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- What kind of food is that?
- It's Hungarian. I learned it from my mother. She used to work as a cook in a Hungarian restaurant.

8 seconds sound clip from the The Fortune Cookie (1966) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:01:36 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Don't you think those flowers would look better over there?

- What time is the plane due?

- 3:40, United Airlines.

- Coming in on a wing and a prayer. Love, Sandy.

- I sure hope she likes my dinner.

- What are we having?

- Chicken.

- Fried chicken?

- No. Chicken paprika with red cabbage, and for dessert, apricot dumplings.

- What kind of food is that?

- It's Hungarian. I learned it from my mother. She used to work as a cook in a Hungarian restaurant.

- You want me to fix up the other bed?

- I really don't know. I mean, how long she's gonna stay or what her plans are.

- Go ahead. Make it up.

- Why not? What have we got to lose?

- You ever been married?

- No, but I'm engaged to a girl in Detroit. And a girl in Baltimore, and one in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and two in San Francisco.

- Hold it. When you say engaged, you mean, you give each of them a ring?

- Sure. The minute the team hits town.

- Funny thing about marriage. It's like being in the army. Everybody knocks it, but you'd be surprised how many guys reenlist.

[...]

The Fortune Cookie (1966) Sound Clip

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Actors: Jack Lemmon (Harry Hinkle), Walter Matthau (Whiplash Willie Gingrich), Ron Rich (Boom Boom Jackson), Judi West (Sandy Hinkle)

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