Sergey Anashkevich aka aquatek_filips says: “If you remember the festive table of the late 80s, it was very often quite monotonous both in terms of the set of dishes and “delicacies” and the set of alcohol. I remember well how my mother began to prepare for the New Year in advance, buying green peas, sprats and mayonnaise in advance ... And my father filled the bar in advance with the invariable Soviet champagne and Stolichnaya vodka.
A place of honor was occupied by some outlandish foreign bottle. And it doesn't matter what could be there - Havana Club rum, Smirnoff vodka or Amaretto sweet liquor. Foreign - it was already cool ... It was already later, in the 90s, shops and stalls were flooded with all sorts of Rasputins, GorbachevFFs, DaniloFFs, PetroFFs and other FFs. But there was also Royal alcohol, melon or lemon Stopka and a lot of “delicious” things. I can't even remember all the names. So, remember…”
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1. An invariable attribute of almost any festive table is Soviet Champagne. Most often bought semi-sweet and brut..
2. I have never met a dry one in our house. Somehow it was not popular with us in the family.
3. Permanent friends and regulars of festive tables). In the last years of the USSR, vodka in long bottles was increasingly scarce. Yes, and with a screw cap.
4. One of the representatives of wine classics
5. Bulgarian cabernet.
6. Brandy from Bulgaria. As students, for some reason, we really complained about him. Maybe because of the low price .. I do not remember.
7. The same Amaretto. They just drank it)
8. Just as they drank chistogan and Cuban rum. What are the mojitos...
9. Piano alcohol was at one point very popular, often replacing vodka. It was diluted in the right proportion and poured into a vodka bottle.
11. Another 90s classic. Smirnoff - that was cool. It doesn't matter if it was real or fake. The main thing is the label.
13. A 30-degree Israeli shot was with different flavors - lemon, melon, something else. I remember September 1, 1996. We celebrated the check-in at the KhAI students' hostel. A melon stack under a watermelon ... For a very long time I could not look at either melons or watermelons ..
14. One of the many FF-ca...
15. Well, the theme of great power was also very popular
I will continue (or rather start) the story about the beer of the 90s. Although I am more interested in dark beer, the paradox is that the first time I tried a dark sort of Soviet beer was when the USSR was already ceasing to exist, it was in the fall of 1991. Although this is not a paradox at all, but the consequences of a total shortage, as well as not well-thought-out measures to combat alcoholism (although now our new, Russian "dumas" are still eager to step on the same rake).
So, returning somehow from work (then it was NITSEVT - the Research Center for Electronic Computing, where I worked as a process engineer for 130 rubles a month) I saw that at the intersection of Varshavskoe highway and st. There is a truck from which they sell beer from the Red Lighthouse. Quite a typical sight for Moscow at that time, but the beer was not quite ordinary - it was "Tverskoye" light and dark, in bottles of 0.33 liters. and at a sky-high price - 2 p. 50 k.! (Compare with my salary!). I didn’t save the labels, but I’ll give you these (of those times), although they were case-shaped on pot-bellied bottles.
Beer made an indelible impression! Since then, I have always favored 14% light beers and dark beers. Unlike modern Russian mass beer (and indeed the entire world beer, since modern Russian beer is a typical example of mass beer all over the world), at that time other races of yeast were used, which did not ferment beer as much as it is now. Therefore, 14% light beer usually had a strength of 4.8% alcohol by volume (in our time, 6%, and often more). That is, it had a density almost like that of a "side" with a fortress like that of a "pilsner". Hence the powerful, dense, malty taste with a very moderate strength. As for dark... Dark malts with their caramel, chocolate, coffee, burnt, and often raisins, prunes, wine and other nuances of taste have made me a true fan of this beer!
