As a child, I lived 6500 km from Moscow and there was a soda machine not far from my house. Once I dropped a glass and it broke into pieces. The next day, new glass appeared in its place. Then I was not surprised - it was normal and no one stole them, even boys.
in the baltics Hesburger charges for small sauce packages because otherwise customers would abuse the privilege and steal more than a person would reasonably need. Unlike in their Finnish locations.
actually, the homemade kvas and the brewery-made kvas differ a lot. Soviet breweries used (and many of the Russian ones still use) enormous amounts of sugar and caramel, this makes the factory kvas taste more like cola drinks
they should have modernized all those old fast food restuarants to keep culture. I like the table with no chair idea for atleast sections of fastfood or bars.
@@kitehigh7507no i haven't but the creator made it sound like (or i misinterpreted) all or much of the fast food culture is gone, and if it isn't I'm happy it isn't because it would be cool to experience a totally different form of fast food...
@@TransistorLSDTime for a Slavic culinary rennisance - best of soviet, pre-soviets, and post soviet and bring it together... I have a few history food channels and while some dishes haven;t changed much many have changed drasticlly, and just as many new dishes as have been created in the last few years, we've lost just as many...
As a kid in Russia I loved the soda dispensers. Yes, we had real glass and we had to wash them. But it wasn't a big deal, everybody was doing it and there was never broken glass. I also loved the Kvas barrels and always bought 2 liter of Kvas and brought it home. I must say during the Soviet Union people were much more polite and civilized. But I was 6 years old so I didn't notice.
No one wanted to get beaten by a police officer and reported as a trouble maker. To many of those and you'd never go to a good school or get anything more than a menial job.
@@sid2112 Sadly they do. The British Empire committed multiple genocides but we count the British as civilized. Funny enough, one genocide committed by the British was against their direct neighbors, the Irish. The heralded Churchill was an extremist racist against the Irish.
US citizen here, I love these kinds of videos. It's always fascinating seeing the unique ways that other cultures handle the same concept. I always wish I could reach in, and try some of it, especially those meat pies.
@@jeffhaskins530 doubly so in that a lot of them are relatively simple by design. kvass is a bit more complicated but not terrible. and kompot is basically just boiled fruit. the hardest part of chebureki is the dough, and it's I think the simplest dough i've ever seen. and of course, boiled corn is just... boiled corn.
Yes, there were many sorts of beer in USSR... on paper. In reality, most of them required expensive components and/or processing, so most of the beer breweries sticked to "Жигулёвское" only.
@@jakekaywell5972 HENCE THE PHRASE IT WASN’T FAST ENOUGH TO STOP THOSE FAMINES. Also they had near famines all the way into the 1970s pathetically even buying grain from the U.S.
@@user-eh6jk8dl9t NAME ONE U LOW IQ TANKIE CLOWN even in the great depression THERE WASN’T A SINGLE WESTERN FAMINE Capitalism may have problems but marxism is THE PROBLEM
When I was a child I used to spend weekends in Moldova with my grandparents and I remember drinking kvas from a big yellow barrel at a market in Cahul city. I traveled recently to Moldova and tried kvas and ice-cream. The taste is very different from the original and not in a good way. The kvas tastes like Coca-Cola and the ice-cream like water with sugar. I also bought pelmeni and they don't taste as good as they used to. Also the doctor's sausage tastes like cardboard.
I'm in Australia and thet sell Doctor's Sausage in a local eastern shop. My family buys it as my mom's side is russian. Best kind of meat I've ever had except for maybe lobser and beef
@@ItzArtiom The entire point of capitalism is to increase profitability and shareholder value. I grew up in the US, a lot of food products don't taste the same as I remember them when I was a boy. That's because the formula was changed to make the stuff cheaper to produce.
@@MrSloika*predatory capitalism, usually monopolists and cartels. Small and medium sized capitalist ventures contain the highest quality possible in the world. I just cooked grass fed beef from a farm that has been operating in NC since the late 1700s. They manage their herds well, are great at breeding and always deliver a fresh product. Communism and predatory capitalism cannot give you this unless you are rich enough to go around their bullshit.
I am 16 and I live in Hungary. My great grandfather was a captain in the Hungarian people's army and helped to disperse the uprising of 56. He had 3 sons. My grandfather was born in 1955 and he was a child in the time of history when the USSR and socialist Hungary was at its peak. He still lives today and keeps telling me about the marvels of Soviet ice cream. The blue packet one. He says still to this day that it was the best ice cream he had ever eaten and nothing can compare to it. He has really good memories of his childhood and the sweets he tried. He lived in a Khrushchevka, near a Soviet military base. He befriended Soviet kids and they took them into the base. There at the canteen, he would buy the best sweets and ice creams of his life. He has good memories. Watching this channel I realised that the similarities between USSR and socialist Hungary is enormous. Even larger than I anticipated, even though I adore history. I really like what you are doing, so keep doing it. Good job.
I was born in the Transylvania (Erdély) part of Romania and moved to the US in the mid 80's with my family due to persecution as ethnic Hungarians. Romania was even more under the influence of Russia, in fact Hungary was considered the "west" by us. haha Life was pretty good till the late 70's, then it all went to sh*t under the Ceausescu regime. And yes the ice cream was great too. :)
@@BillAnt Románia pont ,hogy a legönálóbb tagja volt a Varsói Szerződésnek, nem azért volt szegénység és elnyomás mert Szovjet befolyás alatt volt, sőt épp ellenkezőleg Sztalin kötelezte Romániát egy Magyar Autonóm terület létrehozására még Gheorghiu-Dej idelyében. Később azt Ceausescu törölte el mikor már a Szovjetek nem törődtek, ezzel egyidejüleg kezdődött a magyarság elnyomása és nagyszámui románság betelepítése. De ezek egyike sem az elnyomás sem szegénység nem a Szovjet befolyás miatt volt hanem a hitvány román vezetés hülyeségei miatt.
Arriving in some Ural city as a foreign student from Egypt , I cant stress enough how bland and mono dimensional the Russian taste are in food and alcohol , Shawarma is the exact same every where , by even the same central Asian group , one big plus is the standard of hygiene and food safety is really good compated to Egypt , where the street food is so good but you eat at your own risk :D
food likings of northern people in general is not as exquisite as southern ones, but put on top of that centuries of poverty in russia and that results in not being picky in food and eating most of the time the most ordinary stuff
Your videos are always quality! You might have mentioned it before in a previous video, but where do you go to acquire all these vintage video clips? I’m a big fan of them!
funny enough I watched this video eating Russian ice-cream , 35 rubles for a top tier caramel ice-cream cone , and the milk flavored is sooooo good , you cant compare it to anything else , the taste of fresh milk and sugar surpass any other taste.
That's weird. When I lived in Russia between 2004-2006 it was virtually impossible to find hamburger buns in a hypermarket and street-vendor burgers were assiduously avoided; the only place in St Petersburg I could even find a burger was McDconald's. (I remember that well because as a huge burger fan, I was disappointed that they were uncommon; it was easier to find Mexican food than a burger. But the shawarmas, man, the shawarmas Edit: just got up to the buns, that explains it
A good shawarma is to be coveted. Best I ever had was in Brighton Beach, NYC, the Russian neighborhood. A couple of ethnic Russian pals of mine took me to this little shop and I think the old lady took a shining to me and my redneckness because she pinched my rear after she served me the shawarma!
