Grocery shopping in Budapest, Hungary.
On this episode, we went to one of the most popular supermarket in Hungary, SPAR.
Check how Hunagrian grocery stores look like, and what grocery prices are like in EU’s poorest country.

Are grocery prices cheap in Hungary?
Is Hungary expensive?
What are some unique things found in Hungarian supermarket?
What is the cost of living in Hungary?
Is it cheap to travel Hungary?
Cost of living in Budapest.
Check out our full supermarket tour in Hungary!

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 – Cheapest country in the E.U.?
00:25 – Fruit and veg prices
1:32 – Meat prices
2:42 – Common Hungarian names?
3:38 – Cheese & SAUSAGE!
5:21 – Alcohol prices
7:55 – Is Hungary Eastern European?
8:59 – Hungarian chocolate & potato chips
10:33 – Unique Hungarian items: tiny pasta & crunchy stuff
11:47 – It’s a MAYONNSAISE CONUNTRY
13:10 – Cost of living in Hungary is affordable
14:17 – BONUS: Ketchup Cheetos

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  1. tja, dank der Abzocker aus Deutschland müssen die Ungarn oft mehr für Lebensmittel bezahlen als die Deutschen, Österreicher oder Italiener, bei nur halbem Lohn., Das ist das wahre Ziel der EU: die großen Westunternehmen fressen die kleinen Ostunternehmen und können dann die Preise frei bestimmen, da sie keine Konkurrenz mehr haben. Deshalb braucht es die ständige Osterweiterung. Die Leute auf dem Balkan werden sich noch umgucken….

  2. Prices are ridiculously expensive for Hungarian salaries..Insane actually. .Maybe the prices are similar to other EU cities but the average salary about 1/3 less in Hungary..

  3. LoL, quality of life is high and prices are not too crazy…Well…if you make 3000-4000€ monthly…sure, that's true, but since most people make between 800-1600€, with apartment rents ranging usually between 400-1200€…yeah, the quality of life is pretty low at Budapest/Hungary currently. I mean, sure…in Vienna or Prague or similar cities the groceries might cost 10-20% more and the rent might be 30-40% more, but people's salaries are double what people make in Budapest (and probably more like 2,5x of what people make in the countryside of Hungary).
    So Budapest is not a very pricey city for Western Europeans or Americans, or even for neighboring countries, but it's pretty expensive for locals 😀

  4. Basically the golden rule is this: IF you have a cozy western european remote job, with Euro salary, and you live in any big hungarian city… congrats you won the jackpot. You will live cheap.
    IF you are your average overworked, underpaid hungarian with no doctoral or lawyer or NER income, pretty much you screwed…

  5. GST is 27% in Hungary, median wage is like 1000 EUR a month , go figure how much fun it is to live for Hungarians .
    The government is super corrupt and politicians embezzle most of the tax money..

  6. Igyál Coca- colát. 😂Ti agyatok addig terjed. 😅 Én Tokaji Aszút iszom. 😊 A borok királya😂 Néz utána, azt majd rájőssz, hogy szart iszol és szart esztek amerikában😂

  7. 2:21 I know what you mean. Even here in Malaysia, the supermarket practiced similar thing. Sometimes I just gave up and didn't buy the item instead of wasting time look for the price. And some of the price labels are tiny. Missed the old days where they stick the price tag on the item individually.

    4:31 Talking about Mint ice cream, I don't understand how most Americans claimed that it taste link toothpaste.
    I guess in America the mint ice cream do taste like toothpaste, but here it taste minty, not even closed to toothpaste, and I've ate toothpaste a lot when I was a kid.😅

  8. The reason Susan and I can spend a month in Budapest every year is the cost of lodging ($50 to $60 per day) the price of quality, fresh produce, the price of decent wine (and beer)Free public transportation for us (over 65), concerts every sat AM at Liszt house ($6) and fine art museum ($6)

  9. Hungary has one of the highest Inflationrates in the EU, eventhrough the Euro wasn't implemented yet; and we don't know when the Euro will be implemented! I woulden't be Surprized if Hungary implements the Euro even later then Poland, Czechia and Romania!

  10. Pro tip….. meat, vegetables and fresh items you do not buy in a supermarket….. you buy toiletpaper and these kind of items there….. and Spar is western European… so all their stuff is originally priced/taxed in euro’s…. And there’s an inflation going on because of “free” money printing by the ECB….. and these companies want to make profits….. So stay away from them.

  11. Dude, I can tell you are from Canada, because you obviously don't know what is the "tiny little pasta" for. It is for soups you never even heard of Canadians being not a great cooks LOL. ANd why it is tiny because it is made of 8 eggs and not from the fake wheat semolina you sell as pasta .

  12. Try this! Shop at Hungarian grocery stores and supermarkets..Not Ger,man; English, French ones! Wait There are no Hungarian grocery/supermarkets at all, Hungary is a western multinational colony!

  13. Yeah. And in relation to our salaries, these prices are absolutely disgusting, and they just keep rising. We pay often 2-3 times more (but the 30-50 percent increase is the bare minimum) than before the Ukrain-Russia war. So kindly fuck this crap.

  14. Thing is prices might be a bit lower than prices in vienna. But wages are much lower. Like half 😀 So yeah prices are crazy high compared to average wages.

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