How This Socialist Sausage Changed the World
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- čas přidán 2. 08. 2024
- You know Schnitzel and you know Bologna Sausage, also known as Mortadella. But did you know in former Socialist East Germany, they made Schnitzel from Sausage? This is the story of the Lost Sausages of Communism.
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250g lean pork
50g beef
90g milk
8g salt
3g sugar
0,5g ground cardamom
0,1g ground nutmeg
3 eggs (3x60g)
10 drops (1g) of red food coloring
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100g butter
1 onion, minced
1 Tbsp flour
1 Tbsp tomato paste
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp sugar
1/2 cup ketchup
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Written & Directed by Andong
2nd Camera & Editing by Eypee Kaamiño
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Spanish subtitles by Daniel González
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Introduction to Socialist Schnitzel and Doctor Sausage: (0:00)
The History of Bologna Sausage: (2:23)
The Rise of Soviet Sausage Culture: (6:44)
Doctor Sausage Comes to East Germany: (16:17)
How to make Doctor Sausage: (18:35) - Jak na to + styl
Slav Squad, where you at? :D
Здесь 😎
Blyat...too lyat...
🤭
Туть!
Антоха, твоя бабуля - 🔥
Чё?
your grandmother is a treasure
Came here to say this.
Same.
She’s obviously taken you sick creep
At the end you could really watch her going back in time to her first experiences of eating the sausage. ❤️
I was just about to say the same thing. And I can see where Andong got his storytelling skills from
Your grandmother talked about Doctor's Sausage like she was telling a fairy tale at night, such a precious lady.
Such as all Babushka i hear..
because good doktorskaya truly is amazing
I hear a good Babushka
You obviously missed the part where she said “ as a kid when your hungry things taste good and your happy to not be starving”
That’s the nice way of saying
“Communist/socialist rule resulted in us not having a lot of food so this one thing, which is now considered garbage poor people food, was amazing”
Try not to dress up her memories of totalitarian murders and a command economy that failed with window dressings fam.
I didnt missed it blyat
My mother was originally from El Salvador. Growing up, mortadella or bologna was a Christmastime treat, as it was more expensive than steak. Until her dying day, I would buy mortadella (especially with pistachio) and she would tell me how special it was for her and brought her back to the 1950s.
This looks to me like:
Boris, but sophisticated.
Boris is a smart boy, he just does his stunts for fun. He usually educates people as well in his vids.
@@slouberiee I used his videos to start cooking with my Russian room mate and he loves the fact that now our outside fridge has home brewed kavas on tap lol.
"Back when the trees were tall"... that is a really nice saying, describing exactly how you felt as a kid. And your grandmother must be a very good storyteller, so energetic. Great video!
Loved that expression 😍 The magic of childhood is hard to describe but that is a lovely way of saying it 😁
It's a way better than in the old days, or when I was young... however in Eastern Europe, there's a lot of such sayings, if we look at what counts as Eastern and Western Europe, traditionally, and not in modern times, we'll see that Norway, Sweden, Finland also belong to Eastern Europe, alongside Russia, Poland, Baltics, etc. Everyone uses these kind of sayings, they're mostly dying out though. Finland have a lot of old Swedish sayings that they've kept alive. Such as "to the forest" which is basically to hell...
I love this expression! ( and your Granma, wish she were mine ❤️)
PROTECC BABUSHKA
Da
Fo shizzle.
Si
compañera abuela
Ja
Watching 20 minutes of medieval Italian and early soviet food history just to watch some guy make a bologna schnitzel. Worth it
im hungry now
Because of this video I now know that the people of Bologne have been pounding their meat for thousands of years 🤣
Hearing and seeing an elderly Russian woman reminiscing about foods of the Soviet era was something I didn't know I needed. Andong, your grandmother is an international treasure.
and nutmeg.
John Townsend has entered the chat.
Jon can give up nutmeg any time he wants to! He just doesn't want to!
I was just thinking that he'd like to see this video!
ROFL I've found my people!
😆
It has to bee fresh nutmeg for him
Asking a German to describe Jägerschnitzel is the quickest way to find out whether they're from the East or the West. If they say it's a Schnitzel with a creamy mushroom sauce they're from the West. If they describe the one you made in the video they're definitely from the East.
The east Jägerschnitzel is way better than the mushroom shit
Baba Arsch I will have to disagree. I ate both regularly while growing up the mushroom sauce adds something onto a good thing while the eastern version was born out of necessity and replaces a great thing(veal) with a let’s be honest still good but worse alternative.