Things have changed drastically since then. It all happened in 2010s, when countless small burger restaurants opened across the country following introduction of cheap quality beef. Companies like Miratorg introduced meat breeds of cow like american Black Angus, etc. and started growing them in the south-west of the country. Nowadays you can find a lot more varieties of fast food - there are hundreds of burger and pizza restaurants, chinese, thai and vietnamese takeaways, even jewish cafes selling bagels, shakshuka, falafel, etc. Lots of choice.
st petersburgs mcdonalds hit different, i remeber buying either a mcfish or similar, and upon biting into it about two spoonfulls of that oniony mayo landed at my feet, like it was sauced beyond reason yet it made it infinitely better
This video again makes me more interested in Nikita Khrushchev. Could you maybe make a video about him like about Gorbi? Or about what if he wasnt ousted?
I had a co worker that was from Soviet Russia. He HATED sitting down to eat. He would brag about how they always stood up to eat. We always just thought he was being a typical blow hard but i guess it really is a thing
as a freshly fan of the kvass- could you please elaborate on those 4 varieties? which one produced now (so available) are the closest to those back then? also- ice cream wasn't really that great. not only most of it were more or less direct copies of the western varieties, but also ingredients were.... well, not that great regulated. not too mention that annual production in 70's was way too low, afaik one icecream per person per two weeks
Well, basically there were: soursweet, sour, "Moskovskiy" and "okroshechniy" (made specifically for okroshka dish). These are 4 varieties that were created by 1953 GOSTs. As for which one is the closest to the original...I'm not really sure tbh, because I've never tried the original ones. And those who did claim that modern kvasses are all shit compared to the old one.
'Burek' is a very popular street food in Croatia where my family is from. In Croatia burek is made mostly with a cheese filling. BTW, I always believed burek was of Turkish origin. Crimea was, after all, once part of the Ottoman Empire.
@@MrSloika I live in Turkey and here we have every type of Börek. Different types of meats and cheese, eggplant, spinach, potato, leek are used as filling. Besides the Turkish recipes there are recipes that Bosnian, Albanian and Crimean Tatar migrants brought. And they are all tasty. Balkan part of the world may have corruption but we have the best food.
@@thekraken1173 I live in the USA. There is a large Turkish immigrant community near to where I live. Lots of Turkish restaurants. The Turks make the best lamb dishes. Yum.
I was born in a post (defense)-war Croatia. Two years after it ended. It was an odd era - I remember my childhood being something in between the last dying breaths of Yugoslavia and the novelty of the western stuff. So you can see both the new apartments with new furniture while grandmas lived in full on tablecloth-on-TV Yugoslav style homes. Your dishes were half made in Yugoslavia and half in Germany or France. Yugoslav refrigerators are indestructible and I bet they will continue to work long after humanity is wiped out lol - actually much better products that the western "planned obsolescence" stuff. Stores and bars - some would have the newer layout and decoration while the others were firmly rooted in the Yugoslavian era. I have seen and had own many toys that people from USA would call 90's era toys while those reached us years later in the 2000's. If you travel on the old road instead of the modern highway - you can still find a roadside restaurant that stood the test of time. And the funny thing is - a lot of products back then were of much higher quality and standard. Store bought Pâté (chicken or liver variety) was much more savoury and firm. Luncheon meat, the poverty snack was much more meaty, biscuit packets came in 500 gram boxes instead of now 300 gram (they had the audacity to make the 275 gram box, honestly, when you open it, it looks like someone ate your biscuits, soft drinks had less of those disgusting sweeteners and just had regular sugar, chocolates have less nuts and cocoa (I miss the old Runolist chocolate), there is less C-vitamin in our most popular drink - the mighty Cedevita! So yeah, no one is immune to the corruptive influence of capitalism and it's god forsaken greed...
What you described in early Russia is a cafeteria, pretty standard all around the world. The better version of it is now called a Cafe. They even tried coin operated ones for a while too.
This video is up to your usual high standards of setting history straight and using some humor along the way. When I was a teenager in the 1970s, I read about the Soviet vending machines with actual glasses and I thought it so bizarre. I still remember that all these years later. I was salivating like Pavlov’s dogs when you showed the pelmeni, but my brain is a little wary of kvass. Just thinking about it makes me feel bloated. I have to be more open minded.
My city had a special street devoted to French fries stands, which is called "French fries avenue". Its history started in the 90s, however its prosperity came to end, when the street was closed in order to build a new bus station, which was rather failed investment anyway.
On that note, I'd love a video about Soviet entertainment. Outside of that sweet dacha life, what did people do for fun, or on holidays? What did kids watch on TV or listen to on the radio when they got home from school? What cringe fads lasted less than a summer?
Well...not that different then on west. Cinema, some TV, journals or newspapers, good music on radio and occasional walk into park or whatever. With soviet specific ofc.
@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 But those "soviet specific" make it very different. For example western music was forbidden than (badly) copied, cartoons and movies were full of propaganda, there were only 2 programmes in TV not broadcasting all day, so everyone watched the same, etc.
@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 "not that different then on west" Yeah, no, that is straight up not true. A gross understatement. It's not even the communist propaganda being in everything, but the variety was far below the Western media.
OMG.... I tried cheburek in Poland in 1990. It were sold on roadside diners that had wheels on them. It was a more poor version without the meat, but you could get it with cabbage salad, sour cream or just salt on top. I also tried a special burger in Prague that year, were the bread were super soft, but served with a slice of ham and fine cut white cabbage instead of salad and beef. Then I tried these diners in budapest, were a hard roasted pork chop with a fried egg on top were served. It came with a good tasting sauce, potatoes and then a wheat flour knödel with a diameter of sprox 4 centimeters were served with the meat. A big diner with a view to the kitchen, that if there had not been fire in the pans from time to time, it would have given us all some serious food poisoning. Like, the kitchen was that dirty.
worked conventions 80's & 90's .. the Ex-Soviets would order EVERYTHING. they tasted every drink, App, Entree, Desserts .. tasted. not ate. tasted. friggin nightmare for wait staff, kitchen.
8:14 I bet those ponchiki are related to paczki! They are a polish donut made before lent, in Michigan with its large Polish population we always get them.
I am inclined to believe that there must have been some section of the Russian population who saw better times in the USSR that in Tsarist Russia. If you keep the period of Stalin's rule aside, maybe a lot of poor people got a decent working life in the Soviet Union. But of course, it was terrible for the entrepreneurs and intellectuals.
Russian Empire was a first world country on par with the Second Reich and France. while the USSR was a theerd world country where people had to feign xenophobia towards non-socialist countries while they dreamed as fuck of the Western way of life.
The majority of the Lenin economy til 1929 was entrepreneurs “NEP-men”. Stalin restricted the entrepreneurial economy but there were still some like the furniture guilds, which were private collectives. But, for the majority of the population the Soviets were an improvement from Tsarism.
