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When I was living in Russia, back in early nineties, the family could've only eaten meat once in 1-2 weeks. For us, it wasn't much special to have a week withou
by baybal2 6y ago
When I was living in Russia, back in early nineties, the family could've only eaten meat once in 1-2 weeks. For us, it wasn't much special to have a week without meat.
Later, I though we were well off to have it 1-2 times a week. It was just not part of the culture in the part of Russia we were, and it was, and I think still, considered simply wasteful, and irrational.
When I moved to Canada in 2009, the whole idea of eating mean not only every day, but multiple times a day was hard to digest.
In the end, I got used to this. I became rather fat.
- watwut 6y agoI don't know about where you lived in Russia specifically, but eastern block was eating meat every day during communism itself. Twice every day, for dinner and lunch.
- baybal2 6y agoNo it wasn't, whomever told you that told you a blatant lie. Meat twice a day was a luxury even for Moscow, and that with CPSU keeping Moscow well fed at any cost. In regions, it was a norm for meat shortages in excess of 1 month. In class 4 cities, and ethnic republics, it was even worse, some form of mild scurvy was a norm there.
- watwut 6y agoWell, I personally lived there and personally eate all that meat. And we were not particularly rich, most of people we knew could afford more. School lunches had meat them 4 days a week, as a rule. All the kids ate school lunches except those with too much allergies. Scurcy was not norm, that is not true. You also don't get scurvy from not eating meat.