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Well, dear friends, let's continue talking about products that were not available in the USSR? Publications about this no, no, but flashing on the Web. Here is one of them and caught my eye. Yesterday was the first part, but today let's go further.
So, in the USSR there were no normal ...
... Beer and wine
Here I will not say anything from my own experience, because then I had no opportunity to evaluate the taste of the drinks sold... Well, there was beer. In barrels and bottles. There was wine, but only until the anti-alcohol campaign was started. I counted at least twenty varieties of beer, interrupting GOSTs, and if you consider that in the days of Khrushchev, many factories developed their recipes not according to GOSTs, but according to TU, then in the presence there was even "craft" beer, such as "Kdaka" - with the addition of juniper, "Romensky holiday" and "Pereyaslavsky" - with honey, "Magadan" and "Taezhny" - with coniferous extract.
Well, I will not say anything about the quality of Georgian wines. Experts say that what they did in Georgia before was very, very worthy wines. And the Crimean "Massandra", by the way, produced good wines.
... Fruits and vegetables
I try to imagine myself, a small person, receiving tangerines once a year according to the order... Usually in winter, sooner or later, the moment came when these tangerines did not fit. There were no problems with apples either at home, and during the season - with pears, berries, watermelons, days, grapes ...
Greenhouse cucumbers "cudgels" were not bought very often, greenhouse vegetables are still an expensive pleasure if they are normal... And not Chinese. And in season there were plenty of vegetables. And those very "earthen", about which the author expressed himself with such contempt... No, I understand, the white bone does not eat beets, but still. By the way, oddly enough, it was not all rotten.
There was no exoticism. But I don't even know if the pyramids of banana boxes should be considered an achievement of civilization now.
... Normal sweets, canned food, coffee
At first I wanted to leave this point without comment, but, nevertheless, I decided to go through it too.
We drank coffee at home in Soviet times. Moreover, coffee is not instant. I don't know why, but even in the most difficult times of the collapse of the USSR, green coffee remained on sale in stores. Either people did not want to bother, or they simply believed (as the author of a lampoon about the lack of food) that instant granulated coffee is the most elite drink of the elite, I don't know.
Everything else collected in this paragraph looks to me pure delirium. There were no gelatinous candies? Christmas trees are winders, but there was marmalade. I can't imagine that gummies are a sign of a happy life (considering the taste). Didn't have the whipped cream cans? Yes, e-May, wealthy eaters (not just the ghetto) abroad prefer natural cream, and not from spray cans, until now. I don't know what kind of alternatively gifted person you have to be in order to drool over spray food. Yes, and everything was ok with canned food - before sprats could be eaten. Now - no thanks. Previously, canned pâté was natural, but now you don’t understand what is in the composition (you can list it endlessly).
Phew... I'm a little tired. What do you think of all this?