#oscypek

[f1driversascheese]

robert kubica as oscypek

[sirartwork]

Another cheese goblin suggested by my followers:  This one comes to us from the Tatra mountains of Poland!

[groovyfrog420]

Oscypek/Highland Cheese Cookie

heyyyy guess who finally finished their cookie run oc concept! (more rambling bellow)

He's a calm, quiet type - doesn't understand the Golden Cheese Kingdom's obsesion with riches. He much preferes the beauty of nature around him. He can be found on the sand mountains, just near the borders of the Kingdom, enjoying the breeze and playing songs on his flute.

I wanted to mix the clothes of a "baca" (shepherds who make oscypek) with something that wouldn't look too out of place in GC Kingdom - wasn't easy, since one is a rather cold region and the other is a desert. He is a bit of a loner tho, so it's alright if he doesn't fully fit in with the rest of the citizens

Here's a link so you can learn more about the cheese! It's legally protected as "national tressure", fun fact. It's also really damn good with cranberries (hence all the little cranberry details lol, like the cranberry bead necklace! HUGE shout out to my friend for that idea btw)

[cononeillbreastingboobily]

Hi my spouse might be going to Poland for the first time for a work trip (I don’t remember what city but not Warsaw or Krakow) do u have recommendations for some food he should try and are there any sweets you think I oughta ask him to bring back? Sorry if this is a weird ask and also thank you

Hiii!!! Not a weird ask at all, I'm happy to assist!

In general traditional Polish cuisine is rather heavy: you'd get a lot of meats, potatoes, fried stuff. I'm case your spouse likes stuff like that, he will love it here. Otherwise the big cities tend to have a lot of food from around the world, including an expanding offer of plant-based options.

When it comes to regional treats, well - that again depends on where he'd be going. If you're after sweets, I recommend two cities: Toruń and Poznań.

Toruń is the city of Nicholaus Copernicus, as well as gingerbread (sin. piernik, pl. pierniki). You can get a variety of these there, from small ones filled with jam and dipped in chocolate, to a more traditional variety, more spicy, sliced and delicate. There's also a crunchy variety, slightly reminiscent of the Dutch speculaas. And more, that's honestly just a tip of the iceberg!

When it comes to Poznań, there's a treat that's traditionally only made on one specific day: 11th of November, and only there, but well, it's so good it's sold all throughout the country almost year round. I'm talking about the white poppyseed crescent rolls (rogale marcińskie or rogale świętomarcińskie).

They're sweet and filling, and absolutely worth trying when you have the chance!

If he's in the Tatra mountains area in the South, he might stumble upon places that sell oscypek: it's a type of smoked cheese made out of sheep's milk. The flavour is quite intense. They're known for being quite decorative as well.

However! If your spouse isn't in the mood to drive around searching for regional treats, you can't go wrong with Ptasie Mleczko (literally Bird's Milk or rather Bird's Milky).

It's a rectangular marshmallow-type treat (vegetarian) coated in chocolate. The most classic variety is vanilla-flavoured and dipped in dark chocolate, but at this point there are several different variants. You can find them in most grocery shops.

That's mostly it for now, unless that's not what you had in mind! I'll be happy to expand on this if you want ☺️

[aveadore]

Tiny icons I really enjoyed making. They’re going to be really tiny on the finished thing so they get their own post :D 

[tasteatlas]

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[stachuszumski]

Demoralization of visual traditions, disposed by tourism, to detriment to local culture and folklore. 

[johnnyonespur]

This is oscypek, a smoked sheep cheese that I loved when I was traveling in the Tara mountain area in Poland. It was so good, and, being smoked, it kept forever even without being refrigerated (made everything in my backpack smell like smoked cheese, tho’). People would just have tables set up at farmers’ markets or just outside their homes, and you could just buy some. It was great.