I would say a waste of good food where ma i from?
the Mushroom Sauce Schnitzel .. is called "Schnitzel nach Jägerart" :) Jägerschnitzel is the EastGerman Version and ofc the best Version ;)
Hey guys,
both is comfort food, but not really delicious. Why would you put creamy mushroom sauce on a crispy schnitzel? Why would you put a panade on a sausage. Sorry for spoiling the party, but there is better things to eat. For instance tasty Bratwurst from Thüringen or Franken.
I really love “back when the trees were tall” as an idiom for childhood. It has nostalgia woven right into it.
I agree. It's a beautiful turn of phrase.
Can we take a moment to acknowledge how absolutely delightful and lively his grandmother is? Wholesome content right there and bless his grandmom with more happiness. I loved this video
Finally: Babushka is back! ❤
It‘s the other Babushka this time! :)
Da bin ich nicht kleinlich... Hauptsache Babushka! Und schon hab ich instant Sehnsucht nach meiner Omma... 😊
if you ever want a girlfriend, speak of her as this grandma speaks about Doctor Sausage.
"and so I sliced her up and put the slices on white buttered bread and ate it!"
Haha, exactly
But don’t mention the part where she declined in quality after the mid 60s
@@spectralv709 and.... "that's not an (my) opinion, everyone said it"
@@MyPhobo Sounds about right 😂
Your grandmother is a joy and a delight. Bless her and thank you for sharing her with us. ❤️
"... and chew it slo-mo." xD
Now I wasn't expecting a skit about a sausage to be the best, most expansive AND intersting history lesson I've ever had.
Good job!
"Back when trees were tall", what a wonderful and poetic expression for childhood.
Funny how I can tell you don't read often
@@alexradice8163 I don't know what you're reading but I've not come across it before. A snearing comment like yours does inform me about your character however.
also a reference to the title of a nostalgic film
@@Ralphieboy And the BeeGees - though they sang "When I was small and Christmas trees were tall"
I'm short so
"The term "Doctor's Sausage" makes people feel nostalgic these days. It brings back memories of a place, a time, home, family... and a smell. Whenever my mom came home from grocery shopping, even before she unpacked the bags, we would sense that in there, there is Doktorskaya sausage. It has this very pleasant, but also very bold fragrance, which would not only fill up the kitchen, but the entire place. You had to shell out some cash if you wanted some, so we didn't always have it at home, but when we did - the party was on. Doktorskaya became a sign of its time. When something wasn't of the best quality, we'd say: "It ain't no Doctor's Sausage..."
One thing you have to keep in mind, is this one saying: "Back when the trees were tall". When you're a kid, anything can taste amazing, especially when you spent so much of your childhood hungry, when you were not only craving a treat, but just anything to eat. So I have this child-like joyful feeling about Doktorskaya. I remember the taste so well, it's like I can still taste it.
Of course. Thing is, all the products got worse, and Doktorskaya lost its magic. The original Doctor's Sausage could easily compete with a fancy ham roast. It also came "with a tear" - that's how juicy it was, drip-drop-dripping. Up until the early to mid 60's, that's when things went downhill. That's not an opinion - everyone said it. It wasn't the same. Doktorskaya didn't come "with a tear" any longer.
The best way to eat it, is a Buterbrod. First, you need a nice and fresh loaf of white bread. It's the only way. The springy kind, you know. Smear it with a good layer of good butter, not the salty type. Not salted. And on top, you place a good piece of Doktorskaya. And then, like this...
Take a bite. And chew it in Slo-Mo. So the aftertaste can linger..."
Don't mind me, just transcribing this gem real quick.
I was born in 1991, in NZ. But somehow your description transported me to Soviet Russia, nostalgic for this "Dr's sausage". Never tasted, but strangely, all too familiar.
I.. was a heretic and preferred my doctorskaya with rye bread and no butter. you should have seen the expression of horror on a face of my friend when I brought my preferred sandwiches to our first shared picnic and her lecture how it HAD to be white bread and where was the butter??? (as kids we used to hang out for pretty much entire day outside, so our moms would pack lunch for us to eat. boiled eggs and apples also featured heavily and occasionally a tomato depending on a season, but I digress). I ended up having to bring 2 kinds of sandwiches to all subsequent hangouts, so that I'd have something to eat. she didn't. in retrospect it wasn't a very even friendship O_O
but anyways, it was also the ONLY sausage my mom would ever use in olivie salad. no hot dogs, no cheaper varieties, it had to be special - it had to be doctorskaya.
