Tonight is our last night in Budapest for the year! We are very excited to go home for the holidays. While everyone has been really nice towards us, there are just those special parts of the holidays that you can't get in another country.
I was shocked to find out that people in Hungary eat fish for the holidays. I always think of turkey or chicken, but fish has never crossed my mind. It was weird for me to hear and it made me that much happier to be going home and having some New Mexican food! Whoo hoo! It's amazing how you don't realize things like this are so different until you come across them. Also, I can't wait to not have to tone down my colloquialisms!!! Yay!
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Have a safe trip!
:)
And about the holidays eating habits:
- the turkey is an exclusively American tradition, and other nations have very different national dishes!
- the Hungarians eat for the holidays many different things: sausages (kolbasz, majas, veres), stuffed cabbage, and many other specific national dishes...
The famous Disznovagas (Pig Killing) is performed in December, to accumulate huge quantities of meat, for the humongous feasting performed from Christmas to the first days of the New Year!
I'm talking about 8-10 main courses, and 10-12 different deserts...
- the fish eating thing is pretty much just reserved for the "traditionalists" (religious zealots), because the fish is the only meat permitted in the fasting period immediately preceding Christmas!
It's the Advent, the Christmas fasting period, practiced by many Christian congregations (Catholics, Orthodox, Lutherans, etc)...
:)
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