And n our forests lives: packs of wolves, 60% of european bears, lots of foxes, wild cats, European buffalos,lots of wild boars, wild 🐐, some coyotes on the south part, even some wild horses on Danube Delta...plus lots of wild birds and small wild animals... definitely Vipers and Scorpios on Southern hills...✌️💌✨
I'll tell you what Palinka is. It is natural fruit alcohol. It has a strength of 30 to 70 degrees. It is a spirit drink that helps with digestion in some cases when you are sick
I live in Romania. The eggs, meats and vegetables I eat, my parents breed and grow in the the country, on land that my family has owned since at least the late 1800s. And yes we do have fast food and supermarkets. But there is no comparison.
@@Staicu96Diferente culturale. SI eu m-am plimbat. Insa nu cred ca sunt mai mari, noi diferim, ingredientele si obiceiurile noastre difera. Doar suntem Romani!
Thank you very much for the video Mr. Giant, with a gigantic heart. Your reactions are natural and you have all my appreciation. With love from Romania 💙💛❤
It is a fermented fruits distilled alcoholic drink, most popular is made from plums, apples, pears, quince, grape pulp leftover after wine making, apricots ... Also very popular are liquors made of sour cherry,blueberry or raspberry
@@RobBln92 actualy real palinca can go to about 68%. had one tiny bottle. no more than half of my thumb as measure could I drink it at once. and is better to do it as shots.
I live in România 🇷🇴❤ ! Everything presented in the film is natural products! It is worth visiting Romania and trying traditional culinary products! Congratulations on the film and comments!
You have to notice that we don't need always knifes. The meet always comes of the bones very easy. And the freshness of the food. We don't use conservant, preservatives
Honestly if you want to know Romania, you need to eat around your trip !!! Every 3:33 Sliced/ toasted bread , covered with fresh spring or red onions and dripped with lard usually melted at a camp fire . 5:28 -home made sheep salamy with nuts inside 7:14 -zacusca is a spread made with diferent roasted vegetables (egplant , diferent varieties of peppers , onions ,wild mushrooms etc) 7:40- jumari -equivalent of pork crackling 8:09- ardei copt = roasted sweet pepper In Romania all roasts are made on camp /wood fire ,so the flavour of smoke is used to elevate the food to another level ❤❤❤ 9:50 - Romania has loads of varieties of cheese ..good cheese ❤❤❤ 10:45 - sticking the money on the singer's forehead is a way to tell everyone that the singer was remunerated 11:15 -Romania does produce very good wine (to bad no good marketing is made for it) 11:25- most likely is mutton ,but they got muddled in translation (no gravy made , is just sauce as it boiled on small camp fire for many hours 😋😋) 12:18 -mountain herb is usually wild thyme ❤❤❤ 14:07 -pork neck (as is rich in fat , so stakes do not dry while on bbq) .Mangalica is the variety of swine that has very high fat procentage but has very little colesterol .
Meat is a big part of Romanian cuisine. A lot of our favourite foods can be described as hearty and/or heavy. Probably due to cold winters. But we do have a couple of lighter options. A favorite of mine is an aubergine spread (we call it "salata de vinete " - aubergine salad). Zacusca (he had some, on bread) is a spread made with aubergine and other veggies like tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, mushrooms. Zacusca is made by cooking (btw, all Balkans do it in a form or another) and that makes it good for storing it for the winter. Polenta mixed with cheese and sour cream is another favorite, often served as a main meal. But polenta is used a lot as a side (or instead of bread), as well. And Palinca - the drink they had at the start - is a double distilled alcohol, traditionally from plums, but more recently from other fruits as well. A good Palinca should have over 105proof (it can get to over 160, but that's for professionals :P). A pig roast isn't something we see every day, but some traditional restaurants might do it from time to time - and at some festivals we might also have that. PS: I'd say it's a big difference between our favourite traditional foods and actual traditional cuisine. Meat wouldn't be as plentiful for a day to day meal - what is shown here would be a very rich feast in medieval times - and even today, it's a bit over the top.
I live in Romania 🇷🇴 ❤ The Dacian farm " Ferma Dacilor"is not far from where I live. it is at a distance of 50 km. all the food you see we eat almost every day, everything is natural. 😊I recommend you to come to Romania 🇷🇴
One day I will take you to Romania. My partner also lives in the Staten and she also really wants to see Romania. I live in Germany but my family comes from Romania and Hungary. I look forward to your videos and your enthusiasm about Europe. .thank you and keep it up 🥰👋👋👋
Unfortunately, Dacilor Farm is currently closed indefinitely after the fire of 26.12.2023, when the whole farm burned to the ground. The owner lost one of his children in the fire and 7 other persons died, too. Reason: operation of Ferma Dacilor guesthouse without authorization.
Where I live in Romania , we are used to prepare these roasted pig feast usually at Christmas. The family is gathering from the city , or from more many places , into a village , and get to roast and cook lot of things , talk , have fun and bringing some old memories. Cause of course only where its lot of people , could be eaten such a big size of mangalica pig. Or when a motel in a village has enough customers , to attend to roast an entire pig , usually in weekends. I take part to this maybe some 30 times , and for a roasted pig must be envolved at least 20 people.
About 65% of Romania's habitats are in good conservation status (the EU average is around 15%). The country is almost evenly split between mountainous areas, hills and plains. Because of this we have quite an array of species of plants and animals: largest brown bear population in Europe, quite a few wolves, the European wild cat and the Eurasian lynx, a bunch of snakes (including 4 or 5 species of viper), jackals, foxes. We also have swans, geese, otters, deer, and some cool insects. When it comes to European fauna, we pretty much a bit of everything. When it comes to food it depends on the family and location. Outside of major cities people do eat like this, and growing up I've personally been to quite a few pig roasts. We do have US imports like McDonald's, KFC, or Domino's, but we also have more traditional fast/street food restaurants. It depends on which region you go to, but as a visitor you can find most of these in any traditional restaurant.
Thank you for sharing. You said snakes, vipers. I never think of snakes when I think of Romania. I always think of large animals. Not a fan of snakes, we don't have much of those onmy island. I would rather checkout the traditional food, I don't eat fast food here at all. Hope you have a great week. One love.
Yes but for snakes venom we got fast emergency red helicopters name smurd services who come and save you even when you are in mountains, also we got ro alert service where you get message emergency about wild bears dangerous on your zone or earthquake, war alert , hailstorm, tornado and other dangers
@@MrGiant Just an addon for the animals we have as it was missing in the extensive list mihnea provided, it went extinct in europe and now some countries are reintroducing it in reservations at first and then gradually letting them free, mostly in eastern europe, Romania and Poland among the ones i know of, we have bison, and personally am pretty excited because bison are keystone species, ecosystem engineers, they help creating habitats for other species and are an overall positive on biodiversity and ecology :D Much love from Romania have a great rest of the weekend and week
Subway, KFC, McDonalds and others are pretty wide spread in Romania. Also, what you're seeing here in terms of cooking skill is quite elaborate and also pretty specific to the region and in a certain context. You aren't going to see this show in every restaurant for sure. But fortunately we can still procure great quality products like vegetables, meat, all sort of milk products and in fact we're slowly turning back to what food used to be in Romania no more than 20-30 years ago, aka top notch quality BIO food. All this due to an increasing number of small entrepreneurs (usually a family or a group of families) entering this business.