Bruh rye bread is the way to go
Yesh. Doctor's Sausage sounds like a porn title. Male patient goes to see his HOT female doctor...and then 'things' happen.
@@longshot7601 you mean the female doctor is the one with "sausage"??
“Look I understand that a processed sausage doesn’t look super appealing to someone from a rich western country these days”
Sir, I am deeply offended. SPAM is the meat block of gods, and i’d LOVE to have access to Doctor Sausage here in Canada
You sir are in luck.
The slavs aim to take down big sausage.
Enjoy comrade.
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He said a rich western country, not a fake economic zone with no food.
💀
I love spam fried in sugar and soy sauce over rice
Canada is fake economic Zone with no food?@@LunarLocust
"Please don't tell Steve"
...
"Let's get this out onto a tray.. nice hiss!"
HAHAHAHA exactly what I was thinking. Somewhere there must be a well conserved sausage that he can review.
'Oldest MRE yet! 2000 year old Roman sausage taste test!'
ahh the music spoon
this was amazing. love Steve1989 so much.....
"I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of Austrians cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced by the thought of a Schnitzel made from sausage. With tomato Tunke.
Not just Austrians
lolol so true!
Hey , dont knock our Jaegerschnitzel , lol , it was pretty good .
And noodles
@@sabrinaclarus6290 still is
Girls: "Say something Russian, Andong!"
Andong: "D O K T O R S K A Y A K O L B A S A"
For reference: Watch Dexter's Laboratory
Say it again Vanya: Poshul Blyat
girls probably also crave his doktorskaya kolbasa ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@@halatcibarmen NO. STOP. BAD. SHUT
god i remember that scene
OMG i just fell in love with your grandma! she is precious..... I have lost mine a long time ago and just watching brought back all the childhood memories... thank you for sharing this video
As an Italian I found it mind blowing that ketchup pasta with fried wurstel like sausages is a dish rich in history, tradition, passion and emotions.
"When you're a kid, anything can taste amazing. Especially when you spent so much of your childhood hungry. When you were not only craving a treat. But just anything to eat."
This hit me.
It's something most people don't understand today, food scarcity is a real problem. Hence why all of the environmentalists can go fuck themselves. The less people starving the better I say.
Have any of you eaten canned luncheon meat like the brand SPAM? They are made from all the left over low crappy quality meats, but the flavoring covers everything up and makes it taste good.
@@livedandletdie same team. Environmentalists are trying to prevent food scarcity. The people who profit from the coming food scarcity are the same ones who have tricked you into thinking Environmentalists are the enemy.
@@leovalenzuela8368 there's no food scarcity in the First World right now, only overproduction due to decreased demands from public institutions and culture of overconsumption. That being said, green-taxing and regulating producers into oblivion would hit lower class more than anyone else as they rely on "cheap and dirty" mass production to keep normal calorie intake affordable.
@@livedandletdie Enviromentalists are literally the ones you should be supporting. Food scarcity is not an issue, food waste is, we, being the first world, throw away most of our food, not just the stuff we bring home too. Farmers and grocers throw away a huge percentage of food crops that dont look appetising, or are misshapen, or etc. In poor agrarian nations, the soil is poorly managed and overtaxed, leading to reduced crop yields where they need it most. Environmentalism is 100% the way to prevent most of these issues, not over farming.
I was born in Russia and moved at a young age, after couple of years my grandmother moved to live with us too, she raised me and her voice and manner of speaking is very simmiler to your grandmother.
She have alzheimer for around 5 years now, she beraly talks or do anything , the only thing she still do is asking about work and read, but she doesn't recognize us or even notice us, a shallow shadow of what she used to be.
hearing your grandma speak about the sausages I was eating with her many years ago really bought tears to my eyes,
Thank you very much
Me too in tears just by reading your comment.
maybe bring her a piece of doctor sausage, this may be something she still recognizes.
I lost a grandmother to Alzheimer a couple years ago.. There is nothing I can say to comfort you but I feel your pain.
I’m so sorry. I lost my grandmother to Alzheimer’s, also.
@@PhilipNiedermann Good suggestion. Smell is the deepest and most primal of our senses. @sofi bonch I hope you can get your gm some and that she tells you about her memories of it.
