Joe,

Slightly off topic, but:

On my visits to the USA, whenever I ask anyone where I can get Polish sausage, I'm invariably directed to "kielbasa" as if it's a *type* of sausage. Over here in the UK (and in Poland!), "kielbasa" is just a generic Polish word for "sausage". What I'm offered in the USA is almost always something similar to Wiejska, but not tasting like it's made with veal (which "real" Wiejska should contain).

In the UK, I can get dozens of different types of Polish sausage. The local "corner shop" at the top of our road, in this VERY "English" town, is about 12 feet wide by 20 feet deep yet always has in stock:

kiebasa Wiejska, kiebasa Krakowska, kielbasa Biaa, kielbasa Mysliwska, kielbasa Kabanosy, kielbasa Tuchowska, kielbasa Bydgoska, kielbasa Podrobowy, kielbasa Szynkowa Woowa

Plus several others (those are just types that I recall buying recently, off the top of my head). Can you actually get "real" Polish sausage ( ie named types rather than generic "sausage") in the USA? Parts of it have much bigger Polish communities than most of the UK, yet I'm always disappointed to get the reply "oh, you mean kielbasa" when I ask for Polish sausage, and ending up with something that's "not quite Wiejska".

Rob