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A Japanese visitor is checking out the portable electronics section. "Excuse me, but what brand did you rip off to make this boombox? - Panasonic, sir. I'll have you know that we rip off nothing but the best". https://teletype.in/files/6e/e0/6ee0f8db-4d2d-4b2c-899c-3f7a5e877696.jpeg

The signs inside were in English. Which meant that meat, fish and sausages actually existed. Because, for the Soviets, there was this joke : a guy enters a butcher shop, tells a clerk behind the counter, "I'd like to buy some beef". "Sorry, we have no beef". "Then how about some pork?" "Sorry...

What strange land is this, one may ask? And the answer is Moscow. A shop (Beryezka/Ivy) that was built specifically for the various embassy workers and tourists. One needed a non-Soviet passport to get inside. And obviously foreign currency that circulated under the official exchange rate...

Soviet era (rooster) lolly-pops. Still popular. Who loves ya, baby? https://mykaleidoscope.ru/uploads/posts/2021-09/thumbs/1632770725_32-mykaleidoscope-ru-p-ledenets-petushok-na-palochke-krasivo-foto-34.jpg

Another cool shot of Lake Naroch. https://i1.wp.com/visit-belarus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/ozero_naroch_1.jpg?resize=1033%2C688

Yes, it's just about the same "denatured" concoction ... not to be confused with "samogon" (moonshine). http://vinosamogon.ru/wp-content/upl...0%BE%D0%BD.jpg Back in 1964, my parents decided to take a trip to Lake Naroch, about 60 miles from Minsk. We didn't have a ar, so instead of taking...

The solvent above was "mostly" ethanol (97%) with a bit of methanol (3%) mixed in to prevent folks from drinking it. But it was about 1/3rd the price of vodka and was frequently used to spike beer. The combined mixed drink was colloquially known as "ерш" (ruffe), a European river fish with, you...

A warning from the old days - "Solvent isn't for drinking. It's poisonous" Which hardly stopped anyone serious about drinking. https://sivator.com/uploads/posts/2018-01/1517215068_3.jpg

Valery Scchekoldin, a photograph from the city of Ulyanovsk, who worked part time for a local paper but became recognized for his work only after perestroika set in. A star in the west (Germany, France). Doisneau, eat your heart out...

For some reasons Google is scrambling the translation . Here's Deep Learning - Here is the famous sausage and sausage GOST 23670-79 from 1979 in the edition of the year 1980. In it we read, for example: "Instead of beef, pork, lamb, combined use of protein stabilizer, meat mass of beef or pork...

Another Soviet era delicacy that isn't all that popular in the US. A beef tongue. https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7vaLJOA-OJ4/TeKb47_DL-I/AAAAAAAAADs/arAMJB-nZ9A/s1600/DSC04975.JPG

The Soviets mostly stole their sweets from either the Germans or the Americans. Some were quite good. Belochka (a little squirrel) minibars. https://sweet.biz.ua/image/cache/data/115-500x500.jpg A Soviet toffee. https://gevathka.ru/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/zolotoj-kljuchik-iris.jpg...

This is modern still life shot but it contains all the accoutrements of an evening snack from the Soviet era - a tea kettle with a hanging strainer, a glass with a berry jam, a sugar cube and a korzhik. And korzhiks were totally delish.

Speaking of sugar (which is not very healthy ... except speaking about it). When I wuz a kid - and that was a while ago - my grandma drank her tea with sugar cubes. The cubes were taken out of the box by these type of metal pliers. https://cs6.pikabu.ru/images/preview...9136956081.jpg And I...

As I keep looking for the Soviet era sausages, I keep finding all these Poland based sites... whereas they should be in German. This one is in German and Russian. Jagdwurst. Genau. For the sausages one could never find in stores, these were very popular...

Once the Soviets figured out how to add chemicals into food manufacturing, they began to so. As to butter - there's a Russian expression, "кашу маслом не испортишь" (the best translation would be, "can't spoil the hot cereal by adding too much butter"). My grandma made me what is known in the...

One of my earliest memories - I am 2-3 YO - was being at my grandparents, with grandma having varenye as a tea sweetener for her evening snack during a winter. If one didn't drop half a kilo of sugar into the jar when making it, it was not a huge violation of someone's diet. Strawberry...

Or one could make povidlo from fruits. Double yum. (this is from Czechia but the same stuff as in the USSR) https://www.toprecepty.cz/fotky/recepty/0082/kynute-povidlo-pernikove-srdicka-173458-1920-1080.jpg

It could be, I s'ppose ... but I don't recall it being served hot. Obviously, it's fruits boiled in water but it was generally reserved for summers when fruits were plentiful, and during summers, it was served cold or room temperature. Now, the remaining summer fruits were turned into the...

Our Soviet apartment (more or less), a typical Soviet Khrushchev'ka, hundreds of thousands of which were built from 1958 to the late 1960's. 9865688_original.jpg (1500×1209) (livejournal.com)