I laughed more from your video than I do at most comedy shows. Also your English and Russian are both quite good. I would be interested in your story! Thanks for a great video!
Funny thing is you find canned food in russian MREs. The Canned beef resembles something you would get in an entree. Usually you heat up the can so the beef fat renders/melts so you're not eating a meat block, it becomes more like a meatball. I think you could've just boiled the can in some hot water to get the same effect
Oh my God, the presentation was superb even if the food wasn't. the Pictoral textural view was amazing. You did not even need smellovision lol. It would have been enough to say to mother,,,hey I'm sorry but the guys are waiting outside and we are going to be late for the ant circus and the dancing bears in the village Square. Then your mother would say ok but don't eat too much of that fast food the street vendors are selling, you don't know what is in it and I don't want you to ruin your supper
The 'Kitchen Cosmonaut' is absolutely scintillating! The puns, the clever references, the cultural self-loathing are all very-well portrayed and ultimately amusing. Follow, follow, follow!
First time watching your channel, it’s great. Two notes: as an American who grew up poor and who has had several more interludes with poverty in adulthood, let me just say that I’m comforted to know that our canned foods keep up with Soviet canned foods; also, “Try it if you hate yourself,” shall henceforth enter the lexicon, thank you. Edit: also, West Coast US pro tip: hot sauce on all that stuff.
Growing up in questionable economic saturations on the American south has also given me a taste for oddities, spam, potted mean, sardines and saltines, Vienna sausages, etc. But it seems if you don't grow up with this stuff, you have to push yourself to acquire the taste later :)
They don't keep up. While Soviet canned foods were made of different quality levels, they composed of natural ingredients while most of US canned foods of '70s-'90s were of inferior quality.
The Bolsheviks are totally responsible for the this stupid idea for communism and what race are the Bolsheviks?????? Who own the all Central banks in Every country? And who runs all the media?
Thank you. What a great adventure! Would have loved to hear more descriptions of the tastes and textures so we could better share the experience through you. Absolutely love your humor and videos in general. Such an openness to taste discovery! Did the neighborhood cats enjoy what you didn't?
I really liked this video. It was informative, entertaining and had comedy in it as well. I think your channel will do very well. Thanks for entertaining me, I appreciate it!
Lol, thank you for your video! Late night, can’t sleep. So, I searched Soviet canned food and here I ended up. I was seven years old growing up in a well developed neighborhood of Kabul Afghanistan. A lot of Soviet diplomats and advisers were our neighbors and very often military trucks showed up with soldiers in them. The older kids often traded American cigarettes, chewing gum, chocolates with the soviets, for a single cigarette or a piece of chewing gum there giving away a whole box of canned foods. This one kid approached and asked if I wanted to buy one of his cans which he claimed was chicken liver. I bought and I opened the can. It smelled very nice and the taste was amazing. Just had my first bite and an older adult who could read Russian said it was pork liver pate. My grandma wanted to throw it away but I started to cry and my mother and father who were very educated and secular did not forbid me from eating it. After that every time I had some money I used to buy Soviet canned food from the stores or the other kids until I learned the trade myself and I started to trade my father’s cigarettes or chewing gum and chocolates with Russian soldiers for canned food. Some of the cans had no labels or writings on them at all but I still loved them all. Later on when USSR betrayed us and left us to the mercy of barbaric savages aka freedom fighters, it was hard to find canned foods, but I still managed to fed my appetite every once in a while. As destiny brought me to the US, our of curiosity I stated try American MRE and canned food. They’re very delicious but I was still curious about the tastes of Soviet canned foods from my childhood. So I found a few Russian grocery stores and they had them all, some with different labeling and more modern packaging but still similar products as in your video. When I tried them, my reactions were far worst than yours. OMG!!! They were disgusting and nothing like what I remembered. I have to admit the Americans have by far developed the quality, flavor and preserving of canned and processed foods than that of USSR or modern day Russia. What I tasted in the modern day Russian canned food tasted about 100 steps below what I tasted in soviet times. Well, I just hope thing will change for Russia as I love the Russian people and food and they deserve better.
If you don't like America, I sincerely hope you leave. It is sad for me to see Afghanis in this country. They hate America and all it stands for (not totally unwarranted). I just wish they would all go back to the desert and start a society that isn't founded on the Pedo lunatic Mohammed
Back during the ussr there was no capitalist incentive to make bad canned food. If anything, the ideology was about health and sport and whatnot, so high quality food was desired. Even if quantity was left to desire. Now, russians are ready to sell their daughters for a dollar. And ready to destroy their nations health by selling horrible food to citizens.
It seems you bought the cheapest canned food. And if you want to taste usual Russian canned food just find Russian MRE. Or try to find reaction on RUclips. Very tasty by the way
@@SteveM721S I'll surprise you. But if you want delicious Russian preserves, either pay 500-600 rubles for a 300 gram jar or buy from soldiers, they are cheap but still delicious
I had some really good Russian, Ukrainian, Baltic etc. canned things in Georgia when traveling, on the beaches of the Black Sea, hiking in Borjomi, Mestia etc. Great easy way to carry something way more interesting than a sandwich, and sometimes really surprised us with how delicious. Nice video, good memories!
