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VOLCANIC HUNGARY: THE SMITHSONIAN VOLCANO DATABASE

With earthquakes and long dormant volcanos erupting and seemingly linked, I thought I would do some research into VOLCANIC HUNGARY, knowing that the Tokaj area and wine industry is often cited as the grape vines benefitting from the soil and taste of the wine. 

FIRST THE SMITHSONIAN! SMITHSONIAN NATURAL HISTORY- VOLCANOS - HUNGARY

Volcano Name

Volcanic 

Region

Primary Landform

Bakony-Balaton Highland Central European Volcanic Province Cluster
Little Hungarian Plain Central European Volcanic Province Cluster
Nograd-Southern Slovakia

THESE LAST WERE ACTIVE WHEN DINOSAURS WALKED THE EARTH.. the Pleistocene period.

THESE ARE CONSIDERED EXTINCT VOLCANOS, however, consider this: In Russia the Krasheninnikov Volcano awoke and erupted after at least 400 years dormant - some articles said 600 years... The eruption came after an 8.8 earthquake which lead to tsunami warnings.

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The Krakatoa Sunsets

By Richard Hamblyn

From Public Domain Review

PURPLE

 

GRAPE VINE WREATH

 

GOOD WINE STARTS HERE

 

A THRIFT STORE FIND : A HUNGARIAN BEER MUG WITH THE IMAGE OF A CATHEDRAL ON IT?

I was in a thrift store and a man got into the line to pay who was just delighted because he found TWO items that were Hungarian.  One was a book.  The other was one of those ceramic beer mugs - a big one - that had the image of a Catholic cathedral in Hungary on it.  This was missing a top.  We laughed about this.  The idea that a tourist would visit a Catholic church and buy a beer mug there.

I tend to think of Hungary as a WINE COUNTRY but certainly there are beer drinkers there, just as there are in the United States. Is it the German influence?  

GREEN GRAPES

FOUR POUND BUNCH OF GRAPES : CURRIER and IVES

PURPLE GRAPES

TOKAJ WINE MAP

I guess most of us have to just dream about visiting Hungary and traveling the Tokaj wine route, stopping at inns, testing wines in vast old wine cellars with ceilings covered in an important mold, becoming a little tipsy, and happily walking through the towns. But dreaming is a good way to set a goal.

GRAPES and PEARS

A HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE THE URBARIUM 1767 - 1679 VINEYARDS and PRODUCTION of WINE in TOKAJ : GENEALOGY PRO TIP #14

A HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE THE URBARIUM 1767 -  1679 VINEYARDS and PRODUCTION of WINE in TOKAJ : GENEALOGY PRO TIP #14

TRANSLATE GOOGLE : 1679 YEAR TOKAJ WINE and VINEYARDS

This find, on the Hungaricana - NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF HUNGARY site, again came up using the town name Gonc, and it shows the early link with the town and the wine making and growing of grapes in the Tokaj region.  Here you will learn that some of the vineyards had been confiscated or lost and the names of the people who owned them or were taking care of them.

EXCERPT:  The free grapes confiscated by Menecert Keczer were cultivated by the "ex fructu" by Miklos Szini's widow (the whole funeral is his, in the case of neglected grapes, he does not come to the vine....

(A sense of humor is displayed!)

There is a list of villages this 19 page archival document covers.  If you have wine making in Tokaj in your family history this is a wonderful history.

This is a note to try and CROSS REFERENCE the places and people you see on the census with other searches on Hungaricana.

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WINE DRINKERS VERSUS BEER DRINKERS : HUNGARIAN / HUNGARIAN AMERICAN STEREOTYPES

I believe most Hungarian Americans are WINE DRINKERS and that BEER DRINKING is Germanic or Austrian!  This may be ridiculous, because there are wine making regions in these countries too, but it's correct in my experience.  Further I think if you're more Slavic, you'll be more interested in Vodka or hard liqueur!

Believe it or not, I hate beer.  I believe my entire life time intake of beer is not much more than two six pack.  I never buy it.  I never ask for it.  However, people meaning to be good hosts and hostesses have handed me a beer or offered me a beer, and each time this has happened I think "Maybe my taste buds will have changed." 

But they have not.

I think I've managed to get down an entire can or bottle a few times by sipping politely.  I've also gone to the ladies room and dumped some of it down the drain so I wouldn't have to drink the whole beer, more than once!  Letting a can sit without drinking it past a sip has been another one of my tactics of beer avoidance.

I am so beer adverse that years ago when some German friends invited me to go to a special bar that boasted hundreds of beers from around the world (while most of their patrons probably had Buds or Iron Cities or some other production line beer) and I ordered (do not laugh) a "whisky sour." 

It makes no difference to me if beer is ice cold or warm.  I hate it.

At the time that I ordered that Whisky Sour I knew of only two drinks based on what friends drank and those were a Whisky Sour or a Rum and Coke!  Maybe this is because I was raised to be a lady and the ladies were at the time ordering mixed drinks rather than beer.   Beer was for the men!

Tonic water made me want to gag.  I couldn't imagine imbibing any hard liquor "on the rocks!" 

Eventually I learned that I liked wine best, and to this day, though I drink rarely, I'm still trying various wines in some attempt to understand which ones I like best and why.

AM I A TYPICAL HUNGARIAN AMERICAN?

AM I A TYPICAL HUNGARIAN AMERICAN WOMAN?

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HUNGARIAN STEREOTYPES : EXCESS WITHOUT REGARD FOR HEALTH

One of the stereotypes of HUNGARIANS is that they all EAT, SMOKE, and DRINK to excess! (This has something to do with a passionate nature!)

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Just a note: It is August 2022 and though I believe this stereotype is still holding, from what I've been reading it would seem that even Hungarians are on a health-kick, reducing the lard, making smoking against policy in many places.  I sure hope this doesn't mean enjoying life less.