Got some leftover/outsourced Grammelpogatschal (small layered crackling bread traditional to my region) my grandma made and enjoy them with some lard bread as dinner
Let me tell you an anegdote from my life.
Used to work for .A.S.A. (Abfall servis Austria, now FCC) and went to business meeting in Bratislava with colleague from Timisoara RO.
We clicked on first 10km of road and started with jokes and fun. Upon arrival in offices in Bratislava there were poppy seed strudel on the table and I started to teese him
“Look man, they knew the Serbia (Vojvodina) guy is comming and they made traditional poppy seed strudel!”
He immediately replied: “Dude, that’s Romanian tradional strudel!”
At that point two colleauges came in, one from Czech republik and other one from Slovak republic (the SK one was in charge). So I told them:
“Please, tell to this ignorant Romanian guy that you made this traditional Vojvodina dish because of me!” (Ofcourse the part “ignorant” was a joke)
RO guy said: “Noooo, it is traditional Romanian dish!”
CZ lady said: “Well hate to break it to you guys but it is Czech traditional….”
SK lady (boss) stopped her and said: “What do you mean Vojvodina, Serbia, Romania, Czech… It is Slovak traditional poppy seed strudel!!”
The argue stopped and we had a good laugh…
Ofcourse if there were colleagues from HU amd AT it would be a late nite discussion!
Region or state
Central and Eastern Europe: Austria, Belarus, Bosnia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania, Serbia, Russia
Northern Europe: Latvia, Lithuania
I was just gonna say... This is a bakery staple in Germany too.
And I get why half of Europe loves it. It's delicious!
"Hello officer" "Whynar you not keeping the straight line, I will have to test you for the opioids?" "Don't bother burp officer, I ate burp 2 kg of poppy seed strudel. burp Your device can boot measure the oppoid level burp I am the opioid *burp" "Tc Tc Tc Tc Tc Tc"
I think crackling is the english word that's closest, Wikipedia says they are called Grieben in Germany but I don't know how traditional they are there. They look like that:
You get them as a byproduct of making lard. In my childhood 20 years ago making those was a very social activity, neighbors and relatives came around and people cut pork fat into cubes. We had some weird makeshift oven for the outside which would fit a big caldron, you'd have to coat the caldron with a bit of lard so nothing burns, add a bit of milk and then throw in the pork fat and stir for hours until the grammeln get nice and brown and the liquid lard comes out of them. Then strain the grammeln, pour the liquid lard in those emaille lard pots (Schmalztiegel) and press the grammeln with a potato press so the residual lard comes out
It's so weird but this whole activity is one of my first childhood memories
Actually we call them Grammel in Bavaria, too! But I could not make the conjunction to a traditional Hungarian food :D so I asked my wife (which is Hungarian) what does Grammel mean and she didn't know that word - that was confusing me 😅😅
Edit: ah sorry I realized you are from Austria! Sorry bro I shouldn't be here stoned lol
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u/AcceptableDeviation Serbian Guest 9h ago
Oh yeah…
Pogačice sa čvarcima i leba, masti i aleve paprike
Greetings from Vojvodina
Though we don’t use onion just bread, lars, salt and paprika