Tver beer began to appear regularly on that heel, and despite the price (and it also rose in price quickly - up to 2 rubles 90 k. - the times of hyperinflation were approaching), I took it regularly. A few years later, I even soaked the labels from these beers (I loved collecting artifacts) and they ended up being the start of my beer label collection. In the mid-90s, this beer looked like this:
In general, the Tver plant (later "Athanasius") at that time was very pleased with its beer. A stunning impression was made by their "Festive". It was a 20% dark beer with an incredible strength of 9-10% alcohol for those times! It was a port-caramel thick drink that rolled off your feet from a couple of bottles! This variety was apparently transformed into "Porter", which is still one of the best porters in Russia (and in the world).
I will also note "Our Mark" - this 18% light variety was created at the Badaevsky brewery for the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. Even then, in Tver, dark beer was brewed more interesting than light beer, so a dark version of Nasha Marka was also released. Well, I will finish the story about Tver beer with another standard Soviet variety - "Admiralteyskoye". Although there is not much to tell about it - the usual light beer in the style of "Pilsen", but with a non-malt, it was simply remembered for shock gatherings in the glorious city of Savelovo, swimming in a nearby stream (in the month of May!), floating away in an unknown direction of money and morning hangover on the remaining trifle with that same pot-bellied bottle of Admiralty. Even the photograph has been preserved - on a pebble near the great Russian river Volga.
Near Chertanovo (near the Varshavskoye metro station), where I have been living for the past 40 years, there is one of the Moscow breweries - Moskovoretsky, built in 1959. While I was studying at the institute and buying beer in completely different Moscow districts, I practically did not come across Moskovoretsky products, but when I started working at NITSEVT and buying beer close to home, Moskvoretsky beer became the main one in my diet. I usually bought it in the market near the Prague metro station. For some time this plant was called JSC "Kolomenskoye". The main varieties were "Posadskoe" (analogous to "Zhigulevskoe") and "Slavyanskoe". The origins of "Slavyansky" lie in the good old "Pilsensky". In the 1930s, in the USSR, "Pilzenskoye" was renamed into "Russian", after the war "Russian" into "Rizhskoye". It was the only pure malt all-Union beer. But it was thoughtless to waste expensive malt, when the Soviet Union could not afford full of inexpensive barley or rice, so “Rizhskoye” was gradually taken out of production, and its place was taken by “Slavyanskoye”, developed just at the “Moskvoretsky” plant in the late 60s. x years.
In general, "Posadskoye" and "Slavyanskoye" were nothing interesting, ordinary light beer, quite clean, not strongly attenuated (by today's standards), so the taste was denser, hopping was not strong. These varieties were much more interesting:
"Moskvoretskoe" - a branded variety of the plant, 17% light beer, developed in the second half of the 60s. Due to the fact that beer did not ferment so much then (5% is modern 6.25% vol.), the best varieties then were precisely the most dense and strong. This continued until the release of "Baltika 9", and later "Hunting, strong", etc., where everything is fermented "to my very best" and therefore the taste of alcohol becomes dominant. After that, many dense varieties of regional breweries bought by multinational companies began to turn into "ruff-like" drinks. And then dense light varieties pleased with a dense, rich, powerful taste. Just a little wine. They were much more hopped than the light varieties, although this was not noticeable over the full malt body.
"Steppe" - I do not have a recipe for this variety, but there are strong suspicions that wormwood was used in it (hence the name) and later this variety was transformed into "Moskvoretskoye, original", where the presence of wormwood is indicated on the labels. This variety only increased my love for 14% light varieties. An excellent combination of dense rich taste and very moderate alcohol. The bitterness of this beer was higher than usual, but certainly nothing close to IPA.
The labels given above, following the Tver ones, were soaked from the bottles and put aside in an envelope until better times.
In the days of the USSR, beer was usually not pasteurized, its durability was 7 days (and often only three days really), so only local breweries were on sale. But since the mid-90s, pasteurization has become the norm, capitalist economic conditions have brought competition, the most successful producers began to distribute their products to new markets. Moscow was the most desirable market, and by the end of the 90s the number of breweries represented on the Moscow markets was simply stunning, perhaps it was the most interesting time for a zealous beer lover (let's not forget about the huge amount of imported beer imported before the crisis of 1998, when the ruble very high). Among the first noted in Moscow are the breweries of St. Petersburg - on the one hand, the second, but on the other, the first beer capital of Russia.
