Cardi B eats tripe and George Clooney likes Hungarian chicken paprikash – VIDEO

Hungarian cuisine is one of those things you either love and are passionate about or something you do not like or maybe even fear. For Hungarians, food is a very important thing, and we love it if foreigners taste our traditional dishes, but Hungarians also have a tendency to scare other people with unconventional dishes and delicacies.

For some people, organ meat is scary, or they might have had a bad experience with it. In Hungary, many dishes often include organs or even blood; blood sausage might sound scary for many foreigners, but it is actually quite tasty and, if prepared right, there is absolutely no iron-like taste to it.

Sometimes, the most innocent traditional Hungarian húsleves, usually referred to as chicken soup, can have meat in it other than chicken, or it can also contain the organs of other poultry. Some people put gizzard or heart in it to enrich the flavour and to have some tasty meat-treats in their soup. In many cases, húsleves can be made with turkey neck; people either nibble on it after eating the soup, or sometimes the cook would get the meat off of the vertebrae and put it into the soup for you to enjoy.

Recently, Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, or as she is called in the media, Cardi B, shared a video in which she showed a soup on social media her father brought her. In the soup, there were, among many other delicious-looking items, cut pieces of beef tripe. In the Hungarian media, this hit the news as Cardi B eating Hungarian pacal. Well, although pacal or tripe is not just unique to Hungary as quite a few other cultures also eat it, it is not among the most usual dishes you might think of. In Hungary, many swear by the pacalpörkölt or tripe stew. By any means, it is not among the most popular everyday Hungarian dishes in its home country either, but if in the future, you travel to Hungary, and if you are in a high-quality restaurant, you should give it a try at least once.