We've had an awful inflation run over last few years, and everything went up dramatically. I remember them buying them in street-food-stalls for 5-6 PLN decades ago, ~10-15 PLN a bit before covid and inflation. Now to be honest, I haven't bought any for 3 or 4 years? I checked some online menus it's hard to find a reasonable one under 20 PLN (delivery not included), that's about 4.80$, and typical fancy/prestige/vege/eco/etc start at 30 PLN, woowz..
But let's do a classic McDonald benchmark - 1 cheaper Zapiekanka for ~20 PLN - that's about the same as 1x BigMac (22pln)! What a surprise - for all the time I remember, they were considered 'quick cheap snack' and they used to cost closer to a half of that mac-burger. Or maybe 2x-3x of a "pączek" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%85czki ). Now it seems it's more like 4x-5x? I'll have to check the prices once I'm near some snack bar area, because I find those prices from internet menus hard to believe (oO)
Anyways, happy to hear they are noticed and available and also well-made outside Poland!