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Rib eye steakCountry forums / Eastern Europe & the Caucasus / Poland | ||
What's it called in Polish please? is it antrykot? | ||
Yes, I also saw that first translation which doesn't give the right definition I'm afraid. I think 'antrykot' ,as they call it in Poland, is the closest I'll get, thanks :) | 1 | |
#1, prosię = pig - I suppose OP would like a beef steak. OP, indeed rib-eye = antrykot (or antrykot wołowy, to make 100% sure you mean beef). For a steak, the most precise translation would probably be "stek wołowy z antrykotu". To avoid confusion I would suggest mentioning the English name too - beef and beef steaks are not that popular in Poland. | 2 | |
Well, I had a bash at it - anyway. | 3 | |
Thanks battybilly, I appreciate that. thanks, igur, I can just imagine asking my local butcher (here in Poland) for some rib eye steak.... he'd look at me like as if I had fallen from the moon, I think I'd have more luck taking a picture of the steak along with me, but thank you for your help anyway:) | 4 | |
he'd look at me like as if I had fallen from the moon No he won't, far from it. | 5 | |
I've lived in Poland for the past twenty years and have had that 'look' aimed at me any time I ask for something untypical, but then that might be because of my slightly foreign accent:) I do remember, though, asking the head butcher, ok so it was in the meat dept at my local Carrefour supermarket, if they had any free-range chickens and he literally laughed out loud and somewhat brusquely derided my request claiming there was no such thing as real free-range chicken... I no longer had the audacity to ask about anything else... Still, I'll go to a bigger meat market and try my luck:) | 6 | |
I'd rather suggest trying some small butcher's shop ("mięso - wędliny") in your neighborhood. Meat in supermarkets is usually of lower quality than in smaller shops and the staff is often indeed rude/unhelpful. A good measure of the quality of the products offered at a butcher's is the length of a queue on a Saturday morning. | 7 | |