Home made pierogies are definitely a treat.  As is halusky, glumpki, chrusciki, and paczki.  Yeah, my mom is 1/2 Polish.
You definitely know if someone is from the area when they start talking about those things...  Seems a lot of people in the coalmining towns were Polish.  A good mix of Irish and Italian in there too.
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