Somewhere in 1995 (or 96) in a store in the Zhavoronki village, next to my dacha, I saw an unfamiliar Kalinkin, anniversary beer - in pot-bellied bottles of 0.35 liters. This pale beer had 18% gravity and once again impressed me with the power of a malty, slightly vinous taste. The fortress was not felt, but the beer was drunk with a bang! The label was carefully torn off the bottle and joined the others. The beer was brewed at the St. Petersburg plant "Stepan Razin". It was this batch that was brewed for the 200th anniversary of the plant, which happened in 1995 (in fact, the date is very artificial, in fact, the Kalinkinsky plant itself is 50 years younger).
"Kalinkin" remained my favorite beer for a long time, I drank a lot of bottled and draft beer (not only in Moscow, but also in the homeland of beer - in St. Petersburg). And this is a good example of how a perfectly balanced density / strength beer has now turned into a banal "Hunt strong No. 2" at the behest of "Heineken".
The second St. Petersburg plant that actively began to develop the Moscow market was Baltika. Somehow my friend Vadim called and said that on Krasnoselskaya, an interesting beer with numbers was noticed in the store. As it turned out, it was Baltika No. 1, light, Baltika No. 2, special and Baltika No. 3, classic. By tradition, I kept the labels, and if these are exactly the ones that I soaked then, then it was September 1996.
Beer was bought and drunk under dried bream. But as it turned out, the bream here was not quite out of place. "Baltika" was one of the founders of "evropiva" in Russia. It was heavily fermented ("Treshka" at 12% density had 4.8% alcohol, that is, the same as the 14% variety). The taste was perfectly clean, only a slight fruitiness was felt, which did not go to dried fish. This beer should have been drunk on its own, its taste is light, akin to soda. Since then, there has been a debate on the Internet - what is better - a clean and faceless "Eurolager" or a full, but often dirty descendant of the Soviet brewing tradition.
After "Tverskoy, dark", I did not come across dark beers ("Festive", which I talked about, I bought towards the end of the 90s), so the next dark beers that I tried were "Baltika No. 4, original" and " Baltika №6, porter".
"Four" was bought in the same store on Krasnoselskaya, on the next delivery of Baltika products and only strengthened my love for dark beer. "Porter" was sold in a tent near the Leningradsky railway station. It was a bottle of 0.33 liters. The barcode on the back label was not Russian, but Swedish, which gave rise to rumors that Baltika brewed the first batches of Porter in Sweden. The taste was amazing - powerful dark malts, moderate sweetness, veiled strength. In general, the taste of "Porter" has not changed much since then. Although there was a moment when the barcode on the back label changed to Russian and the taste became too bitter-burnt, but it was a temporary failure. This beer was rare on sale, but it was always in the tent on Leningradsky and I went there often, although the price for this beer was higher, even taking into account the smaller volume.
That's it for now, I'll continue next time.
P.S. In my story, I omit imported beer, which by the mid-90s was not enough. Those German varieties that I drank then did not differ much from the same "Baltika", and the popular "White Bears" were just examples of "fermented to the very end" strong beer, in which, besides alcohol, there was little to be seen...
Let's remember what alcoholic drinks we have
always stood on festive tables in the Soviet years.
Many of them have not been
are produced, but their taste is still preserved in memory.
At first I wanted to call this part in the spirit of the previous ones - "What We Drank".
But that's why I thought about it and decided that this is a little not correct :)
The first time I tried alcoholic drinks at the age of 15,
and for the first time seriously got drunk at the age of 16, on New Year's Eve. "Port wine 777".
Fortunately, I did not become addicted to the "green serpent" and still consider it evil.
If in excess. But quality vintage wines,
cognacs and viskariki occasionally respect.
I had one hobby as a child. Collected wine (vodka, cognac) labels.
