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Az már majdnem tisztaszesz! 😃 érjük be a 48-50%-al ami még finom is és nem mar 😉

I remember when I drank a palinka for the first time. It was so strong I almost got strep throat from drinking it.

Toni Erdman is a riot. That's how I discovered those Balkan thingys.

Yes, that's interesting!

Thanks for this valuable information 😉

Pálinka az egy Magyar ital.

All Central and Eastern European nations have their own interpretation of this strong alcoholic drink. Hungary has been quite a melting pot and our language is a good example of this. We have plenty of words of Slavic origin like bear (medved - medve) or king (krajl - kiraly) but also palinka. However this doesn't mean that Palinka is a Slavic drink but the word has Slavic origin. Just pop down to Serbia and you find a very similar drink there named Slivovica or some other Slavic nations call it Slijvovica. If you go a bit further down the Balkans you have raki or rakija which is again a similar drink. Palinka is a protected name, you can only call this drink a Palinka if it's been made in Hungary. Of course if you travel to any of the neighbouring countries from Austria to Romania near the boarder you will meet people who distill their own palinka however if they there would be an official distillery they couldn't call their product a Palinka.

The name has Slavic origins (as a lot of other Hungarian names, words), but the palinka is Hungarian. Just like vodka comes from Russia, or rakija from Croatia.

@@boldogszabomester6392 Ha már itt tartunk a vodka meg a voda szóból ered ami oroszul vízet jelent :)

Yeah I think every Blakan kid had that one time you accidently tried youre grandpas homemade pálinka, because you thought its water. It happened to quite a few of my classmates

Egyébként lehet ,hogy ő is hun kicsit....

You mean croatian. Croatian "sokac" emigrated into Hungary to Mohács and they bring this tradition with them. So no, it doesn't "belong" to the serbian, and either the croatian. Now, it's a hungarian tradition.

But did you know that this kind of festival can found all over Europe? In Poland, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, so it's a european tradition also.

My bad. Thanks for the info. I guess it's coming from the old times before Christianity.