I'm from Poland and when I was a kid, my mum was making Schnitzel's from mortadella sometimes (it wasn't the original one obviously, looked more like Doktorskaya and was of much lower quality). She don't make them anymore, but I'm sure there are people here, who still do this today. And the pasta you've made - this is what we called "spaghetti" for a long time :D The only difference is, that we were adding sliced kiełbasa into the sauce. I still do this "spaghetti" from time to time, so I can go back to my childhood
Hearing your Babushka/grossmutter speak made me feel really fortunate to have grown up in the West.
A lovely woman, you can see she's positive even when reminiscing about what must've surely been hard times through her life.
I want that sweet old lady to have whatever she wants. What an absolute boss.
Damn, even translated from Russian to English, your grandma can weave a tapestry with her words
Strumming my pain with her fingers...
fo shizzle!
As a Russian I can confirm that she has a way with words :-)
Бабушка просто золото. Такую артикулированную речь давно не слышал.
Будто актриса классического кино говорит.
@@moron1138 It's very relaxing to listen to her, isn't it? Made me smile. Greetings from Berlin!
Твоя бабушка - просто прелесть! Она так красиво рассказывает что мне прямо захотелось кусок докторской!
Doctor sausage.
*Life of Boris has entered the chat.*
Buterbrod
Ingredients:
-Buter
-Brod
@@bluprint27 thats wrong you need some Doctor sausage
nothing is good without doctor sausage
@@omerfarukugur7070 What about majonez
How do you say "cheeki breeki i v damke" in German?
Blyat
Well, that call your with nan was one of the most wholesome and sweet things I've seen all year. Good on ya mate for the uplift.
Grandma needs a youtube channel, could listen to her stories of Old Country all day!
"Please don't tell Steve"
Hm, let's get this mummified Roman sausage out onto a tray. Nice.
Haha, was looking for that :D
I thought I would be the only one to catch that. Nice!
Nope. Not the only fans around here! I love it
Oh no you didn't!
Let the excavation continue! Steve will find that mummified sausage amd eat it I tell you!!!
@@infoninja nice hisssssss. Hiya!
>US early meat processing plants
>"highly regulated"
Andong, my boy...
The Jungle was released in 1906, later that same year the Meat Inspection Act was passed
@@cortes2j I sincerely hope so!! But even in The Jungle they had a meat inspector, for all the fat good it did anyone.
Phoney-balagoney isn't an idiom for nothing.
The sound of factory rats screeching as they're processed into a sausage.
NO BIAS, CALM DOWN !
CAPITALISM IS GOOD-STALIN IS BAD !
Your Grandma is the best! I loved to hear her talk (even though I speak no Russian). She is so authentic. Kudos for a wonderful video.
Might sound a bit creepy, but listening to your gram talk about the quality of early soviet bologna touched a weird and special place in my heart and mind. My own grandparents, while American, were poor depression-era kids, and their stories/memories, often had a similar feeling. Bless you both, you took such a mundane subject and made a beautiful and charming video. And now I absolutely have to try homemade bologna schnitzel, it looks delicious.
"Let's get this Bologna out onto a tray. Nice."
-- Steve89BC
SteveMCMLXXXIX
darn you... beat me to it... :P
BONVM
"so here we have some finely preserved Mortadella from Pompei... ca. 300 BC.... great condition on the hardened ash casing.... lets get it onto a tray. Nice.... really smells of roman cuisine, slight hint of sulfur though..."
Your grandma was so sweet. It'd be cool to hear more about her food memories and nostalgia!
Definitely!
Thirded- some of us are enjoying having a "digital surrogate grandmother, vicariously through you". My family isn't even remotely European.
"Food Stories with Granny" WHEN!??
YWNBAW
It not granma its babushka!
There's still great Doktorskaya being made out there, but it's really hard to find. The high-grade stuff is truly amazing. My favourite variant is the boiled beef one. Just like Andong's grandmother, I can smell it taste it.
Watching your Grandmother relive her best childhood moments was beyond sweet man! I love talking with my Grandma about her youth and what it was like growing up, you can learn a lot from them. Great video as always! Take care!
Who doesn't need a half hour documentary about the historical significance of bologna?
SHE"S OUR GRANDMA NOW!
Glorious people’s babushka ❤️
DA, tavarish!