He did not eat some of them in the way they are often used. Like the cod liver, you spread it on bread as well since it is so soft and many people eat it with butter despite the fact it is buttery, adding some spices to it upgrades it, just salt and pepper can do a lot.
We just bought a Soviet USSR mess kit at the Tbilisi flea market and cook tushonka and buckwheat in it. The beef tushonka is better than the pork we reckon..@ebikecnx7239 channel
That was absolutely brilliant, it had us in tears 😂 If only we'd had this guide for our past 2 years travelling through the former USSR... we could have tried some great delicacies 😁 We're currently in Poland - we'll be sure to look for sprotky (?) when we go to our local Biedronka supermarket this week but will avoid the fish soup 😂 You're a comic genius and we look forward to seeing more of your videos 👋😃😁
It's nice when people appreciate the humor rather than think I was dropped a baby or lived under power lines! :D I'm sure you guys will enjoy the fish! On black bread with some onion and a bit of booze, its quite nice! =)
Its so alien to me that people think all of these are alien, in Latvia we have our own brands of them and I see them everywhere, Condensed milk is a legend and never take it for granted.
First time watching your channel. I like your content very much. I'm a big fan of tinned food, especially odd and different foods from other countries. I'm looking forward to watching more of your videos. Subscribed.🙂👍
I thought Spaghettios were gross, but this stuff is totally next level! This man has the bravery of Yuri Gagarin and should receive The Order of Lenin for the work he has done in this video. If he doesn't survive give his mother a dollar month for his service.
If you don't know how to eat these foods, ask someone who does. Here are some obvious mistakes you made: 1) A mixture of beer and vodka is something that only alcoholics used to drink. 2) Pork and kasha must first be heated. 3) cod liver is used as a spread on toast or crackers. 4) small caviar is usually mixed with butter and used as a spread. 5) Condensed milk, like many other canned foods, is not eaten directly from the can, but is used in the preparation of various dishes.
Hey! Cool video man! We have cod liver in France, not my favorite stuff but it's quite common on the shelves. They say it's good for health… Never found a decent pâté in ex soviet countries, but the canned fish is usually good indeed. I'd recommend to buy 'fresh' caviar though, the canned one is not that nice. Never got it right with the can opener, I just use it my own way (aka make many holes in the metal and then tearing out the remaining part… Well done!
Yea, the can opener is a bit... special. I typically by the pate from more western European countries, but the stuff that's made fresh here is actually REALLY good. As for caviar, I dont know if i really get the appeal of it. seems to be lacking in substance overall for my taste =) Glad you like the channel!
Love this video man. You earned my sub for this. I tried a lot of canned foods living in PK, Kamchatka. But of course there, the common drinking food is prawns. Till one night I drank too much home grown spirits at a friend’s house and the prawns wanted to go back to the ocean. It took me months to go back to prawns. Great video man.
that vodka with beer, i can imagine it tasted of cheap beer and rubbing alcohol, and that fish soup, your expressions told many stories of its wonders,
For sure at some point I will try my hand at medovic, but keep the suggestions coming, I really do consider what people want to see when making vids. As for now, I'm thinking I might make lobio or golupsi next. =)
Holy Moly.....you _ate some those cans unheated?!?_ That gives me flashbacks to my (US) Army days when combat rations came in little green cans...not the best of meals. I suspect most of those offerings would have greatly improved when served heated up...except for the pate & sprats. That being said, thanks for the video, and your infiltered opinion. *SUBSCRIBED!*
Yep, exactly, the fish soup and the pork had to be heated for sure. The best way to consume that pork would be to mix it with cooked hot buckwheat, that white fat would melt and the whole dish would be simple yet tasty af, stewed beef/pork with buckwheat is like russian and soviet classic.
Nothing would have made the fish soup "Ok" to eat, it was wretched. But the tushonka should have been heated, for sure. If I remember correctly this one had oats in it already, while others come with gretcha or some other filling. In the next canned food I will heat it up ;)
@ironwolfF1 Yes, many of these foods are usually served hot, pate and cod liver are used as a spread on bread or crackers, sprats are used for sandwiches and appetizers, small caviar is mixed with butter and used as a spread on bread, condensed milk is used in baked goods and other dishes. The way he eats it🤮 It's like taking a can of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup and a can of green beans, eating the contents straight from the cans, and declaring that both are absolutely disgusting. No sir, you don't do that ! You should use soup, beans, and a few other ingredients to make a delicious green bean casserole rather than gobbling up the ingredients straight out of the can.
I did some work on a soviet oil tanker (a small one) years ago. Oddly, they would not let me work until they had fed me. My first time eating Borscht (it was delicious, BTW). Sadly, i could not fix their issue, as they had a LOT of problems on that ship and no parts to fix them. But the sailors on that ship were extremely nice and welcoming people.
I still have my grandmother's tin opener of the same design. She bought it when she married in 1910. For anyone who decides to use a tin opener of the same design......the chap in the video is using it incorrectly. You hold the opener upright, not horizontal as he is doing. His way guarantees a sliced finger. If you use it upright, the tin edges remain flat, your fingers stay out of the way, and it's safe to use.
I'm actually at work right now. It's 4:00am, and I've toasted you with a strange "health food" hot cocoa that someone left in the break room. Yes, like all health food it's very disappointing. So fitting for this.