@@matthewkopp2391 The NEP was introduced because Lenin was unable to build a planned economy during war communism but he did not want to maintain the NEP in the long term, so Stalin's actions to build a planned economy are a continuation of Lenin's policies; by the beginning of 60s, last Russians living in the Russian empire died, which meant that the Soviet regime would no longer be able to parasitize on the legacy of tsarism; after 30 years USSR fell apart.
Awesome video mate!!! This was a great topic to cover and i learned a considerable amount!! I've got an evening of reading and salivating over stories of Soviet food, I'm especially interested in their ice cream! Thank you for the quality content.
@@Marshal_Longarm are you denying that the average amount of people the USSR were responsible for killing us 120 million? You'd really hate the estimates that place it as high as 150 million. At least there's some that lessen it to a saintly 80 million lives lost... I guess?
With him, maybe. However, all the juicy food shown in the video 1) was available only at the beginning, and definitely in the big cities, or 2) homemade - if the man of the house traded with the butcher some cogs he stole from his workplace and the butcher needed, because meat was rare to come by, and 3) it might look nice, but cafeteria food was not that tasty, to say the least. Indeed, if you can supply a babushka with everything she asks for preparing lunch, then yes, you'll have a great time. You don't want to have a meal in a communist Russian cafeteria, unless it's the Party's cafeteria, I guess.
@@ShrexyGuy Every year, the number grows higher! What great fun! The highest generally accepted figure is 100 million across all so-called communist states to ever exist. Even then, its utterly farcical from "The Black Book of Communism". The authors admitted to fluffing up their figures in order to reach the 100 million figure. For instance, fatalities from traffic accidents in the USSR and deaths of Nazi soldiers during the Battle of Stalingrad are both listed as "victims of communism".
I dont think its really imported from Russia, but "russian ice cream" as a brand still exists and its sold here in Slovakia (also in Czech Republic). There are no variations, its vanilla flavored and basically a white cream between two waffle plates. Its good, i can recommend it, but dont expect anything special. The main reason for its success is simply the fact that there was nothing else available at that time in the "supermarkets" of the socialist countries, and classic ice cream was strictly seasonal and only available in the cities.
They are produced in Czech republic and there were 2 flavours - vanilla and caramel. But caramel slowly dissapered. In communist times this type of ice cream was imported from USSR (as Sovetskoe morozhenoe (Советское мороженое )), but there were always other domestic ice creams avaiable.
I have traveled a lot to Hungary in my life and about 20 years ago when I was a kid I remember how corn often was sold as street food in Budapest. Seems to completley dissapeared now though. Intersing to see that it used to be the same in the USSR
US citizen here! I find this era of fast food fascinating and I have heard many unique accounts/perspectives on the time's dining experience. I am thankful that we westerners and Eastern Euro folks could enjoy this kind of food despite the unhealthy nature of the food.
So glad my family was born in the USSR despite having a greek background (Pontic Greeks) I get to experience 2 cultures at the same time being greek and enjoying some pelmeni, kvass, vodka, "vodka" and the ice cream to name a few. Eskimos are a god damn godsend, one bite and along with the acids from the chocolate come the nice and soft milk which soothes everything. Grew up with those as well as the Plombir, those waffle cup ones. Also note, if you ever want to try pelmeni, DO NOT BUY THEM FROM A STORE, they're not worth it. Make them yourself instead, it's easy. Just make the dough, prepare the minced meat, put the meat in a small piece of dough, close it with another small piece of dough, pinch it shut and repeat! You'll find recipes online
a shame to lose the diversity of eating establishments from the soviet period, however....getting shawarma as street food over boiled corn is an unqualified victory.
It's interesting that you mention nostalgic Soviet eateries are popping up again. In the US, there is a similar phenomenon with 1950's styled restaurants known as 'Diners'. They serve hot dogs, hamburgers, and milkshakes among other classic American meals, and are decorated with neon lights, vintage signs, and retro furniture.
We have them in Poland too. They're called Bar Mleczny - milk bar and are decorated in 70's-80's style. No waiters, you have to wait in line, but they always have some real meals - cutlets, potatoes, fish, soup, not hot dogs, burgers etc. and are not expensive.
These aren't even eateries. More so lunch rooms for the enslaved mass of Soviet era "citizens". Think of it as kids at school. But for a whole society and not just minors
I'm new here, and I wondered if you do the accent on purpose or just have it naturally, because holy Fr*nchmen, it puts my former norwegian accent to shame
Fun fact: there was no "blinnaya" in the USSR (no pancake shops). So, Teremok doesn't have anything to do with the USSR... It has way more to do with the Russian Empire.
@@TransistorLSD The funnest part for me was that i liked it. Good food. The vareniki, the pelmeni, the salads. Long story short, i liked it more than the fastfood from the Yankeedanky Empire. I had the feeling that i was chewing on real food.
only those who didn't live in the USSR can miss it. so called fast food was made of shit, patties with 70% of bread instead of meat? no thanks, товарищ
В моём городе по какой-то необъяснимой причине уличным фастфудом стала котлета по-киевски... Я без понятия, как её можно быстро съесть на улице, не обляпавшись, но зато её можно купить в любом супермаркете или киоске)
In Turku (Finland),the chicken Kyiv is the favorite lunch of students. Every time a student cafeteria serves it for lunch, you know the queue will be twice as long as normal.
Some of that sounds pretty good. I really like the idea of getting a corn cob on the street. It's a little surprising that's not a thing all over America.
I am very much interested in knowing what life was like in the Soviet Union, but it disturbs me how so many people here are nostalgic for the trash and misery of that society. How did that clown show ever work? Everything about it was a nightmare.
To be fair, it took a French chef to show them how to use what they had properly. But they took it and ran with it for sure! Like my people, the Acadians. We took the same knowledge and took it to a swamp!
What are these "choices" you speak of? This is only the surface. Oh, sweet summer child unaware of communism, it's only the surface. I'll just say this: not even the juicy-looking, but in reality bland and watered-down mashed potato from the video, was available to everyone, all the time. You still had to eat what was given to you, or else.
Thanks -- now I know why that one brand of Russian kvass I can get here in the United States is "Yellow Barrel" and comes in a barrel-shaped bottle. This was such a fascinating video for me . I think I even saw some tarkhun being poured during the drink-machine scene -- another of my favorite beverages from that region! (Also very much enjoyed the GOST pun!)
I have always been fascinated with history in general, and Russia's very rich history in particular. This piece on life during the Soviet Era is excellent and I look forward to more. It left me with a better understanding of why certain things were done.
8:44 I'm pretty sure that the word "Бутерброды" comes from the german word "Butterbrot" which pretty much means the same as "Sandwich", but with the difference that it's open, rather than folded or closed
Butterbrot is from German? I always get confused when people call it Sandwich, although ive heard many germans call them that in english. A sandwich to me is something quite different, White bread, multiple toppings, sauce lettuce and 2 halves of bread one bottom one on top. Butterbrot on the other hand is dark/wholewheat/rye bread just with butter (hence the name) and a single type of topping, usually cheese or sausage.
Fast-food has made women hirsute and male like. Even in Russia. 20 years ago Russian women were very sought after because neither of them had seen a burger their entire lives!!!
