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[–] betelgeuse@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

It's like someone read the Parenti quote and took it as a challenge.

Their bland cheap ice cream, our glorious Wendy's Frosty Dairy Dessert Product

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Russian Ice Cream :is-this: fascism?

[–] neroiscariot@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Ice cream with fascist characteristics

[–] Circle_circle@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

invented by Stalin's Minister of Trade and Torture, Atanas Mikoyan.

seems odd to portray Mikoyan as some evil Stalinist when he was a pretty important part of the destalinization gang.

while the French original is made with candied fruit, almond extract and other bourgeois additives the proletarian Plombir bears no trace of such extravagances.

In the absence of competition, there was no incentive to improve the product when the most basic variety was good enough for the masses.

Hmmm yes the obvious reason why this very unimportant consumer treat isn't flavored is because of ideological reasons/because they didn't bother to innovate because of communism. Could it perhaps be explained by simply comparing the USSR with any other developing country? Where is the ice cream for the people in the slums in the outskirts of cities? Where is the ice cream for the people dying of cholera? Oh wait right. They don't get the treats that westerners take for granted. The soviets simply tried to treat their people better than the impoverishment forced onto developing countries even though they had much bigger issues to be preoccupied with (foreign support for the subversion of their state) so they did it cheaply.

Several years ago, I myself ran a Plombir taste test on my very American son and the results were quite conclusive. He deemed it the most boring ice cream he ever had and refused to proceed beyond the second bite. But Plombir's malign influence on Russia's brains hasn't abated.

Actually, having a full large pizza for lunch is actually good and salads are bad because my child liked one and disliked the other. Like your child has actively been propagandized to love flashy looking foods and wrappers with twirls and shit since they saw their first phone or tv. And they're also ingested way more sugar than a soviet child manipulating your child to like to eat junk with way more sugar than this old ice cream recipe. And one of the "benefits" that was mentioned by you was that they supposedly used fresh, natural ingredients without chemical additives making it more healthy. Obviously that would make an American kid dislike the product because of what they're used to.

Also apparently Ben and Jerry's supports Putin! I actually remember something about them and Israel. I just don't remember if it was backlash because they were against Israel or backlash because they were for Israel.

[–] estii@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Trade and Torture is a crazy portfolio

[–] ShareThatBread@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Sugar doesn’t have flavour is a dumb arse take. Sugarcane juice is probably the rawest way of having sugarcane and it’s bloody delicious.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

It has 0 flavor

The main ingredient is sugar

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I like the one reply that's just "the USSR raised Eastern Europe into sapience"

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Finally, a succinct explanation for the Trotskyist split. Stalinists wanted to upllift Eastern Europe, while Trotskyists wanted to uplift cetaceans. :pog-dolphin:

[–] NapkinKeyLime@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Good is when Capitalism adds 50grams of sugar to ice cream because the natural sweetness of milk isn't profitable enough.

[–] windowlicker@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

how dare the soviet fascist orcs make ice cream with just milk and real sugar instead of HFCS and more chemicals than you can find in a chemistry lab

[–] SaniFlush@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

You're making me want to see a Forgotten Realms cookbook with an orcish chapter now

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

How dare these dirty commies not make ice cream out of corn syrup and plastic like God intended?!

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

If you want to learn a little bit about Soviet Ice cream, alongside learning about Soviet "Doctor Sausage", click here for a vid about the history of the Sausage of Socialism obviously it's a video about meat products.

I found it heartwarming how dedicated the Communists of the Stalin Era were to actually making material improvements to the lives of the working class from not just creating a socialist economy but all the way to the little things like getting to enjoying treats like sausages, champagne, and ice cream.

Also lol they wanted to name Doctor Sausage after Stalin

[–] CredibleBattery@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

:sicko-yes: Stalin's Sausage

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

:spray-bottle:

But also

:panting:

[–] windowlicker@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago (3 children)

so NAFO chuds are so dedicated to hating ANYTHING that is even remotely associated with russia at all that this dude wrote over a dozen tweets about a fucking ice cream??? the way this guy ties appreciation for a popular brand of ice cream in the soviet union (which is expected, a ton of people probably ate it often as children) into like proof of how russians are all fascists is some wild mental gymnastics.

[–] BlueParenti@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

It's genuinely shocking to me how fast, how far, and how deep the hate for anything Russian has spread. "Hate the government not the people" went out the window in the first week, now anything that's remotely Russian is to be hated and scorned.

[–] windowlicker@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

in some russian grocery stores in the US, anything mentioning russia at all has been pulled from store shelves and the store’s decor out of fear of american chuds pissing themselves over it. among liberals especially there’s a complete rejection of anything that’s associated with russia at all because the russia = bad brainworms are very real.

[–] neroiscariot@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

I'm pretty sure these are people bullied off of 4chan, then forged in reddit. It makes me irrationally angry how lame they are.

[–] windowlicker@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

and aside from the totally crazy assumptions this guy is making about something that’s literally just milk and sugar, i have heard from my russian family that plombir was actually very delicious back in the day so this is probably just cope.

[–] ssjmarx@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Go into the replies and like the third one is about somebody who tried and liked Ukrainian Plombir, because of course it was a Soviet dessert not just a Russian one.