You're brave. I'm Norwegian and Cherokee and couldn't stomach any of it. There ought to be an award for cast iron stomach. For the first time since 2008, I've felt like vomiting.
Bro, you were supposed to heat up the fish soup and the pork i believe😁Also as for the pollock caviar - the one you got had shitty texture indeed, caviar not of good quiality for real. Good pollock caviar must be really dense and is actually really delicious(like I for example dislike any other sort of caviar, enjoying only the pollock one), a classic nice way to consume it is to spread some butter on a piece of bread and add some caviar above(actually suits for every sort of caviar).
I am honestly shocked people don't like the tomato fish mix. They have that stuff on sale at my grocery store all the time imported from Lithuania. Its fantastic!
My girlfriend and I eat tinned smoked Icelandic cod liver all the time. It's great on toast with some pickled onion, fresh cracked pepper and a drizzle of balsamic vinegar.
I'd be interested to see each of these prepared in their recommended way as a proper dish. To give credit to the "pork with separated lard" canned item, it's probably quite nice if heated and made with a recommended pairing.
i worked once in a cafeteria. the guy incharge of all the salads was an old russian guy. he told me all kinds of stuff about living in the ussr. when he was young he was conscrioted and sent to be a soldier in the soviet infantry. they would eat mostly canned stuff, but he said that it was a bit netter than the store bought stuff. the only issue they had was can openers. everyone that goes camping packs a small can opener , usually a folding kind, or part of a multitool. the soviets had other ideas. they provided each squad of soldiers with a single, very big can opener that had a long wodden handle. and holding it was a sign of importance in the unit. so it was usually the issue for a sergeant . only he woul dget this vital piece of equipment. one day my russian friend was trying to open a big can of pickles, but the mechanical can opener we had didnt work. so he had to resort to using those tiny camping can openers. he couldnt do it. of course i helped him out. but it was funny to see him struggle with western decadence...
Thank you for the great video! I plan on doing some soviet reenactments and wanted to know what sort of "gifts from home" I could get away with packing lol
The guy that wrote Gorky Park wrote a sequel of sorts where the detective is working on a Soviet fishing trawler. The good canning runs are people food and the bad runs are labeled cat food.
Canned food of the USSR and their modern recipes are not for simple consumption. The best solution is to add to the cooking of the main dish. Such as soups, pastas or buckwheat porridge. In canned food in Soviet Union tomato sauce was better in the past.
This was great, I live in Sweden, and locally we have som "ethnic" shops, I use to try out som mystery canned foods, and I surprisingly still live, anyway many tryouts have been quite nice...
No tins of seaweed salad??? You couldn't buy defitsit Tuschonka in my city without buying 2-3 tins of seaweed salat for every tin of meat. Everyone had STACKS of that stuff crammed into cabinets. We had cousins whose Kolkhoz raised ducks & geese, so we'd give them 95% of our stock for them to give to the poultry... which THEN (shhhhhh, don't ask how) got onto our table lol) On the INCREDIBLY RARE times we saw tinned pork, I remember mum having to buy a tin of squid (in its own ink GAG). I don't remember ever seeing tinned buckwheat - with or without beef. Mum had to make it the old fashioned way lol Translation: in a pot and NEVER with precious meat - usually the traditional Jewish way, adding onion, mushrooms, and bowtie pasta. Buckwheat is already so meaty tasting I imagine mum thought it 'decadent' to add beef lol. I'm allergic to liver, so I know we got a lot of Paschtet, but I was "indulged" and got to eat Salo instead. We live in the USA now - but I we still eat TONNES of Buckhwheat groats (Kascha Varnischkes, mainly), Salo, Tuschonka... SOME things just don't taste "right" with fresh ingredients. Salat Olivier MUST use tinned peas. It's just WRONG with fresh or frozen (I've even taken to making it with tinned quail eggs instead of boiling fresh - half the time I don't even chop them up). Also it's only perfect if you use Doctorskaya (SORRY: I like it with Tsarskaya, but OBVIOUSLY that heavenly Lithuanian creation did NOT exist when the USSR was around lol) Makaroni Po Flotski is also "off" if you use fresh roast beef or ground beef - it has to be one of those from a tin. Speaking of meat... it was - in our city - VERY rare to see frozen beef or pork (let alone FRESH) in the shops, we always knew a Soviet holiday was coming, or a foreign/Moscow delegation was coming through lol To this day my Olga doesn't cook roasts or steaks - I've brought home GORGEOUS ribeye steaks... and come home to a stew or soup made with it. We actually find we don't care that much for steaks or non-pounded/breaded chops to this day. For drinking, we kids got Tarkhun or Kvas; we had relatives in Jugoslavija, so they'd send my parents Slivovic and Rakija - making us VERY popular lol. Anyhow - we live near several Russian/Eastern European grocery stores now, and are able to get the things we grew up with & still love. Sorry, but American sweetened condensed milk is NOT as good as Eastern European. I ONLY make fudge with Bandi - they even have amazing flavoured versions! Soooo good.
For sweetened condensed milk, put some on toast or mix with espresso. It is an ingredient, not something you consume on its own. Like taking a spoon full of sugar as your "Meal".