All of these foods look and sound vastly more interesting/tasty than all the nasty and unhealthy American fast food that is spread around the whole world now, that is the cause of obesity and death.
Not really, it is a foundation for mass production and quality control. There are pros and cons in everything so a mixed aproach might be better. Like having standartized food supply to prevent hunger and high prices and maybe giving room for smaller vendours and local speciality.
Khrushchev's fascination with corn caused big problems in Soviet agriculture. When Khrushchev visited the USA he was impressed by the efficiency of meat production in the USA. When Khrushchev asked he was told that US livestock were fed a diet mostly of corn. When Khrushchev returned home he ordered that collective farms plant less wheat and more corn. Soviet agriculture experts warned Khrushchev that corn (maize) originated in the Americas and it would take years to develop strains of corn that would grow well in Russian soil and climatic conditions. Khrushchev ordered the expansion of corn production anyway. In 1962 the USSR had 37 million hectares planted with corn. That year the USSR corn crop failed (like the experts predicted) due to a cool and rainy spring. Unfortunately it was too late to replant the corn fields with wheat and the USSR had to import wheat to meet it's needs.
To be fair, American fastfood wasn't introduced until the dissolution of the USSR. I don't think anyone worth their salt honestly argued that fast food in general wasn't implemented until then.
7:30 Wait this is originally CRIMEAN? This is also one of the most popular fast foods here in Brazil, to this day. We call it PASTEL. I thought it was originated from Chinese Gyozas.
Szhigulevskoe was pretty good. Ex republics even kept recipe for themselves and just rebranded it, Lituania to "Kauno alus" , latvia to "Cēsu alus", ukraine to "ukrainean". Also Baltica is fine, but I think this brand was created after collapse
Блин, хорош, чувак! Приятно видеть видео от наших людей о нашей стране на английском сегменте ютуба! Но вот зачем в видео так часто присутствуют надписи на русском, мне не очень понятно. Для англоязычной аудитории они не несут никакой полезной информации. Наверное они добавдяют к эстетике, но на мой взгляд достаточно неоднозначное решение.
As a child, I lived 6500 km from Moscow and there was a soda machine not far from my house. Once I dropped a glass and it broke into pieces. The next day, new glass appeared in its place. Then I was not surprised - it was normal and no one stole them, even boys.
Where did you live?
@@daughteroftiaran Sakhalin island
and people say communism breeds crime! only upbringing does!
in the baltics Hesburger charges for small sauce packages because otherwise customers would abuse the privilege and steal more than a person would reasonably need. Unlike in their Finnish locations.
I hadn’t seen that part of the video yet, and wondered what the hell you were talking about 😂
Bruh I can’t even get a decent packet of crisps in a UK pub and you’re telling me the Soviet Union solved the sandwich problem 50 years ago 😭
Actually it was solve by Americans long before that. hence the reason we're so fat.
@@sid2112 lmao
As soon as I read UK I somehow read Pub as Pob in my mind 😭
@@sid2112well seeing as the sandwich was invented in England I’m not sure the USA solved the problem
@@MrTangolizard So was baked beans and eggs for breakfast. Your argument is invalid.
I've made kvass a few times at home from a recipe I found. It's really good ! No idea why it hasn't caught on in the US.
actually, the homemade kvas and the brewery-made kvas differ a lot. Soviet breweries used (and many of the Russian ones still use) enormous amounts of sugar and caramel, this makes the factory kvas taste more like cola drinks
@@deniskhafizov6827 depends on where you get it, kvass from yellow barrels on the streets and kvass from a convenience store are vastly different.
Because idea of fermented drink made from bread sounds really exotic. Just like idea of soup, frozet to the state of jello
Nobody will change my mind that the soft serve ice-cream in the ddr was the best ice-cream ever made.
well, you must thank comrade Mikoyan who shared standarts and recipe for his soviet variant of Plombier to DDR =)
Government officials used to buy ice cream from the vest in Brerestka shops
they should have modernized all those old fast food restuarants to keep culture. I like the table with no chair idea for atleast sections of fastfood or bars.
you clearly never visited Russia , fast food here is 90 % Tajiks and Uzbeks having Shawarma stands 😂 or Armenians with Shashlik
A bit tricky when it took several decades for nostalgia to kick in.
@@kitehigh7507no i haven't but the creator made it sound like (or i misinterpreted) all or much of the fast food culture is gone, and if it isn't I'm happy it isn't because it would be cool to experience a totally different form of fast food...
Soviet food was meh though. Imperial Russia's menu is more interesting.
@@TransistorLSDTime for a Slavic culinary rennisance - best of soviet, pre-soviets, and post soviet and bring it together... I have a few history food channels and while some dishes haven;t changed much many have changed drasticlly, and just as many new dishes as have been created in the last few years, we've lost just as many...
"Food was seen as a way to make workers" seems to ignore that czarist russia was literally starving to death lol
As a kid in Russia I loved the soda dispensers. Yes, we had real glass and we had to wash them. But it wasn't a big deal, everybody was doing it and there was never broken glass. I also loved the Kvas barrels and always bought 2 liter of Kvas and brought it home. I must say during the Soviet Union people were much more polite and civilized. But I was 6 years old so I didn't notice.
No one wanted to get beaten by a police officer and reported as a trouble maker. To many of those and you'd never go to a good school or get anything more than a menial job.
yes you where 6 years old. Not credible for reliability but good story
Civilized people don't do genocide. Please let me know if you ever find a civilized place in the world that hadn't been eaten for it.
@@sid2112 Sadly they do. The British Empire committed multiple genocides but we count the British as civilized. Funny enough, one genocide committed by the British was against their direct neighbors, the Irish. The heralded Churchill was an extremist racist against the Irish.
@@sid2112neither did the soviets
This channel is amazing. They would hand you a PhD in the states if you did 1/10th the amount of research
US citizen here, I love these kinds of videos. It's always fascinating seeing the unique ways that other cultures handle the same concept. I always wish I could reach in, and try some of it, especially those meat pies.
Why can't you? like the video explains, these are all very simple dishes that can be enjoyed. find a recipe and make it.
Or visit Brighton Beach
@@jeffhaskins530 doubly so in that a lot of them are relatively simple by design. kvass is a bit more complicated but not terrible. and kompot is basically just boiled fruit. the hardest part of chebureki is the dough, and it's I think the simplest dough i've ever seen. and of course, boiled corn is just... boiled corn.
A lack of (handheld sized) meat pies is very much an American thing. Meat pies are an institution down under in Australia and New Zealand.
@@jeffhaskins530John Kirkwood has some amazing meat pie recipes on UA-cam 🤤
Up to this day on Polish beaches we can hear voices promoting boiled corn, including one-liners with profanities.
Yes, there were many sorts of beer in USSR... on paper. In reality, most of them required expensive components and/or processing, so most of the beer breweries sticked to "Жигулёвское" only.
Oh yes, bane of every soviet, and russian, citizen.
Soviet fast food WASN’T fast enough to stop those famines 🤷♀️
Of which the last one occured in the early 30s, well-before this type of food was introduced as a concept.
@@jakekaywell5972 HENCE THE PHRASE IT WASN’T FAST ENOUGH TO STOP THOSE FAMINES.