When I visited Prague shortly after the end of the Soviet Union, I went to an Italian restaurant and ordered spaghetti and tomato sauce and they brought me plain spaghetti with a bottle of ketchup on the side.
They actually still eat exactly this in Cuba. It’s everywhere.
ahhhh bologna sandwhiches my childhood, i can imagine there is something similar here for young east german and other soviet kids growing up eating the poor mans meat, it brings back memories.
If you ever get the chance - try Leberkäsesemmel if you every get to Austria or those parts. It is pretty much the OG version of the bologna sandwich. Super good!
I've tried Soviet ice-cream, can confirm, nothing compares to it.
This was just replica for hi-quality USA ice-cream. Tastes good only compared to completely greyness outside. There was any quality in food, except ice-cream, kolbasa and vodka. but this quality lower than original products. Even vodka
It's godly in its total disregard of proper ice cream.
@@uauser-ez5ye8mf4m Is it as sweet as most ice cream you can find in the west?
@@uauser-ez5ye8mf4m It was very cheap though. If it was a replica of high quality ice-cream, it was a pretty efficient one
@@SirBojo4 here in Ukraine most valuable ice-cream are same and above level of quality than ussr. And french or belguim import much better. I'm old enough to remember plombir, cremebrulle or fruit ones and can compare
A a former Russian citizen, I completely understand the "feEEEelz" you get after the BUTTERBROD bite. Even though I never tried the original pre 60s era one, I was born in 87, but still.
Your grandma nails it.
Awesome video essay on a socialist classic.
"Don't tell Steve" I dont see anyone that catched that reference
How about you try to make this type of sausage for your grandma and let us see her reactions? Would be interesting to know if she'd like it and if it actually is close enough! Have a nice one.
Andong: Ancient MRE, don’t tell Steve
Steve: Let get that out on a tray, NICE
no hiss
Steve's next episode : MRE from Ancient Roman along with carbonised loaf from Pompeii
@@RaccoonGrrrl
i hope the pompeii loaf has a pack of lucky strikes in it
I had my joke all ready. OF COURSE someone got here first. Great minds think alike. Or something.
Oh wow. The wrapping is just perfect.
"Stalin's Wiener" almost cost me a new keyboard, after I spit my soup out laughing at it.
Hey! It's bigger than you think
Eastern Block's favorite
We should have kept it till today and have Boris say stalin's weiner
fun fact: stalins sex life was pretty uneventful
thank me later
lmao
In Poland, we loved our "mortadella" schnitzels, too. Covered with eggs and breadcrumbs. Served with boiled potatoes and boiled carrots and greenpeas in sauce. Pure perfection :) Nowadays, it's hard to find a good quality mortadella. It's usually the worst crap you can buy. People joke that it contains "dog grinded together with the doghouse". The exception is so called "Mortadela Marynarska" (Sailor's Mortadella), which sometimes contains white mustard seeds or green pepper seeds. Great stuff!
The grandma cameo was an insanely good point. Btw, here in Kyiv we still love doctor sausage. I'll try your homemade recipe, and maybe even make those schnitzels!
"The doctor's sausage" really sounds a lot more disturbing in English
I could imagine if they stuck with "Stalin's weiner"...
The name Andong is a contender for sausage innuendo lol
Jon Stewart noticed that a lot of Russian phrases sound sinister when translated to English. "Has the borscht been prepared?" is my favorite.
@@Kahzu No, the tone works out fine even with bad translation
@@Kahzu absolutely, there are many
Your grandma is incredibly charming. It's impossible not to smile while she's sharing those memories.
The way she speaks and move when talking about her experience ...... it really really reminds me of how my grandmother talks about her childhood in 1940's and early 1950's rural Tuscany. There's something so sweet about that, these small details spoken like they just became children again experiencing the amazement they felt as kids all over again decades later, it makes me feel nostalgic for a time I didn't live through
My grandma talks like that too
But I think almost every Russian grandma talks like that haha
It's easy to see where you got your love (and talent) for storytelling! Your grandmother is so obviously excited to talk about her memories of good food that it's infectious. She's fo shizzle adorable!
I'm down for a three hour video of you just interviewing your grandma. Her story should be preserved for posterity.
Curing salt (nitrite) doesn't just prevent botulism and make a pink color, it changes the flavor, this is the main difference between a ham and smoked pork.
Sadly, it's also a carcinogen, which is why Andong's not the only one looking at beet juice as an alternative way of giving pork product a pink colour. But proper Parma ham doesn't contain either nitrites or nitrates and somehow manages to be dark pink (and delicious).
