{"id":8870,"date":"2005-04-24T01:30:56","date_gmt":"2005-04-23T22:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/24\/russian-soup\/"},"modified":"2005-04-24T01:30:56","modified_gmt":"2005-04-23T22:30:56","slug":"russian-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/24\/russian-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian soup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Browsing through the threads of LiveJournal<\/a>, I came across this post<\/a>. Quoting:<\/p>\n

Russian soup<\/p>\n

Russians refresh themselves with this cold soup made of ice-cold kvass (weird national drink most closely compared to non-alcoholic beer), sausage, cucumbers, onions, boiled eggs and sour cream – just imagine this horrendous concoction!!…<\/p>\n

And guess what they call this “soup” . … They call it “Ohkroshka”… pretty difficult to articulate, huh?<\/p>\n

And now get ready for a translation. “Ohkroshka” means “Oh baby”!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It made me think. <\/p>\n

Firstly, of course, the unthinkable humor of it. I’ve been eating “Ohkroshka” since I don’t remember when. My grandma usually cooked it. Among other things, my grandma possesses two definite talents – cooking and playing with words. I find it interesting that, while she practically harassed every other Russian word on the planet, she never touched “Ohkroshka”. <\/p>\n

Secondly, I found it interesting how narrow-audienced this post is. Originally meant for the English-speaking people, the true fun of it opens only for those who knows well the Russian cuisine AND English language.<\/p>\n

And, thirdly, of course, how blogging in general and LiveJournal<\/a> in particular help to rediscover familiar things and open my eyes on stuff I long thought I knew.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Browsing through the threads of LiveJournal, I came across this post. Quoting: Russian soup Russians refresh themselves with this cold soup made of ice-cold kvass (weird national drink most closely compared to non-alcoholic beer), sausage, cucumbers, onions, boiled eggs and sour cream – just imagine this horrendous concoction!!… And guess what they call this “soup” … Continue reading Russian soup<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2418],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-humor"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24560,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/15\/chicken-noodle-soup-kid\/","url_meta":{"origin":8870,"position":0},"title":"Chicken noodle soup kid","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 15, 2015","format":"image","excerpt":"Chicken noodle soup kid","rel":"","context":"In "Instagram"","block_context":{"text":"Instagram","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/photography\/instagram\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11428385_1479282702391461_27100595_n.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11428385_1479282702391461_27100595_n.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11428385_1479282702391461_27100595_n.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8474,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/13\/you-know-youre-russian\/","url_meta":{"origin":8870,"position":1},"title":"You Know You’re Russian","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 13, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"When...","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16730,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/20\/russian-for-a-president-in-cyprus-really\/","url_meta":{"origin":8870,"position":2},"title":"Russian for a president in Cyprus, really?","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 20, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Cyprus Mail is a lot of fun today. 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