Brilliant stuff. Thanks for taking the time to put this together. So good.

Lol, thank you for your video! Late night, can’t sleep. So, I searched Soviet canned food and here I ended up. I was seven years old growing up in a well developed neighborhood of Kabul Afghanistan. A lot of Soviet diplomats and advisers were our neighbors and very often military trucks showed up with soldiers in them. The older kids often traded American cigarettes, chewing gum, chocolates with the soviets, for a single cigarette or a piece of chewing gum there giving away a whole box of canned foods. This one kid approached and asked if I wanted to buy one of his cans which he claimed was chicken liver. I bought and I opened the can. It smelled very nice and the taste was amazing. Just had my first bite and an older adult who could read Russian said it was pork liver pate. My grandma wanted to throw it away but I started to cry and my mother and father who were very educated and secular did not forbid me from eating it. After that every time I had some money I used to buy Soviet canned food from the stores or the other kids until I learned the trade myself and I started to trade my father’s cigarettes or chewing gum and chocolates with Russian soldiers for canned food. Some of the cans had no labels or writings on them at all but I still loved them all. Later on when USSR betrayed us and left us to the mercy of barbaric savages aka freedom fighters, it was hard to find canned foods, but I still managed to fed my appetite every once in a while. As destiny brought me to the US, our of curiosity I stated try American MRE and canned food. They’re very delicious but I was still curious about the tastes of Soviet canned foods from my childhood. So I found a few Russian grocery stores and they had them all, some with different labeling and more modern packaging but still similar products as in your video. When I tried them, my reactions were far worst than yours. OMG!!! They were disgusting and nothing like what I remembered. I have to admit the Americans have by far developed the quality, flavor and preserving of canned and processed foods than that of USSR or modern day Russia. What I tasted in the modern day Russian canned food tasted about 100 steps below what I tasted in soviet times. Well, I just hope thing will change for Russia as I love the Russian people and food and they deserve better.

I've been looking for a new, wholesome cooking/food channel. This video is my first here but definitely not the last, love your style!

Oh my God, the presentation was superb even if the food wasn't. the Pictoral textural view was amazing. You did not even need smellovision lol. It would have been enough to say to mother,,,hey I'm sorry but the guys are waiting outside and we are going to be late for the ant circus and the dancing bears in the village Square. Then your mother would say ok but don't eat too much of that fast food the street vendors are selling, you don't know what is in it and I don't want you to ruin your supper

I like your monologues. Continue the good work. I am not sure I will try some of these.

Thank you for the great video! I plan on doing some soviet reenactments and wanted to know what sort of "gifts from home" I could get away with packing lol

I remember the first time I had smoked sprouts. White bread, slab of butter, layer of sprouts, and a thin slice of lemon. So freaking amazing.!

We need the part 2 cans! Still coming back to this while enjoying vodka, beer, and sardines

Thank you. What a great adventure! Would have loved to hear more descriptions of the tastes and textures so we could better share the experience through you. Absolutely love your humor and videos in general. Such an openness to taste discovery! Did the neighborhood cats enjoy what you didn't?

Love the channel! Thank you for providing this to us curious westerners! I hope you are in good health.

I had some really good Russian, Ukrainian, Baltic etc. canned things in Georgia when traveling, on the beaches of the Black Sea, hiking in Borjomi, Mestia etc. Great easy way to carry something way more interesting than a sandwich, and sometimes really surprised us with how delicious. Nice video, good memories!

Just found your channel... Fantastic stuff. Love it!

this video helped re-ignite my canned food addiction.

I love your channel. Big fan.

You definitely deserve more subs man 🤣🤣

Thanks for that. As you asked for some suggestions, how about desserts - Medovic or Napoleon?

I ate some of these when I visited the beautiful city of Tarkov, in the Norvinsk region. These cans got me to ZB-14, what else could you ask for.

That was absolutely brilliant, it had us in tears 😂 If only we'd had this guide for our past 2 years travelling through the former USSR... we could have tried some great delicacies 😁 We're currently in Poland - we'll be sure to look for sprotky (?) when we go to our local Biedronka supermarket this week but will avoid the fish soup 😂 You're a comic genius and we look forward to seeing more of your videos 👋😃😁

Nostalgy))

Thank you for taking one for the team and trying all that stuff, including the fish soup :D

Freaking brilliant!!!

Really interesting video 👌👌really entertaining too- keep it up

Eating my aunts jarred sprat on brown bread and drinking terrible Canadian whiskey- cheers!

Hey! Cool video man! We have cod liver in France, not my favorite stuff but it's quite common on the shelves. They say it's good for health… Never found a decent pâté in ex soviet countries, but the canned fish is usually good indeed. I'd recommend to buy 'fresh' caviar though, the canned one is not that nice. Never got it right with the can opener, I just use it my own way (aka make many holes in the metal and then tearing out the remaining part… Well done!

Had one of those can openers growing up in USA south.

So are the canned meats typically consumed by just eating the contents out of the can? Or is it like when we add shit to jarred marinara? Or add canned veggies to other dishes (beans or corn to rice)?

big man with good accent, have a sub

Awesome! Loved the pork in it's own juice

Only OGs will remember the original name of this channel.

