Does H.I. Have Any Hungarian Forumites?

Yup...well, American born but my maternal Grandmother was Hungarian. The funny thing is that my Grandfather was born in the same town but three years earlier and was a Slovak. The Hungarians were just one of a series that dominated the Slovaks...Pa never let Ma forget that and that it was his turn to be in charge. <possible start of a political thread>
 
Nasty... Hungary is a great country to visit; was there for 1 month a few years back. The city is loaded with beautiful architecture, and the people are very nice, although it helps to speak Hungarian to get around, and the language is DIFFICULT :eek: to learn! I used to live in Gorizia, Italy, and since it borders with Nova Goriza in Slovenia, I used to go there frequently on the weekend...

I was hoping to find a Hungarian living in Hungary to track down a supplier of a product that I purchased while there. You can start a political thread if you'd like; I hope a resident Hungarian chimes in... :D

Thanks!
 
I agree...it's a beautiful part of Europe. What product are you looking for? Perhaps one of us knows a substitute that would fill your need or another source.
 
While in the supermarket there, I found effervescent tablets containing a Nutrasweet like sweetener, and various flavors. They come 20 to 30 in the plastic cylinder... One which I found was a substitute for Red Bull, in that it had caffeine, taurine, vitamins, etc. It tasted exactly the same, and cost about $1.00 for 20 tablets! Just drop one in an 8 oz. glass of water, and 3 a couple of minutes later, you had basically a Red Bull drink without the can! :rolleyes: I heard about them while frequenting a gym there while on vacation.

I'd like to see if I could import them to Italy. I forget the name of the company, but believe it is the same company that makes Pez. Like I said, they are super popular there; I encountered them in all the supermarkets in Budapest.

I like them much better than drinking a coffee in the morning, but I used up my supply a LONG time ago... :grumpy:

Appreciate any help; thanks!
 
Sounds like the old Fizzies...horrid things. I'm not surprised they tasted like Red Bull... ;)
 
I haven't had lunch yet. Does this make me Hungarian? :rolleyes:







Yeah, I know it's bad. I debated posting it last night and didn't. But I wanted to increment my post count. :barf:
 
Drdan, on the other forums (Knifeforums.com) there is a Hungarian guy called Gyorgy Kovacs (I think his username is kovacsgy). I think he was or still is a member of BF too.
I hope he can help you.

littleknife
 
BruiseLeee said:
Yeah, I know it's bad. I debated posting it last night and didn't. But I wanted to increment my post count. :barf:
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REAL bad, Bruise, but I admit I had to ponder over it twice until I got it. :D You received 1 more post for the effort, in any event. :rolleyes: ;)
 
littleknife said:
Drdan, on the other forums (Knifeforums.com) there is a Hungarian guy called Gyorgy Kovacs (I think his username is kovacsgy). I think he was or still is a member of BF too.
I hope he can help you. littleknife
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Useful input, ltttleknife, and thanks for the heads up! By the way, with your handle, what are you doing hanging around on a big knife forum? ;)
 
littleknife... Great heads up! Gyorgy Kovacs has 720 posts on knife forums, and is currently active. I sent him a PM, and am confident I'll get a response. Thanks again! :)
 
My maternal grandmother was from Hungary (Gyor). I have no information about her, except a few pictures when she first came to the US as a young girl. My mother did preserve some of her recipes, however. A spoonful of this, a glass of that....
She died when I was an infant. I wish I knew more.
Memories lost....
 
Drdan said:
Useful input, littleknife, and thanks for the heads up! By the way, with your handle, what are you doing hanging around on a big knife forum? ;)
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Glad if I could help, Drdan.

As for the small handle, did you know that the HIKV can induce handle growth? ;) :D
 
My maternal grandparents were Hungarian. When I was at the graveyard to bury my uncle, I asked my mom where they were buried. She looked at her older sister and they neither could remember - no idea after 50 years gone by. Must ask her their names when I call her. Fejes was the last name.
 
My grandmother was a Krausz, from Gyor. As far as I can determine, non of the Jews of Gyor survived the holocaust.
 
I may have to get a copy of her or her sister's birth certificates. From Livingston, in Merced Co., CA. Her sister married a Kiss, also Hungarian, who stayed with the Fejes till they got a start in this country. My cousins have some of the info and have written to those still in Hungary. I'm referred to among the family as the half-breed. Anyway, I'd have to find out how to get to the cemetery if I went back. I've no idea as I followed a cousin's car on the backroads over there. A dozen years ago or so my wife and I did a tour of the area and found of all things a Sikh Temple built in the town.
 
Oddly enough Hungary was Jewish until the Pope gave King Stephen the crown jewels for converting, circa 1,000 AD. Paul Kovi - chef at the Four Seasons, was born in what was then Transylvania and later went back and wrote Transylvanian Cooking, and included a chapter on the Sabbatarians, who followed the Jewish ways if not the religion.
 
Rusty said:
Oddly enough Hungary was Jewish until the Pope gave King Stephen the crown jewels for converting, circa 1,000 AD. Paul Kovi - chef at the Four Seasons, was born in what was then Transylvania and later went back and wrote Transylvanian Cooking, and included a chapter on the Sabbatarians, who followed the Jewish ways if not the religion.
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Rusty, I think this is a bit more complicated than what you have been told.
Hungarians were mostly shamanists before converting to catholicism. There must have been some Greek Orthodox Christians and muslims amongst them too.

On the other hand the Khazars, a Turkish speaking steppe nomad group living in what is now Ukraine and Southern Russia, accepted Judaism around the 9th century. They ruled a long lived empire until they were overrun by other steppe nomads from the East. The Hungarians (among other ethnic groups, mainly Turkish ones) at that time were part of the empire ruled by the Khazars, but they did not follow Judaism.
There are still some Jews in Russia who aren't ethnicly Israelites but descendants of those Khazars.

The Sabbatarians were spinoff of some protestant sect, but not Jewish themselves.

According to the records Jews continuously lived in Hungary for the last 1000 years or so, but the majority of the Hungarian Jews came to Hungary after the 1850s when they fled from the persecutions in Russia to the then Austro Hungarian Empire.
So I think most of them are actually of Polish or Litvak Ashkenazi Jewish backround.
 
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