Polish cuisine is stereotypically full of meat dishes: from meat-stuffed pierogi to schabowy, and vegetarians have complained of not having it easy in our country, but is this the real picture? While the rise of "vegetarianism" in Poland is associated with movements in the late nineteenth century, a majority of the population had for centuries lived on a diet that was mostly meatless. Agnieszka Bielawska and Elżbieta Krajewska discuss.