It may be out of morbid curiosity but I'm always enticed by strange canned food products, I'm gonna have to give the Cod liver a try if I see it at one of the grocers in my area. I used to drink Baltika 9 beer all the time and it came in a similarly large plastic bottle. It tasted weird but was $2.80 and stronger than most malt liquors. I told people it was just water from the Volga fermented as is.
Hahaha= I have a retired coworker who comes in a few hours per week. He speaks several dialects of this variety and lived in Russia for a while. First thing this morning before sunrise he began speaking in Ukrainian...too me. I do not and laughed down the hallway where we give college exams for people from all over the world. I clicked on this as a result this evening. Straight out of the can these are maybe not as good as could be warmed up. He does cook, however I doubt it's these. Have a good evening and a like.
This was fascinating, but also appears punishing. I travel alot and often enjoy walking through foreign grocery stores and looking at the canned goods to see what manner of odd delicacies could be on offer. This lineup is really a Cold War classic.
1st - the soviets had an enourmous problem with feeding the cities. Cities where revolt could happen and they would lose power. So cities were fed at the expense of the peasants. Not great. 2nd - on a more positive note, this eventually led to mass food production and industrialization of Russia. In those days canned food, especially canned meat, was almost currency in the winter. 3rd - as someone who remembers the canned шпроты, килька в томатном соусе, тушёнка.... могу сказать, from the ussr, can say that they were much much higher quality than today. 4th - lastly, apart from fish soup, the rest is actually not bad with some minor prep. Heck, still a great source of food on any hiking trip.
this stuff looks awesome! I wish I could be there to have some vodka and weird canned foods. it's funny. I saw potted meat on tv and then bought some. I forgot how much I loved it when I was a kid!
Super fun video! And I have a question - whenever I've had canned foods, like soup or Chef Boyardee ravioli, I've always heated the contents over a stove. You're eating straight from the can in this video, was that the custom in Soviet Russia?
This may be a list I'd have to prepare before the next time I go to the world food market in St. Louis...because I'm another one of those guys who'd try anything once.
You're supposed to heat it up, or combine it with other ingredients to make a tasty dish out of them. Onions for example make the pork and beef taste much better. You could also add potatoes and cabbage to some of the others with tomato sauce, or make soup also.
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I laughed more from your video than I do at most comedy shows. Also your English and Russian are both quite good. I would be interested in your story! Thanks for a great video!
Funny thing is you find canned food in russian MREs. The Canned beef resembles something you would get in an entree. Usually you heat up the can so the beef fat renders/melts so you're not eating a meat block, it becomes more like a meatball. I think you could've just boiled the can in some hot water to get the same effect
Yea, I've since learned that the tushonka should have been heated. Oops!
But it's actually not bad when its less... congealed :)
I like your monologues. Continue the good work. I am not sure I will try some of these.
Haha, can't say I blame you for not dying to try this stuff! But thanks for the support!
Oh my God, the presentation was superb even if the food wasn't. the Pictoral textural view was amazing. You did not even need smellovision lol. It would have been enough to say to mother,,,hey I'm sorry but the guys are waiting outside and we are going to be late for the ant circus and the dancing bears in the village Square. Then your mother would say ok but don't eat too much of that fast food the street vendors are selling, you don't know what is in it and I don't want you to ruin your supper
I've been looking for a new, wholesome cooking/food channel. This video is my first here but definitely not the last, love your style!
The 'Kitchen Cosmonaut' is absolutely scintillating! The puns, the clever references, the cultural self-loathing are all very-well portrayed and ultimately amusing. Follow, follow, follow!
I ate some of these when I visited the beautiful city of Tarkov, in the Norvinsk region. These cans got me to ZB-14, what else could you ask for.
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First time watching your channel, it’s great. Two notes: as an American who grew up poor and who has had several more interludes with poverty in adulthood, let me just say that I’m comforted to know that our canned foods keep up with Soviet canned foods; also, “Try it if you hate yourself,” shall henceforth enter the lexicon, thank you. Edit: also, West Coast US pro tip: hot sauce on all that stuff.
Growing up in questionable economic saturations on the American south has also given me a taste for oddities, spam, potted mean, sardines and saltines, Vienna sausages, etc.
But it seems if you don't grow up with this stuff, you have to push yourself to acquire the taste later :)
They don't keep up. While Soviet canned foods were made of different quality levels, they composed of natural ingredients while most of US canned foods of '70s-'90s were of inferior quality.
The Bolsheviks are totally responsible for the this stupid idea for communism and what race are the Bolsheviks?????? Who own the all Central banks in Every country? And who runs all the media?
Thank you. What a great adventure! Would have loved to hear more descriptions of the tastes and textures so we could better share the experience through you. Absolutely love your humor and videos in general. Such an openness to taste discovery! Did the neighborhood cats enjoy what you didn't?
Hahaha, my apartment did smell like a fisherman's wharf after this video. I guess the dumpster kitties loved me for this one.
I really liked this video. It was informative, entertaining and had comedy in it as well. I think your channel will do very well. Thanks for entertaining me, I appreciate it!
Glad you like the content, I hope some of the videos I have in the works will be entertaining too :)
The first video of yours I watched. Very entertaining. I love your narrating, you might want to look into narrating novels.
Brilliant stuff. Thanks for taking the time to put this together. So good.