Also they had near famines all the way into the 1970s pathetically even buying grain from the U.S.
Yeah, it's not like capitalism creates famines as well.
@@user-eh6jk8dl9t NAME ONE U LOW IQ TANKIE CLOWN
even in the great depression THERE WASN’T A SINGLE WESTERN FAMINE
Capitalism may have problems but marxism is THE PROBLEM
When I was a child I used to spend weekends in Moldova with my grandparents and I remember drinking kvas from a big yellow barrel at a market in Cahul city. I traveled recently to Moldova and tried kvas and ice-cream. The taste is very different from the original and not in a good way. The kvas tastes like Coca-Cola and the ice-cream like water with sugar. I also bought pelmeni and they don't taste as good as they used to. Also the doctor's sausage tastes like cardboard.
I'm in Australia and thet sell Doctor's Sausage in a local eastern shop. My family buys it as my mom's side is russian. Best kind of meat I've ever had except for maybe lobser and beef
@@ItzArtiom The entire point of capitalism is to increase profitability and shareholder value. I grew up in the US, a lot of food products don't taste the same as I remember them when I was a boy. That's because the formula was changed to make the stuff cheaper to produce.
@@MrSloikaexplain why communist China's products are so shitty then...
@@MrSloika*predatory capitalism, usually monopolists and cartels. Small and medium sized capitalist ventures contain the highest quality possible in the world. I just cooked grass fed beef from a farm that has been operating in NC since the late 1700s. They manage their herds well, are great at breeding and always deliver a fresh product. Communism and predatory capitalism cannot give you this unless you are rich enough to go around their bullshit.
Dude, your videos are top notch. UA-cam algorithms don't do you justice.
I am 16 and I live in Hungary. My great grandfather was a captain in the Hungarian people's army and helped to disperse the uprising of 56. He had 3 sons. My grandfather was born in 1955 and he was a child in the time of history when the USSR and socialist Hungary was at its peak. He still lives today and keeps telling me about the marvels of Soviet ice cream. The blue packet one. He says still to this day that it was the best ice cream he had ever eaten and nothing can compare to it. He has really good memories of his childhood and the sweets he tried. He lived in a Khrushchevka, near a Soviet military base. He befriended Soviet kids and they took them into the base. There at the canteen, he would buy the best sweets and ice creams of his life. He has good memories. Watching this channel I realised that the similarities between USSR and socialist Hungary is enormous. Even larger than I anticipated, even though I adore history. I really like what you are doing, so keep doing it. Good job.
éljen a magyar szabadság, éljen a haza.
@@spuditgang nem gondoltam volna, hogy megtalálja ezt a hozzáfűzést egy magyar is
I was born in the Transylvania (Erdély) part of Romania and moved to the US in the mid 80's with my family due to persecution as ethnic Hungarians. Romania was even more under the influence of Russia, in fact Hungary was considered the "west" by us. haha Life was pretty good till the late 70's, then it all went to sh*t under the Ceausescu regime. And yes the ice cream was great too. :)
@@BillAnt Románia pont ,hogy a legönálóbb tagja volt a Varsói Szerződésnek, nem azért volt szegénység és elnyomás mert Szovjet befolyás alatt volt, sőt épp ellenkezőleg Sztalin kötelezte Romániát egy Magyar Autonóm terület létrehozására még Gheorghiu-Dej idelyében. Később azt Ceausescu törölte el mikor már a Szovjetek nem törődtek, ezzel egyidejüleg kezdődött a magyarság elnyomása és nagyszámui románság betelepítése. De ezek egyike sem az elnyomás sem szegénység nem a Szovjet befolyás miatt volt hanem a hitvány román vezetés hülyeségei miatt.
Szégyelje magát!
Arriving in some Ural city as a foreign student from Egypt , I cant stress enough how bland and mono dimensional the Russian taste are in food and alcohol , Shawarma is the exact same every where , by even the same central Asian group , one big plus is the standard of hygiene and food safety is really good compated to Egypt , where the street food is so good but you eat at your own risk :D
Swawarma being the same is probably your city problem we have many different types of shawarma where i live
Bruh they survived winters off of cold beet soup and vodka, not a sophisticated national palette
We just don't like spicey food. It has historic reasons - spices had to be imported and were expensive.
food likings of northern people in general is not as exquisite as southern ones, but put on top of that centuries of poverty in russia and that results in not being picky in food and eating most of the time the most ordinary stuff
Your videos are always quality! You might have mentioned it before in a previous video, but where do you go to acquire all these vintage video clips? I’m a big fan of them!
most of those videos taken from the Soviet-era movies. may be considered pretty authentic.
Soviet movies and Gosteleradiofond archives, mostly.
funny enough I watched this video eating Russian ice-cream , 35 rubles for a top tier caramel ice-cream cone , and the milk flavored is sooooo good , you cant compare it to anything else , the taste of fresh milk and sugar surpass any other taste.
That's weird. When I lived in Russia between 2004-2006 it was virtually impossible to find hamburger buns in a hypermarket and street-vendor burgers were assiduously avoided; the only place in St Petersburg I could even find a burger was McDconald's. (I remember that well because as a huge burger fan, I was disappointed that they were uncommon; it was easier to find Mexican food than a burger. But the shawarmas, man, the shawarmas
Edit: just got up to the buns, that explains it
A good shawarma is to be coveted. Best I ever had was in Brighton Beach, NYC, the Russian neighborhood. A couple of ethnic Russian pals of mine took me to this little shop and I think the old lady took a shining to me and my redneckness because she pinched my rear after she served me the shawarma!
Things have changed drastically since then. It all happened in 2010s, when countless small burger restaurants opened across the country following introduction of cheap quality beef. Companies like Miratorg introduced meat breeds of cow like american Black Angus, etc. and started growing them in the south-west of the country. Nowadays you can find a lot more varieties of fast food - there are hundreds of burger and pizza restaurants, chinese, thai and vietnamese takeaways, even jewish cafes selling bagels, shakshuka, falafel, etc. Lots of choice.
Nice. The quality burgers showed after I left. I can never win @@stanleytweedle7387
st petersburgs mcdonalds hit different, i remeber buying either a mcfish or similar, and upon biting into it about two spoonfulls of that oniony mayo landed at my feet, like it was sauced beyond reason yet it made it infinitely better
@@ZaJaClt something something mcfish sauces you....
As a historian hearing your take is illuminating. Thank you for your work.
When the Soviet Union has better ice cream than McDonald's
that's what people think when they've never tried a real gelato...
This video again makes me more interested in Nikita Khrushchev. Could you maybe make a video about him like about Gorbi? Or about what if he wasnt ousted?
Anastas Mikoyan should also get his own, although Star Media's series Forgotten Soviet Leaders already did their hour long video on him.
Looks a lot better than US corporate junk "food"
I had a co worker that was from Soviet Russia. He HATED sitting down to eat. He would brag about how they always stood up to eat. We always just thought he was being a typical blow hard but i guess it really is a thing
as a freshly fan of the kvass- could you please elaborate on those 4 varieties? which one produced now (so available) are the closest to those back then?
also- ice cream wasn't really that great. not only most of it were more or less direct copies of the western varieties, but also ingredients were.... well, not that great regulated. not too mention that annual production in 70's was way too low, afaik one icecream per person per two weeks
Well, basically there were: soursweet, sour, "Moskovskiy" and "okroshechniy" (made specifically for okroshka dish). These are 4 varieties that were created by 1953 GOSTs.
