Every guide book will tell you to sample the national food where you visit. Hungary is renown for many of its national dishes such as goulash and paprika chicken, as well as its sausages, like the Debrecen sausage.
These are all good but I haven’t truly sampled a nations food until I have tried their snack foods. In Hungary the local snack food that reigns supreme is the Túró Rudi. If Hungary was to have an official national snack, this would be it.
[Túró Rudi]
If you’ve never had one it is probably best if you eat first then ask questions later. It consists of sweetened compressed cottage cheese, covered in chocolate. It shouldn’t work, but it does.
Those who have already converted to the way of the Rudi, there is a place for you at The Túró Rudi Fanlisting.
[Túró Rudi Half]