Thanks for the article and the fotos, mouth watering, but the calories and the cholesterol ...

I look at my Hungarian neighbours - don't want to be like them, diabetes and high blood pressure and ...

So we eat mangalica only once or twice a month - but friends asked us to bring more of that fantastic szalonna to Germany ...

wolfi, mangalica is much healthier then regular pork and is lower in cholesterol ;)

@wen:

Thanks, I know, but the calorie count is still high ...

Actually we have it more often, but just a few slices with a cold dinner. My wife tries very hard not to cook the typical Hungarian way (which was alright for a farmer or other hard working man, but not for a couch.potato).

So we mix Hungarian and Mediterranean and even German food - still I have to be careful not to it too much.

For the weekend she 'll make a pörkölt - and from the letovers: Hortobagyi palacsinta - my absolute Hungarian favorite!

"I look at my Hungarian neighbours - don't want to
be like them, diabetes and high blood pressure and
..."

It's amusing to blame it on meat, which humans have
been eating for millions of years without a problem,
and not on the ridiculous amounts of sweets and
alcohol many Hungarians consume.

Anyway, wish I could have been there! Mangalica is
the best and the fat is very delicious and healthy!

Hi, Melissa!

I looked at your website - it's interesting, to say the least. The idea of paleo diet, well, you are entitled to your opinions ...

About my neighbours food: It's not the meat they eat, it's the type and the amount of food. I don't know how much you know about Hungary, so here are a few numbers: A kg of good sausage (kolbasz or salami) costs 4000 Forint (about 20 $), the regular sausageParizs or Felvagott you sometimes get for less than a thousand (5 $ for a kg!) - so how much meat do you think it contains ?

One of my neighbours is a teetolar, because of his diabetes he eats no sweets (sometimes I give him some diat chocolate from Germany as a present), but his favourite food is: csülök, pacal, kocsonya and bableves.

wolfi, I think you put it mildly. The Paleo diet,
while certainly a interesting concept, is IMO a
load of bullshit, although everyone is entitled to
their opinion and if it works for Melissa I'm
happy for her. A BALANCED diet is what we should
aspire to for general good health!
In the "English speaking countries" the
biggest problem with getting kids to eat their
veggies is that they are usually served up alone
on the plate, meat and 2 veg style, or raw. And
right enough a big chunk of broccoli doesn't look
too appealing. On the other hand, in Hungary,
almost every single kid eats and enjoys vegetable
dishes daily - often in the form of főzelék or
similar. The contrast between my upbringing in
Britain/Ireland, where most kids hate their
veggies, is quite astonishing.
Hungary has the potential to have very healthy
eating, after all it has great production of fruit
and veg. Sadly, due to tradition and economic and
educational reasons, white bread, sweets, sugary
drinks, and other poor quality food products are
very very prevalent.
Meat as such is not the problem at all, but
rather wolfi is right about felvagott meat
products (eg párizsi) which are a daily diet for
some people but full of crap. This is not meat.

I have to backtrack on prev statement about Paleo
diet. It doesn't seem so extreme as I first
understood (I thought it referred to a mad diet I
read about a while back). While I still don't agree
entirely, it does seem to address a balanced diet in
many ways. On the other hand I don't see issue with
things like dairy products. Many people have dairy
allegies, but then, many others have nut allergies.
Just because perhaps 50000 years ago man didn't eat
dairy products, humans also have the ability to
evolve at a very fast rate to adapt to more "modern"
diet.