As for which one is the closest to the original...I'm not really sure tbh, because I've never tried the original ones. And those who did claim that modern kvasses are all shit compared to the old one.
@@Setarko Ahhh, GOST.
I was confused about the "All food came from ghost" part 😄
It's wild how much of a cultural effect soviet food had in my country in georgia, decades later we still eat these foods.
In fact, georgian used to rule the USSR including russia once :)
Culture (art, music, food, etc) knows no borders.
@@dmdj8588 Only one mad georgian, not georgians :-)
@@xsc1000 not one mad georgian, but one mad georgian communist(which purged nationalists and its policies continued throughout to the end of the USSR)
@@xsc1000 he was typical georgian, not his fault west massmedia owners hate him
Cheburek doesn’t mean meat pie in Crimean Tatar. It means Tasty Pie. Çi means Tasty, Börek means Pie.
'Burek' is a very popular street food in Croatia where my family is from. In Croatia burek is made mostly with a cheese filling. BTW, I always believed burek was of Turkish origin. Crimea was, after all, once part of the Ottoman Empire.
@@MrSloika I live in Turkey and here we have every type of Börek. Different types of meats and cheese, eggplant, spinach, potato, leek are used as filling. Besides the Turkish recipes there are recipes that Bosnian, Albanian and Crimean Tatar migrants brought. And they are all tasty. Balkan part of the world may have corruption but we have the best food.
@@thekraken1173 I live in the USA. There is a large Turkish immigrant community near to where I live. Lots of Turkish restaurants. The Turks make the best lamb dishes. Yum.
@@MrSloika Glad you enjoy them. Cheers.
I was born in a post (defense)-war Croatia. Two years after it ended. It was an odd era - I remember my childhood being something in between the last dying breaths of Yugoslavia and the novelty of the western stuff. So you can see both the new apartments with new furniture while grandmas lived in full on tablecloth-on-TV Yugoslav style homes. Your dishes were half made in Yugoslavia and half in Germany or France. Yugoslav refrigerators are indestructible and I bet they will continue to work long after humanity is wiped out lol - actually much better products that the western "planned obsolescence" stuff. Stores and bars - some would have the newer layout and decoration while the others were firmly rooted in the Yugoslavian era. I have seen and had own many toys that people from USA would call 90's era toys while those reached us years later in the 2000's. If you travel on the old road instead of the modern highway - you can still find a roadside restaurant that stood the test of time.
And the funny thing is - a lot of products back then were of much higher quality and standard. Store bought Pâté (chicken or liver variety) was much more savoury and firm. Luncheon meat, the poverty snack was much more meaty, biscuit packets came in 500 gram boxes instead of now 300 gram (they had the audacity to make the 275 gram box, honestly, when you open it, it looks like someone ate your biscuits, soft drinks had less of those disgusting sweeteners and just had regular sugar, chocolates have less nuts and cocoa (I miss the old Runolist chocolate), there is less C-vitamin in our most popular drink - the mighty Cedevita! So yeah, no one is immune to the corruptive influence of capitalism and it's god forsaken greed...
Yugoslav fridges are just old models of Gorenje fridges :-)
What you described in early Russia is a cafeteria, pretty standard all around the world. The better version of it is now called a Cafe. They even tried coin operated ones for a while too.
This video is up to your usual high standards of setting history straight and using some humor along the way.
When I was a teenager in the 1970s, I read about the Soviet vending machines with actual glasses and I thought it so bizarre. I still remember that all these years later.
I was salivating like Pavlov’s dogs when you showed the pelmeni, but my brain is a little wary of kvass. Just thinking about it makes me feel bloated. I have to be more open minded.
I’ve made kvass at home and it's really good! I don't understand why it hasn't caught on in the west.
I'm a Syrian in Azerbaijan. Wherever I see street kvass I buy it.
You can find it in the supermarkets as well.
Tastes unique.
@@daughteroftiaranwest are used to more sweet sodas
@@daughteroftiaran Rye anything isn't a big seller in the West. The flavors are too funky for a palette used to white wheat bread.
My city had a special street devoted to French fries stands, which is called "French fries avenue". Its history started in the 90s, however its prosperity came to end, when the street was closed in order to build a new bus station, which was rather failed investment anyway.
On that note, I'd love a video about Soviet entertainment. Outside of that sweet dacha life, what did people do for fun, or on holidays? What did kids watch on TV or listen to on the radio when they got home from school? What cringe fads lasted less than a summer?
There were hundreds of movies and cartoons being made in the soviet union some being classics in the post soviet world even today
Well...not that different then on west. Cinema, some TV, journals or newspapers, good music on radio and occasional walk into park or whatever. With soviet specific ofc.
@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 But those "soviet specific" make it very different. For example western music was forbidden than (badly) copied, cartoons and movies were full of propaganda, there were only 2 programmes in TV not broadcasting all day, so everyone watched the same, etc.
@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 "not that different then on west" Yeah, no, that is straight up not true. A gross understatement. It's not even the communist propaganda being in everything, but the variety was far below the Western media.
OMG.... I tried cheburek in Poland in 1990. It were sold on roadside diners that had wheels on them. It was a more poor version without the meat, but you could get it with cabbage salad, sour cream or just salt on top. I also tried a special burger in Prague that year, were the bread were super soft, but served with a slice of ham and fine cut white cabbage instead of salad and beef. Then I tried these diners in budapest, were a hard roasted pork chop with a fried egg on top were served. It came with a good tasting sauce, potatoes and then a wheat flour knödel with a diameter of sprox 4 centimeters were served with the meat. A big diner with a view to the kitchen, that if there had not been fire in the pans from time to time, it would have given us all some serious food poisoning. Like, the kitchen was that dirty.
worked conventions 80's & 90's .. the Ex-Soviets would order EVERYTHING. they tasted every drink, App, Entree, Desserts .. tasted. not ate. tasted. friggin nightmare for wait staff, kitchen.
8:14 I bet those ponchiki are related to paczki! They are a polish donut made before lent, in Michigan with its large Polish population we always get them.
11:21. 😂😂
Heck yeah.
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In Soviet Circus Bear train you.
Bear put you on unicycle. 😂
Being Russian is fun.
I am inclined to believe that there must have been some section of the Russian population who saw better times in the USSR that in Tsarist Russia. If you keep the period of Stalin's rule aside, maybe a lot of poor people got a decent working life in the Soviet Union. But of course, it was terrible for the entrepreneurs and intellectuals.
Sort of, it was political promises and the poor watching the middle class get eaten was apparently cathartic for them.
Russian Empire was a first world country on par with the Second Reich and France. while the USSR was a theerd world country where people had to feign xenophobia towards non-socialist countries while they dreamed as fuck of the Western way of life.
The majority of the Lenin economy til 1929 was entrepreneurs “NEP-men”. Stalin restricted the entrepreneurial economy but there were still some like the furniture guilds, which were private collectives. But, for the majority of the population the Soviets were an improvement from Tsarism.