@@SimDeck you’re welcome brother 👨
I remember the first time I had smoked sprouts. White bread, slab of butter, layer of sprouts, and a thin slice of lemon. So freaking amazing.!
They have become something that I always keep on hand and at times can even crave. With or without alcohol :D
have to use dark bread for the authentic experience, also onion instead of lemon
Lol, thank you for your video! Late night, can’t sleep. So, I searched Soviet canned food and here I ended up. I was seven years old growing up in a well developed neighborhood of Kabul Afghanistan. A lot of Soviet diplomats and advisers were our neighbors and very often military trucks showed up with soldiers in them. The older kids often traded American cigarettes, chewing gum, chocolates with the soviets, for a single cigarette or a piece of chewing gum there giving away a whole box of canned foods. This one kid approached and asked if I wanted to buy one of his cans which he claimed was chicken liver. I bought and I opened the can. It smelled very nice and the taste was amazing. Just had my first bite and an older adult who could read Russian said it was pork liver pate. My grandma wanted to throw it away but I started to cry and my mother and father who were very educated and secular did not forbid me from eating it. After that every time I had some money I used to buy Soviet canned food from the stores or the other kids until I learned the trade myself and I started to trade my father’s cigarettes or chewing gum and chocolates with Russian soldiers for canned food. Some of the cans had no labels or writings on them at all but I still loved them all. Later on when USSR betrayed us and left us to the mercy of barbaric savages aka freedom fighters, it was hard to find canned foods, but I still managed to fed my appetite every once in a while. As destiny brought me to the US, our of curiosity I stated try American MRE and canned food. They’re very delicious but I was still curious about the tastes of Soviet canned foods from my childhood. So I found a few Russian grocery stores and they had them all, some with different labeling and more modern packaging but still similar products as in your video. When I tried them, my reactions were far worst than yours. OMG!!! They were disgusting and nothing like what I remembered. I have to admit the Americans have by far developed the quality, flavor and preserving of canned and processed foods than that of USSR or modern day Russia. What I tasted in the modern day Russian canned food tasted about 100 steps below what I tasted in soviet times. Well, I just hope thing will change for Russia as I love the Russian people and food and they deserve better.
If you don't like America, I sincerely hope you leave. It is sad for me to see Afghanis in this country. They hate America and all it stands for (not totally unwarranted). I just wish they would all go back to the desert and start a society that isn't founded on the Pedo lunatic Mohammed
You can thank the US for supporting said "barbaric savages"
Back during the ussr there was no capitalist incentive to make bad canned food. If anything, the ideology was about health and sport and whatnot, so high quality food was desired. Even if quantity was left to desire.
Now, russians are ready to sell their daughters for a dollar. And ready to destroy their nations health by selling horrible food to citizens.
It seems you bought the cheapest canned food. And if you want to taste usual Russian canned food just find Russian MRE. Or try to find reaction on RUclips. Very tasty by the way
@@SteveM721S I'll surprise you. But if you want delicious Russian preserves, either pay 500-600 rubles for a 300 gram jar
or buy from soldiers, they are cheap but still delicious
I had some really good Russian, Ukrainian, Baltic etc. canned things in Georgia when traveling, on the beaches of the Black Sea, hiking in Borjomi, Mestia etc. Great easy way to carry something way more interesting than a sandwich, and sometimes really surprised us with how delicious. Nice video, good memories!
Yea I think that's how most young people enjoy this stuff now. Makes eating in places without modern convenience easier =)
He did not eat some of them in the way they are often used. Like the cod liver, you spread it on bread as well since it is so soft and many people eat it with butter despite the fact it is buttery, adding some spices to it upgrades it, just salt and pepper can do a lot.
We just bought a Soviet USSR mess kit at the Tbilisi flea market and cook tushonka and buckwheat in it. The beef tushonka is better than the pork we reckon..@ebikecnx7239 channel
Love the channel! Thank you for providing this to us curious westerners! I hope you are in good health.
Thanks! Been on a bit of a break, work has picked up. But I hope that I can make more videos soon!
That was absolutely brilliant, it had us in tears 😂 If only we'd had this guide for our past 2 years travelling through the former USSR... we could have tried some great delicacies 😁
We're currently in Poland - we'll be sure to look for sprotky (?) when we go to our local Biedronka supermarket this week but will avoid the fish soup 😂
You're a comic genius and we look forward to seeing more of your videos 👋😃😁
It's nice when people appreciate the humor rather than think I was dropped a baby or lived under power lines! :D
I'm sure you guys will enjoy the fish! On black bread with some onion and a bit of booze, its quite nice! =)
And Biedronka is owned by Jerónimo Martins SGPS of Portugal
This was very entertaining. The canned salmon eggs looked actually ok. Wonder if some of these would taste better if they were warmed?
I love this! Instant subscriber!
Glad you like the video!
Hope you enjoy the rest of my content too :)
This was a really fun watch, I'm so glad I found your channel.
Thanks for the support! Hope you enjoy the fun/weird stuff I have planned from now till the end of the year ;)
Its so alien to me that people think all of these are alien, in Latvia we have our own brands of them and I see them everywhere, Condensed milk is a legend and never take it for granted.
