mmmmm, saucecorivaxSeptember 27 2007, 16:58:34 UTC
Okay, so we had just gotten into Ukraine, and we'd stopped at a "Highlander" restaurant, which is the sort of place where all the furniture is made of rough-cut wood, and the walls are hung with deer heads and there are giant wooden figurines of gnomes everywhere and the waitresses wear fake corsets. And the waitress we got spoke a little German and was willing to pantomime, so we ordered french fries and Ukrainian dumplings. She brought us french fries, and caladri put vinegar on them (caladri is secretly british - she'd totally deny that, but the fries give her away, as does her taste in music).
And the waitress comes bolting over, and says, "No no no no! Sauce!" and brings over a bottle of red, ketchup-looking sauce. She's very protective of Ukrainian cuisine - she also scolds us for eating the dumplings wrong. Anyway, so we try a bit of the sauce...
and it's amazing. Like ketchup, but spicy - almost curry, or that sort of silver flavor curry has sometimes that tastes a bit like Maple syrup or Bailey's but not sweet - do you know the one I
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I'm deeply amused at the sort of accent revealed in what you chose to phoneticize with. There's a certain way that Russians phoneticize everything, that's different. So it took me a bit. :)
(Also: hard signs never go after vowels. Hard and soft signs are only for consonants. For an 'eh' instead of a 'yeh', you write э instead of е.)
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how did I do? My cyrillic is a bit rusty!
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And the waitress comes bolting over, and says, "No no no no! Sauce!" and brings over a bottle of red, ketchup-looking sauce. She's very protective of Ukrainian cuisine - she also scolds us for eating the dumplings wrong. Anyway, so we try a bit of the sauce...
and it's amazing. Like ketchup, but spicy - almost curry, or that sort of silver flavor curry has sometimes that tastes a bit like Maple syrup or Bailey's but not sweet - do you know the one I ( ... )
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I'm deeply amused at the sort of accent revealed in what you chose to phoneticize with. There's a certain way that Russians phoneticize everything, that's different. So it took me a bit. :)
(Also: hard signs never go after vowels. Hard and soft signs are only for consonants. For an 'eh' instead of a 'yeh', you write э instead of е.)
*stops being annoying now*
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