@@matthewkopp2391 who shit in your head
@@matthewkopp2391 The NEP was introduced because Lenin was unable to build a planned economy during war communism but he did not want to maintain the NEP in the long term, so Stalin's actions to build a planned economy are a continuation of Lenin's policies; by the beginning of 60s, last Russians living in the Russian empire died, which meant that the Soviet regime would no longer be able to parasitize on the legacy of tsarism; after 30 years USSR fell apart.
Awesome video mate!!!
This was a great topic to cover and i learned a considerable amount!!
I've got an evening of reading and salivating over stories of Soviet food, I'm especially interested in their ice cream!
Thank you for the quality content.
Soviet Fast Food, food that runs out so fast that not everyone gets it.
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I only ate Beluga caviar. Stalin wasn't happy about that.
As a Texan, putting all of the govt bs and lies aside we have all been told about each other, I would love to share a meal with you. Great video.
Didn't know 120 million confirmed kills is a "govt bs and lie". Maybe you're just a crack pot conspiracy theorist?
@@ShrexyGuyyou just put a random number and throw it in the face of random person.
@@Marshal_Longarm are you denying that the average amount of people the USSR were responsible for killing us 120 million? You'd really hate the estimates that place it as high as 150 million. At least there's some that lessen it to a saintly 80 million lives lost... I guess?
With him, maybe. However, all the juicy food shown in the video 1) was available only at the beginning, and definitely in the big cities, or 2) homemade - if the man of the house traded with the butcher some cogs he stole from his workplace and the butcher needed, because meat was rare to come by, and 3) it might look nice, but cafeteria food was not that tasty, to say the least.
Indeed, if you can supply a babushka with everything she asks for preparing lunch, then yes, you'll have a great time. You don't want to have a meal in a communist Russian cafeteria, unless it's the Party's cafeteria, I guess.
@@ShrexyGuy Every year, the number grows higher! What great fun! The highest generally accepted figure is 100 million across all so-called communist states to ever exist. Even then, its utterly farcical from "The Black Book of Communism". The authors admitted to fluffing up their figures in order to reach the 100 million figure. For instance, fatalities from traffic accidents in the USSR and deaths of Nazi soldiers during the Battle of Stalingrad are both listed as "victims of communism".
Buterbrod comes actually from the german word "Butterbrot", literally meaning butterbread.
Huh.
Butterbrod might be descendant from the German word of Butterbrot literally translating to Butter bread.
It is
There are lots of French, English, German and even some Turkish words in the Russian language.
@@TransistorLSD Same in Croatian.
I dont think its really imported from Russia, but "russian ice cream" as a brand still exists and its sold here in Slovakia (also in Czech Republic). There are no variations, its vanilla flavored and basically a white cream between two waffle plates. Its good, i can recommend it, but dont expect anything special. The main reason for its success is simply the fact that there was nothing else available at that time in the "supermarkets" of the socialist countries, and classic ice cream was strictly seasonal and only available in the cities.
They are produced in Czech republic and there were 2 flavours - vanilla and caramel. But caramel slowly dissapered. In communist times this type of ice cream was imported from USSR (as Sovetskoe morozhenoe (Советское мороженое )), but there were always other domestic ice creams avaiable.
Yeah, here where I live in America there is a supermarket that sells plombir (made in Lithuania).
Looking like only fat people were at the butcher and bakery! Choice jobs, were taxi drivers and waitresses, access to food and fuel!
I have traveled a lot to Hungary in my life and about 20 years ago when I was a kid I remember how corn often was sold as street food in Budapest. Seems to completley dissapeared now though.
Intersing to see that it used to be the same in the USSR
Probably started by Soviets, in most of their "brother" nations.
It is crazy to think that you ate standing up. I must admit if we done this in the West their would be fewer obese people.😂😂😂
US citizen here! I find this era of fast food fascinating and I have heard many unique accounts/perspectives on the time's dining experience. I am thankful that we westerners and Eastern Euro folks could enjoy this kind of food despite the unhealthy nature of the food.
So glad my family was born in the USSR despite having a greek background (Pontic Greeks)
I get to experience 2 cultures at the same time being greek and enjoying some pelmeni, kvass, vodka, "vodka" and the ice cream to name a few. Eskimos are a god damn godsend, one bite and along with the acids from the chocolate come the nice and soft milk which soothes everything. Grew up with those as well as the Plombir, those waffle cup ones.
Also note, if you ever want to try pelmeni, DO NOT BUY THEM FROM A STORE, they're not worth it. Make them yourself instead, it's easy. Just make the dough, prepare the minced meat, put the meat in a small piece of dough, close it with another small piece of dough, pinch it shut and repeat! You'll find recipes online
I remember watching a video where he made giant pelmenis. I want to make them as well haha
True, store pelmeni are more expensive then good vodka and often taste meh at best. And text on back side dont add much certainty in them.
And all this delicious food couldn't prevent the Russians to become a deeply fascist society.
Haaa…
In America, you go get fast food.
In Soviet Russia, food go fast.
a shame to lose the diversity of eating establishments from the soviet period, however....getting shawarma as street food over boiled corn is an unqualified victory.
It's interesting that you mention nostalgic Soviet eateries are popping up again. In the US, there is a similar phenomenon with 1950's styled restaurants known as 'Diners'. They serve hot dogs, hamburgers, and milkshakes among other classic American meals, and are decorated with neon lights, vintage signs, and retro furniture.
We have them in Poland too. They're called Bar Mleczny - milk bar and are decorated in 70's-80's style. No waiters, you have to wait in line, but they always have some real meals - cutlets, potatoes, fish, soup, not hot dogs, burgers etc. and are not expensive.
diners are not restaurants in the style of 50s, these are cafes for a poor
These aren't even eateries. More so lunch rooms for the enslaved mass of Soviet era "citizens". Think of it as kids at school. But for a whole society and not just minors
@@ShrexyGuy perhaps I have the honor of being the first person in your life who to call you a fuckwit
I'm new here, and I wondered if you do the accent on purpose or just have it naturally, because holy Fr*nchmen, it puts my former norwegian accent to shame
And now there's Teremok 😁
I loved it when i was in Russia. Accessible for n👀bs like me.
I tried a lot of different foods.
Good vid !
Fun fact: there was no "blinnaya" in the USSR (no pancake shops). So, Teremok doesn't have anything to do with the USSR... It has way more to do with the Russian Empire.
@@TransistorLSD
The funnest part for me was that i liked it. Good food.
The vareniki, the pelmeni, the salads.
Long story short, i liked it more than the fastfood from the Yankeedanky Empire.
I had the feeling that i was chewing on real food.
@@chriswatchingponies9877 It is good, no question about it.
@@chriswatchingponies9877 Oh, and also i'm wrong. Pancake shops existed in the USSR. They were quite rare though...
only those who didn't live in the USSR can miss it. so called fast food was made of shit, patties with 70% of bread instead of meat? no thanks, товарищ
Communism = Total Slavery
В моём городе по какой-то необъяснимой причине уличным фастфудом стала котлета по-киевски... Я без понятия, как её можно быстро съесть на улице, не обляпавшись, но зато её можно купить в любом супермаркете или киоске)
Ее и за столом-то нужно аккуратно есть, а то при вскрытии может ждать сюрприз
@@dwishs Да-да-да! Каждый второй раз, когда я её разрезаю, меня ожидает масляная бомба. А люди умудряются её на улице кусать...
