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THANKSGIVING - TURKEY IS A BIRD NATIVE OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT

I would like to hear from some readers in Eastern and Central Europe about TURKEY. Has turkey meat made it's way to you?

Early American colonial settlers were more likely to serve a duck or goose for a fancy meal a couple hundred years ago.

The Thanksgiving holiday and turkey as the bird to serve came long after the establishment of the United States. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the President who created Social Security and other governmental plans to help the United States of America get out of the Great Depression of the 20th century established Thanksgiving as an official American Holiday.

Americans often love Thanksgiving above all other holidays for one reason; it is spiritual without being religious, and it is in inclusive of all people. In fact, it is inclusive of those who are not citizens. Tradition is that we must invite someone to our meal of plenty who might have no family or nowhere else to go. So several years ago I was elected to cook the bird at a dinner attended by people from Canada, China, and many other countries.

It used to be that the only time I ate Turkey was on Thanksgiving. Then, I noticed, some of my friends were also serving a turkey for Christmas. These days turkey has a year round following not only for it's flavor but the lack of fat in the meat. It's almost health food.

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ARE HUNGARIAN AMERICANS ADDING PEPPERS TO THEIR TURKEY? : THANKSGIVING UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2012

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving in the United States of America, 2012.  Our modern traditional feast begins with a turkey that is stuffed,  yams - often with marshmellows toasted in the oven on top, with pumpkin pies - often with a whirl of whipped cream,  vegetables - in particular green beans, sometimes squash or gourds.  Some people also have a ham, though I think ham is more popular at Christmas.

I have now attended some "ethnic" Thanksgiving feasts at other people's homes where Ecuadorian tamales, or Italian Lasagna, as examples, were served, and I was thinking about HUNGARIAN FOOD, and how Hungarian Americans might cook for a Thanksgiving holiday.

ARE WE 2nd, 3rd, and 4th generation HUNGARIAN AMERICANS AMERICANIZED when it comes to this very American HOLIDAY?  Are we adding peppers, cabbage, pork, or other popular Hungarian ingredients to our meals?  WHAT ABOUT DESSERTS?! 

THE THIN SEXY HOT HUNGARIAN WOMEN ALL GET FAT AS SOON AS THEY GET MARRIED! STEREOTYPE OF HUNGARIANS

Is it true?! I've even heard this from American tourtists.

You see, we Hungarian and Hungarian-American WOMEN are so MAGICAL, that we are sexy, thin, and hot before we get married. Then POOOOF! we suddenly blow up and are fat matrons. There is no slow way to fat. We cook and cook and cook, to make our husbands happy. Then stay thin and we go POOOOF!   

Please, will some sexy, thin and hot MARRIED women tell me this stereotype is not true!

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GOAT CHEEZE AND PUMPKIN CHEESE and OLIVE OIL - HUNGARIAN HEALTH FOOD - POGASCA

Health food in Hungary? Well here's a recipe that includes some healthy ingredients? Are you Americans going to try this recipe for Thanksgiving?

ARE YOU A HUNGARIAN-AMERICAN OR HUNGARIAN WHO IS VEGETARIAN ?

VEGETARIAN? Recently going through a Hungarian cookbook that my aunt from Hungary gave me looking for a dish to add to my Thanksgiving meal. I noticed that the food was heavy on the meat, and the lard, and that while there were fruits, there was not the variety of vegetables we Americans have become accustomed to.

Peppers, yes. Cabbage, yes. Onions, yes. Carrots, yes.
But no Broccoli, or Cauliflower, or Squash.

I would like to know how you Hungarians are adapting to vegetarianism!

CHICAGO HUNGARIANS PRESENT A BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED MINI VERSION OF HUNGARIAN HISTORY - THEY SAY THE ARISTOCRACY WAS TO BLAME

I enjoyed reading this history of Hungary, as presented by the Chicago Hungarians site.

MUMMIES - THE HUNGARIAN KIND

These aren't EGYPTIAN MUMMIES, they're Hungarian Mummies, and they got that way by natural means. My scientific mind was working while I was looking at these. Now,these mummies are not unknown people. They are members of a family whose pine coffins may have helped preserve them. Above I'm linking to a news article that says that Micheal Orlovits was scanned in a CT machine at Columbia Saint Mary's hospital! We know that Veronia Orlovits, born in 1770 died of TB. And then there is their son Johannes, born 1800. They were discovered in Vacs, Hungary, in a crypt that had been last sealed in 1838.

Since the Mummies of the World YouTube video expired, May 31, 2021, I replaced it with this one!

THE MYSTERY OF THE HUNGARIAN PLAGUE MUMMIES - TIMELINE

film went poof! taken down oct 2022

CANDLES FOR THE ANCESTORS : AN ORIGINAL FILM FROM SZOMBATHELY, HUNGARY

St Martin Cemetery, Hungary, Szombathely : What an interesting video with original music by Ityko.