Greetings from Germany. Always love to taste foreign food, especially canned goods from Eastern Europe. Really interesting video.
you do realise that you are supposed to heat up some of these foods (soup, pork with buckwheat, stewed meat) before eating them?
First time watching your channel. I like your content very much. I'm a big fan of tinned food, especially odd and different foods from other countries. I'm looking forward to watching more of your videos. Subscribed.🙂👍
Love your kitchen decor'. Definitely a highlight to please any novyy russkiy, of Soviet times. Who was your interior designer? Aleksandr Strujev?
Im so glad this popped up,funny .informative,made me laugh a few times
Much appreciated, I hope to have something similar coming out in the next few months!
Thanks for the support =)
Really interesting video 👌👌really entertaining too- keep it up
Glad you enjoyed it!
I thought Spaghettios were gross, but this stuff is totally next level! This man has the bravery of Yuri Gagarin and should receive The Order of Lenin for the work he has done in this video. If he doesn't survive give his mother a dollar month for his service.
If you don't know how to eat these foods, ask someone who does. Here are some obvious mistakes you made:
1) A mixture of beer and vodka is something that only alcoholics used to drink.
2) Pork and kasha must first be heated.
3) cod liver is used as a spread on toast or crackers.
4) small caviar is usually mixed with butter and used as a spread.
5) Condensed milk, like many other canned foods, is not eaten directly from the can, but is used in the preparation of various dishes.
Hey! Cool video man!
We have cod liver in France, not my favorite stuff but it's quite common on the shelves. They say it's good for health…
Never found a decent pâté in ex soviet countries, but the canned fish is usually good indeed. I'd recommend to buy 'fresh' caviar though, the canned one is not that nice.
Never got it right with the can opener, I just use it my own way (aka make many holes in the metal and then tearing out the remaining part… Well done!
Yea, the can opener is a bit... special. I typically by the pate from more western European countries, but the stuff that's made fresh here is actually REALLY good.
As for caviar, I dont know if i really get the appeal of it. seems to be lacking in substance overall for my taste =)
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In Soviet union, food cans you!
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Russia has superlative cuisine!!! Putin only eats soviet food!!!
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There it is!
Thanks for all this content this is great!
I think that first can with all the fat and collagen should be heated before eating definitely
thank you for making me appreciate my own food even more -
Fun and entertaining video
Love this video man. You earned my sub for this. I tried a lot of canned foods living in PK, Kamchatka. But of course there, the common drinking food is prawns. Till one night I drank too much home grown spirits at a friend’s house and the prawns wanted to go back to the ocean. It took me months to go back to prawns. Great video man.
that vodka with beer, i can imagine it tasted of cheap beer and rubbing alcohol, and that fish soup, your expressions told many stories of its wonders,
Thanks for that. As you asked for some suggestions, how about desserts - Medovic or Napoleon?
For sure at some point I will try my hand at medovic, but keep the suggestions coming, I really do consider what people want to see when making vids. As for now, I'm thinking I might make lobio or golupsi next. =)
Das gute Schmalz von der ersten Dose ist ein Qualitätsmerkmal! Esst es!
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Gold star, solid reference!
Replaced by the iron curtain, comrade😂
Thank you for taking one for the team and trying all that stuff, including the fish soup :D
Oh lord, I literally have never had fish soup since this day. :D
Lovely presentation sir! Thank you so much for sharing.
Thanks for watching! :)
Thank you for your sacrifice so that we all need not! For this sir , the least I can do is subscribe. Well Done Sir. 💂♂️
First time watching gave u a sub keep ot up
Holy Moly.....you _ate some those cans unheated?!?_ That gives me flashbacks to my (US) Army days when combat rations came in little green cans...not the best of meals. I suspect most of those offerings would have greatly improved when served heated up...except for the pate & sprats.
That being said, thanks for the video, and your infiltered opinion. *SUBSCRIBED!*
Yep, exactly, the fish soup and the pork had to be heated for sure. The best way to consume that pork would be to mix it with cooked hot buckwheat, that white fat would melt and the whole dish would be simple yet tasty af, stewed beef/pork with buckwheat is like russian and soviet classic.
Nothing would have made the fish soup "Ok" to eat, it was wretched. But the tushonka should have been heated, for sure. If I remember correctly this one had oats in it already, while others come with gretcha or some other filling.
In the next canned food I will heat it up ;)
@ironwolfF1 Yes, many of these foods are usually served hot, pate and cod liver are used as a spread on bread or crackers, sprats are used for sandwiches and appetizers, small caviar is mixed with butter and used as a spread on bread, condensed milk is used in baked goods and other dishes. The way he eats it🤮 It's like taking a can of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup and a can of green beans, eating the contents straight from the cans, and declaring that both are absolutely disgusting. No sir, you don't do that ! You should use soup, beans, and a few other ingredients to make a delicious green bean casserole rather than gobbling up the ingredients straight out of the can.
I did some work on a soviet oil tanker (a small one) years ago. Oddly, they would not let me work until they had fed me. My first time eating Borscht (it was delicious, BTW). Sadly, i could not fix their issue, as they had a LOT of problems on that ship and no parts to fix them. But the sailors on that ship were extremely nice and welcoming people.
