cathyg

What habits have you picked up in Hungary that you never had before ?

Here's some of mine:

Now use serviettes a lot more, I have one of those little holders to put on the table
Buy tissues in little packets
Drink fruit tea
Upcycle bits of wood and metal
Use the village post office to pay bills
Make jam and compotes
never pay more than £3 for a bottle of wine
Don't eat ready meals anymore

Having been here for nearly two years we were reflecting on how different our lifestyle is now. What about you?

mawood47

never have a argument with a Hungarian Wife, shut up, go in garden berry heed in work digger47

PaulinEger

Definitely drink more alcohol
Grow our own veg
Don't drink English tea
Teach! I never, ever, ever thought I'd be a teacher :/
Pay everything by cheque
Speak a little Hungarian

llareggub

Go to bed early!
It is never too early for an alcofrolic beverage but it is often too late!
Flip Flops (never owned a pair before moving here)
Shorts are not just for sports
Homebrew wine
Homegrown veggies
Never throw anything away, it will come good someday
Moan about how complicated the English language is, whilst losing the ability to think of an English word for an item before the Hungarian word

Peter_in_Hungary

Most of the above and including
Home slaughter of the cottagers pig to produce our own pork, bacon, ham, smoked sausages etc. done in the traditional way with all the right meals and palinka during the day.

FenTiger

Although not yet living in Hungary:
1) not afraid to kiss men on each cheek, it's a custom for deaf people to kiss men or women three times on each cheek
2) accept the chaos every time Hungarians organise something but I must reciprocate our deaf friends organisation of events is superior to UK
3) eat anything put in front of me even though it looks like someone has puked in it
4) drinking more palinka than I can handle
5) realising each time we go over to Hungary I've got to buy another bottle of whisky
6) don't argue with a Hungarian if s/he is telling you to drink more ..... doesn't matter if I'm about to fall into some bushes .... carry on drinking
7) grit my teeth when my brother in law organises something and I'm ill prepared because he sai I don't need to bring anything

llareggub

Forgot about this one, but definitely!

In all fairness our female friends from the UK find it strange when I do it when we pick them up at the airport

FenTiger

Funny thing is we have a Hungarian male friend in UK but when we see him we don't greet him Hungarian custom. Mind you he's a massive disappointment because he has never taught his children Hungarian customs including the language so when his mother comes over she can't communicate with them. Think he has deserted his heritage. Very sad as his wife doesn't have a clue about Hungarian language.

BEVS

HeHe.

Some of our best friends here in NZ are Hungarian.

Drink red wine with coke.

Home slaughter of a pig. ( We hunt boar here in NZ)

Know how to make great breads and stews.

duztee

The biggest change for me is going shopping.
In the UK I bought everything online including groceries, here I seem to be in one shop or another at least twice a day!
One of these daily visits is to the local shop to buy a couple or three of the freshly baked little one mouthful sized pastries, both savoury and sweet varieties.

And living in the flat bit I am now using a bicycle again for the first time in 40 years.

FenTiger

Need to correct No.1. Should be kiss three times, not each cheek three times! That would be a step too far for me.
Plus I must add meeting my Hungarian relatives or friends, male or female, at UK airport I adopt the Hungarian custom. Also when they depart at UK airport.

fidobsa

1) Cutting and splitting logs for fuel, I never used a chainsaw before I came to Hungary.
2) Buying unsliced bread because it tends to be a bit fresher than the sliced sort.
3) Going to bed earlier and getting up earlier, especially in summer.
4) Eat far less tinned food and do more "proper" cooking.
5) Diet has changed a bit as I've discovered things like paprika powder, sour cream and letcho.

Rural Hungary

Most of the above except slaughtering - that was part of the plan but couldn't bring myself to do it

Shop at markets more than supermarkets

Ditto Fib on the sour cream, use it in a lot of dishes instead of cream now.

Pollypaprika

Can't walk past someone else's wood stack without getting wood envy
Home cooking (in UK was mostly fast food)
Drink more wine
Forget English words but don't know Hungarian ones so walk about with a foggy blank head (but that could be the wine...or the home cooking)
Grow veggies
Used to well-behaved children
Used to not having everything and anything available so am more grateful for what I do have.
Make do and mend
Don't care so much what house looks like to guests, yes that is a muddy foot print in the hallway, deal with it!

Rural Hungary

Glad it's not only me, the size, the organised stacking !!

That will be the wine

Haha, that's what it's all about - don't see the point in living the dream if still constrained by the keeping up with the Jonse's mentality and worrying about folk gossiping about how white your nets are