Hungarian drinks

[Dennis R. Preston]

Why would the decent Hungarian word (surely pretty internationally known)
"Bikaver" not be used in an Eger coffee-house, substituting the German
Stierblut?

dInIs

>   Greetings again from Eger, Hungary.  By the way, Hungarian is not a
>Slavic language.
>   I once again have a strange keyboard in a dark place, so I must be brief.
>
>COFFEE DRINKS
>   The following coffee drinks were available here in one coffehouse:
>GERMAN COFFEE--long coffee.
>MEXICAN COFFEE--chocolate powder, coffee.
>COFFEE ARCADIA--coffee, whipped cream, honey, cinnamon.
>COFFEE BEDUIN--coke, coffee, ice (can't read my scribble).
>COCTAIL COFFEE--port, rum, coffee, cream, chocolate.
>COFFEE CASANOVA--egg-liqueur, coffee, whipped cream, chocolate cream.
>COFFEE CARMEN--amaretto liqueur, coffee, whipped cream, chocolate,
>"HOLY TIMES" COFFEE--2.5 dl milk, coffee, whipped cream.
>BLACK RUSSIAN--vodka, coffee.
>COFFEE SECRET--Bailey's, coffee, whipped cream.
>COFFEE APHRODITE--Metaxa, coffee, whipped cream.
>COFFEE TRALANUS--white chocolate liqueur, coffee, whipped cream.
>
>COCKTAILS (from a place called Alabardos):
>ALABARDOS COCKTAIL--whiskey, triple sec, cit. salt.
>STIERBLUT COCKTAIL--stierblut, triple sec, sekt.
>MARTINI COCKTAIL--gin, martini.
>JUMURDZSAK COCKTAIL--rum, orangensaft.
>CURACAO COCKTAIL--curacao, vodka, juice.
>
>COCKTAILS (another place):
>BRONX COCTAIL
>MANHATTAN COCTAIL
>MELINDA COCTAIL--Campari, triple sec, juice.
>ALEXANDER COCTAIL
>AL CAPONE COCTAIL--whisky, martini, triple sec (They love Chicago here--ed.)
>PACIFIC--Malibu, curacao, citronje.
>SMURAGD--gin, curacao, naroncsle.
>BLOODY MARY
>MARQUERITA
>
>MISC.
>   The son of St. Stephan (the founder of Hungary) was St, Emeric.  More
>about the possible connections of "Emeric" and "America" much later.
>    My guide said that he uses the phrase "up to your ears" in trouble.  I
>saw the old film YANKEE DOODLE DANDY on tv last night.  I heard "He needs
>me as much as he needs a hole in the head" and "You'll have to go to
>Timbuktu" and "We stuck our necks out and we got clipped."
>    There is a "Bachelor Catching Soup" here.
>    Off to wine tasting in the Valley of the Beautiful Women.


Dennis R. Preston
Department of Linguistics and Languages
Michigan State University
East Lansing MI 48824-1027 USA
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