I still have my grandmother's tin opener of the same design. She bought it when she married in 1910. For anyone who decides to use a tin opener of the same design......the chap in the video is using it incorrectly. You hold the opener upright, not horizontal as he is doing. His way guarantees a sliced finger. If you use it upright, the tin edges remain flat, your fingers stay out of the way, and it's safe to use.
you rock.
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Awesome video you rock be safe out there
Doing my best to, thanks for the support!
@TheKitchenCosmonaut your welcome no problem have awesome day be safe out there
Great vid! Maybe I'll try to find some of these for an unforgettably immersive experience whilst playing Stalker 2
Vodka and some Riga Gold sprats on dark bread with onions and mustard, for a real "cheeki breeki" Stalker experience :D
Funny video, subscribed!
Enjoyed the color commentary, historical context, and perspective. Looking forward to more presentations of this format. Good stuff
You got me at bear on a tricycle!
A cultured reference for a cultured channel! ;)
I'm actually at work right now. It's 4:00am, and I've toasted you with a strange "health food" hot cocoa that someone left in the break room. Yes, like all health food it's very disappointing. So fitting for this.
this video helped re-ignite my canned food addiction.
haha glad I could help!
You're brave. I'm Norwegian and Cherokee and couldn't stomach any of it. There ought to be an award for cast iron stomach. For the first time since 2008, I've felt like vomiting.
I appreciate the pause to drink together but I was already drunk when I started the video. SALUTE.
Bro, you were supposed to heat up the fish soup and the pork i believe😁Also as for the pollock caviar - the one you got had shitty texture indeed, caviar not of good quiality for real. Good pollock caviar must be really dense and is actually really delicious(like I for example dislike any other sort of caviar, enjoying only the pollock one), a classic nice way to consume it is to spread some butter on a piece of bread and add some caviar above(actually suits for every sort of caviar).
Most of this cans you have to warm up or cook dishes from that.
Just found your channel... Fantastic stuff. Love it!
I am honestly shocked people don't like the tomato fish mix. They have that stuff on sale at my grocery store all the time imported from Lithuania. Its fantastic!
Thank you from The Culinary Institute of America.
Your bravery is admirable
Can't believe you ate all of them cold
My girlfriend and I eat tinned smoked Icelandic cod liver all the time. It's great on toast with some pickled onion, fresh cracked pepper and a drizzle of balsamic vinegar.
I'd be interested to see each of these prepared in their recommended way as a proper dish. To give credit to the "pork with separated lard" canned item, it's probably quite nice if heated and made with a recommended pairing.
Your English is excellent! Judging by your accent, did you study in the West??
i worked once in a cafeteria. the guy incharge of all the salads was an old russian guy. he told me all kinds of stuff about living in the ussr. when he was young he was conscrioted and sent to be a soldier in the soviet infantry. they would eat mostly canned stuff, but he said that it was a bit netter than the store bought stuff. the only issue they had was can openers. everyone that goes camping packs a small can opener , usually a folding kind, or part of a multitool. the soviets had other ideas. they provided each squad of soldiers with a single, very big can opener that had a long wodden handle. and holding it was a sign of importance in the unit. so it was usually the issue for a sergeant . only he woul dget this vital piece of equipment. one day my russian friend was trying to open a big can of pickles, but the mechanical can opener we had didnt work. so he had to resort to using those tiny camping can openers. he couldnt do it. of course i helped him out. but it was funny to see him struggle with western decadence...
They often just used their service knife. And as pocketknife is probably not worth the cost for soviet infantry they used combat knife or bayonet
I love your channel. Big fan.
The first junk can food is from the contemporary Czech republic (Hamé), LOL.
You should do another canned food video like this one. Theres something so satisfying about seeing weird cans get opened and eaten from.
I have something in the works, should be out in a month or two...
Keep your eyes peeled! :)
We need the part 2 cans! Still coming back to this while enjoying vodka, beer, and sardines
Very fun video! You should do a Collaboration with Ushanka show, a Soviet Smorgasbord!
Great review!!! Really funny. Latvian food is the best. Great Slavic stores in Spokane, Washington.
Thank you for the great video! I plan on doing some soviet reenactments and wanted to know what sort of "gifts from home" I could get away with packing lol
What a wonderful video
The guy that wrote Gorky Park wrote a sequel of sorts where the detective is working on a Soviet fishing trawler. The good canning runs are people food and the bad runs are labeled cat food.
Canned food of the USSR and their modern recipes are not for simple consumption. The best solution is to add to the cooking of the main dish. Such as soups, pastas or buckwheat porridge.
In canned food in Soviet Union tomato sauce was better in the past.
Interesting/informative/entertaining 😉. Isn't that what prisoners in the gulag labor camp eat -???😲.
That was fun. Thank you )
This was great, I live in Sweden, and locally we have som "ethnic" shops, I use to try out som mystery canned foods, and I surprisingly still live, anyway many tryouts have been quite nice...
I admire your bravery
You are funny! Thanks for the history lesson.
Glad you liked it!