I love seeing your reactions 😅😊 And yours such an observant person and smart, you pretty much answer most of your questions right here in the videos 😂❤❤ much love from a Romanian living in Canada 🙌🙌
You sound extremely wholesome. Just stumbled across your video. Can't watch it right now, as it's very late, but definitely saving for later. Subscribed.
This video it is make for promotion. And yes you will find this thing in Romania mostly in country side. About pigs... for romanian it is like for fisherman fish! Almost evry house in countryside have one or more pigs. It is the same with wines: everybody have little vinyard and wines. It is not joke: pigs, wines, palinca, țuica will be find in evry house in Romania. It is one tradition in Romania: you have new born child - some romanian - will keep for when wedding childs wines, palinca, tuica produced in the same year when children was born. It is wild...
This proves that we are all a little alike allover the world. We too have pigs and chickens in our years back on the island. No vinyards though, but we do make homemade wine from tropical fruit. Thank you for sharing. Have a great week.
We butcher a pig every year around Christmas time at my grandparents' house in the country side 50 km from Bucharest... in our village when you come in December you can hear pigs squealing and festive meals every day. I'm 40 years old and I don't think there's been a year without having a pig, we also have a big ram for Easter for "pastrama" all year round, it is a dry/salted meat and goes so nice on the grill. Between these, my family also raises 50 chickens and 10 turkeys per year for eggs and meat. We don't have a cow, we get the milk from a neighbor who has 5 cows and we pay him with grass, we let him graze the cows in my grandfather's plum orchard. He and my father makes "tuica" from plums and sells it to the villagers...they makes several thousand liters a year. Although I live in the city, I visit the farm weekly on the weekend and leave with a trunk full of good food . When I retire, I will leave my children in the city and move to the country and I will continue the tradition of eating like a king , butchering pigs and making tuica 👍
Pálinca is a drink that is made at home and not in factories. It is prepared from Bistrițene plums and at the same time as it is being prepared, the strength of this drink can be controlled. Many years ago two types were prepared. the stronger one in alcohol was left to disinfect wounds and the other was for daily consumption during the winter
Meat is a big part of the romanian cousin. Many households grow their own animals aspecialy pigs witch are eaten in the winter. Also the fat plays a big role being a caloriecdens food for working hard labour's or for the cold winter.
Palinca or palinka is a 60 degrees alcoholic beverage derived from garden fruits like plumbs, pears, cherries, apricots, quince and so on; its milder version, tuica or rachie or rakja is the 40 degrees version... both are very flavourful and go well with traditional home/restaurant cooked meals
In Romania if you want to eat very well, with the good old taste, you need to go the country side. In the autumn or winter you can have a very nice food experience.
"Palinca" is a double distilated drink , with an abv betwen 50-60 . "tuica" is only one time distilated and has lower abv 40-50 , but of course that depends from area to area. What you saw was a bottle put on tree, before the fruit starts to grow, so it grows in the bottle, and after that the bottle is filled with palinca, and aged so it can extract the fruit flavour.
Depends on the person, but I think the majority of the people cook at home, home made food. We still have markets buying food from the country sideand growing food in the garden.
Meat is a big thing, mostly in the mountains (people needed to preserve meat, so usually it's smoked meat) for the people going out with their sheeps. I thinkthat is the main reason why today meat is a big part of the food. But we do have tons of veggies and we do eat them. People here love cucumbers, mushrooms, bell peppers, herbs, carots, pumpkins, tomatoes, garlic, onnions and so on, people have gardens, also beans are also part of the foods we love. Fruits are good too. I think generally we do eat a variety of products. We also make milk products, cow and goat mainly and at seaside we do consume more fish and so on. We also pickle a lot :)
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Palinka (in Hungarian and Romanian) = Rakija (Serbian), it's an alcoholic beverage, usually home made from fruits. It can be Quince palinka, apricot palinka, plum palika and so on. It's a great national drink, try some if you get a chance. Cheers.
Yeah Romania eats a lot of meat. We have a tradition where we slaughter our own animals that we grew and we cook them in our own style home. Basically we were all butcher's without being a butcher. It was common knowledge for everyone to know how to cook their own meat and what dishes to do out of meat. We eat meat we love meat and is a culture revolving around meat but dont let that fool you. We eat lots of vegetables with the meat too.
Very nice video, I’m Romanian moved in the UK and i really miss the real taste of the food back home, but trust me once you taste any of those dishes you’ve seen in the video you’ll get totally addicted . The flavour is unique
1st time commenter here: palinca is some sort of romanian moonshine, made from fermented fruits (pears/plums) usualy, twice or three times distiled. As i was in the military on the part of Romania where they do and drink palinca, i was not acustomed with it (we drink "tuica" or "rachiu" in my region - wich is something similar) and i heard stories that the wood cutters used palinca as a mean to survive the harsh winters in the forests aswell as medicine, and i can can say that is true. My fellow soldiers gave me palinca first thing in the morning, and i had a better apetite, a better blood flow, and generaly a better day :) It is alcoholic, for sure, but i think palinca is the best way to get wasted in a natural way, without hangovers of getting sick. It preserves the flavour of the fruit its made from, opposite to "tuica" or "rachiu" wich are almost pure alcohol. Palinca is soft, is like a delicate massage of your throat and surely, i miss it a lot, even after 25 years. You can buy palinca in the supermarket nowadays but is not the same thing as a home made palinca.
@@MrGiant i am pretty sure that there are at least a couple of romanians in your region crazy enough to send it your way :) BTW, thanks a lot for reacting to romanian stuff, i enjoy your videos very much!
42:00 we do eat like that from time to time. Urban area folks usually go to restaurants or cook at home (not the pig thingy lol) but sarmale is a must. They are not filled with grease or fat, it's a mixture of meats and rice.
Every think you see vegetable, meat , salamy etc is made in home, and grown in the back yard in the village you will find a pig in every home, and a garden with vegetables etc. Every think made in home and grown in your yard❤ also the cheese is made in home. I made cheese in home is not very hard, you just have to let the milk to turn sour then put " cheag" put that in a fabric with litlle litlle wholes so the " zer " to flow ,and let it hang untill there is no " zer" left, after that you put salt and let that cheese in salted water to stay. My translation in english is not grate but our grandmothers made cheese in home almost every day if you have cows in your yard. My grandma was up every morning on 04 in the morning to tende to the cows ,take milk ,feed them etc. It' s hard work but every think is fresh and healthy❤
Romania is a massive meat lover country, usually every family has a pig over Christmas and most of the winter time, during time you need to grow the chickens but around Eastern we switch to lamb, by the time summer is around chickens are ready to be eaten and during Autumn is mostly eating the vegetables collected around that time.
