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2023-06-02 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

'Well, son, did your UNESCO help you?' Borsch, which is stronger than the atomic bomb

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Posted by badanov 2023-06-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [17 views ] Top

#1 This is like the Irish and Polish (of which I have both heritages) fighting over who's better with potatoes. The Frenchy in me would probably cook ducks or snails, maybe both.

Posted by Raj 2023-06-02 00:30|| 2023-06-02 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 And in terms of its content, the current borscht, for which Ukrainians are fighting with foam at the mouth in the UN, is rather American: neither tomatoes, nor potatoes, nor beans, nor sunflowers, from which oil is extracted for frying, are “original” and “traditional”

Modern people don't realize how few traditional foods are really traditional -- basically the local poor people cooked up something to avoid starvation and tried to make it as tasty as possible. Meat, lard, seasonings and even salt were 'luxuries'. It's amusing to hear them talk sometimes.

Posted by magpie 2023-06-02 09:35|| 2023-06-02 09:35|| Front Page Top

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-06-02 10:30|| 2023-06-02 10:30|| Front Page Top

#4 It's amazing how fast the Russians went from "Of course they're the same people as us" to "and those mudderfothers eat the degraded UNESCO borsch..."

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2023-06-02 10:59|| 2023-06-02 10:59|| Front Page Top

#5 But did you know Panda Express is not real Chinese Food?

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-06-02 15:48|| 2023-06-02 15:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Confucius say, "Han propaganda
Say, 'House of Lee caught using Manda,
And a DNA test
Show not only not best
But not even contain any panda!'"

Posted by Wherelet Thud2804 2023-06-02 19:57|| 2023-06-02 19:57|| Front Page Top

#7 A literary masterpiece. General Tsao could not have done better.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-06-02 20:26|| 2023-06-02 20:26|| Front Page Top

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