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peacetraveler22

Starving in Russia!

Feb 19, 2014 13:57

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alexeykostylev February 19 2014, 19:34:35 UTC

Eating eyeballs?! O_O :) btw, Its a great idea to scale the fish before eating :)

Living in NZ I miss dryied and solted fish very much as well as smoked. Yamee..

The problem is you don't like mayones. In the bowl is very famous russian salad "оливье". I've seen many times the local kiwis eat it with great pleasure. And they quite like salad "селедка под шубой" which you don't like too, as far as I remember.

So, its just the matter of taste.

peacetraveler22 February 19 2014, 19:39:38 UTC

You're right! It's a matter of taste, and I don't like mayo, fish or any seafood. So, I'm pretty much screwed culinary wise each time I visit Russia. Of course, there are some foreigners who like Russian cuisine. There are no Russian stores in your area, where you can buy native food? In DC, we have several.

alexeykostylev February 19 2014, 19:58:32 UTC

There are a few, but we are too far from Russia, so they have only well preserved or canned food. Its incomparable with fresh food, and range is much poorer.. ( Of smoked fish they have only salmon or possibly mackerel, whereas in Russia at a market I could choose between at least 5 sorts of smoked fish.

onkel_hans February 19 2014, 20:37:20 UTC

The Russian stores are normally run by the best kind of Russians, the Jews. They do prepare locally many delicious Russian style meals.
Don't you have any Jews in the Antipodes?

peacetraveler22 February 19 2014, 20:40:09 UTC

"Best kind of Russians, the Jews!" :)))

Jews, yes, of course. onkel_hans February 19 2014, 21:49:03 UTC

The Russians do not perceive themselves as a nation. Yet, look around, the Russians you can see are 95% Jewish ethnically.

Re: Jews, yes, of course. peacetraveler22 February 19 2014, 22:30:49 UTC

Almost all of my Russian friends are Jews, so I believe you.

Re: Jews, yes, of course. onkel_hans February 19 2014, 23:33:06 UTC

Do trust me, always.

Re: Jews, yes, of course. peacetraveler22 February 19 2014, 23:35:59 UTC

Not always, sometimes I'm certain you're pulling my leg. :)

Re: Jews, yes, of course. onkel_hans February 19 2014, 23:59:41 UTC

I am not without this. Girls have legs!

alexeykostylev February 19 2014, 20:58:36 UTC

I'm sure there are some but I don't care.

I'm not a nationalist or anti-Semite. Immigrants are such a mixture, so I stopped paying much attention to nationality. And here in NZ we haven't had any special wave of jewish immigrants. So, there is no significant jewish community as far as I know.

The shop were I usually buy food it run by russians, btw. Another one by armenians.

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