There are dozens of places like that where you can take a vacantion from the city and enjoy, there are ...shops with traditional and natural meat - cheese - salami anything,or you go to the source to the country-side to purchase all natural - or most of the people from city have their parents - relatives on the country-side and be able to do that ;;; we do have fastfood like McDonald's KFC Burger King, must most of them are full of spoiled kids :)))
That kind of food can be found by tourists in the so-called "traditional restaurants" if you are planning to be visiting Romania's big cities. People living in rural areas of the country, like villages and such, mostly rely and live off of the land and small-scale livestock farming. Everything that you saw in the video is indeed considered Romanian traditional food but all of that abundance showed in regards to the meat consumption is traditionally being spread throughout the passing of one year. Sacrificing a pig is mainly done before Christmas and the consumption of the obtained meat is usually spread by regular families on a period of 6 to 12 months and using different ways of conserving the meat. Other than that, yes, Romanians are definitely big meat lovers and I would say that pig meat is definitely Romanians meat of choice but also chicken, lamb, sheep, beef, fish(mainly on the course of the Danube river and in the Danube Delta region but not only limited to these regions) also deer, wild boar and such wild game meat. Romanian cuisine isn't tho limited to meat exclusively. It also has delicious vegetable soups, fresh made bread, sweet bread, all kind of spreads made out of all sort of veggies, pickles, deserts, you name it, they probably have it and above that you can still get them traditionaly made with fresh and natural ingredients. Other than that, people living in the cities are influenced more and more each day by the "western way" of living, meaning that they are tempted to go the easy and fast way(fast/junk/unhealthy food) all made just for, you already guessed, profit. I'm not 100% against the modern way of living but I strongly disagree with the way the government interfere and discourages simple people and small businesses to live a prosperous, simple life while also respecting their own traditions. Visit Romania until you still have a real chance of trying all of that great variety of food awaiting and also meet the great and loving Romanian people.
You can find it if you go to traditional restaurant food is excellent and homemade bread, local alcoholic drinks. I must admit I love Jamaican cuisine so much your cuisine is very delicious.
normally in Romania, giving alms to the pig is a Christmas tradition, if you come to any region in Romania during Christmas to any restaurant, house, etc. you will find these preparations and many others just as delicious. aa and palinca is a spirit drink normally between 40-70 degrees (it can even reach 80) with different flavors because it is made from a very large variety of fruits, combined or individual (plums, strawberries, cherries, apples, grapes etc.) related to meat, we like vegetables, fish, fruits and believe me we love to make delicious combinations that will leave anyone's mouth watering, what Mark shows in the video shows the traditions of the winter month (December) but spring, summer and in autumn we love salads, greens and fruits.
We have the pork culture and everything is soooo gooooooooooood .Especially during Christmas we have a ton of pork specialities ,dishes and sausages .But during all year we have almost all of them. Each region of the country have their own specifics ,in some parts they also make more dishes with lamb or rabbit ,but we also have different other influences ,over all our food is very good and natural and yea kinda we are a grill and meat nation :) . Ah and we also love our cheese and spirits.
Suntem mari mincatori de carne ,dar cunoaștem și abstinenta .Avem posturile religioase inaintea sărbătorilor mari de peste an cind nu consumam timp de 40 de zile carne oua lapte smîntînă iar din ce in ce mai rar miercurea si vinerea .Totul este facut cu scopul de a curăță spiritul si corpul de a învăța abstinenta fara efort
palinca is like moonshine is a spirit drink ,what you saw in the video is pear palinca,we hang the glass bottle in the pear tree where the pear tree flowers are and the fruit grows inside the bottle during the season and then we make palinca from the remaning fruit and fill the glass bottle with the fruit inside with pear palinca . you can find pear palinca with the fruit inside the bottle in NEW YORK ,there is a romanian restaurant there that serves romanian cuisine and drinks and they have palinca on the meniu also you can find sarmale,ciorba de burta,mici,ardei umpluti,papanasi on the meniu.
It was a very small period when we all bought mostly from the supermarket, but we also had bio from country or market produce. A few years the market was "not in fashion" until it created us many children with autism, and now I can say that the market is in “fashion again” (We also starting to stop even spraying fruit and vegetables) so that is a 100% BIO 😊
arround 65 /70 procent we eat natural food direct from garden. we have fast food also end KFs mc donald subway end everything . afcours we weat theare to. but we have allot of rustic restaurants whith romanian food end we prefear to eat theare!
Palinca, yes.. In mountain area, they drink it before or after a nice meal. It has 60 to 70 procents alcohol and it is made from fruits such as plums and pears..
So this is happening right around Christmas and in Romania we have this tradition of slaughtering nd cooking a pig or more right before Christmas, most of the meat gets usually in the freezer but we still make sausages, smoked meats, barbeque, sarmale, piftie (a form of pork jelly that is served usually with horseradish paste or mustartd), etc. This dude came right smack in the afternoon after the pigs were butchered.
there are some excellent traditional places in Bucharest and around Bucharest to eat or to buy and prepare at home like ~ 30km away or so but i highly recommend that particular place and Transylvania ''farm, ranches'' if you're looking for a truly sublime experience. We have good traditional sweets too but not with a high % of cocoa tho. might be too sweet for your taste. yes, we do eat meat with meat with another meat and some other meat too and threw in there some vegetables, 'cheese', cheese.
Mici ( small ones), cabage rolls( sarmale) , ciorbă( sour soup) etc we have very tasty food with a lot of comdiments and we like to make food in our home ❤. You will find very few or non houses with ppl ( more women) not to know how to cook ..there is a funny saying in my country :" a women has to know how to make sour soup & scandal with what she got on her home" translation . O nevastă bună trebuie să știe să facă ciorbă și scandal cu ce are la îndemână în casă" 😂😂😂😂❤
We lucky we still have restaurants like this in Romania and they are many, also we lucky that in most supermarkets we still find authentic Romanian ingredients, meats and cheese. We indeed eat a lot of meat as in Romania winters are very cold and need calories to be healthy.
We also catch and cook our own fish . Definition of fishing. And yes meat is a big part of our food but also loads of home grown vegetables most of them are seasonal, fruits also seasonal mostly. I mean yea you can get oranges and pineapples stuff that doesn't grow there from supermarkets but the seasonal stuf is organic full of flavour and 100 percent natural i like to think that in our culture we like to still be in touch with nature and our ancestors ways of doing things. Love your reaction . I got hungry to lol😂
We got all kind of restaurants where you can eat everything you want, if you want food from eny place from Romania you can ask the Chef to prepare what you want on good restaurants, If you know USA is a free country where you can find any food is wrong...come to Romania :D
Palinca is between 52-60 percent alcoholic degrees, and it's a DOUBLE distilled drink from fermented fruits. At 40-43 alcoholic degrees we call it "rachiu" (same alcoholic degrees like other distilled drimks like vodca, whisky, cognac, gin, rum etc) and in some Romanian regions you can find "tzuica", which is same distilled drink, but, generally, at 23-25 alcoholic degrees.
i am proud romanian ! I can tell u that in the country side usually they have no choice to eat bad food because they grow theyr own food, but also in the city if u want to eat healthy u can buy from the local market and butcher shop, but the young ppls prefer more of the fast foods. Wat u see in this video is a special ocasion, but u can eat like this in any traditional restaurant, but on a smaller scale. Love yr reaction!
38:00 you have to take in account that only the nobility/royalty could afford to eat meat in medieval Romania, back then if you had a pig you sold it so you could buy grains or seeds so you can farm yourself a veggie garden :D Nowadays of course in big cities most of the younger generation use fast food, deliveries, supermarket microwaving. Usually as we advance in age we start to become more* conscious of what we eat and start looking for proper butchers, go to the farmer markets for our veggies and fruit, or you can order online from farms similar or same quality meats as in the video, i for example got some cuts of the same pig they were talking about in about 48 hours.
The drink is called palinca, it is very strong, and the taste depends on the fruits from which it is made. Anyway, it is by far the best sophisticated and versatile drink and it doesn't cost a lot either.