Agree, quite an innocent hobby for a child. And I was just a fan.
You might find a bottle on the street, bring it home, put it in a bowl of hot water,
15 minutes - bang! and a new label in the collection. Friends (mothers) helped
- they looked for treasured bottles of the deep-Soviet period in the cellars / attics and gave them to me.
For several years, an impressive pack has accumulated
. Then the hobby suddenly disappeared, as did the collection itself. But, fortunately, she was later found.
I carefully scanned it and now I want to show you :) Labels for me -
one of the doors to childhood memories.
Soviet drawings, fonts, prices, "I belt, II belt", "Price with the cost of dishes", containers,
kilometer-long queues for wine and vodka, coupons...
Crimea, the sea and the vine, after all.
Do not be lazy, take your time, look at each label -
She has a lot to say and remember.
So what was still on our tables and in refrigerators 20-30 years ago?
I'll start with aperitifs.
The lion's share of wine production in the USSR came from the Moldavian SSR. The inscription "MOLDVINPROM"
will be found in almost every third label.
Sherries and vermouths:
And "GOSAGROPROM" - on every second :)
One of the pearls of my small collection is Hungarian vermouth.
Very popular in the 90s, live bottled beer from our native Ulyanovsk plant (R.I.P):
And this is the same Ulyanovsk plant, but still in the 80s:
The pride of our brewery!
Our plant soldered not only Ulyanovsk, but also neighbors :)
Classics of the genre!
Now this is also happening. But it's not like that anymore...
Hello from China. Their beer. This is the crazy 90s.
We are done with aperitifs, let's move on to table wines, of which there were a great many in the USSR.
Table (dry, semi-dry and semi-sweet) wines:
Guys, this is Checheningushvino! Pretty rare label.
Rkatsiteli is a popular light wine made from a highly valuable grape variety.
Greetings from Volgograd!
Azerbaijan:
Black Sea pink, with the inscription on the boat "Abrau-Durso". It looks like it was made in the same factory.
This small bottle was brought by us from my first trip to the Crimea, in 1991:
Such a small bottle of wine stood in our sideboard for a long time.
Until the wine turned to vinegar.
I have many childhood memories associated with her:
In particular, the dream of the sea began with her.
Abkhazia. By the way, the label is now reanimated and can be seen on the shelves.
This one is from those Soviet times.
Here is a modern label of Abkhazian wine:
Bulgaria has always been distinguished by expensive printing of labels.
Bulgaria 90s:
Algerian wine. I think that ordinary people did not have this on their tables:
Fortified wines:
A pack of the next two "zero" labels, the boys and I found in some basement.
Apparently, someone hid there for an underground workshop.
This one has a very uneven print. Apparently self-made. I will not believe,
that "Abrau-Durso" could afford such a hack.
Did I mention that I had my first drink at 15? I lied.
In church, they poured a whole spoonful of diluted Cahors into us children :)
Well, who does not remember the liqueur Amaretto, popular in the 90s? :)) Sold in every "lump".
Like this fortified Moldovan wine:
Remember that troubled time when alcohol could be bought anywhere,
just not in the store ... In the "lumps", "at the granny" ... Horror.
Here is something else sweet and foreign from those times. More like chocolate.
Odessa Mama!
I like these monsters: "Glavuprpischeprom GOSAGROPROM RSFSR ROSSPIRTPROM"
Probably those who worked there, always gathered for a long time with an answer to the question about the place of work.
Cossack wine:
Flavored wines:
And here even the counter-label with the cocktail recipe has been preserved:
Ports
I have always associated ortwine with something cheap and unworthy
self-respecting person. Like a triple cologne.
"Mom is anarchy, dad is a glass of port." Unfortunately,
the opinion was established with the first experience of intoxication of a strong degree,
what happened to me after the chiming clock in 1996. Bottle "777"
was destroyed almost in one gulp, for two with a friend
- hurried to friends (Vityok, if you read me, then hello). Hmm...
