Is that sour cream in the soup on the top right… or mashed potatoe?
Looks like a dessert of some kind?
So like, custard? What’s it sitting in thought? Everything else I recognize.
And American factory workers were eating ham sandwiches or McDonald’s lmao
It’s a pretty stark difference. One of the first social projects the Soviets embarked upon, to the point that they were doing it while they were still busy fighting the Civil War/Revolution, was establishing communal canteens for working people. The image of a great granddad in a canteen with his coworkers is burned into the psyche of every post-Soviet country, as surely as the image of American great granddads all sitting on a precariously high steel beam eating their box lunches is to Americans. A culture where food was provided versus one where food had to be brought.
borscht on the bottom left? fuck me that’s a great looking lunch, like the kind of thing you’d pay a lot of money for nowadays at a fancy overpriced restaurant
Looks like an above average cafeteria meal. Apparently it cost like 50cents in USSR money.
sure but look at the intentionality, you know? each element is arranged in a way that makes it look like the sound it made being served was something other than “plop” lol it looks good because it doesn’t look like it was treated like slop
this is fake everyone knows the ussr has no food its all plastic and they took th photo to trick people into thinking they have food.
I remember once on r/oldschoolcool someone uploaded a picture of their dad in the 70s Soviet Union grilling (proving that transcends nationality and political ideology) on a beach and all the comments were saying it was fake because gommunism no food, it was peak reddit.
I dated a girl from a former Eastern Bloc country and she once showed me some pics of her grandpa camping somewhere in the Carpathian’s with her grandma and dad as a kid My sister was SHOCKED when she saw them cuz she didn’t realize people went CAMPING IN GOMMUNIST RUZZIA!
It’s wild how many people straight up think that people never had fun in the Eastern Bloc
Yim yum. Tasty treats. Would eat
