Is That a Sausage in Your Pocket, Or Are You Just Glad to be Blind Drunk?
By my count there are now three different annual pálinka festivals in Budapest. The smallest and least exciting of these - the so-called "Pálinka Promenád" - took place a few weeks back, and, frankly, it seemed so small and unexciting that I didn't bother to mention it. But you can bet your liver, brain and all your other vital organs that I'll be going to this weekend's second-annual Budavári Pálinka- és Kolbászfesztivál (Buda Castle Pálinka and Kolbász Festival), which offers all the high-proof fruit brandy your body needs and all the nitrate-rich, high-fat sausage it craves.
Seriously: What kind of evil geniuses came up with this idea, and how can we ever thank them for it? Even the URL of the official website - www.palinkaeskolbasz.hu ("pálinka and kolbász") - oozes the sort of manic purposefulness that is the hallmark of something not to be missed. The action kicks off tomorrow and runs until Sunday - or until everyone is dead. God Bless.
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Note that there is talk of a new delicacy invented at the festival: Chocolate stuffed with deep-fried Mangalica pork crackling/scratchings ("mangalicatepertővel töltött csokoládé"): http://critmiss.tumblr.com/post/208271647/mangalicatepert-vel-t-lt-tt-csokol-d
Not sure if this is an impromptu invention or actually for sale.
Haven't tried it myself and don't think I have the iron clad stomach for it, but would love to know others' opinions.
I note the BBC has a story about pork served with chocolate in the Ukraine ( news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3825221.stm ), so maybe this isn't cutting edge culinary stuff anyway? There was a story that the Ukranians eat pork fat (look up 'salo' on wikipedia) and chocolate all the time "chocolate-coated salo" (salo v shokoladi), but this was apparently an April Fool's joke.
So does the 'mangalicatepertővel töltött csokoládé' really exist (won't be able to go myself).
I can't wait till winter for some yummy Szallonacukor
I have seen it at the Pálinka Festival and could not believe the idea of this product.
Willing to try new things but this is definetly a NO NO on my list...