Romanian sheep chese it's not like the chese you know,but it worth the try also the foods you'll find in every region of romania is "tochitura de porc"(cooked pork mostly in his lard),polenta with chese and sourcream,ciorba de burta (a sour soup made with sourcream ,garlic,vinegar,and cow stomach,and the meat from cow,or pig legs)sarmale,chese pie,pastrama de oaie,drob,zacusca,salata de vinete(eggplant salad),also traditionally and culturally we don't eat all these foods all year,some we eat in the winter,some in autumn,some in spring In the summer time we eat a lot of tomatoes with chese or tomato salads because we have delicious tomatoes
now, here in Romania a lot has changed (the West...), but when I was a child, many of our parents had a small place where we raised a pig for Christmas, I'm 44 years old and I'm about the last generation that knows what it was like to be in the city and raise and sacrifice your own pig at Christmas. for me it was something normal that at the age of 4/5 years old, i would help my sister to cut a duck. at that time I considered it food and not a pet. and by the way, no one tells to the camera, but when I was a child, it was normal for people to cut the Christmas pig in front of the block, (everyone burned the hair on the pig = crispy and tasty skin) as we were children, we couldn't wait to receive a little of crispy pork skin (not fried, just slightly burnt, but it's wonderful)
it`s combined. Yes, we do eat a lot of meat, pork, chicken, beef, mostly pork and chicken but we eat also loooots of soups, rich in veggies, carrots, potatoes, onions, peppers, beans, salads of all sorts. This is a restaurant like a...steak house, with medieval recipes, very very old recipes as well, from ancient times. All the products, the ingredients are locally grown, 100%natural, form the meat, veggies, spices, all of it. As a diet, we are more balanced than what you see here, as I said, this is like a stakehouse, therefore you see all the meats:))). Come to Romania and you will have soups too:)))
Hey Mr. Giant, to answer to your questions: 1. We don't eat only meat, we eat also a lot of veggies, don't be mislead of what you see in the video, our diet is very balanced. 2. Yes, as much we can we eat healthy, but also our supermarkets sale a lot of processed food - but they are forced by the law to sale 50% of the veggies or meat from local production if it's available. 3. You can eat that type of food in a lot of places, but some specialties are available only on some limited areas of the country, you can't make a fire in the middle of a large city just to cook by yourself, but you can partially mimic what you see minus the smoke who offer a special flavor to the meat. 4. Our cusine is very rich, complex and also veeeery tasty (yummmmi). 5. We buy a lot of veggies and meat from local markets and we prepare our food at home most of the time. 6. We have a lot of fast foods here also (junk food as McDonalds, KFC, etc.) but personally I think I eat that $h1t more than 3-4 years ago, I don't like that crap... You are welcomed to come and visit us, for sure you won't regret it, you can also eat a lot of fish here, in the Danube Delta are a lot of specific dishes who are based on fish ;)
Thank you for sharing. I always take these videos with a grean of salt, like my mother always says. I think if I want to get the real experience I will have to visit.
Pretty much everything at that farm is either made from the farm's own local all natural fed livestock and gardens. even the bread is baked with local wheat and ingredients..
In Transilvania we do pàlinca from plumbs at 70 degrees and he keeps 3 to 5 years when it is around 60 degrees is ready to drink,and you have to try to have a opinion….😂…. All veggies and fruits in Ro have unique taste like a legend.
I live in the city (Sibiu), and 95% of the stuff we eat we buy in a local produce market. Meat, vegetables, bread, everything. Other than coffee and sugar, I don't buy much from the supermarket. What they show in that video is not daily stuff, it is for large gatherings, special occasions like Christmas, or restaurants. What we eat every day is more down to earth, but not that far off. We still make sarmale, have a pork-based barbeque, make stews, eat zacusca, just not at that scale. If you scale down your expectations, you will find most of the stuff they have shown at any decent traditional restaurant.
In Romania, meat, milk, cheese, bread and wine are not just food, but a lifestyle. In Romania we don't say "I like meat", we say "the best vegetable is pork"
Ok let me give you a bit of a background on what bbq means or it meant back in the day. Bbq were mainly held for important events, like weddings, christenings, local community events etc. Normaly will involve procuring some meat(sacrificing a pig , calf ,chicken), being sourced from the local community the onus was on no waste, therefore ppl wold create dishes from every cut so it taste good and is enough for everyone..also side dishes were present and to be honest the ratio is abou 4 to 1 side dishes to meat quantity Forgot to mention that we use a lot of "palinca" , similar to moonshine, but made out of frunts not grain( some ppl do make it from ray corn etc), now palinca require a health portion of food maily because it's used as appetiser drink and literal can create a black hole in your stomach
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Mangalita is a sub species of domestic pig❤
Palinca= Moonshine 60_80°...you can literally use it instead of gas...🙃😎✌️‼️
And n our forests lives: packs of wolves, 60% of european bears, lots of foxes, wild cats, European buffalos,lots of wild boars, wild 🐐, some coyotes on the south part, even some wild horses on Danube Delta...plus lots of wild birds and small wild animals... definitely Vipers and Scorpios on Southern hills...✌️💌✨
I'll tell you what Palinka is. It is natural fruit alcohol. It has a strength of 30 to 70 degrees. It is a spirit drink that helps with digestion in some cases when you are sick
Alcohol but very strong like 40-60 degree Celsius depend how you make is home made
I live in Romania. The eggs, meats and vegetables I eat, my parents breed and grow in the the country, on land that my family has owned since at least the late 1800s. And yes we do have fast food and supermarkets. But there is no comparison.
ca si roman plimbat prin strainatate obisnuit cu shaorma de la socului ale noaster sunt mai MARII in cantitate + daca cer cu DETOATE ei nu inteleg
@@Staicu96Diferente culturale. SI eu m-am plimbat. Insa nu cred ca sunt mai mari, noi diferim, ingredientele si obiceiurile noastre difera. Doar suntem Romani!
Childhood salami. Perfect description of taste Mr. Giant..
It is really well done. All Natural!
Thank you very much for the video Mr. Giant, with a gigantic heart. Your reactions are natural and you have all my appreciation. With love from Romania 💙💛❤
So nice of you! Hope you have a grat week. Take care.
Frate, brother, Mark eat 4k $ in one meal!
It is a fermented fruits distilled alcoholic drink, most popular is made from plums, apples, pears, quince, grape pulp leftover after wine making, apricots
... Also very popular are liquors made of sour cherry,blueberry or raspberry
Oh wow, fruity, being from the tropics I like fruity drinks.
@@MrGiant 40%+ alcohool in it
@@RobBln92 actualy real palinca can go to about 68%. had one tiny bottle. no more than half of my thumb as measure could I drink it at once. and is better to do it as shots.
Palinka is spirit made from fruits and contains a lot of time 50% alc and more.
The whole area loves that kind spirit not just Romania.
@@MrGiantit has around 52-60 degeees alc but as i have been told 53 degeees alc is the best.
I live in România 🇷🇴❤ !
Everything presented in the film is natural products!
It is worth visiting Romania and trying traditional culinary products!
Congratulations on the film and comments!
You have to notice that we don't need always knifes. The meet always comes of the bones very easy. And the freshness of the food. We don't use conservant, preservatives
Honestly if you want to know Romania, you need to eat around your trip !!! Every
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Sliced/ toasted bread , covered with fresh spring or red onions and dripped with lard usually melted at a camp fire .
