The 5 most disgusting Hungarian dishes according to foreigners
Hungarians usually do not brag about their most disgusting dishes – rather, we prefer to brag about famous Hungarian dishes that are loved everywhere. This article is rather unconventional in this regard: it is about 5 Hungarian dishes that foreigners find the most disgusting. Continue reading to learn about some strange dishes!
There are some honest videos and articles online about what foreigners find particularly repulsive. Noizz.hu has compiled the most common, top-ranked disgusting Hungarian dishes.
1. Pacalpörkölt – Tripe stew
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Tripe soup, tripe stew or tripe chorba is a soup or stew made with tripe (cow or lamb/mutton stomach). It is widely considered to be a hangover remedy, just like our grandmas’ broth. Some people think it looks particularly disgusting, and it is even more disgusting to think that it is made from a washed-out stomach. Of course, some people love it. Most likely, there are only extreme ways of looking at a tripe stew.
2. Szalontüdő/Savanyú tüdő – Sour lungs
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Szalontüdő, also known as sour lungs (savanyú tüdő), is a dish made using the heart and lungs of a pig. It can also be made from beef or lamb stock. It is not just the raw material that makes foreigners shudder, but the colour and texture. Let us face it, this greyish, strange-tasting dish is not an everyday food for us Hungarians either.
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3. Hagymás vér – Blood with onions
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It is one of the unmissable dishes of pig slaughters, but also one that divides even us, Hungarians. This Hungarian dish with onions is similar to liver, but many people are nonetheless disgusted by it. It is also called roasted blood and made with onions.
4. Kocsonya – Aspic
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Aspic or meat jelly is a savory gelatin made with a meat stock or broth, set in a mold to encase other ingredients. The sight of the gently quivering jelly, with its nail, ear, cartilage and skin fragments, horrifies many foreigners – and often even us Hungarians! They do eat aspic elsewhere, but our Hungarian version is admittedly a bit bizarre.
5. Édes tészták – Sweet pastas
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For most foreigners, putting jam and/or powdered sugar on a pasta dish is simply unthinkable. We Hungarians eat many kinds of sweet pasta: poppy seed pasta, walnut pasta, pasta with semolina and apricot jam, just to mention a few. One of these probably will not make a foreigner a huge fan of Hungarian cuisine – but there are still numerous Hungarian dishes that they would love for sure!
Source: noizz.hu, Instagram, Wikipedia