Cześć!

While I was growing up, I literally thought that borscht was a word my Polish grandma made up. 

Don't start thinking that I am a crazy racist or anything, my grandma, as lovely as she is, has some of the worst English I have come across - despite having been in Australia for over 50 years. 

Essentially, this means she coins a lot of her words and phrases into a kind of pigeon Polish. So when she told me the bright red soup she was ladling into my bowl was called borscht, I did my usual smile and nod response.