No tins of seaweed salad??? You couldn't buy defitsit Tuschonka in my city without buying 2-3 tins of seaweed salat for every tin of meat. Everyone had STACKS of that stuff crammed into cabinets. We had cousins whose Kolkhoz raised ducks & geese, so we'd give them 95% of our stock for them to give to the poultry... which THEN (shhhhhh, don't ask how) got onto our table lol) On the INCREDIBLY RARE times we saw tinned pork, I remember mum having to buy a tin of squid (in its own ink GAG). I don't remember ever seeing tinned buckwheat - with or without beef. Mum had to make it the old fashioned way lol Translation: in a pot and NEVER with precious meat - usually the traditional Jewish way, adding onion, mushrooms, and bowtie pasta. Buckwheat is already so meaty tasting I imagine mum thought it 'decadent' to add beef lol. I'm allergic to liver, so I know we got a lot of Paschtet, but I was "indulged" and got to eat Salo instead. We live in the USA now - but I we still eat TONNES of Buckhwheat groats (Kascha Varnischkes, mainly), Salo, Tuschonka... SOME things just don't taste "right" with fresh ingredients. Salat Olivier MUST use tinned peas. It's just WRONG with fresh or frozen (I've even taken to making it with tinned quail eggs instead of boiling fresh - half the time I don't even chop them up). Also it's only perfect if you use Doctorskaya (SORRY: I like it with Tsarskaya, but OBVIOUSLY that heavenly Lithuanian creation did NOT exist when the USSR was around lol) Makaroni Po Flotski is also "off" if you use fresh roast beef or ground beef - it has to be one of those from a tin. Speaking of meat... it was - in our city - VERY rare to see frozen beef or pork (let alone FRESH) in the shops, we always knew a Soviet holiday was coming, or a foreign/Moscow delegation was coming through lol To this day my Olga doesn't cook roasts or steaks - I've brought home GORGEOUS ribeye steaks... and come home to a stew or soup made with it. We actually find we don't care that much for steaks or non-pounded/breaded chops to this day. For drinking, we kids got Tarkhun or Kvas; we had relatives in Jugoslavija, so they'd send my parents Slivovic and Rakija - making us VERY popular lol. Anyhow - we live near several Russian/Eastern European grocery stores now, and are able to get the things we grew up with & still love. Sorry, but American sweetened condensed milk is NOT as good as Eastern European. I ONLY make fudge with Bandi - they even have amazing flavoured versions! Soooo good.
very enetertaining, keep up the good work
Much appreciated!
For sweetened condensed milk, put some on toast or mix with espresso. It is an ingredient, not something you consume on its own. Like taking a spoon full of sugar as your "Meal".
It may be out of morbid curiosity but I'm always enticed by strange canned food products, I'm gonna have to give the Cod liver a try if I see it at one of the grocers in my area. I used to drink Baltika 9 beer all the time and it came in a similarly large plastic bottle. It tasted weird but was $2.80 and stronger than most malt liquors. I told people it was just water from the Volga fermented as is.
Give cod liver a go, not bad stuff. Try it with mustard too!
Canned food can be quite the gamble, but one always worth taking - well almost...
Think I enjoyed your vid more than you did.Great stuff 😂
Haha, much appreciated!
Hahaha= I have a retired coworker who comes in a few hours per week. He speaks several dialects of this variety and lived in Russia for a while. First thing this morning before sunrise he began speaking in Ukrainian...too me. I do not and laughed down the hallway where we give college exams for people from all over the world. I clicked on this as a result this evening. Straight out of the can these are maybe not as good as could be warmed up. He does cook, however I doubt it's these. Have a good evening and a like.
This was fascinating, but also appears punishing. I travel alot and often enjoy walking through foreign grocery stores and looking at the canned goods to see what manner of odd delicacies could be on offer. This lineup is really a Cold War classic.
Preevyet ,Tovarische! I remember drinking Vodka with Piva in Vladivostok when my ship ported there in 1993. Great memories!-Vanya in Texas
1st - the soviets had an enourmous problem with feeding the cities. Cities where revolt could happen and they would lose power. So cities were fed at the expense of the peasants. Not great.
2nd - on a more positive note, this eventually led to mass food production and industrialization of Russia. In those days canned food, especially canned meat, was almost currency in the winter.
3rd - as someone who remembers the canned шпроты, килька в томатном соусе, тушёнка.... могу сказать, from the ussr, can say that they were much much higher quality than today.
4th - lastly, apart from fish soup, the rest is actually not bad with some minor prep. Heck, still a great source of food on any hiking trip.
this stuff looks awesome! I wish I could be there to have some vodka and weird canned foods. it's funny. I saw potted meat on tv and then bought some. I forgot how much I loved it when I was a kid!
I would like to see you make a video of the various kinds of toys Soviet children played with back in the day.
Super fun video! And I have a question - whenever I've had canned foods, like soup or Chef Boyardee ravioli, I've always heated the contents over a stove. You're eating straight from the can in this video, was that the custom in Soviet Russia?
Awesome video!
This may be a list I'd have to prepare before the next time I go to the world food market in St. Louis...because I'm another one of those guys who'd try anything once.
What about blini, with various toppings? I like blini but I don't really know what to do with it
I've thought about those too, great idea. I could do a savory and sweet mix too! =)
You're supposed to heat it up, or combine it with other ingredients to make a tasty dish out of them. Onions for example make the pork and beef taste much better. You could also add potatoes and cabbage to some of the others with tomato sauce, or make soup also.
That looks awesome! 😎 😊
This channel rules.