@@Батько7 Ещё и горячая наверняка, что все пальцы обожжешь.
In Turku (Finland),the chicken Kyiv is the favorite lunch of students. Every time a student cafeteria serves it for lunch, you know the queue will be twice as long as normal.
@@vurpo7080 Great to hear about the popularity of this dish in other places!
Some of that sounds pretty good. I really like the idea of getting a corn cob on the street. It's a little surprising that's not a thing all over America.
Once again, a very well-made video of a segment of history I've never heard about! Please keep it up!
Amazing perspective and research! I appreciate the work you put into this. Thank you.
Wow. This takes me back.
Thank you.
Communism is poison, but damn that food looks good.
In Soviet Russia, food fasts you!
Now let me go back in time and open a Kebab, within 1 years the Soviet Union will be mine 🥙
I am very much interested in knowing what life was like in the Soviet Union, but it disturbs me how so many people here are nostalgic for the trash and misery of that society. How did that clown show ever work? Everything about it was a nightmare.
I always liked Russian food. It's one of the things I miss, having lived with a Russian family for some years.
To be fair, it took a French chef to show them how to use what they had properly. But they took it and ran with it for sure! Like my people, the Acadians. We took the same knowledge and took it to a swamp!
Jesus is Christ this sounds like hell.
Why would you want the government to make choices as to what food you can eat?
What are these "choices" you speak of?
This is only the surface. Oh, sweet summer child unaware of communism, it's only the surface. I'll just say this: not even the juicy-looking, but in reality bland and watered-down mashed potato from the video, was available to everyone, all the time. You still had to eat what was given to you, or else.
Thanks -- now I know why that one brand of Russian kvass I can get here in the United States is "Yellow Barrel" and comes in a barrel-shaped bottle. This was such a fascinating video for me . I think I even saw some tarkhun being poured during the drink-machine scene -- another of my favorite beverages from that region! (Also very much enjoyed the GOST pun!)
That cheburek looks like a fried Argentine empanada
Yep, they are pretty much identical
I have always been fascinated with history in general, and Russia's very rich history in particular. This piece on life during the Soviet Era is excellent and I look forward to more. It left me with a better understanding of why certain things were done.
wow. We also have boiled corn here in Bulgaria...
it's delicious, but, the clearing of the remains from between the teeth is nightmare, if not that I would eat it more often.
It's pretty interesting to know about Soviet lifestyle, especially if your country used to be part of Soviet Union.
Vak Belyash and chebureki
8:44 I'm pretty sure that the word "Бутерброды" comes from the german word "Butterbrot" which pretty much means the same as "Sandwich", but with the difference that it's open, rather than folded or closed
Buterbrodnye? Did not really expect this Germanised word in the Russian language to pop up. Butterbrot, German for buttered bread / butter-bread.
Russsian language have a lot of these words - from German, French and now English.
Butterbrot is from German? I always get confused when people call it Sandwich, although ive heard many germans call them that in english.
A sandwich to me is something quite different, White bread, multiple toppings, sauce lettuce and 2 halves of bread one bottom one on top. Butterbrot on the other hand is dark/wholewheat/rye bread just with butter (hence the name) and a single type of topping, usually cheese or sausage.
Fast-food has made women hirsute and male like. Even in Russia. 20 years ago Russian women were very sought after because neither of them had seen a burger their entire lives!!!
Eh. Sell you Pepsi for a navy. Jkjkjk. Russia has no navy. I love how you make commie boo content comrade.
All of these foods look and sound vastly more interesting/tasty than all the nasty and unhealthy American fast food that is spread around the whole world now, that is the cause of obesity and death.
Isnt it funny how corporations and commies have standardization and love of templates in common? Makes you wonder, eh?
Not really, it is a foundation for mass production and quality control. There are pros and cons in everything so a mixed aproach might be better. Like having standartized food supply to prevent hunger and high prices and maybe giving room for smaller vendours and local speciality.
I bet once the presidents came to the USA and drove around and saw a grocery store fast food etc they were amazed? Said we got to do this also?
When I was a young child in America. I thought those commies only ate borscht and vodka.
I'm from Balkan and fast food (generaly food in Russia) for me has terrible taste...
Khrushchev's fascination with corn caused big problems in Soviet agriculture. When Khrushchev visited the USA he was impressed by the efficiency of meat production in the USA. When Khrushchev asked he was told that US livestock were fed a diet mostly of corn. When Khrushchev returned home he ordered that collective farms plant less wheat and more corn. Soviet agriculture experts warned Khrushchev that corn (maize) originated in the Americas and it would take years to develop strains of corn that would grow well in Russian soil and climatic conditions. Khrushchev ordered the expansion of corn production anyway. In 1962 the USSR had 37 million hectares planted with corn. That year the USSR corn crop failed (like the experts predicted) due to a cool and rainy spring. Unfortunately it was too late to replant the corn fields with wheat and the USSR had to import wheat to meet it's needs.
It is a standard problem when things are introduced by "leaders" and not by peoples demands.
@@xsc1000 *by proven specialists in their fields
To be fair, American fastfood wasn't introduced until the dissolution of the USSR. I don't think anyone worth their salt honestly argued that fast food in general wasn't implemented until then.
here in brazil we have cheburek, but we call "pastel" is the same food, very delicious
13:43 yep I instantly knew that it would be a dead body in the tank
7:30 Wait this is originally CRIMEAN?
This is also one of the most popular fast foods here in Brazil, to this day. We call it PASTEL.
I thought it was originated from Chinese Gyozas.
Light beer PILSNERs are the best selling kind of beer in the USA
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lenin and trotski look like colonel harland sanders of KFC
Seems like certain videos of yours are being throttled. Let's hope this isn't one of them!
9:38 how were the soviet beers? They look a bit like what in the UK they call 'bitters' which tend to be only about 3 percent but are quite pleasant.
Mostly classic lager 3-5%
Szhigulevskoe was pretty good. Ex republics even kept recipe for themselves and just rebranded it, Lituania to "Kauno alus" , latvia to "Cēsu alus", ukraine to "ukrainean". Also Baltica is fine, but I think this brand was created after collapse
From now on,I will refer to handboorgers as hot moscow kutlets.
Eh, I'll stick with HALUSKI!
You forgot about the sunflowerseeds 😏
TIL everybody loves ice cream
12:46 Приключения шурика!!!😊
Блин, хорош, чувак! Приятно видеть видео от наших людей о нашей стране на английском сегменте ютуба!
Но вот зачем в видео так часто присутствуют надписи на русском, мне не очень понятно. Для англоязычной аудитории они не несут никакой полезной информации. Наверное они добавдяют к эстетике, но на мой взгляд достаточно неоднозначное решение.
Так а откуда ему взять кадры, например, с советскими столовыми, кроме как из советских или российских фильмов?
@@boopsboops961 Посмотри на 06:40.