# Hungarian? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 11, 2004, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian/259359 "2004-08-11T15:06:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian/259359/21 "2004-08-13T03:37:25Z")
forgot to mention this: My 7 year old son, Benjamin was born at St. Marget _Korhaz_ in Budapest. He has no Hungarien citizenship. He has an American certificate of birth abroad. I think it means however, that he can never be president. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian/259359/22 "2004-08-13T06:10:10Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > Sounds like Rakott Krumpli. (Layered potatoes) > Just layers of potato, Sausage, hard-boiled eggs, and sour cream like you said. We had a hungarian butcher in Portland for a while that made the best sausage. I made that dish with his sausage and I think it is the single best thing I ever ate. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian/259359/23 "2004-08-13T06:15:04Z")
No, sorry. But the Hungarian Grand Prix is this weekend. Thats good enough for me. Once, a Hungarian ripped my sister off. He took a butt-load of cash and her wedding ring (from her deceased husband, no less! I’m still on the lookout for that fool!). He called hissef’ “Tony”. Anybody seen him? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian/259359/24 "2004-08-13T06:26:56Z")
Sweet! I may take advantage of your Hungarianness sometime. You see, it’s an odd story, but I have a tape of the most ass-kicking violin playing I’ve ever heard, but I picked it up in Budapest, and the only words on the case or tape I can understand are “Budapest Gypsy Orchestra.” I need to figure out what the name of the piece of music is, and anything else I can get, because that tape isn’t going to last forever, and I’d like to find another copy somehow. So one of these days, I need to dig that tape up and get a translation. ---
**Author:** ![quinoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/a9adbd/32.png) [@quinoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quinoa)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian/259359/25 "2004-08-13T09:55:42Z")
i think there’s a warm version of the cherry soup right? or maybe i’m not remembering well. i was there teaching english for my grad school internship. i lived in eastern hungary in debrecen. i never expected i would live there, i hate snow and cold… but i’m so nostalgic about it now. i loved visiting budapest too… went to that spa where the old men play chess and played a half a game with a friend. and i love the huge market hall there. actually i just loved all the little fruit/vegetable markets and little bakeries. i’m glad for the experience, and to see some other parts of the country like vezprem and tokaj, hortobagy (sp?) hajduszoboszlo (friend lived there), some of the forest more north. i wished i could have seen the traditional winter beating ritual in february. i do wish to go back someday… that language is crazy hard to pronounce though! all those funky vowels… also, i bought a book of short stories there that are wonderful, if any of you haven’t heard of it and are interested. it’s called “the kiss” and it’s a collection of 20th century short stories published by corvina books. they’re really great stories! ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian/259359/26 "2004-08-13T13:11:41Z")
> [@AmericanMaid](#): > > Also, I’ve read that Hungarians are known for their pessimism So that explains it! I’m second generation American - My grandfather was Hungarian (Budapest). I don’t know the details, but I remember being told that my grandfather left the county with his family at about age 3. My greatgrandfather was some sort of government official and it was either leave or have “something bad” happen (He was a Jew). One of these days I’m going to have to study Hungarian History around the turn of the century (the 1900 one). ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian/259359/27 "2004-08-13T14:11:17Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > **kunilou** : Did your parents become fluent in Hungarian or Romanian? Boy, I really compressed that comment too far, didn’t I? Sorry. My father’s parents came to the U.S. from Hungary and then married. When my father was still young, the family moved back to Hungary for a couple of years. Even though my father and his siblings were born in the U.S., they then became fluent in Hungarian. And yes, it was Hungarian. The part of Transylvania they came from was always ethnically Magyar. And **Mauvaise** , my grandfather left because he thought “something bad” was about to happen, too. Years and years later we figured out that the something bad was that his boss’ daughter was going to tell her father they’d been fooling around. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian/259359/28 "2004-08-13T14:28:17Z")
Speaking of ‘bad’ stuff happening. My dad had to leave so as to not be executed for being part of the '56 revolution. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian/259359.md?page=1)