zapiekanki

1. pluralplural of zapiekanka

plural zapiekankis

1. alternativecountableproscribeduncountableAlternative form of zapiekanka.

   A fast-food favorite is zapiekanki — half a baguette topped with melted cheese and ketchup.

   2002 August 4, “If you go…”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 262, number 35, →OCLC, page M9, column 6

   5 more examples

   Zapiekanki, a french-bread pizza—with or without ketchup—can be bought almost everywhere for about 40 cents.

   1992 February 18, Victoria Stagg Elliott, “The changing face of Krakow: A center of academia and culture, this former Polish capital is a perfect stop for the traveler in Eastern Europe”, in The Daily Illini, volume 121, number 103, Champaign–Urbana, Ill.: Illini Media Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 4

   This year two varieties of Polish pizza will be available: the more traditional version of pizza topped with thinly-sliced kielbasa and the other, called zapiekanki, which consists of half a long roll, topped with melted cheese, tomato sauce and flecks of mushrooms.

   1993 September 1, “Polish-American Festival Gets Underway”, in News-Herald, 112th year, number 5858, Perkasie, Pa., →OCLC, page 28, columns 2–3

   ‘Bloody zapiekanki like last night?’ Zapiekanki was toasted cheese without the gourmet excitement.

   1996, David Brierley, chapter 5, in The Horizontal Woman, London: Warner Books, published 1998, →ISBN, page 48

   Before 1989, few Poles had ever eaten a hamburger. Typically, they snacked on zapiekanki—long, thin breadcrusts covered with melted cheese, pickles and ketchup. But the zapiekanki has all but disappeared here. Poles have switched to Big Macs.

   1999 March 14, Tom Hundley, “American invasion of Poland being greeted with open arms: Movies, Big Macs, the NBA are blitzing through the former Soviet bloc country”, in Chicago Tribune, 152 year, number 73, Chicago, Ill., →ISSN, →OCLC, section 1, page 7, column 1

   Zapiekanki is Polish pizza. For sale in every underpass in the nation, zapiekanki is essentially a sliced baguette covered with mushrooms and melted cheese, smothered with tomato ketchup, and eaten while walking.

   2008, Sco, “An A–Z of Dishes”, in Kraków, 2nd edition, Singapore: Berlitz Publishing, published 2009, →ISBN, “Eating Out” section, page 99