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the soup so beloved Hungarians taxed it, then a king demanded it back.
shepherd originNamed for gulyas, the cattle herdsmen who cooked it
paprika poweredDefining spice arrived from the Americas via Ottoman trade
national identityBecame a symbol of Hungarian resistance to German cuisine
dried bricksHerders dehydrated it for portable trail meals
linguistic spreadGerman Gulaschkommunismus mocked Hungary's softer socialism