I heard he's a real fan of Gulash
and other eastern european stews.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 19 Nov 2009, 13:49, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

sorry
I realise that Gulash is in fact a soup and not a stew. So fuck you.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 19 Nov 2009, 13:50, Reply)

it's also spelt goulash

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 19 Nov 2009, 13:50, Reply)

see the end of my answer above

(Bazongaloid, Thu 19 Nov 2009, 13:52, Reply)

understood

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 19 Nov 2009, 13:53, Reply)

I was going to try and make the argument about goulash being a transliteration
but it's Hungarian in origin (I think) and they use the roman alphabet so it isn't at all.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 19 Nov 2009, 13:54, Reply)

Actually
"The name originates from the Hungarian gulyás" (taken form Wikipedia, I know it's probably a lie) so actually Gulash would be the more logical spelling.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 19 Nov 2009, 13:55, Reply)

Hungarian
is a shitty language. It's related to Finnish and Estonian but no other western languages. And it's a bugger to understand.

Paprika is nice though. Which is just as well, as the Magyars put it in every dish.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 19 Nov 2009, 13:55, Reply)

Nor is it related to a good number of non-western ones.
Yer Sanskrit, Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, Pashtu, Farsi, even Tocharian... all of 'em Indo-European.

But the Hungarians just had to be different.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 19 Nov 2009, 14:39, Reply)

and kielbasa

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 19 Nov 2009, 13:50, Reply)