"Agdam" is still Soviet:
"Agdam" is no longer Soviet. And the price went up. Holiday prices....
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And another variation:
Moldovan :)
Georgian port bag "Three bananas":
Sparkling wines (Champagne - New Year is coming soon!):
Champagne in the late 80s and early 90s, like everything else, was not easy to buy.
By some tricks they got a box or two for the wedding.
And it was even necessary to show a certificate from the registry office that it was really for the wedding.
For it’s not good to celebrate for no reason when the “dashing” are in the yard
- drink vodyaru on coupons ...
I didn't like champagne. No, not because it's not like that.
It’s just that bottles from under it were very rarely accepted.
We can say that they did not accept at all. From under vodka and beer - without ceremony.
And the champagne bottles were dead weight in the sheds and on the balconies.
Their only use is slingshot shooting. The glass is strong
did not fly apart the first time, prolonging the pleasure for the second and third hit.
And they also mixed carbide with water in them, plugged them with a native cork and ran into the "bunker".
Yes, motorists stored all sorts of liquids in them, such as solariums, oils and electrolytes. Reliable capacity.
Here they are, dear to every Soviet citizen, labels.
Made and poured everywhere.
Azerbaijan SSR:
Tolyatti:
What had no right to be called "champagne" was called "sparkling".
Abrau-Durso, the king of Soviet champagnes:
And note, one price - 6 rubles 50 kopecks with the cost of dishes. How simple and clear...
Cheap Moscow "pop" for two pee:
Imported from Bulgaria:
From Hungary:
Friends, I'm sorry, I couldn't resist :)
It is modern, "New World". I haven't tried anything better...
Strong tinctures:
End of 10th grade. We are all very adults now, we can decide for ourselves what to drink and how much :) The choice has always fallen on this:
0.5 for 10 people - cool, walk! :) Why lemon?
Apparently, on a subconscious level, they chose a compromise between childhood (lemonade) and supposedly adult life (vodka).
The rubbish is still the same, but it was impossible to show it. And don't forget that this is 1996...
For some reason, tinctures were then made similar to lemonade. Have you attracted children? :)
The only inscription "bitter" said that it was not tasty.
Strong tincture "Zubrovka": Made on the basis of bison grass, it has a mild, slightly burning taste and aroma of bison.
And the price is already a whole red gold piece.
Cognacs:
Our parents were lucky - they could still drink normal, "not burned"
cognacs from Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Moldova.
How many kinds there were! But not everyone can afford it. More expensive than vodka by 5 rubles.
Moldavian SSR:
I found this bottle in some old cellar, half full. Naturally, the liquid was immediately drained to the ground :)
But it was someone's stash.
What is not now. Georgian cognacs:
Azerbaijani:
Cognac of the Dagestan ASSR. Produced at the Moscow Inter-Republican Winery.
Disgusting cognac drink "Strugurash": But for lack of a better one, he also went:
Vodka was as it is now - cheap and expensive.
The cheap one was almost always sold in lemonade bottles - "cheburashkas", with a lid made of thick foil, with a "tail":
Darling - in long bottles, with a screw cap:
And this is how vodka was bought in the USSR:
First they handed over the old container, then they took a new one with this money. If enough :)
"Gorbachev's loop":
If there was not enough vodka, then they took port wine. When it ended and he went to a nearby store for this:
Interestingly, the same brand of vodka could be both cheap and expensive at the same time.
I'll start with the cheap ones. This was usually paid with a tractor driver in the spring, for arable work in a summer cottage:
This was usually put on the table on ordinary holidays:
The capital was not available (in any case, with us).
Prepared on the highest purity alcohol with the addition of sugar in the amount of 0.2 g per 100 ml.
And finally, the king of vodka! Siberian:
Fortress - 45%, the price is almost like that of cognac - almost 12 rubles!
This was ordered for weddings.
Kuban tincture, with a sacramental inscription RUSSIAN VODKA.
