I read the list of terrible Soviet products from the point of view of one of the commentators.
And I was surprised not by claims to the brawn or margarine of terrible taste (although still the margarine taste I have not met wonderful, margarine - it is always margarine and butter to taste it never catch up). And no complaints about tea. And not even a phrase. that the supply was very different by region - given that someone remembers one thing, and someone - completely different, and at the same time, such supply just confirms
I was surprised by the phrase that food is a nightmare! - were officially divided by varieties. And that there was flour of the third grade. With iron shavings.
But then this myth will go for a walk ...
To begin with, there were very few categories in which a third grade was allowed. In sausages, I can only remember third-grade garlic sausage, and most people did not find it - the third grade of sausages was removed, at 81, it seems, the year.
And as for flour, there was no third grade flour. Well, at least for the foreseeable past. If we talk about wheat flour, then they produced grains, flour of the highest, first and second grade and wallpaper flour. By the way, there is still no third-grade flour - they have not come up with it.
Can wallpaper flour be considered third grade flour? If someone likes it, it's healthy, but officially it has always been and will be wallpaper flour. It contains a large amount of bran (so that the most useful bran bread can be easily produced from it). Well, as for metal shavings, then ...
All flour production facilities have (and have existed) magnetic barriers. They are tedious for getting rid of ferro-impurities from grain. And they are always used, no matter what kind of flour. Simply because iron impurities harm equipment and cause breakdowns.
And therefore, iron shavings in flour, even wallpaper, by no means could be present on an ongoing basis. I admit that it could have got there during packaging or transportation - but this is not proof that "third grade flour with iron shavings" existed in the USSR. At certain times, for iron shavings in a bitch and in places not so distant, by the way, the guilty and even not very guilty could thunder.
So that's it.
And one more little explanation: I in no way "advertise" the Soviet Union. I am simply advocating the preservation of historical truth. Even in such seemingly unimportant little things.