Goulash (though it is actually called Gulyás and it is not pronounced anything like what the anglicized version would suggest, mostly because english just doesn't have our open "á" sound, and for some reason they focused on the "l" from "ly" (which is a more traditional equivalent of the "j" sound) instead of the "y", which actually does sound like the original phoneme there). However, while it is apparently considered a hungaricum that all the tourists want to try out, I would say we don't really think much of it. It is pretty much one of the "cheap, low-effort foods you put together when you are not in the mood for pasta".
The other thing what I would consider to be typically Hungarian though is an entire range of cakes, sweets and other foods made using copious amounts of poppy seeds. We even had to have the EU make special allowances for us on cultural grounds (after we have proven that we are really eating all those poppy seeds and it is not a cover-up for a secret underground opiate business in the entire country), so I would say these things would qualify, thought I don't think any of them have English names.
We also have a few other oddities, like tejföl (which is a sour dairy product that we put into everything from certain soups to főzeléks, which itself is a special kind of vegetable dish that is halfway between a soup and a stew), then there are our sausages (which are these dry, very spicy stuff), pörkölt and nokedli (a kind of spicy stew of boneless meat with home-made small dumplings) and finally our obsession with fresh bread (you can literally buy freshly baked bread that was oftentimes bakes on hours before it reached the shop and still warm, every day, no matter where you are).
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Wow, I never realized we had so many unique/unusual dishes, or that I have eaten them so much since I was little that I am sick of them... Go figure.
The other thing what I would consider to be typically Hungarian though is an entire range of cakes, sweets and other foods made using copious amounts of poppy seeds. We even had to have the EU make special allowances for us on cultural grounds (after we have proven that we are really eating all those poppy seeds and it is not a cover-up for a secret underground opiate business in the entire country), so I would say these things would qualify, thought I don't think any of them have English names.
We also have a few other oddities, like tejföl (which is a sour dairy product that we put into everything from certain soups to főzeléks, which itself is a special kind of vegetable dish that is halfway between a soup and a stew), then there are our sausages (which are these dry, very spicy stuff), pörkölt and nokedli (a kind of spicy stew of boneless meat with home-made small dumplings) and finally our obsession with fresh bread (you can literally buy freshly baked bread that was oftentimes bakes on hours before it reached the shop and still warm, every day, no matter where you are).
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Wow, I never realized we had so many unique/unusual dishes, or that I have eaten them so much since I was little that I am sick of them... Go figure.
