Yay or nay? – 6 odd Hungarian delicacies that make our skin crawl
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In general, Hungarians are proud of their cooking skills and traditional dishes. However, even Hungarians find some of the Hungarian delicacies odd or even disgusting. Cottage cheese pasta with fatty bacon on top? Yay or nay? What would foreigners think of these weird meals?
Bacon
Dívány has collected some Hungarian delicacies that may be odd for foreigners. While bacon sounds normal, Hungarian bacon differs from the thinly sliced US bacon. Traditionally, Hungarians cut big chunks of bacon and put it on sticks to bring it to its juices over fire. It may be odd to eat a huge piece of fat on its own, usually, people it eat with bread. However, some may enjoy putting bacon over another odd Hungarian delicacy; pasta with cottage cheese. Here’s a tutorial on how you can master this bacon-cooking process at home:
Bread with lard
Hungarian cuisine is not for the lighthearted, or people on a diet. Hungarians firmly believe that lard and bread are a match made in heaven. For some extra flavour, you can even put some paprika or raw onions on top. This way you can keep everyone from coming anywhere near you for the rest of the day… Bread with lard brings back nostalgic memories for most people in Hungary, but would foreigners try it alongside other fatty Hungarian delicacies?
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Head cheese
Head cheese is a meat cheese made from pre-cooked pig’s head meat, stomachs, skin, heart, tongue, kidneys, skin skinned from fat bacon, jelly ingredients and spices, usually stuffed into cleaned pig stomachs, pressed and usually smoked. Quite understandably, this meal crosses the line for many.