5:28 -home made sheep salamy with nuts inside
7:14 -zacusca is a spread made with diferent roasted vegetables (egplant , diferent varieties of peppers , onions ,wild mushrooms etc)
7:40- jumari -equivalent of pork crackling
8:09- ardei copt = roasted sweet pepper
In Romania all roasts are made on camp /wood fire ,so the flavour of smoke is used to elevate the food to another level ❤❤❤
9:50 - Romania has loads of varieties of cheese ..good cheese ❤❤❤
10:45 - sticking the money on the singer's forehead is a way to tell everyone that the singer was remunerated
11:15 -Romania does produce very good wine (to bad no good marketing is made for it)
11:25- most likely is mutton ,but they got muddled in translation (no gravy made , is just sauce as it boiled on small camp fire for many hours 😋😋)
12:18 -mountain herb is usually wild thyme ❤❤❤
14:07 -pork neck (as is rich in fat , so stakes do not dry while on bbq) .Mangalica is the variety of swine that has very high fat procentage but has very little colesterol .
Thank you for sharing. Have a great day.
Hey Mr. Giant, this was fun to watch! Everyone is getting hungry watching this stuff!😄 Greetings from Romania
Meat is a big part of Romanian cuisine. A lot of our favourite foods can be described as hearty and/or heavy. Probably due to cold winters. But we do have a couple of lighter options. A favorite of mine is an aubergine spread (we call it "salata de vinete " - aubergine salad). Zacusca (he had some, on bread) is a spread made with aubergine and other veggies like tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, mushrooms. Zacusca is made by cooking (btw, all Balkans do it in a form or another) and that makes it good for storing it for the winter. Polenta mixed with cheese and sour cream is another favorite, often served as a main meal. But polenta is used a lot as a side (or instead of bread), as well. And Palinca - the drink they had at the start - is a double distilled alcohol, traditionally from plums, but more recently from other fruits as well. A good Palinca should have over 105proof (it can get to over 160, but that's for professionals :P). A pig roast isn't something we see every day, but some traditional restaurants might do it from time to time - and at some festivals we might also have that.
PS: I'd say it's a big difference between our favourite traditional foods and actual traditional cuisine. Meat wouldn't be as plentiful for a day to day meal - what is shown here would be a very rich feast in medieval times - and even today, it's a bit over the top.
Thank you for sharing.
i think this comment explain like 99% of our food and tradition cousine.
I live in Romania 🇷🇴 ❤
The Dacian farm " Ferma Dacilor"is not far from where I live. it is at a distance of 50 km.
all the food you see we eat almost every day, everything is natural.
😊I recommend you to come to Romania 🇷🇴
One day I will take you to Romania. My partner also lives in the Staten and she also really wants to see Romania. I live in Germany but my family comes from Romania and Hungary. I look forward to your videos and your enthusiasm about Europe. .thank you and keep it up 🥰👋👋👋
I like learning about your country. Its on my bucket list of places to visit.
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Unfortunately, Dacilor Farm is currently closed indefinitely after the fire of 26.12.2023, when the whole farm burned to the ground. The owner lost one of his children in the fire and 7 other persons died, too. Reason: operation of Ferma Dacilor guesthouse without authorization.
Where I live in Romania , we are used to prepare these roasted pig feast usually at Christmas. The family is gathering from the city , or from more many places , into a village , and get to roast and cook lot of things , talk , have fun and bringing some old memories. Cause of course only where its lot of people , could be eaten such a big size of mangalica pig. Or when a motel in a village has enough customers , to attend to roast an entire pig , usually in weekends. I take part to this maybe some 30 times , and for a roasted pig must be envolved at least 20 people.
About 65% of Romania's habitats are in good conservation status (the EU average is around 15%). The country is almost evenly split between mountainous areas, hills and plains.
Because of this we have quite an array of species of plants and animals: largest brown bear population in Europe, quite a few wolves, the European wild cat and the Eurasian lynx, a bunch of snakes (including 4 or 5 species of viper), jackals, foxes. We also have swans, geese, otters, deer, and some cool insects. When it comes to European fauna, we pretty much a bit of everything.
When it comes to food it depends on the family and location. Outside of major cities people do eat like this, and growing up I've personally been to quite a few pig roasts.
We do have US imports like McDonald's, KFC, or Domino's, but we also have more traditional fast/street food restaurants.
It depends on which region you go to, but as a visitor you can find most of these in any traditional restaurant.
Thank you for sharing. You said snakes, vipers. I never think of snakes when I think of Romania. I always think of large animals. Not a fan of snakes, we don't have much of those onmy island. I would rather checkout the traditional food, I don't eat fast food here at all. Hope you have a great week. One love.
@@MrGiant do not worry about snakes. The only venomous snake is Horn Viper and is a small one :)
Yes but for snakes venom we got fast emergency red helicopters name smurd services who come and save you even when you are in mountains, also we got ro alert service where you get message emergency about wild bears dangerous on your zone or earthquake, war alert , hailstorm, tornado and other dangers
@@MrGiant Just an addon for the animals we have as it was missing in the extensive list mihnea provided, it went extinct in europe and now some countries are reintroducing it in reservations at first and then gradually letting them free, mostly in eastern europe, Romania and Poland among the ones i know of, we have bison, and personally am pretty excited because bison are keystone species, ecosystem engineers, they help creating habitats for other species and are an overall positive on biodiversity and ecology :D Much love from Romania have a great rest of the weekend and week
Subway, KFC, McDonalds and others are pretty wide spread in Romania. Also, what you're seeing here in terms of cooking skill is quite elaborate and also pretty specific to the region and in a certain context. You aren't going to see this show in every restaurant for sure. But fortunately we can still procure great quality products like vegetables, meat, all sort of milk products and in fact we're slowly turning back to what food used to be in Romania no more than 20-30 years ago, aka top notch quality BIO food. All this due to an increasing number of small entrepreneurs (usually a family or a group of families) entering this business.
Thank you for sharing this. Hope you are having a great weekend.
Here in Romania it is said "the best vegetable is the pig"
I love seeing your reactions 😅😊
And yours such an observant person and smart, you pretty much answer most of your questions right here in the videos 😂❤❤ much love from a Romanian living in Canada 🙌🙌
Thank you so much 😁
You sound extremely wholesome. Just stumbled across your video. Can't watch it right now, as it's very late, but definitely saving for later.
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This video it is make for promotion. And yes you will find this thing in Romania mostly in country side.
About pigs... for romanian it is like for fisherman fish! Almost evry house in countryside have one or more pigs. It is the same with wines: everybody have little vinyard and wines. It is not joke: pigs, wines, palinca, țuica will be find in evry house in Romania.
It is one tradition in Romania: you have new born child - some romanian - will keep for when wedding childs wines, palinca, tuica produced in the same year when children was born. It is wild...
This proves that we are all a little alike allover the world. We too have pigs and chickens in our years back on the island. No vinyards though, but we do make homemade wine from tropical fruit. Thank you for sharing. Have a great week.
We butcher a pig every year around Christmas time at my grandparents' house in the country side 50 km from Bucharest... in our village when you come in December you can hear pigs squealing and festive meals every day. I'm 40 years old and I don't think there's been a year without having a pig, we also have a big ram for Easter for "pastrama" all year round, it is a dry/salted meat and goes so nice on the grill. Between these, my family also raises 50 chickens and 10 turkeys per year for eggs and meat. We don't have a cow, we get the milk from a neighbor who has 5 cows and we pay him with grass, we let him graze the cows in my grandfather's plum orchard. He and my father makes "tuica" from plums and sells it to the villagers...they makes several thousand liters a year. Although I live in the city, I visit the farm weekly on the weekend and leave with a trunk full of good food . When I retire, I will leave my children in the city and move to the country and I will continue the tradition of eating like a king , butchering pigs and making tuica 👍
Man thats a lot of food for sure.
