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Worth noting this footage of a ussr grocery store (1990/91) : https://youtu.be/t8LtQhIQ2AE https://youtu.be/t8LtQhIQ2AE Not endorsing the article, I think it's
by seltzered_ 4y ago
Worth noting this footage of a ussr grocery store (1990/91) : https://youtu.be/t8LtQhIQ2AE https://youtu.be/t8LtQhIQ2AE
Not endorsing the article, I think it's worth thinking beyond just the economic frame and also factoring in community resilience and such. There's arguments such as from writers like Orlov: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Orlov_(writer) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Orlov_(writer)
- gumby 4y ago> this footage of a ussr grocery store At least they were spacious! And the small trolleys were kind: you didn't have to feel bad that yours was empty. Even developing contries' markets usually are groaning with produce. What a condemnation of the communist experiement!
- int_19h 4y agoFarmer markets were a separate thing, and that's where you'd find fresh produce (and quality meat), if you could afford it. Looked something like this in late 80s: https://imgur.com/a/DAepLEJ https://imgur.com/a/DAepLEJ
- gumby 4y agoThanks, I did not know this. Look at the smile on the face of the granny in the lower photo! Did these farmers' markets operate during the communist era? Late, I presume?
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- alamortsubite 4y agoAt ~5:45 in the supermarket video, what am I looking at? Is that a Soviet TV dinner? https://youtu.be/t8LtQhIQ2AE?t=345 https://youtu.be/t8LtQhIQ2AE?t=345
- fbarred 4y agoThe text says "kotlety" which are basically meatballs:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutlet#Cuisines_of_Russia,_Ukraine_and_other_countries_of_former_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutlet#Cuisines_of_Russia,_Ukr.... But I don't understand what I'm looking at either. Maybe it's the ground meat mix that you shape the cutlets yourself before frying? But what is the bread-looking half on the left side?
- MikusR 4y agoFrom visuals it looks like buckwheat with possibly two cutlets under bechamel sauce
- borski 4y agoThe right side is almost certainly buckwheat, known to Russians simply as “kasha.” The left side is likely the cutlets themselves (the little brown outlines) surrounded by some (cold) white sauce that once heated turns more liquid.
- allarm 4y agoIt is buckwheat, known to Russians as “Grechka”. It is quite nice, goes well with meat or even mixed with milk. The white substance is most likely fat.
- borski 4y agoHaha I forgot we called it grechka. Technically grechnevaya kasha, but colloquially called either grechka or kasha; my grandpa was obsessed with it lol, so we just always called it “ne vkusnaya kasha” aka “not tasty porridge” lol
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- nerdbert 4y ago7:37 I would like to know how bad that meat smelled to get her to make that noise.
- LeSaucy 4y agoYou can fit like 6 of those soviet grocery carts into a modern costco cart.