@@JohnMoseley Well, the classification of carcinogens is kinda blury sometimes. It's pretty vague, essentially boiling down to "will this thing give me cancer" and that's really hard to test. Most carcinogenic products are pretty blury and, if I'm not mistaken, only really poses risk to factory workers rather than the average consumer. Granted, that doesn't make it better, but plenty of things will give you cancer before nitrite.
@@alexisblackledge2972 Thanks, I admit I hadn't looked into it that deeply. A BBC article I've just read tells me, ironically, that nitrates are actually in beets and beet juices too. It also says that in and of themselves these are less likely to be harmful - and may even be beneificial - than those use in process meats, because in combination with protein, especially cooked protein, nitrates and nitrites are more likely to convert to nitrosamine in the gut, which is the substance that can actually be cancer causing. Still, even if the original source is beets, if there are nitrates in your bacon, I guess the effect is likely to be about the same. That article also says the risk is _relatively_ low and, as you say, still somewhat hard to attribute compared to other possible causes in processed meats.
@@alexisblackledge2972 On the other hand, that same BBC article links to another on their news site that says this:
"MPs and doctors said there was a 'consensus of scientific opinion' that, when cooked and eaten, nitrites produce nitrosamines - chemicals which can cause cancer.
"They said producers of Parma ham had not used nitrites for 25 years and more recently Nestle in France and Finnebrogue in the UK had produced mass-market products such as bacon and ham that did not use chemical additives.
"They point to a 2015 World Health Organization report that said chemicals involved in processing could increase the risk of colorectal cancer as well as research from Glasgow University that suggested eating processed meat could increase the chance of developing breast cancer."
Unfortunately, I think the UK company they site is the one using beet juice as an alternative, so not quite right to say "no chemical additives," or even, probably, no nitrites/nitrates.
@@JohnMoseley Erythorbic and ascorbic acid (stereoisomers) are often used to inhibit nitrosamine formation in vivo. If you read the labels, you'll often find that Vitamin C is added to surprising foods.
Celery juice is often used in "uncured" meats, yet it also contains nitrates -NO3 and nitrites -NO2. It's just marketing material. They dont use curing salt. I'm not sure about beet juice.
4:10 Steve: *"Let's get this 2000 year-old ration on a tray"*
Nice, okay.
nice hiss!
What's the dry pull gonna be like on 2000 year old sausage?
*musical clacking of spoons on a glass cup*
"oh man, it looks like it decomposed into dirt since it was put in to storage... just a quick bite"
THIS is an important video. Your grandmother is a wonderful person, blessings on her.
Echt ein großes Kompliment an deinen Kanal! Am Anfang dachte ich deine Videos seien ein wenig kitschig und übertrieben. Aber jetzt, nach etwa 10 Videos, habe ich mich nicht nur an den Stil gewöhnt, nein, ich finde ihn sogar echt sympathisch! Die Themen sind wunderbar aufbereitet! Weiter so! Oh, und ich werde auf jeden Fall deine Chilli-Cheese-Spätzle nachmachen! ;D
Here's my story: I was 16 years old in 1967. In Montréal , that year, was held there an international exposition, called Expo 67. More than 50 countries offered showcase pavillions on a huge exposition site where they offered to the visitors their realisations. It was a fantastic opportunity for a young boy like myself to travel the world and experience a cultural adventure. I happened to find a job at...the Soviet Union pavillion. What an experience, I was assigned a position at a refreshemnt food counter that was serving, guess what? Soviet ice cream and Fanta lemonade. Our meals where supplied free of charge by the employer at a workers cafeteria. The food there was prepared and served by russian ladies dressed in white with those round bonnets that were not in use in North America. The cooks had, I think, all the best food supplies in quantities that they didn't have access at back home. I say this because, as an example, the mashed potatoes and rice were drenched in butter, so much it was intensly yellow, the Gulash was full of tender beef and the Borscht was made with real heavy cream. I still remember this from 1967. Tea was served in a Samovar, since then I have been drinking tea, no coffee. One thing I can say is that I never saw this "doctored" sausage being served at the cafeteria. Thank you Andong for bringing those memories back.
Thank you for sharing this lovely memory.
Why would you say "...all the best food supplies in quantities that they didn't have access at back home"? Are you by any chance a closet Nazi? They are the ones who hated USSR the most and would come up with an idiotic lie like that.
