You Know You’re a Hungarian…
32. When you would rather ride standing up in a tram when there are plenty of seats available.
33. When the train hasn’t even left the station, but you are already eating your home made sandwiches (usually with half a paprika or tomato in it).
34. When you call a 79 km long lake (the Balaton) the Hungarian Sea. And you are able to swim across it!
You Know You’re a Hungarian…
19. When you do not speak with your mouth full.
20. When you have company over, and saying ‘good-bye’ takes an hour itself. You hug and say goodbye in the living room, move the doorway, talk for another 15 minutes, hug and say goodbye again. Then you go outside the door, talk for another 10 minutes, hug and say goodbye, move towards the car, hug and say goodbye, company gets in the car, you talk for another 10 minutes, then everybody gets out of the car again, hugs and says goodbye.. then finally they leave.
21. When guys wanna show off by saying that they know your capital: Bucharest… and no, they are not joking!
You Know You’re a Hungarian…
28. When you know what ‘lángos’ is.
29. When your engagement ring is worn on the opposite hand.
30. When you have difficulty pronouncing words started with “W” in English, but you’re capable of creating long and meaningful sentences using only “E” vowels in you mother tongue.
You Know You’re a Hungarian…
44. When your mama starts making apple strudel (or any other type of cakes or cookies) at 9:54pm on a weeknight because there is nothing decent on TV and she is bored.
45. When Winnie the Pooh and The Flintstones is actually much funnier translated into your language than the original.
46. When you go abroad and joke with the people there as at home and they just don’t understand but get possibly offended by your funny remarks.
You Know You’re a Hungarian…
38. When all your curtains and tablecloths are lace that your mom or grandma bought from the Piac.
39. When in the West they refer to you as a gypsy (roma or cigány) descendant and you take great insult to this say “Don’t ever call me that again!”
40. When you know the difference between s and sz. and also u and ü.
You Know You’re a Hungarian…
1. When you use sour cream more than ketchup.
2. When your parents come to visit for 3 weeks and you all stay in a one bedroom apartment.
3. When feeding your guests is your main priority even if they claim they’re not hungry and in which case you get slightly upset that they don’t want your hospitality.
You Know You’re a Hungarian…
41. When you know what a pogácsa / a dobos torta / a kürtős kalács / a főzelék / a túrógombóc is, and love most of them.
42. When you understand cynism and sarcasm, and you are cynical / sarcastic yourself.
43. When you eat pizza with a fork and knife.
Yo Know You’re a Hungarian…
25. When catching a bus, an old lady with lots of heavy bags runs by you and reaches the bus first, then sits down panting and complaining how old she is and how the stuff is heavy and young people are not well educated, etc.
26. When you start counting on your hand, with one being the thumb.
27. When the church bells ring at 12 noon you proudly tell your friends that the bells toll for the Hungarians all around the world at 12 noon by the order of the Pope for when the Hungarians defeated the Turks and saved Rome.
You Know You’re a Hungarian…
13. When meeting another Hungarian in a country outside of Hungary is amazing.
14. You know you’re Hungarian when you eat everything off your plate (if you’re female) and your non-Hungarian guy friends look at you as if you are a weirdo, or a cousin of Xena: Warrior Princess or Attila the Hun, ready to do battle. You think, “I’m not letting my tasty food go to waste, especially if I’m paying for it,” or “I love to eat and I’m not afraid of food.”
15. When you love Turó Rudi but cant really explain to foreigners what the heck that is until they try it.
You Know You’re a Hungarian…
47. When you are snobby and think that anyone who has not read Dostoyewski and Bulgakow is not an intelligent human being.
48. When your language has two words for love.
49. When you deeply believe that Budapest (or your hometown) is the most beautiful city in the whole wide word and – just to make sure – you swear for that before climbing the Eiffel tower.
You Know You’re a Hungarian…
35. When as a kid you told your grandma you were hungry and she spread lard on a piece of bread with sliced radishes and sprinkled it with salt and paprika.
36. When you can eat ANYTHING deep fried (with breadcrumbs on it) and can make spirits (pálinka) of (almost) EVERYTHING, including paprika of course!
37. When you NEVER leave home with wet hair because you can get a cold and you ALWAYS bring your hair dryer when going abroad, and you’re astonished when some people do not have one in their own homes!
You Know You’re a Hungarian…
22. When in a Chinese restaurant you order Sechuan chicken with French fries, cucumber salad, and ask for a few slices of bread as well.
23. When at all major family events you cook a massive feast in a bogrács, and then bake the potatoes on the parázs, just because this is how your ancestors did it, even though ovens have been invented since then.
24. When you love mákos guba and you can’t explain what mák is, neither guba to anyone.. and if you finally can, everyone will think you’re a weirdo for eating that.
You Know You’re a Hungarian…
16. When your non-Hungarian friends ask you if you still believe that Santa Claus brings the presents on the night between December 24th-25th… then you answer somehow confused that Santa Claus brings the presents on the 6th of December and it is actually a little angel who brings the presents on Christmas, but the presents are already there on the 24th at 5pm.
17. When a pancake is extremely thin in your country, and you call it palacsinta, and you roll it up instead of folding it.
18. When you are familiar the phrase “three is the Hungarian truth”.
You Know You’re a Hungarian…
10. When you have a relative who’s name is Attila. Or József. Or János. Or László.
11. When half of your mother’s friends’ husbands’ are called József.
12. When you know that the “goulash” you see in many restaurants has in actuality nothing to do with the gulyás leves you really eat.
You Know You’re a Hungarian…
7. When it’s shocking for you to realize that TV channels of foreign countries don’t broadcast full live coverage of kayak-canoe and water polo world championships in prime time.
8. When you tell someone that you are Hungarian, they ask “Are you hungry?” Then you congratulate them on being the millionth person to say that to you.
9. When you’ve heard, “If you’re hungry, why not go to Turkey?” at least once in your life.
Yo Know You’re a Hungarian…
4. When you hear someone saying that Hungarian is “like Russian and all those other Slavic languages”, you have to go into great detail about the origins of Hungarian with a history lesson.
5. When Paprika is just as important as salt & pepper on the table and in food.
6. When you know what Unicum is and you prefer it over Jagermeister.
