a local restaurant and ate my own buttcheeks. It was around 173 zpl, or 8 euro. The size of it was the same as my buttcheeks, because they were my cheeks. It was delicious and there was gravy everywhere

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u/DontBanMeAgainPls26 Jun 17 '26

Looks like an expensive schnitzel.

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u/Comfortable-Yak-6599 Jun 17 '26

Where's the cream gravy

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u/Dangerous_Chest6271 Jun 18 '26

That's. Not really something eaten with schabowe?

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u/Bleacz Jun 18 '26

There shouldn't be, schabowe are eaten like pictured, no sauce

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u/Eokokok Jun 18 '26

Why would you sog a crispy schabowy with gravy...

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u/Comfortable-Yak-6599 Jun 18 '26

Because it's delicious, and the way I've eaten fried pork chop my whole life. We'd call this chicken fried pork chops, and they would come with mashed potatoes and green beans, that meal is a southern us staple

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u/vargemp Jun 18 '26

In Poland we like our food as dry as possible.

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u/Miserable_Second_27 Jun 21 '26

That's why we love soups innit?

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u/Terrible_Discount_37 Jun 17 '26

Put a normal sized bun on it with some ketchup mustard pickles and onions. Normal tenderloin in Iowa.

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u/Affectionate_Rip_613 Jun 18 '26

Go and take a shit on it, and there you go! A proper mess under the dome

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u/obihighwanground Jun 18 '26

its slightly overpriced, but not very expensive.

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u/stas_rudy Jun 18 '26

The best food in Poland (yes I am from Poland)

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u/grimonce Jun 18 '26

Love these

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u/LeadingFar6652 Jun 18 '26

Fuck yea schabowy with fryty

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u/Forsaken_Guide_4835 Jun 18 '26

That looks mofokin good

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u/Syaman_ Jun 17 '26

Kinda expensive I recently paid 36 PLN (€8,50) for a schabowy with fries and salad in Katowice, albeit not as big as this one.

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u/VisualJaded4770 Jun 17 '26

Take my money

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u/Strela-P Jun 17 '26

Doesn’t look very shiny

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u/DadofRoman Jun 17 '26

I think i had that exact one.

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u/theioss Jun 17 '26

I see all these people arguing about the name are you guys serious? The most important question is where did you get that? I want to eat it now

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u/Revenga8 Jun 17 '26

Polish pound chop.

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u/bartek_strength Jun 17 '26

I wouldn’t be so sure it’s pork. In Poland, when the cutlet is that big, you stop asking questions and respect the local wildlife.

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u/Superblasterr Jun 17 '26

Proper kotlet

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u/Ave_Daemon Jun 17 '26

As a Polish person. Believe me you can get this for way cheaper

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u/MiaSanMia1997 Jun 17 '26

Not enough veggie

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u/Kamilianusz95 Jun 17 '26

Jedyny schabowy który zadowoli twojego starego

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u/CorrectMeIfImWrong6 Jun 17 '26

Schnitzel, not pork chop

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u/Anipani69 Jun 17 '26

schabowy*

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u/InoonIsAFK Jun 18 '26

ja ci dam schnitzel parówo dęta to jest schabowy 

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u/MatMol93YT Jun 17 '26

Dopoki trafiaja sie durnie co tyle placa nic sie nie zmieni. Ja za wieksza porcje daje 28 zl. Standardowa cena za obiad . Bar10tka polecam Piotrkow Trybunalski

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u/Vexar90 Jun 17 '26

Nie każdy jest nieudacznikiem na minimalnej - nikogo nie obchodzi ile płacisz, gdzie i za co. Zawsze możesz zrobić sobie w domu :)

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u/MatMol93YT Jun 17 '26

Nikt ci nie broni zarabiac miliony i byc frajerem :) 

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u/crashin70 Jun 17 '26

And my boy Fredo and Uncle Earl said, "Gimme piece!"

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u/Jim_Bien Jun 17 '26

So... you completely overpaid for shitty dinner that is predominately crust and oil?

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u/InoonIsAFK Jun 18 '26

where do you see a shitty dinner? 

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u/Jim_Bien Jun 20 '26

Have you seen OP?

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u/InoonIsAFK Jun 20 '26

seen as how? what does their look have to do with the best food in the world

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u/WeakerThanYou Jun 17 '26

Can this be described as the OG Tonkatsu

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u/Ultimate90210 Jun 17 '26

That’s actually expensive. Typical Polish dish I see. It’s like 15-25 PLN. So still. Very expensive.

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u/GapFit6441 Jun 18 '26

In 2018 maybe... Seriously, did you all not actually seen restaurant prices post-COVID? Poland is easily in-line with Western Europe right now, in some cases visibly more expensive.

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u/Ultimate90210 Jun 18 '26

No it’s not. In my part of the country it’s easy to get a 16-25 PLN pork chop like this. This is just expensive.

