The Jocular Pugilists
The Jocular Pugilists
The Jocular Pugilists
Budapest: Puszi, Pálinka & the World’s Most Suspicious Salad
41 minutes Posted Jun 25, 2026 at 4:00 am.
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The Jocular Pugilists take an international field trip to Budapest, where the water comes in shot glasses and the showers require an instruction manual. Fresh off a work trip to the Hungarian capital, the crew gets into Budapest’s Buda-versus-Pest personality split, Danube views, towering history, weirdly efficient yellow-cab Ubers, and the terrifying math of paying 5,000 forints for a salad. There is also a crash course in Pálinka—the 50% alcohol “finish it or we’re enemies” drink—and a Hung...