Ever since I went to Stash Café in Montreal, I get Polish food wherever I can: https://restaurantstashcafe.ca/en/home-english. There is something about Polish food that feels like it's universally comforting to all who try it.
Poland's Most Famous Dish: Pierogi
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Re: Poland's Most Famous Dish: Pierogi
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No, not to any significant extent. I speak Hungarian and have very frequently passed through that small part of Transcarpathia where Hungarian is still spoken, and I have rarely encountered an ethnic Slav who learned Hungarian to proficiency. The language of interethnic communication in Transcarpatia was generally Russian during the Soviet era, and even remained such into the post-Soviet era, though Ukrainian has nat…
Yeah my wife’s granddad was stationed in a Ukrainian village as a doctor and had to learn some Hungarian to communicate with locals, so… Let’s fight who anecdotes are better. > they have no contact whatsoever with the Hungarian language. Yet loads of them pass Hungarian nationality test which involves speaking Hungarian.
Again, the Hungarian-speaking part of Transcarpatia is a fairly small area, see the convenient map[0] on Wikipedia. Most Rusyns in Ukraine live to the north or northeast of that small area in green. These are statistics that you can consult for yourself, no need for anecdotal evidence. Congratulations, your wife’s granddad must have got stationed in one of those very few communities in Transcarpatia where Hungarian is spoken. That means nothing for categorizing a people spread over Ukraine, Slovakia, and Poland as “akin to Magyars”.
You do realize that the vast majority of people from Ukraine passing the Hungarian nationality test are ethnic Hungarians, not Rusyns?
Re: Poland's Most Famous Dish: Pierogi
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So it's basically a new version of the "Freedom Fries" mania, but with higher popularity?
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Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.