r/geography • u/True_Antelope8860 • 1d ago
Discussion First thing that comes to your mind when you see this two counries
(Hungary and Czech republic)
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u/Lightner19 1d ago
Goulash and Beer
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u/NaStK14 21h ago
Pierogies and Šlivovica!
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u/snow-eats-your-gf 19h ago
Pierogi is Poland
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u/NaStK14 19h ago
Common to all Slavic countries in that region. The spelling is Polish but Slovaks and Ukrainians call them pirohy and Russians pirozhky or varenyky
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u/snow-eats-your-gf 19h ago
You probably have no idea that pirozhky and vareniki are very different things, and in this case Polish pierogi and Russian pirogi are false friends words, as many other words in these languages. And polish pierogi are usually more complicated and diverse than vareniki.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B3
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8
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u/NaStK14 19h ago
I’m aware that there are various types of fillings for pierogies/pirohy, and even in America we have multiple varieties. Vareniki is trickier but my understanding is it includes both what we consider pierogies and also other things
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u/snow-eats-your-gf 18h ago
They are not the same. I understand that Americans are experts in everything, but still.
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u/sajobi 17h ago
I find it really funny how people online have these stereotypical images of slavic people and their food. Bit I know very few people irl that eat these.
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u/NaStK14 17h ago
Our American pierogies aren’t the same with American cheese and not as much variety of fillings. I only use Slivovitz as cough medicine. I think a lot of it depends on region in Europe, and a lot of recipes got mixed up and simplified once they were brought to America. It’s the same with music; most Americans will associate polka with Poland but wouldn’t know anything subsequent or alternative from there
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u/curinanco 11h ago
The Czechs don’t make pierogi at all and in Hungary they are not that typical either.
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u/Cultural_Ad_430 1d ago
Austria-Hungary
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u/MacaroniHermano 1d ago
The sweet pastry that I think is called Trdlo in Czech and that has a much much longer name in Hungarian.
I believe it's dough wrapped around a cylinder, then baked, and then sprinkled - probably with cinnamon and sugar and I dunno what else.
I've seen them marketed as "chimney stacks" in my neck of the woods. Regardless of the name, it's delicious.
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u/Probably_BBQ 1d ago
Good tourism for some reason. Even though I'm from Russia, where tourism is even better (as I know)
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u/sbrijska 23h ago
The reason is your ugly commie blocks didn't manage to erase the remnants of the thousand years of history we had in the civilized world.
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u/Ok-Significance4702 22h ago
College. I did a UC education abroad program with the fall semester at Éotvös Lorand University in Budapest and spring semester at Charles University in Prague.
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u/RandomIdiot918 23h ago
Kurtos/Trdelnik
Also highways. Especially Hungary, bassically a big hughway stop of a country.
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u/joyofsovietcooking 19h ago
The first thing that comes to mind is that I wish there was a joint Filipino/Italian mission to Mars, and that this was the shoulder match for the astronauts. The second thing is WTF am I thinking about posting before my coffee kicks in, as it would be a Czech/Hungarian mission. Third thing is I wonder what that space mission would be like, too.
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u/586WingsFan 17h ago
Central European geography was a lot simpler when the Hapsburgs ran everything
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u/Acminvan 14h ago
The two possible directions of Eastern European countries:
Democratic and Pro Europe..... or Autocratic and Pro Russia
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u/illicit_celery 1d ago
Slovakia