Pálinca is a drink that is made at home and not in factories. It is prepared from Bistrițene plums and at the same time as it is being prepared, the strength of this drink can be controlled. Many years ago two types were prepared. the stronger one in alcohol was left to disinfect wounds and the other was for daily consumption during the winter
Ohhhh yes ! We have a saying " the best vegetablle is pig meat"😂😂
Meat is a big part of the romanian cousin. Many households grow their own animals aspecialy pigs witch are eaten in the winter. Also the fat plays a big role being a caloriecdens food for working hard labour's or for the cold winter.
pork and beef are our favorite vegetables :))
Palinca or palinka is a 60 degrees alcoholic beverage derived from garden fruits like plumbs, pears, cherries, apricots, quince and so on; its milder version, tuica or rachie or rakja is the 40 degrees version... both are very flavourful and go well with traditional home/restaurant cooked meals
Thank you for sharing.
Tuica can go up 86 procent alchool
In Romania if you want to eat very well, with the good old taste, you need to go the country side. In the autumn or winter you can have a very nice food experience.
Thanks for the tips!
"Palinca" is a double distilated drink , with an abv betwen 50-60 . "tuica" is only one time distilated and has lower abv 40-50 , but of course that depends from area to area. What you saw was a bottle put on tree, before the fruit starts to grow, so it grows in the bottle, and after that the bottle is filled with palinca, and aged so it can extract the fruit flavour.
Palinca.Yes it a fermented plum stimed until the vapours become this Holly water 💧 😂😂😂😂
Depends on the person, but I think the majority of the people cook at home, home made food. We still have markets buying food from the country sideand growing food in the garden.
Depends one where the persons familly members are
Mangalita is a typ of pig theat contains omega 3 like fish ''pigsalmon''
Meat is a big thing, mostly in the mountains (people needed to preserve meat, so usually it's smoked meat) for the people going out with their sheeps. I thinkthat is the main reason why today meat is a big part of the food. But we do have tons of veggies and we do eat them. People here love cucumbers, mushrooms, bell peppers, herbs, carots, pumpkins, tomatoes, garlic, onnions and so on, people have gardens, also beans are also part of the foods we love. Fruits are good too. I think generally we do eat a variety of products. We also make milk products, cow and goat mainly and at seaside we do consume more fish and so on. We also pickle a lot :)
Thanks for sharing. It sounds a lot like the island I am from.
I love ❤ your reactions to Romanian contents........ You are the best advertising for my country 💕
Palinka (in Hungarian and Romanian) = Rakija (Serbian), it's an alcoholic beverage, usually home made from fruits. It can be Quince palinka, apricot palinka, plum palika and so on. It's a great national drink, try some if you get a chance. Cheers.
Palinca isnt romania national drink
Yeah Romania eats a lot of meat. We have a tradition where we slaughter our own animals that we grew and we cook them in our own style home. Basically we were all butcher's without being a butcher. It was common knowledge for everyone to know how to cook their own meat and what dishes to do out of meat. We eat meat we love meat and is a culture revolving around meat but dont let that fool you. We eat lots of vegetables with the meat too.
Pălinca (Pælinka) is an alcoholic drink , quite a strong one but we in România also call is "Holly Water" 😁🤙
Wild life : brown bears gray wolf, carpathian minx, some areas are habitats for vipers, fox, deers bison
Very nice video, I’m Romanian moved in the UK and i really miss the real taste of the food back home, but trust me once you taste any of those dishes you’ve seen in the video you’ll get totally addicted . The flavour is unique
I can't wait. Thak you for shring.
Man, come to Romania to taste the best food in the world. All food in Romania are tasty
1st time commenter here: palinca is some sort of romanian moonshine, made from fermented fruits (pears/plums) usualy, twice or three times distiled. As i was in the military on the part of Romania where they do and drink palinca, i was not acustomed with it (we drink "tuica" or "rachiu" in my region - wich is something similar) and i heard stories that the wood cutters used palinca as a mean to survive the harsh winters in the forests aswell as medicine, and i can can say that is true. My fellow soldiers gave me palinca first thing in the morning, and i had a better apetite, a better blood flow, and generaly a better day :) It is alcoholic, for sure, but i think palinca is the best way to get wasted in a natural way, without hangovers of getting sick. It preserves the flavour of the fruit its made from, opposite to "tuica" or "rachiu" wich are almost pure alcohol. Palinca is soft, is like a delicate massage of your throat and surely, i miss it a lot, even after 25 years. You can buy palinca in the supermarket nowadays but is not the same thing as a home made palinca.
Man that sounds delicious. I must try it sometime. Homemade that is.
@@MrGiant i am pretty sure that there are at least a couple of romanians in your region crazy enough to send it your way :) BTW, thanks a lot for reacting to romanian stuff, i enjoy your videos very much!
@@TheNeamtu I will have to look into that. I met one Romanian here a couple of years ago. She is gone now.
42:00 we do eat like that from time to time. Urban area folks usually go to restaurants or cook at home (not the pig thingy lol) but sarmale is a must. They are not filled with grease or fat, it's a mixture of meats and rice.
When its cold outside and you eat some pork cracklings with good bread, cheese, raw onion and a shot of palinca...
Every think you see vegetable, meat , salamy etc is made in home, and grown in the back yard in the village you will find a pig in every home, and a garden with vegetables etc. Every think made in home and grown in your yard❤ also the cheese is made in home. I made cheese in home is not very hard, you just have to let the milk to turn sour then put " cheag" put that in a fabric with litlle litlle wholes so the " zer " to flow ,and let it hang untill there is no " zer" left, after that you put salt and let that cheese in salted water to stay. My translation in english is not grate but our grandmothers made cheese in home almost every day if you have cows in your yard. My grandma was up every morning on 04 in the morning to tende to the cows ,take milk ,feed them etc. It' s hard work but every think is fresh and healthy❤
Best way to eat, fresh. It is hard to find that here in the US and I live in the country here.
Romania is a massive meat lover country, usually every family has a pig over Christmas and most of the winter time, during time you need to grow the chickens but around Eastern we switch to lamb, by the time summer is around chickens are ready to be eaten and during Autumn is mostly eating the vegetables collected around that time.
thank you for sharing. Have a great day.
Evry 2 day i make a barbecue with sheep meat and pork ..and yes we love eat meat medieval stile
We have a saying here in Romania: "pig is the best vegetable" 😁
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Bro, got nothing against fish, but when you get -30 Celsius, with skin tearing winds, fish won't help you much!
I from romania and didnt know this place until now. I like pork a lot and all looks so delicious Thank you for showing us this place
Our pleasure!
Sending a big hug to you from România. Have a great day ❤
Thank you and you do the same.
There are dozens of places like that where you can take a vacantion from the city and enjoy, there are ...shops with traditional and natural meat - cheese - salami anything,or you go to the source to the country-side to purchase all natural - or most of the people from city have their parents - relatives on the country-side and be able to do that ;;; we do have fastfood like McDonald's KFC Burger King, must most of them are full of spoiled kids :)))
Thank you for sharing.