@@toomaskotkas4467 I smell a dirty low down red
@@ryanchungus8972 You need to check it with your doctor, if you can afford one. You smell dirty brown that was left after the Hitler. There is a smear right under your nose.
@@toomaskotkas4467 Cute bait. Schizoid.
Damn, that pronunciation of *Докторская колбаса* is TIGHT.
He has Russian roots so I guess that’s why
Да that's fax
agree
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ikr
This is one of my favourite videos Andong - something beautiful and unique about the story, the history, the family connection… thanks for sharing
Bring out grandma some more! She adds so much life and a perspective that is no longer added to our gene pool!
I should be writing my bachelor thesis but here I am watching a 26min long video about soviet sausages....
No regrets
you are not aloneeeee
I hope your thesis is already done 😅
How’s the thesis?
@@parkchimmin7913 Next week ill submit it
@@JoaniMaster niiiceee
You have to grow up in the former USSR to really be able to tell what kind of family Andong comes from. His grandma speaks an extremely eloquent and "intelligent" Russian. Not one spoken by the "common" folk in a line to the beer kiosk. If I had to guess, she used to be a teacher or in an arts/culture-related field. Breath of nostalgy.
would you say his grandma is kulturny
@@mahzorimipod I would say she's intеlligentnaya
Yes you are all right very soft spoken ...Stalin’s wiener omg... was she teacher?
jews..
Not really, just a normal talk, not attached to any region.
Grateful for the CZcams algorithm that brought me to your channel. And watching your Grandma is such a treat. Great video!
I LOVE how much info and details you put into your content. Not only sharing delicious recipes and entertaining but giving food story lessons. 👏👏👏
The passion you have for food is amazing, to make 18 minutes of sausage history so captivating and entertaining takes talent for sure! And the subtitles dude... I just imagined my grandma saying "fo shizzle" and laughed out loud. 😀 Great job Andong!
You could've make it even longer, referring to Fleischwurst/Lyoner/Gelbwurst, not to mention Fleisch-/Leberkäse, which all of this is at least another kind of derivat of Mortadella, I guess...
I've always wondered what this "Doktors Sosig" stuff was that kept appearing in Life of Boris's videos, neat.
Also, your grandmother is a _very_ expressive person: a natural born storyteller. I think we're all in agreement that we'd like her to be a recurring character on your channel.
He has a video about making it, slightly different process that i think looks slightly harder
Both his grandmas are delightfy. ☺️
a lot of babyshkas from slavic countries are like this. the different language also amplifies this effect
Being bilingual and watching a lot of movies and listening to russian stuff from soviet times (or even modern times) makes me realise that its not just a different language, but the temperament, the melody of the voice and the temperament in expression is so different from english that it makes foreign listeners notice the expressions and mannerisms.
It's a shame that the "typical russian persona" has been made so shallow by western popular media that when actually listening to an average russian person it is a very different experience
@@tonyvice6661616
Yes, from living in a country almost next door to Russia, people here know almost nothing but old western warpopaganda about russia. Most people here are a lot more familiar with the US and Britain than with the eastern side (Britain may indeed hawe some geologic explanations in the very southern part of my country due to the shiptrading, but still, people here does not even know Finish culture, despite Finland being a part of the Nordic uinon for hundreds of Years now).
A fellow man of kulture I see
The closest thing we have to Doctor's Sausage in Australia is probably Devon and I'm yet to meat someone who hasn't had it on a sandwich as a kid (usually heavily buttered with tomato sauce).
Ironically it was originally called a Fritz (German) sausage but that fell out of favor during WWI for obvious reasons...
Your grandmother is so awesome! I so love the vids where your grandparents are in them! They remind me of my grandparents and makes me miss them terribly but also makes me happy that there are people who have grandparents who are just as awesome! (My grandparents were Italian, but not so very different)
Your videos always make me happy, but the ones with your grandparents? I love them! I hope they are doing well and hope to see them in more videos.
Life of Boris already taught me how to make single serving Doctor Sausage.
80% Vadim, 20% poverty, блядь
Life of borris, helping for end of month
Could this be babishca?
CLASS
Life of Boris is cringey IMO.
5:06 "If you can ever get your hands on it try it"
Me: **Laughs in Italian**
23:40 **Ketchup in the pasta sauce**
Me: **Cries in Italian**
Deal with it.
There is a reason Italy didn't go socialist.