I'm 2 years late, but awesome video

We need a part 2

Enjoyed the color commentary, historical context, and perspective. Looking forward to more presentations of this format. Good stuff

What about blini, with various toppings? I like blini but I don't really know what to do with it

Hahaha I would love to have a drink and eat all this Russian food with this guy. You can tell it will be hilarious from start to finish

You'd be a great voice actor

It may be out of morbid curiosity but I'm always enticed by strange canned food products, I'm gonna have to give the Cod liver a try if I see it at one of the grocers in my area. I used to drink Baltika 9 beer all the time and it came in a similarly large plastic bottle. It tasted weird but was $2.80 and stronger than most malt liquors. I told people it was just water from the Volga fermented as is.

That was risky, man😅 hope you are ok and no food poisoning happened. As always, I can add a few more things to the sequel - мясо криля ( have no clue what’s the meaning of the second word), and завтрак туриста - love and hate relationship - no one eats unless you go hiking for a week, and theeeen this shit is the best once heated. It has meat and barley in it, looks horrible but tastes good if the product is high quality. Мясо криля is apparently some kind of tiny sea creatures, tried that once in my life. Here is a bonus - what you can do with your #1 in your rating - www.koolinar.ru/recipe/view/121855 😂 my apologies in advance

I don’t what’s worst. The food or you biting a scallion right from the stem.

Around 8:00, Prokofiev's dance of the knights? I feel it kind of sets the mood for what you're eating. One could even call it foreshadowing before you take a bite.

It makes me want to eat c-rations.Lima beans & ham where the worst,but even cold ones where ok with alot of tabasco sauce.

I just ordered some Slavos Tushonka. Can’t wait to try this

You facial expressions have me dying lmaoooooo

In Soviet union, food cans you!

Wrote about this kind of stuff in a fictional context. I.e. Tushonka -> “Tosh.” It was known for long stays in the privy, even when long-boiled…

I ordered sprats after watching this and it was so good I ordered two more cans

Привет. Sovietesque canned food, booze, and Community on in the background? Хорошо! I've had the Riga brand sprats before, and they ARE very good.

Bolsheviks ended starvation and malnutrition which was endemic in Russian Empire.

Pollock caviar looks like apple puree🤣

lol borjomi water gets sold here in finland as luxury hipster water price ranged past 4 euro

Would they taste different if heated?

Smoked spratz are great......... As, far away as yellowknife I have ate them

7:40 Once in eighties I ate soviet canned food. It was half of brine and like heart and knee surgery leftovers. Only wild guestion whai it was?

How dare you waste all of this nice quality food while Dussy is only seven years old!

Уха в банке это очень странное блюдо) а вот хорошая тушёнка пригодится в походе!)

Tushonka is good. I put a dollop of it on top of a bowl of precooked buckwheat then heat it in the microwave to melt the fat, and you have to eat the fat. I also put some jam on the buckwheat after it comes out of the microwave.

Cod liver...yum on toast with lemon juice....not just out of the can

Прикольно получилось "выжил" вместо "жил" Очень смешно получилось😂 После такой еды, не так просто "выжить"

Soooo, basically... Canned glop... No, thanks...

Pashtet!!!

So, the best way is to get smashed out of your gourd then you can have an enjoyable meal.

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Just watched again. I die everytime I hear shittiest ninja star. lol

Booze intermission :D

no, quality of food is not "far greater", its far worse and most of the crap sold today wouldnt fly under gosstandart

08:27 Surely meant to be heated before serving. I think yr playing us for the yucks.

Best food in cccp was from baltic coutries. Everything made in russia was awful.

The only thing edible is the vodka

cod liver is best spreaded on a toast with fine chopped shalotte and a few drops of lemon juice ... there is no better canned food than cod liver

Fish with tomato sauce 😐😨😖🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮😌😐

When I was a kid my best friend and her family were Ukrainian refugees who had come to live in Virginia USA. Her parents both got jobs as translators for the government. I would go to her house after school and her mom would always make us after school snacks. It always involved some sort of dark bread and liver wurst. I always ate it because my father would say it insults people when you don’t eat the food they prepare. He was in the military and served in the Baltic’s and many other areas in Eastern Europe. He says he’s eaten more pickled herring then he’d like to remember😂

Vnimanie, Vnimanie ☣

Now I am worried about your health. Do not eat it. Never again. Especially the soup.

It was hard to get into the Soviet Union. [80s/90s] But for both trips my parents prepared us months ahead of time. Both not to say anything about it here in the States. And for the culture shock so as not to complain and be rude. First thing we did was strip down to underwear and socks. Nothing in my luggage was mine and even what I was wearing was two sizes to big for me and immediately swapped out for something much less valuable. I think the food was probably much better in rural areas than in a city but I was just a kid. Most of my memories are of trying to understand what the other boys were saying when learning to hunt and fish their way.

More booze please 😷😷🎉🎉🎉

Braver man than me buddy, with that cold carp stew!! It looks as muddy as i suppose it tasted, who ever thought a bottom feeding fish that can quite happily flourish in greenish brown stagnent barely oxygenated water was a delicacy, they must have been out of their mind...but aye its probably why vodka can be a problem over there as you need the bloody stuff to wash every mouthfull of some foods down with, and to leave no after taste untill next bite, also that if you drank enough of it, it would completely strip your taste buds leaving no need to worry about stagnent fish soups ever again...

Soviet canned food in soviet time was good