You Know You're 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 offended/upset that they
don't want your hospitality.
4. When someone says that Hungarian "is like
Russian and all those other Slavic languages,"
and then you have to go into great detail about the
origins of Hungarian with a scolding history
lesson.
5. When Paprika is just as important as salt &
pepper on the table & in food.
6. When you know what Unicum is and prefer it over
Jagrmeister.
7. When you know how to open a bottle of wine with
only a screw and a pair of pliers.
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.
10. When you have a relative who's named Attila.
Or Jozsef. Or Janos. Or Laszlo.
11. When half of your mothers friends husbands have
the name Jozsef.
12. When you know that the "goulash" you see
in many restaurants has in actuality little/nothing to
do with the gulyas leves we really eat.
13. When meeting another Hungarian in a country
outside of Hungary is amazing.
14. When you know the meaning of "kurva"
even if you don't know any other Hungarian
word.
15. When you love Turó Rudi but cant really
explain to foreigners what the hell that is untill
they try it.
16. When your foreign 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 Little Jesus
who brings the presents on Christmas, but the presents
are already there on the 24th at 6PM.
17. When a pancake is extremely flat in your country
and you roll it up instead of folding it.
18. When you know what TÚRÓ is.
19. When you know the phrase "three is the
Hungarian truth".
20. When 7 is a bad number.
21. When you leave your house for longer than 2 hours,
you make sure there's enough sandwiches, apples,
bottled tap water, coffee in a thermos, and chocolate
bars packed for everyone to survive (without spending
a dime)!
22. When you do not speak with your mouth full.
23. When guys keep telling you that Hungarian girls
are the cutest and prettiest and hope that you just
believe it and they get laid.
24. When they wanna show off by saying that they know
your capital: Bucharest and no, they are not
joking!
25. When you go into a Chinese restaurant and order
your Sechuan chicken with french fries, cucumber salad
and ask for a few slices of bread as well.
26. When you have a funny accent in every other
language you speak.
27. When you love Mákos Guba and you can't
explain what MÁK is, neither GUBA to anyone.. and
if you finallly can, everyone will think you're
some kind of weirdo for eating that.
28. When you go into a Posta when every single old
person in Budapest wants to, and they keep letting
their mates into the line.
29. 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.
30. When you start counting on your hand with one
being the thumb.
31. When you can swear for 5 minutes straight, with
one breath, not using the same word, ever.
32. When you know what 'lángos' is.
33. When you wish you would get 5 bucks everytime
somebody says "I know a hungarian word...
bazdmeg... *laugh*..."
34. When you can show off your engagement ring, worn
on the opposite hand.
35. When you know why the bells of every church ring
every day at noon.
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