Champagne, sausage, house party New Year’s Eve in Hungarian style

For Hungarians, the New Year’s Eve is champagne, sausage and house party. The sausage should be Vienna crunchy mustard; and the house party is more of a conversational gathering than a dance party, according to the Comet Everyday Survey. Men are more superstitious than women: every second man on 1 January eats pork rather than fish or poultry to take his luck.

Although three-quarters of Hungarians (72 percent) say that Christmas is about eating and New Year’s Eve is about partying, the majority prefer a solid celebration on the last day of the year, and their second thought is New Year’s Eve. If it is New Year’s Eve, nine out of ten Hungarians will first remember the champagne, seven will associate with the sausage and four with the house party on the eve of the Old Year’s farewell.