{"id":177,"date":"2005-07-13T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=177"},"modified":"2010-01-03T17:27:41","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T17:27:41","slug":"meanwhile-back-in-the-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/07\/meanwhile-back-in-the-ukraine.html","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, back in the Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"
Some associates of mine recently returned from a business trip to Moscow and brought back a box of what were allegedly, and thankfully turned out to be, chocolates. OK, so it’s not actually from the Ukraine; but it’s Russian, so it’s close – unless it was made in Vladivostok or one of the other ten time zones not next door to the Ukraine.<\/div>\n
On the other hand, the writing on the wrapper may in fact say “Made in the Ukraine”. Attempting foods with labels and ingredients written in a foreign language is bad enough, but when you can’t even recognise the alphabet it gets particularly dodgy: there are no potential warning signs to deduce (TESTICALES CON LARDO!) and you start to worry that it comes from a culture sufficiently different from your own to consider tamarind pits coated in Vegemite a delicious treat. <\/div>\n
Nor did the picture on the wrappers inspire confidence. Here is a typical picture of a child on a sweet wrapper from the rest of the world:
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Note the smiles and general impression that the contents are good to eat. Now here is the picture of the child on the Russian Mystery Chocolate wrapper:

Three thoughts spring to mind: <\/div>\n
1. The poor kid just ate one of the chocolates. <\/div>\n
2. This is as happy as a Russian child can get. <\/div>\n
3. ALLERGY ALERT: This product contains Slavic orphan parts. <\/div>\n
In fact, the chocolates were rather nice, so if you can read Cyrillic, please don’t tell me what was in them. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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