That kind of food can be found by tourists in the so-called "traditional restaurants" if you are planning to be visiting Romania's big cities. People living in rural areas of the country, like villages and such, mostly rely and live off of the land and small-scale livestock farming. Everything that you saw in the video is indeed considered Romanian traditional food but all of that abundance showed in regards to the meat consumption is traditionally being spread throughout the passing of one year. Sacrificing a pig is mainly done before Christmas and the consumption of the obtained meat is usually spread by regular families on a period of 6 to 12 months and using different ways of conserving the meat. Other than that, yes, Romanians are definitely big meat lovers and I would say that pig meat is definitely Romanians meat of choice but also chicken, lamb, sheep, beef, fish(mainly on the course of the Danube river and in the Danube Delta region but not only limited to these regions) also deer, wild boar and such wild game meat. Romanian cuisine isn't tho limited to meat exclusively. It also has delicious vegetable soups, fresh made bread, sweet bread, all kind of spreads made out of all sort of veggies, pickles, deserts, you name it, they probably have it and above that you can still get them traditionaly made with fresh and natural ingredients. Other than that, people living in the cities are influenced more and more each day by the "western way" of living, meaning that they are tempted to go the easy and fast way(fast/junk/unhealthy food) all made just for, you already guessed, profit. I'm not 100% against the modern way of living but I strongly disagree with the way the government interfere and discourages simple people and small businesses to live a prosperous, simple life while also respecting their own traditions. Visit Romania until you still have a real chance of trying all of that great variety of food awaiting and also meet the great and loving Romanian people.
Thank you for sharing.
as a romanian i can tell you that those "toasts", they have to eat it after they had some palinka, it helps so you dont get wasted
You can find it if you go to traditional restaurant food is excellent and homemade bread, local alcoholic drinks. I must admit I love Jamaican cuisine so much your cuisine is very delicious.
Sounds great!
That oven you were talking about and making bread we still have it, best bread named baked on vatra.❤
I can remember the taste of that bread too.
I can say this: Mr. Giant is suffering watching this video. You can see how he drools. 😁😁🤪🤪
😂So true.
normally in Romania, giving alms to the pig is a Christmas tradition, if you come to any region in Romania during Christmas to any restaurant, house, etc. you will find these preparations and many others just as delicious. aa and palinca is a spirit drink normally between 40-70 degrees (it can even reach 80) with different flavors because it is made from a very large variety of fruits, combined or individual (plums, strawberries, cherries, apples, grapes etc.) related to meat, we like vegetables, fish, fruits and believe me we love to make delicious combinations that will leave anyone's mouth watering, what Mark shows in the video shows the traditions of the winter month (December) but spring, summer and in autumn we love salads, greens and fruits.
Thank you for sharing.
Great video 🥰
Thank you! 🤗
We have the pork culture and everything is soooo gooooooooooood .Especially during Christmas we have a ton of pork specialities ,dishes and sausages .But during all year we have almost all of them. Each region of the country have their own specifics ,in some parts they also make more dishes with lamb or rabbit ,but we also have different other influences ,over all our food is very good and natural and yea kinda we are a grill and meat nation :) . Ah and we also love our cheese and spirits.
I plan to watch a video aboput chirstmas in Rominia. Want to see how different it is from the island where I grew up.
Thank you for the video sir! You're awesome, keep up the good work.
Thanks, will do!
Pălincă, romanian pear moonshine, that's made like brandy ! Lovely !
Suntem mari mincatori de carne ,dar cunoaștem și abstinenta .Avem posturile religioase inaintea sărbătorilor mari de peste an cind nu consumam timp de 40 de zile carne oua lapte smîntînă iar din ce in ce mai rar miercurea si vinerea .Totul este facut cu scopul de a curăță spiritul si corpul de a învăța abstinenta fara efort
palinca is like moonshine is a spirit drink ,what you saw in the video is pear palinca,we hang the glass bottle in the pear tree where the pear tree flowers are and the fruit grows inside the bottle during the season and then we make palinca from the remaning fruit and fill the glass bottle with the fruit inside with pear palinca . you can find pear palinca with the fruit inside the bottle in NEW YORK ,there is a romanian restaurant there that serves romanian cuisine and drinks and they have palinca on the meniu also you can find sarmale,ciorba de burta,mici,ardei umpluti,papanasi on the meniu.
In easter festival the rabbit bring the eggs but....we eat them tho :)
It was a very small period when we all bought mostly from the supermarket, but we also had bio from country or market produce. A few years the market was "not in fashion" until it created us many children with autism, and now I can say that the market is in “fashion again” (We also starting to stop even spraying fruit and vegetables) so that is a 100% BIO 😊
arround 65 /70 procent we eat natural food direct from garden. we have fast food also end KFs mc donald subway end everything . afcours we weat theare to. but we have allot of rustic restaurants whith romanian food end we prefear to eat theare!
Its like the island I was born. Not a whole of of fast food, mainly local food.
Palinca, yes..
In mountain area, they drink it before or after a nice meal.
It has 60 to 70 procents alcohol and it is made from fruits such as plums and pears..
restaurant is called "Ferma Dacilor" 1h30min from Bucharest between Buzau and Ploiesti city.
Thank you.
Yes, this accurate ! Everyone here in Romania is a Master Chef :))
So this is happening right around Christmas and in Romania we have this tradition of slaughtering nd cooking a pig or more right before Christmas, most of the meat gets usually in the freezer but we still make sausages, smoked meats, barbeque, sarmale, piftie (a form of pork jelly that is served usually with horseradish paste or mustartd), etc. This dude came right smack in the afternoon after the pigs were butchered.
Palinca is like moonshine made of fruits. Good as appetizer.
there are some excellent traditional places in Bucharest and around Bucharest to eat or to buy and prepare at home like ~ 30km away or so but i highly recommend that particular place and Transylvania ''farm, ranches'' if you're looking for a truly sublime experience. We have good traditional sweets too but not with a high % of cocoa tho. might be too sweet for your taste.
yes, we do eat meat with meat with another meat and some other meat too and threw in there some vegetables, 'cheese', cheese.
sigur ai fi foarte fericit sa vizitezi România acum sunt zboruri ieftine nu o sa iti para rau😁
Mici ( small ones), cabage rolls( sarmale) , ciorbă( sour soup) etc we have very tasty food with a lot of comdiments and we like to make food in our home ❤. You will find very few or non houses with ppl ( more women) not to know how to cook ..there is a funny saying in my country :" a women has to know how to make sour soup & scandal with what she got on her home" translation . O nevastă bună trebuie să știe să facă ciorbă și scandal cu ce are la îndemână în casă" 😂😂😂😂❤
Thanks for sharing!!
we are very vegan ,thats vegan food all that animals eat the best grass in the world before we eat them 😊😊😊😊
We lucky we still have restaurants like this in Romania and they are many, also we lucky that in most supermarkets we still find authentic Romanian ingredients, meats and cheese. We indeed eat a lot of meat as in Romania winters are very cold and need calories to be healthy.
We also catch and cook our own fish . Definition of fishing. And yes meat is a big part of our food but also loads of home grown vegetables most of them are seasonal, fruits also seasonal mostly. I mean yea you can get oranges and pineapples stuff that doesn't grow there from supermarkets but the seasonal stuf is organic full of flavour and 100 percent natural i like to think that in our culture we like to still be in touch with nature and our ancestors ways of doing things. Love your reaction . I got hungry to lol😂
Hello .Im from Romania .yes is o strong drink is neim Tuica or palinca is from fruct from prune or pere
We have vipers in some areas. Bears, wolf, wild cats, roars, deers, and other animals.
