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| [In November 1991] a certain Szczecin-based businessman was hoping to make lots of money importing the machines. However, he didn’t know where to buy them. He only knew the name of the Soviet factory located somewhere in the Ukrainian SSR. He travelled to the Soviet Union and eventually found the town where the factory was located. He asked for its address in the streets, but people just shrugged him off. When he finally found it and started a conversation with the gatekeeper, he got arrested by the KGB. The officers who questioned him were surprised to find that he was looking not for military secrets, but for a ''pirozhki''-making machine. He was released after a few hours, but failed to strike a deal. The factory was as big as the Szczecin shipyard and – as it turned out – was manufacturing ICBM parts, among other things. The pie-frying machines were being made in just a single old factory hall.
| źródło = {{Cyt
| tytuł = Gazeta Wyborcza
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{{Video|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saDAqZESUGo|szer=350|poz=center|opis=A newsclip from Transnistrian State Television (in Russian) about machine-made ''pirozhki'', which taste just like ``in “in our Soviet past"past”}}
[[File:Mikoyan.jpg|thumb|200px|Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978), chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR]]
[[File:W Jakacki.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Wojciech Jakacki (1924–1987), deputy director at PPDiUR Gryf ]]
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| One day, technologists from our freezer trawlers sampled a local delicacy called “chop-chop” in one of the ports. It contained fish, rice and a very hot spice called “pima”. Back in Poland, Jakacki asked the lab girls, if they could try and develop something similar that could be canned. And after many trials and errors, they succeeded. This is how our paprykarz was born.
| źródło = Borysowicz Bogusław, quoted in: {{Cyt
| tytuł = Gazeta Wyborcza
Well, the birth of PS2 is directly linked to an efficiency improvement project whose goal was to find some use for the scraps left over from cutting large blocks of frozen fish on Gryf’s freezer trawlers. Forget about entire steaks, which wouldn’t have fit into the cans anyway. The cans were packed with finely ground fish scraps (sometimes with fins, scales and all) and Bulgarian tomato pulp; only rice grains were visible with a naked eye.
The mixture of overcooked flesh, hot spices and onions must have reminded someone in Szczecin of the Hungarian paprika-seasoned stew called ''paprikás''. Although I must point out that, technically, ''paprikás'' must, by definition, contain sour cream; without sour cream, it is ''pörkölt''. And you should never confuse either of these with goulash; in Hungary this is a soup rather than a stew (its name comes from the Hungarian word ''gulyás'', or cattle herder, so it may be translated as “cowboy’s soup”). In any case, this is how PS2 got its name, ``Szczecin paprikash"“Szczecin paprikash”.
All in all, we can say that PS2 is a Polish mashup of Senegalese and Hungarian culinary traditions, which means that Szczecinians were doing extreme fusion cuisine before it was a thing! After the fall of communism, Polish far-sea fishing business became economically unsustainable and Gryf went bankrupt. But, as PS2 was never trademarked, it soon started to be produced all over Poland – often from freshwater fish. The labels often say vaguely that the spread contains “spices”, so there may be no paprika among its ingredients at all. Just like the Holy Roman Empire was, according to Voltaire, neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire, so is today’s “Szczecin paprikash”, made neither in Szczecin, nor from paprika.
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= A Follow-Up =
{{small|1 May 2020}}
{{:A Fried Pie and a Fish Dish: A Follow-Up}}
{{Nawigacja|poprz=Epic Cooking: Breakfast at Judge Soplica'sSoplica’s|nast=Tea or Coffee?}}
[[Category: Paprykarz szczeciński]]
