Try now to surprise children with at least something sweet, salty, sour, generally tasty. In supermarkets (what is there in supermarkets! Even in ordinary street stalls!) You can buy anything you want: from chupa-chupsa to the whole cake.
The current variety is so great (there are 50 to 200 varieties of sweets in each grocery store) that we ourselves don’t know what else to try - everything has become boring a long time ago.
And now remember our Soviet childhood. Of course, there was no such abundance. But those who complain that they did not try “nothing sweeter than carrots” in those carefree years will definitely lie.
We still had our own “sweets” - the sweetest, the best, the most delicious, with the memory of which even today the mouth is filled with saliva.
Either the products were really better (and certainly more natural!), Or the “nostalgia effect” works this way - in childhood, the grass was greener and the sky bluer - but we still sometimes want to eat something “from the past” century. " And let's recall at least 10 of the most beloved “late-Soviet” children delicacies? Go!
10. Bread sprinkled with sugar
The easiest option, if you suddenly felt the urge to eat something sweet: take a white sweet bread, cut a thick slice, moisten it a little with water or (oh, go for a walk, go for a walk!), Spread it with butter, and sprinkle it with sugar. Mmmm ... Goodies!
And here, by the way, for “savory-faced” there is another way to have a simple and tasty snack until mom came home from work and forced to eat soup: pour the exact same bread slice (just a little bit!) With sunflower oil and salt it with all our heart. The dish is ready!
9. Processed cheese "Friendship"
These are processed cheeses now - these are, in fact, no cheeses, but “cheese products”. And they are made not from milk, but, it seems that they are made of tasteless (or, conversely, highly salted) semi-liquid plastic.
And in the Soviet years, Druzhba cheese was an all-Union popular brand, and its quality was monitored very strictly (as, indeed, the quality of all other products). Friendship had a real thick creamy taste.
One of the simple and favorite dishes that our mothers made of it was the so-called “spreading”: the crushed cheese was mixed with mayonnaise and a lot of garlic and spread on sandwiches.
And besides “Friendship” there were also “Yantar”, “Volna”, “Orbit” cheeses and even sweetish “Chocolate” - also very tasty.
8. Halva from sunflower seeds
Remember the same sugary sweet taste that gives off fried seeds? She glued her teeth, mercilessly crumbled and exfoliated into thin layers.
It was impossible to eat without drinking anything, because the enormous amount of sugar in the composition of that halva couldn’t be easily absorbed even by the most inveterate sweet tooth. But what a delicious thing it was!
And there was also a sorbet: thick pieces of some frozen reddish-brown sweet mass, in which peanuts were “drowned”. It was possible to break her teeth (what’s there: she could even hammer nails!), But we stubbornly crunched, because ... Well, delicious, yo-mine!
7. Strawberries in milk
Most of us in childhood spent every summer with our grandmother in the village. And what can you do there (well, of course, except for "fights" with nettles on sticks, swimming in the river, panic escape from evil hissing geese, etc.)?
For example, go with the same boys into the forest and pick up a full bowl (or a jar) of allspice. Then bring her home, ask granny for milk, pour them his “booty” and burst, slurping and squinting with pleasure, with a large spoon.
6. Dry jelly in briquettes
I remember once there was such a meme on the Internet: “What can you talk about with a person who hasn’t eaten jelly ?!” (Apparently, it was understood that those who are not aware that jelly can be nibbled in principle are still too young to have their own reasoned opinion).
So here we are - born in the 1970-1980s - nibbled on jelly. And with great pleasure! Well, why? Why wait until his mother cooks it (or, all the more, do this long and boring business on her own, even though we knew how to do it), if it is so tasty?
You take a briquette of jelly (strawberry, cherry, cranberry, yes any!), Remove the paper wrapper by half, and bite a little. Acid powder directly in the mouth becomes real jelly - sweet and sour, pleasant, thick ... Mmmm ...
5. Lollipops "Montpensier" in tin boxes
Of course, there was a problem with chocolates in most cities and weights: of course, they were delivered only on holidays (but there was real chocolate - from cocoa beans, and not from soy with aromatic additives!).
But all sorts of colored “sea stones” with raisins inside, big round yellow sweets in sugar (remember those?), Toffee in the form of large tiles (whose squares could be broken off along the lines) were sold everywhere.
But the kids' favorite sweets were Montpensier candies in small round tin boxes. Multi-colored "glass", slightly different in taste, crunched so nicely when you crack them. Well, then in a box (often very beautiful) then it was possible to put all sorts of unwise children's "treasures".
4. Sugar Lollipops
Montpensier is, of course, great. But actually, we knew how to make candy ourselves. Almost every house had special tins (in the form of cockerels, bears, squirrels, fish, etc.) carefully stocked by mothers and grandmothers, in which it was only necessary to pour homemade thick sugar syrup, and then wait until it will freeze.
And if you also tint this matter a little with food colors, it turned out not only tasty, but also beautiful.
3. Two cookies glued with butter
Yeah ... Cookies then also did not differ in a variety of forms: basically, it was either square or rectangular, with some kind of ornament on top (like our current "Jubilee", which, by the way, is positioned as "the same", Soviet) .
But this simple cookie was just moderately ruddy, crunchy and incredibly tasty. Well, since it was still dry, we dipped it in milk or spread it with butter and glued two together. Then it turned out the very thing! And tasty, and satisfying!
2. Nuts cookies with condensed milk filling
Now these same "Nuts" are sold in any kind of cooking, but this, alas, is not at all the same delicacy that we adored in childhood.
First, those - ours - Nuts were homemade (factory-made metal baking dishes for this very popular cookie were sold in hardware stores).
Secondly, it makes no sense to compare the taste of current confectionery products with the same name and those of the Soviet “Nuts” baked with love by mother (due to the known loss of “novia”) - mother’s cookies simply melted in her mouth, and they could do not chew.
Well, and thirdly, do you still remember the taste of real Soviet condensed milk, cooked right in the bank to brown and caramel consistency? Voooot! It was just the perfect filling for Nuts, for Anthill, and for any other baking. Now you won’t find one ...
1. Waffle rolls from home waffle maker
And, finally, another masterpiece of late Soviet home cooking - waffle rolls. Many housewives had heavy metal waffle irons in the kitchen, in which incredibly tasty, ruddy, crunchy and fragrant waffles were baked.
They had to be rolled up very quickly (still hot) and then stuffed with any contents: custard, whipped cream, but the easiest way, of course, was to use the same boiled condensed milk.
Each mother had her own - special - recipe for waffles, which was never given to anyone and never. And what an unearthly pleasure it was - to crunch with a warm sweet tube, smeared over the ears in its filling! Yes, if also for cartoons ... Oh yes! Bring me there!