We got all kind of restaurants where you can eat everything you want, if you want food from eny place from Romania you can ask the Chef to prepare what you want on good restaurants, If you know USA is a free country where you can find any food is wrong...come to Romania :D
Yes! "Palica" it's like vodka, but a little bit harsher than vodka and more tasty. It's made of plums.
Palinca is between 52-60 percent alcoholic degrees, and it's a DOUBLE distilled drink from fermented fruits. At 40-43 alcoholic degrees we call it "rachiu" (same alcoholic degrees like other distilled drimks like vodca, whisky, cognac, gin, rum etc) and in some Romanian regions you can find "tzuica", which is same distilled drink, but, generally, at 23-25 alcoholic degrees.
i am proud romanian ! I can tell u that in the country side usually they have no choice to eat bad food because they grow theyr own food, but also in the city if u want to eat healthy u can buy from the local market and butcher shop, but the young ppls prefer more of the fast foods. Wat u see in this video is a special ocasion, but u can eat like this in any traditional restaurant, but on a smaller scale. Love yr reaction!
Thank you for sharing.
38:00 you have to take in account that only the nobility/royalty could afford to eat meat in medieval Romania, back then if you had a pig you sold it so you could buy grains or seeds so you can farm yourself a veggie garden :D Nowadays of course in big cities most of the younger generation use fast food, deliveries, supermarket microwaving. Usually as we advance in age we start to become more* conscious of what we eat and start looking for proper butchers, go to the farmer markets for our veggies and fruit, or you can order online from farms similar or same quality meats as in the video, i for example got some cuts of the same pig they were talking about in about 48 hours.
Mr. Giant what you do, you killed me with this I'm on diet man and I can't stop watching I'm so hungry now😢😢😢
The drink is called palinca, it is very strong, and the taste depends on the fruits from which it is made. Anyway, it is by far the best sophisticated and versatile drink and it doesn't cost a lot either.
Thanks for the info! Sounds like a must try.
@@MrGiant Right. Better than Bourbon. I must say, i like beer.But, sometimes ... one shot ...
Romanian sheep chese it's not like the chese you know,but it worth the try also the foods you'll find in every region of romania is "tochitura de porc"(cooked pork mostly in his lard),polenta with chese and sourcream,ciorba de burta (a sour soup made with sourcream ,garlic,vinegar,and cow stomach,and the meat from cow,or pig legs)sarmale,chese pie,pastrama de oaie,drob,zacusca,salata de vinete(eggplant salad),also traditionally and culturally we don't eat all these foods all year,some we eat in the winter,some in autumn,some in spring
In the summer time we eat a lot of tomatoes with chese or tomato salads because we have delicious tomatoes
Coming în România and you see mr GIANT😮😮😮
Best description of palinca: if you can drink it, you can drink practically everything on this planet. Is like an appetiser for heavy fat food. Enjoy
now, here in Romania a lot has changed (the West...), but when I was a child, many of our parents had a small place where we raised a pig for Christmas, I'm 44 years old and I'm about the last generation that knows what it was like to be in the city and raise and sacrifice your own pig at Christmas.
for me it was something normal that at the age of 4/5 years old, i would help my sister to cut a duck. at that time I considered it food and not a pet.
and by the way, no one tells to the camera, but when I was a child, it was normal for people to cut the Christmas pig in front of the block, (everyone burned the hair on the pig = crispy and tasty skin) as we were children, we couldn't wait to receive a little of crispy pork skin (not fried, just slightly burnt, but it's wonderful)
That is interesting. I know some people eat the skin of the pigs they butchers when I was a kid on the island. it was crispy too.
it`s combined. Yes, we do eat a lot of meat, pork, chicken, beef, mostly pork and chicken but we eat also loooots of soups, rich in veggies, carrots, potatoes, onions, peppers, beans, salads of all sorts. This is a restaurant like a...steak house, with medieval recipes, very very old recipes as well, from ancient times. All the products, the ingredients are locally grown, 100%natural, form the meat, veggies, spices, all of it. As a diet, we are more balanced than what you see here, as I said, this is like a stakehouse, therefore you see all the meats:))). Come to Romania and you will have soups too:)))
we have a big Viper in the mountins :D Linx related wild cat we call it (RAS) , Brown bear, wild pigs we have a lot of wild life!@
Hey Mr. Giant, to answer to your questions:
1. We don't eat only meat, we eat also a lot of veggies, don't be mislead of what you see in the video, our diet is very balanced.
2. Yes, as much we can we eat healthy, but also our supermarkets sale a lot of processed food - but they are forced by the law to sale 50% of the veggies or meat from local production if it's available.
3. You can eat that type of food in a lot of places, but some specialties are available only on some limited areas of the country, you can't make a fire in the middle of a large city just to cook by yourself, but you can partially mimic what you see minus the smoke who offer a special flavor to the meat.
4. Our cusine is very rich, complex and also veeeery tasty (yummmmi).
5. We buy a lot of veggies and meat from local markets and we prepare our food at home most of the time.
6. We have a lot of fast foods here also (junk food as McDonalds, KFC, etc.) but personally I think I eat that $h1t more than 3-4 years ago, I don't like that crap...
You are welcomed to come and visit us, for sure you won't regret it, you can also eat a lot of fish here, in the Danube Delta are a lot of specific dishes who are based on fish ;)
Thank you for sharing. I always take these videos with a grean of salt, like my mother always says. I think if I want to get the real experience I will have to visit.
in Romania the best vegetable is pork
Palinka is a fire drink, twice distilleted, from 50 to 60 degrees. 😂😂🎉 Cristian
YESSS. the meat is big part of oure coulture. every meal has meat. and we love all kind of meat.
Pretty much everything at that farm is either made from the farm's own local all natural fed livestock and gardens. even the bread is baked with local wheat and ingredients..
In Transilvania we do pàlinca from plumbs at 70 degrees and he keeps 3 to 5 years when it is around 60 degrees is ready to drink,and you have to try to have a opinion….😂…. All veggies and fruits in Ro have unique taste like a legend.
Sounds good.
I live in the city (Sibiu), and 95% of the stuff we eat we buy in a local produce market. Meat, vegetables, bread, everything. Other than coffee and sugar, I don't buy much from the supermarket. What they show in that video is not daily stuff, it is for large gatherings, special occasions like Christmas, or restaurants. What we eat every day is more down to earth, but not that far off. We still make sarmale, have a pork-based barbeque, make stews, eat zacusca, just not at that scale. If you scale down your expectations, you will find most of the stuff they have shown at any decent traditional restaurant.
In Romania, meat, milk, cheese, bread and wine are not just food, but a lifestyle. In Romania we don't say "I like meat", we say "the best vegetable is pork"
Ok let me give you a bit of a background on what bbq means or it meant back in the day.
Bbq were mainly held for important events, like weddings, christenings, local community events etc.
Normaly will involve procuring some meat(sacrificing a pig , calf ,chicken), being sourced from the local community the onus was on no waste, therefore ppl wold create dishes from every cut so it taste good and is enough for everyone..also side dishes were present and to be honest the ratio is abou 4 to 1 side dishes to meat quantity
Forgot to mention that we use a lot of "palinca" , similar to moonshine, but made out of frunts not grain( some ppl do make it from ray corn etc), now palinca require a health portion of food maily because it's used as appetiser drink and literal can create a black hole in your stomach