If you have a strong sweet tooth and ice cream is your particular favourite, buckle up: Poland will seem like paradise. It’s hard to walk more than half a block without seeing a sign – or better yet, a large fiberglass likeness – promoting soft serve ice cream cones. You can tell a lot about a country by what its citizens are willing to wait in line for, and Poles are soft-serve fanatics. Soft serve machines can be found everywhere from dedicated stands to a restaurant’s patio with a lone attendant so passersby can grab a quick cone. The art of creating a perfectly stacked twist is an impressive one, and it has been mastered in Poland,

If you see a sign for lody (the ubiquitous Polish word for ice cream) you’re in luck, but you’ve also got some serious decisions ahead of you. Do you choose lody amerykańskie, which is the tall, skinny and icy version (and also not like any American soft serve we’ve ever had)? Or the lody włoskie, which is a creamier and squatter version? Not to mention they all come with various flavour and coating options, making the selection a veritable mathematical nightmare. Luckily, choosing results in a cone, and considering they usually run between 2zł and 6zł depending on the size, you can probably have more than one.