Comments | miss_porcupine: Back in the USSR

miss_porcupine

Back in the USSR

Jul 08, 2014 18:55

Spotted at the Eastern European supermarket: CCCP brand ice cream. My first question is why? and my second question is 'is it any good ( Read more... )

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jenni411 July 8 2014, 23:32:39 UTC

I'm hungry now. Also, please do report back on the ice cream! Inquiring minds & all that.

miss_porcupine July 9 2014, 01:23:37 UTC

I didn't get it! Next time, maybe.

anoriel July 9 2014, 05:01:02 UTC

First of all "CCCP ice cream" brand refers to Soviet standarts of ice cream. That much better than new ones. And it's rather good. :)

And "Rot Front" sounds... awkwardly in Russian.

miss_porcupine July 9 2014, 15:16:07 UTC

I just... I'm a Cold War kid; I didn't really consider the Soviet era to be anything to get nostalgic about food-wise. But if it's actually better than what's going on now, then, hey, nostalgia away. :)

anoriel July 9 2014, 18:37:40 UTC

Believe me, the ice-cream is one of those Soviet things which was much better than we have now in Russia. :) And some other things were better. It's not even nostalgia, it's a objective fact.

grachonok July 9 2014, 06:02:33 UTC

If it's something like this http://irecommend.ru.q5.r-99.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/200x200/product-images/2933/eskimo_sssr_65gr_2009_site_640x480.jpg (made by Russkij Holod) it's my favorite and actually the only decent ice-cream-on-a-stick (we call it eskimo) out there:).
The other kinds by them are also good:).

miss_porcupine July 9 2014, 15:19:53 UTC

Netcost has the full line-up, I think. There were a couple of varieties of the big tubs in the built-in freezer cases (next to the Leningradskoe ice cream bars) and then there were portable cases by the checkout line with the single-serve ice-cream-inna-cone options, which I did not want to try because I couldn't imagine any situationwhere the cones weren't either soggy or stale. But if they have the 'eskimo' kind, which I'm sure they do, I shall try that next trip.

gelbes_gilatier July 9 2014, 19:27:32 UTC

Interestingly, I always associated "Rot Front" with German (as in a greeting for members of Roter Frontkämpferbund, a post WWI communist veteran organization), not Russian... ah, Wikipedia says they acquired the name after a visit by Ernst Thälmann in 1931. That explains why it sounds weird in Russian... it isn't actually Russian :D

gelbes_gilatier July 13 2014, 00:20:29 UTC

Feel ridiculously better about that name not being Russian. Haven't read Russian in a long while, but it just didn't sound right. - Anonymous J