Immigrants found it difficult to change their eating habits, and in some places even the custom of pig killing survived through the 1970s. Food culture is an outstanding aspect of nurturing cultural roots.

Amerikai Magyar Népszava 1938. 06. 13. p. 4 — ‘The bread oven can still be seen behind the back of the house many places even now. They are rarely used now as bakers are in fashion.’ Amerikai Magyar Népszava 1938. 06. 24. p. 4 ‘At the dinner table in the “burdosh” houses, they have ordinary meat soup and the cooked meat with pasta, and although it is not customary to talk at the table, this ancient Hungarian virtue is temporarily cancelled to say a word or two when the post has brought a letter to one of them from their old homeland.’