No politics, just blood and brandy at Hungarian butchers' festival

Members of team FIDESZ make sausages during a traditional pig slaughter festival and butchering competition in Kistarcsa, Hungary, February 5, 2022. Picture taken February 5, 2022. REUTERS/Marton Monus

KISTARCSA, Hungary (Reuters) - Almost a dozen pig slaughtering teams competed at a butchery festival south of Budapest on Saturday, putting aside politics before a national election on April 3 and toasting with homemade "palinka", a strong fruit brandy.

The 11 teams participating in the contest in the small town of Kistarcsa brought their pigs early in the morning. After the animals were killed, their blood let and their skin burnt off, the butchers split the carcasses and chopped them up.