A steam table in the back room of this deli offered "Polish-style dinners," but only if you want your meat, potatoes, and boiled vegetables to go. A dozen kinds of kielbasa and many grocery items in front.
Runoland "borowka do mies" (lingonberry meat sauce; 7 oz.; 99 cents). Also includes apples and sugar. Good balance of tart and sweet; must pick up some more before next barbecue season.
"Lesna" ("Foresty tea"; 3.52 oz.; $1.79). Includes aronia, apple peels, hawthorn, briar, rowanberry, raisins, flower of hibiscus, elderberry. Smells and tastes of dark berries; a little sour.
Winiary "budyn o smaku smietankowym" (pudding mix; 60 g.; 89 cents). Can't figure out what flavor this is by looking at the package (and I forgot to ask in the store), but this package and a similar photo (found online) each picture daisies. Butterscotch, perhaps? Some sort of crème fraiche flavor? Even after dessert, I'm still not sure. (Update: "Sweet cream" is what's meant, observes a Polish-speaking reader.)
Polamia
690 Woodward Ave. (at Palmetto St.), Queens