Italian Noodles vs Japanese Spagheti
which one tastes better ?
@@belalabusultan5911 Chinese Lamian
@@belalabusultan5911 Japanese Udon is best noodle-like pasta IMO.
"Face sausage" is was called "billy roll" in Ireland in the 80's.
I’ve looked up doktorskaya kolbasa (doctor’s sausage) before because of Life of Boris, and turns out, if you’re Aussie, you’ve probably eaten something very similar that goes by different names in different states and territories, such as “devon”, “luncheon”, “polony”, “Belgian”, “fritz”, and “Windsor sausage”.
As one of Russia's savviest characters Cat Matroskin said:
"You are eating the buterbrod incorrectly, Uncle Fyodor. You are holding it with the kolbasa on top. You should turn it over so that the kolbasa touches your tongue. It's tastier that way.
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Did it came from the same people who made Nu Pagadi?
@@mrshumancar Yes, most of movies/cartoons in USSR were produced by Soyuzmultfilm
@@mrshumancar lol, there was no private industry, so if you think about it, EVERYTHING in the USSR came from the same people who made Nu Pogodi 😂
@@valentinventures There was also Armenfilm, where some cool animated shorts were made, such as "Wow, a talking fish!"
The storytelling/history part is probably the biggest reason why i come back to your videos. They are great!
P.S. i first thought, that this would be a some kind of collab with Life of Boris, as doctor sausage is basically his main budget ingredient.
Boris has already a video on how to make it.
"Don't tell Steve"
I can already hear him
"Let's get this out on a tray"
Nice!
Grandmother is the star of this engaging video, which tells so much, in a good-hearted way, about life behind the iron curtain. 👍👍👍
How enthusiastic his grandma is about this sausage. I love the energy she has about it. So cute
Edit: I wish he would have showed her the sausage he Made 🥺 I really hope he did that off Camera
I’m right there with you, I wish we could have seen it but that moment might have been more special without the camera to warp the genuine emotion they show for such a special food.
This video filled me with more happiness than any other, and I'm in Australia. Nice guy, excellent presentation, and I want your Granny to be my Granny. Tell your Grandma the world loves her, if you haven't already.
Cheers
"Turmoil and malnutrition"
55-65 million dead from 1913 - 1955
*mentions Doctors Sausage*
Comrade Boris:
"CHEEKI BREEKI TIME!"
Cringe
It was/is called Student's schnitzel in Czech Republic
I didn't know it was a thing in the Czech Republic! But I'm not surprised :)
@@mynameisandong Yeah, made from the same kind of processed sausage. Served with potatoes (boiled or mashed) and of course some pickles
@@xerwin1337 My dislike for that dish is as large as my experience with it but at least it's a warm meal.:-)
@@mynameisandong My grandpa used to make it from the Gothaj sausage, well... he still does, 'cause that shit delicious :P :D
@@mynameisandong it still is! (unfortunately if you ask me lol) it was a thing even at my high school's cafeteria, which was like 3 years ago
As someone who grew up in former East Germany; you really nailed that kind of food.
I remember that all my friends knew that tomato sauce with sausage from their home; while my parents just moved in the Area, and i was so confused by that food.
To be fair there is way more that this tomato sauce pasta. East Germany "invented" a lot of "competitors" to the American/west german fast food dishes. Instead of the (beef)Burger, there was the Grilleta; instead of a Hot Dog, they ate Ketwurst. Nowadays it's kinda strange that they went so far to create their own foods instead of adapting the western, but hey I guess that was part of their mentality back then.
It was out of need... Grilletta and Ketwurst came about because you weren't allowed to sell burgers and hot dogs but people still wanted to have them.
Ketwurst Sounds like a hell of a party treat.
Imitating is not inventing. Just as you just proved, instead of coming up with own ideas they copied Western style food. And the "Rationalisierungs- und Forschungszentrum Gaststätten" managed to make horrible McDonalds burger and yucky hot dogs suck even more.
@@larswesterhausen7262 I'm only talking about seeing it as a kind of renaming, as one tells oneself about "Jahresendflügelfigur".
Damn. "Ketwurst" seems to be the same thing commonly called a hotdog in Slovakia. I was always wondering why other countries cut the bun lengthwise instead of making a hole in the top. Might be nostalgia, but I definitely prefer the "páro v rožku"
I'm American and have lived in different regions in Germany (Rheinland-Pfalz, