Macdonalds
Quite recently, we could celebrate an interesting event – 35 years since the opening of the first McDonald’s restaurant in Russia. This event at...
Category: Food (drink)
Ice cream and soda whenever you want
In the USSR, ice cream and soda were always available everywhere. In every store, on every corner, you could find an ice cream kiosk...
Soda machines
You can’t do without this attribute of the USSR. For some reason, it is considered to be the most striking and typical thing from...
Soviet sausage
Soviet sausage was one of the most famous products in the USSR, which was produced and sold in public and state stores and kiosks....
Coca Cola, Fanta, Pepsi Cola in the USSR
Coca-Cola, Fanta, and Pepsi-Cola were rare in the USSR from the 1920s to the 1980s. Instead, Soviet imitations of these famous drinks were popular...
Products – symbols of the USSR. Tea with an elephant, milk in triangular bags, Druzhba cheese
The basis of the Soviet people’s diet was: bread, potatoes and other vegetables, buckwheat and pearl barley, canned goods, fish. In their vegetable gardens,...
Beer houses
In the USSR there were beer establishments called “pivnushki”. They usually sold different types of beer (Zhigulevskoe, Moskovskoe, Leningradskoe, Yachmenniy Kolos, Rizhskoe, Ukrainskoe, Velvet,...
Food in the USSR
There were several periods in the USSR that affected the availability and diversity of food products. In the 30-50s, during industrialization, people’s opportunities were...