Halloween has not traditionally been celebrated in Hungary, though with the increasingly growing Western influence of the West, the celebration is slowly beginning to trickle into the country. A few stores carry jack-o-lantern decorations and witches, and Tesco has large carving pumpkins for sale.
We purchased a couple small bags of candy, just in case we had a few rouge Trick-or-Treaters. In addition, we found it necessary to buy a pumpkin, carve it and place it on the porch! Six pm rolled around and we thought for sure that we were not going to get any trick-or-treaters. Then, the door bell rang! We opened the door to find 3 boys, around 10, on their bicycles beginning to ride away. When they heard the door open they stopped. We all just starred at each other. The boys, who were not wearing costumes, said to us, “Halloween.” We said, “Yes, Halloween.” They responded, “Cukor,” which means sugar. I popped back into the house and grabbed 3 small Snickers and handed each boy a candy bar. They thanked me, in Hungarian, and took off. Those 3 brave boys were our only candy seekers for the entire Halloween evening.
We settled in for the night and enjoyed a big steak dinner with baked potato, garlic bread, veggies and paprika salad. Our marathon of scary movies continued and we eventually called it a night.
What a Halloween LOL!