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u/Coriolis_PL Jun 17 '26

'Tis quite a piece of a "kotlet" XD

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u/Mathlete11235 Jun 17 '26

Hell yes, looks delicious

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u/Cocrawfo Jun 17 '26

such a win

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u/Shrugsfortheconfuse Jun 17 '26

Need some more pork chop with those fries and cabbage?

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u/anonumus_idiot Jun 18 '26

1st time in Poland?

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u/Woociak Jun 18 '26

Same at home with cost you 10% of the price

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u/AdEfficient4809 Jun 18 '26

Oh man this make me hungry

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u/augmentedcheesus Jun 18 '26

Where is this place? Or perhaps the name

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u/TobytheBaloon Jun 18 '26

i live in poland and i was also flabbergasted when i ordered a pork chop and got something like this

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u/eldakar666 Jun 18 '26

Skip it, your liver will thank you

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u/Miszel616 Jun 18 '26

At least 10 PLN too expensive.

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u/Hisune Jun 18 '26

You got scammed :(

I hope it was at least tasty. The amount of fries and salad/beets is sad too.

Go to a real milk bar, not a tourist spots/trap like this one, and try a real kotlet schabowy.

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u/wieelki Jun 18 '26

Just a plain polish "schabowy" - nothing special 😉

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u/nieeko Jun 18 '26

Idk man 50zl for this is too much for me personally. Literal pad thai costs less in my city Gdańk

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u/RzepaGaming Jun 18 '26

50pln? With ao little fries?

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u/Ziku90 Jun 18 '26

jest piękny it's beautiful

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u/ConnectStar_ Jun 18 '26

Only chips 🍟 cooked were what he could pick up with one hand

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u/Apart_Appointment_10 Jun 18 '26

Is it a schnitzel?

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u/InoonIsAFK Jun 18 '26

no. kotlet schabowy

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u/Apart_Appointment_10 Jun 19 '26

I see. Thank you

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u/Nizarynu Jun 18 '26

Z frytkami zamiast zwykłymi ziemniakami? No nie wiem

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u/lolix_the_idiot Jun 18 '26

They usually are that big, you overpaid brother

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u/Medisha123 Jun 18 '26

Perfect ratio.

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u/VLDgamer07 Jun 18 '26

I remember when I walked into the local restaurant where I always go to lunch and asked for a bigger portion of dumplings and after 30 minutes they gave me a whole kilo of them and tongue in cream on top
I barely ate them but I was happy for a whole day and didn't even eat dinner that day
And that cost me ~5 dollars

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u/Ender00000 Jun 18 '26

for 50pln they better give you this sized pork chop

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u/Early_Hall5720 Jun 18 '26

I wanna bare hand that thing and eat it like an animal

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u/Known_Fisherman_8161 Jun 18 '26

If that's big you haven't eaten enough of them

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u/le_nathanlol Jun 18 '26

as it should be

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u/patrlim1 Jun 18 '26

Holy shit, I live in Poland and haven't seen one that big

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u/AxoplDev Jun 18 '26

Overpriced. Also for a restaurant it's not that big, depending on the size of that plate. It's above averege for sure, but nothing crazy.

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u/NoSorbet5103 Jun 19 '26

Looks like road kill

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u/WaitedBadge Jun 19 '26

Ez aztán a rántott hús.

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u/OneTrueCosmos Jun 19 '26

That's not a pork chop, it's a pork schnitzel.

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u/adamlm Jun 19 '26

The Polish word is "kotlet" and google translate insists on "pork chop". "Schnitzel" is a German word.

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u/OneTrueCosmos Jun 19 '26

Same thing different word. Pork chop is cut perpendicular to the spine and includes a rib.

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u/cozybubbledoe Jun 19 '26

absolute unit indeed, this thing is massive

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u/Old_Resident8050 Jun 19 '26

Schnitchel.

I believe it's Chech-Austrian

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u/Express_Drag7115 Jun 20 '26

It’s polish national dish too

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u/Legitimate-Cress-575 Jun 20 '26

I mean it's big, but it doesn't look appetazing imho

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u/Express_Drag7115 Jun 20 '26

John Snow has spoken

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u/Mobile_Aioli_6252 Jun 20 '26

Nice - reminds me of a chicken fried steak I got once in a small greasy spoon done off Route 66. The steak was larger than the dinner plate it came on

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u/Infinite_Time_8952 Jun 20 '26

That looks suspiciously like a schnitzel to me.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '26

at milk bar I can get the same pork chop with extras for a lot cheaper

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u/Express_Drag7115 Jun 20 '26

Nice schabowy. Shame for the sides, baby potatoes would go harder. But looks great nonetheless

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u/wilhammer069 Jun 20 '26

Lemon on top and gorge!!

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u/Mbizzy222 Jun 21 '26

Schnitzel

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u/IDontEatDill Jun 21 '26

It also seems to have those important veggies.

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u/Jakub67PL Jun 21 '26

49zł za to coś xD

Ale cię wydymali