Matevž

Matevž (puréed beans with cracklings) is a Slovene national dish.

The dish is typical of central Slovenia, especially of the Kočevje region.

Originally, the lower social classes ate it as a main course.

Gottschee German muož 'mush'),[1] belokranjski mož 'White Carniola mush', or medved (literally, 'bear').

[citation needed] Matej or Matevž word origins to many other dialectical expressions: to have matevža means to have a hangover.[2][relevant?]