Gin, whiskey, brandy, rum:
The fact that they usually didn’t drink in the USSR, because. did not produce. But no one canceled business trips to fraternal countries,
so you could find these drinks:
It is likely that in the "Birch" you could buy.
But this, apparently, was brought in barrels from friendly Cuba and bottled with us.
Bulgarian brandy "Sunny Beach":
By the way, it is produced with the same label to this day. Recently a friend brought it, used it :)
Scotch Whiskey!
What do you think about this? :) What did they drink from it?
Golden autumn, 1 rub. 15 kopecks. - "Zosya"
Vasisubani, 2 rubles 00 kopecks. - "With Vasya in the bath"
Port 777, 3 rubles 40 kopecks - "Three axes", "Logging"
Bile mitzneh, 1 rub. 70 kopecks. - "Biomycin"
Import substitution, it turns out, was relevant in the days of the Soviet Union.
Vermouth, 1 rub. 50 kop. - "Vera Mikhailovna", "Vermouth"
Aroma of gardens, 1 rub. 80 kop. - "Fragrance of butts"
Autumn garden, 1 rub. 70 kop. - "Fruit-profitable"
Port wine 33, 2 rub. 15 kop. - "33 misfortunes"
Rkatsiteli, 2 rubles. 50 kopecks - "Doggy style to the target"
Caucasus, 2 rubles 50 kopecks - "The Beggar in the Mountains"
Anapa, 2 rubles 30 kopecks. - "Sunstroke"
Fruit wine, 1 rub. 30 kop. - Tears of Michurin
The most legendary "chatter" of the USSR
Port wine "AGDAM", alcohol 19 vol.%, price 2 rubles. 60 kopecks, - as soon as they didn’t call them - “Like ladies”, “Agdam Bukharyan”, “Agdam Zaduryan”, etc., etc.
This infernal mixture of fermented grape juice, sugar and potato alcohol in the country of victorious socialism was drunk by everyone - workers, students, academicians.
Agdamych completed his victorious march across the expanses of the country only in the 90s after the destruction of the cognac factory in the town of Agdam, the most famous city of Azerbaijan, which is now completely wiped off the face of the earth as a result of the Karabakh conflict.
At the request of workers in the alcohol field:
Dessert drink "Volga Dawns", strength 12% vol., sugar-24%, price - 1 rub. 15 kopecks. - a glorious representative of the Soviet "Shmurdyaks".
As a rule, this "dessert" was tried only once, because. the second time, the urge to vomit began at the very first mention.
“Natural herbal tincture with tonic properties” is such a long name on the label of another legendary drink of the 70s - Abu Simbel Balsam.
Capacity 0.83 l., fortress 30 degrees, price - 5 rubles. 80 kop.
As experienced senior students enlightened us - elementary students: "Abu" is the best "boot-layer".
The cork, they taught, must be opened very carefully so as not to damage it, and the bottle must not be thrown away in any case: after emptying, you need to pour ordinary port wine into it, carefully cork it, and - everything is ready for the next romantic date!
And finally, one of the main "gifts" of N.S. Khrushchev to the Soviet people - the wine of Algeria, which, with the light hand of domestic "winemakers", turned into "Solntsedar", "Algerian" and "Pink Vermouth".
The people who survived, having tasted this muck, dubbed it “ink”, “paint for fences”, “insecticide”, etc., etc., but nevertheless, almost 5 million deciliters of this swill came to the Union by tankers, which with difficulty steamed after draining in the village of Solntsedar near Gelendzhik.
It was all about the price: "Alzhirskoye" - 14% and 65 kopecks !!!, "Solntsedar" - 20% and 1 rub. 25 kopecks!
The Solntsedar, which became a symbol of the era of stagnation, gathered its deadly harvest in the vastness of the USSR until 1985, when Gorbachev, who went down in the history of the country's wine consumption as the Mineral Secretary, began his fight against drunkenness and alcoholism.
