There are several Polish dishes that boil down to throwing whatever is edible into a single pot and boiling for hours. Bigos is mostly cabbage, gulasz is like very thin gravy, leczo has lots of red pepper and zucchini, jarzynowa (literally "vegetable soup") has no set ingredients at all.
reply> “Ever eaten scubbo? No? Nothing like a bowl of scubbo when you’re hungry. You can put anything in scubbo. Pork, beef, mutton, rabbit, chicken, duck… anything. Even rats, if you’ve got ’em. It’s food for the marching man, scubbo. Got some on the boil out there right now. You can have some of that, if you like.”
reply> The squad brightened up.
> Thoundth good,” said Igor. “What’th in it?”
> “Boiling water,” said the corporal. “It’s what we call ‘blind scubbo’"
Monstrous Regiment, Terry Pratchett (GNU)
Only bigos and jerzynowa are Polish. The rest of dishes you mentioned are Hungarian. They're quite popular in Poland though
replyIf hamburger can be American, then gulasz can be Polish. It's been hundreds of years, at what point am I allowed to call my great-great-great-great-grandma's recipe my culture?
reply"Jerzynowa" is a funny misspelling. It's Levenshtein distance 1 from two completely different soups.
And gulasz is also known as stoofvlees. A beef stew…
replyOh yeah right, it looks like I invented a new soup and immediately made an orthographic error in its name with this misspelling :p
replyAs for the hamburger - its origin history is quite complicated with its name mainly attributed to its early marketing in USA, so I think that's a bad example for your good point. So skipping that I think there are many dishes that get adopted into the local dishes, getting more popular than in the origin culture, but I don't think gulasz is one of them, as it's one of the most known examples of Hungarian kitchen
Lickmyballs, or polishmyballs? Funny nickname.
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