What Fills My Plate

Lots of Langos Choices This past August, while travelling from the bottom of Poland to the bottom of Turkey I came across interesting things that added a little fun into the trip.   I would like to show you a few of them. Walking along the Danube River in Budapest we had intentions of eating breakfast in the big market.  We were informed that there we could find the   Hungarian breakfast specialty called Langos, which is a large piece of fried bread (like Navajo fried bread)  with various toppings.  We were told that Hungarians like Langos, served with sour cream, garlic and cheese.    Other various toppings included mushrooms, hot spiced tomato sauce, and cheese.  This is very different from our Italian breakfast or even American.   You cannot eat it all. On the main floor of the market people shop for vegetables and meats.  This market has some of the best looking vegetables in Europe.  Tomatoes, perfectly ripe, cabbages, corn,  broccoli and cucumbers.  We found th

Look closely  Out with the old doesn’t quite work sometimes.   As in Olympics, for instance.   The citizens pay for great stadiums, dormitories, and all the structures that it takes to present the olympics.   Lately is has been found that the events did not make enough income to pay for building them.   When the olympics finish,   the area is deserted.   You probably were not born yet, so you have to rely on an old person like me to tell you the story.   Italy hosted the Winter Olympics back in 1956 in Cortina. Participating were Thirty-two nations which competed in the four sports and twenty-four events.   The  Soviet Union made its first appearance in the Winter Olympics and   won more medals than any nation.   Since television in places like Germany and Scandinavia did not have the technology to show the events live, people there had to rely on Communist television sources, a big plus for the Soviets. I was a kid then and had no clue of this.   Pretty much all I reme