"Moscow special vodka"
0.5 l, 40%, price 60 rubles 10 kopecks,
Dishes 50 kopecks, cork 5 kopecks. 1944 - "Kitch"
"Vodka" 0.5 l, 40%, price 3 rub. 62 kop.
1970 - "Crankshaft"
"Vodka" 0.5 l, 40%, price 4 rubles 70 kopecks.
1982 - Andropovka,
she, - "First Grader" (released in early September),
she, - "Yurkin's dawns" (according to the film)
Vodka "Russian" 0.33l, 40%,
I don’t remember the price, in a Pepsi bottle - Raiska
(in honor of the wife of the "Mineral Secretary of the CPSU" Gorbachev)
Vodka "Russian" 0.1 l, 40% - "Yogurt bum"
Vodka "Strong" ("Krepkaya-Strong"), 0.5 l, 56% alcohol.
This very rare vodka of the USSR period, with a strength of 56%. sold mainly to foreigners.
The legend about its appearance is associated with the name of Stalin: they say, the leader, who had a weakness for polar explorers, asked them at one of the receptions what they drink during the winter, to which they replied: alcohol diluted to the strength of the parallel, on which they the moment of consumption is at the Pole - 90%, Salekhard - 72%, etc., and already at the next Kremlin reception on the occasion of the award, Stalin treated the conquerors of the North with specially prepared vodka with a strength of 56%, which corresponded to the geographical latitude of Moscow.
Peppers are not only for colds!
And we went with her together, as if on a cloud,
And we came with her to Beijing hand in hand,
She drank Durso, and I drank Pepper
For the Soviet family, exemplary!”
After these lines, Alexander Galich simply does not want to tritely comment on this one of the most popular tinctures of the USSR, therefore, only the facts from the labels:
Bitter tincture "Pepper", 0.5 l, 1991,
35%, the price with the cost of dishes is 8 rubles 00 kopecks.
"Ukrainian horilka with pepper", 0.7 l, 1961,
40%, the price with the cost of dishes is 4 rubles. 40 kop.
There was still in the USSR Tincture "Pepper", 30%, has been produced since 1932, but for more than 30 years of collecting, I never came across a single bottle of it, because it was not just an infusion of different varieties of allspice and the first a remedy for a cold, but also a real holiday for all drinking citizens of the country of the Soviets.
The 90s are in the not-so-distant past. You can remember and nostalgic about fashion, films of those years, and also remember the assortment of commercial stalls that have proliferated. Remember, they then grew like mushrooms in all passable places? And the range of goods sold in them was almost identical. Some of those products have taken root and are still sold in stores. And something is gone forever.
Let's remember!
I remember a lot well, because as a student myself, I had to trade in such a stall near the Petrogradskaya metro station in St. Petersburg in those years.
This is what "supermarkets" looked like in the 90s!
The most popular products of those years were probably chocolate bars. This is just from what has taken root and you can still buy it at any grocery store. Snickers, Mars and Bounty - three sweet whales of those years. And Milky Way joined them. Although, to be honest, this is not a complete list of sweets sold in those days. Wagon Wheels, Kuku-Ruku, Fruit and Nut, Picnic, Nuts, Whispa and so on and so forth. Also "everyone loves Mamba"
It is logical to move from Mamba to chewing gum. Turbo and Love from, Stimorol and Juicy fruit, Wrigley and Boomer. What else did we eat?
Well, drinks. First of all, of course, everyone drank Coca-Cola with Fanta, which then became available. But there were other drinks, like Dr. Pepper and Hershey.
Well, the main classic of those years is instant drinks. Just don't tell me you didn't drink them. Invite, Yupi, Zuko. Just add water
Cigarette "classic"
Well, it is logical to move from drinks to alcohol. That they just didn’t drink in those days. But the three items I remember most are: canned beer (it doesn’t matter which one, the main thing is in the can), liqueurs (Amaretto comes to mind first of all) and Royal alcohol. Although you can make a separate post about alcohol in the 90s. Is it just worth it?
And what of the "nishtyakov" of those years do you miss most of all now?
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