Pink pepper day is organized in Röszke

In the Southern Great Plains, the Franciscan monks were certainly the first to plant paprika in this region, first as an ornamental plant, and later for medicinal purposes. Paprika brandy was used externally to treat insect bites, and when consumed, it was excellent for curing “three-day colds” and malaria.

Peppers, which arrived from across the sea via the Balkans, began to be grown in larger areas in the Carpathian basin in the second half of the 18th century, and appeared on farms around Szeged at the beginning of the 19th century, and later became one of the defining cultural crops of the region.