No wonder the Soviet ice cream was considered so tasty.
Ice cream. Staples have probably all children. And many adults also do not mind to eat this sweet dessert. Many still recall with nostalgia the taste of the ice cream, which had in childhood. I’m not going to compare the modern and old types of ice cream, their production technology. I just want to remember the old ice cream from my childhood that is gone forever.
Was a common tale, that the foreign tourists thought: the Soviet Union need to come for three reasons – to watch ballet, go to the circus and taste the ice cream. Don’t know whether it’s true or not, but the ice cream was really great.
The most popular Union used an ordinary ice cream in a plain waffle Cup (special luck was when a cone crunched). Until the 80s it was worth 19 kopecks., and the surrender of one penny, of course, got the saleswoman. Then the authorities realized that this is wrong and the ice cream was worth exactly 20 cents. The most delicious ice cream in waffle cups the Soviet Union were sold, probably, in the Moscow TSUM, Gum and “Children’s world”.
The range of ice-cream in different cities have been different. For example, in Gordes, where all the time, there were only 4 kinds of ice cream: sherbet, milk, creamy and ice-cream. Well, there was more variation with packing – retainer, a paper Cup with a stick and waffle Cup. The price was, if not mistaken, 10 cents and milk sherbet, butter 13 cents, 18 cents a briquette of ice cream and 20 cents for a cone of ice cream. It’s in the 80s
Coming to the major cities (Moscow or Leningrad) I learned that there are other varieties of ice cream. First and foremost I really wanted to try the “Popsicle”. Ice cream on a stick Yes, and the chocolate was almost riding the wishes of the child (I now say).
Ice cream cartons and cones were sold without any packaging. The top portion was “sticky” paper circle with the manufacturer, price, standard and something else, and this circle some irresponsible citizens often molded not getting much.
And there were more “ice cream”, where the ice cream with a spoon superimposed colored balls in white, creme brulee, chocolate, nutty, pink ice cream. All this could be watered from the top with liquid chocolate or fruit syrups and jams, and begin to fall nucleoli hazelnuts or grated chocolate. Those specialized in cafes (or in simple restaurants) there were even such delights as ice cream, champagne, brandy, and liqueurs, and even ice cream with a burning upstairs with a piece of dry alcohol.
Era of ice cream in the Soviet Union started in 1936, when food Commissar Anastas Mikoyan, after his visit to America, formulated the main task: “to make ice cream mass product, releasing it at an affordable price.” And a year rolled off the first batch of Goodies. He was released on a single GOST, therefore, in every city of the country citizens ate the same kinds of ice cream. However, until the province range of ice cream came in a shortened version. A real symbol of the era was a Popsicle. To promote a new product decided to use the penguin, associating the consumer with the cold, and apparently with the exotic. The first decades of Soviet eskimo was purely a handmade product: each glazed portion of the packaging is carefully wrapped in paper. The wand, incidentally, was made separately. And only in 1947, with the advent of special equipment, the production of ice-cream has become more widespread (it started to make not only in the capital), and the ice cream took on the form of “that” Popsicle stick.
We eat ice cream in 30-degree heat and 25-degree frost, and every year, according to statistics, “destroy” more than half a million tons of favorite treats, some species of which have reached us from the Soviet era.
His legendary Soviet ice cream flavor is obliged to uniform scales that documentation was listed under the symbol 117-41. It was introduced in March 1941 and was considered almost the most stringent in the world – only natural ingredients and no “chemistry”!
Stoically endure surgery to remove the tonsils Soviet child could only when they learned that the entire postoperative period it will be fed ice cream at public expense. Probably the most favorite – ice-cream. But parents could take this opportunity to order ice cream, some unusual and rare. The choice often falls on it, which combined gastronomic dreams of all Soviet children – ice cream and cake in one package. Ice cream sundae in a waffle Cup, decorated with pale rosettes of cream, was worth 19 kopecks. It can be found today in the stores, at this appearance and so beloved in childhood rosette not undergone, I think, significant changes. Legendary ice cream was ice cream from the Main Department store. In a waffle Cup – creme brulee, chocolate, butter – the first thing of several generations associated GUM. It is still produced in the GUM and the secret of its taste is kept in deep secret. In a production shop is not allowed, not only outsiders – reporters and the curious, but even store employees. Ice cream has become over time the cult began to sell in the main Department store July 3, 1954. Just gum ice cream there are nine types. The most popular still enjoys ice cream.
And this is the queue at the cafe Penguin…no less than a mausoleum. Ball color chemistry of ice cream-50 kopeks 90 years old, then everybody wanted to try overseas.
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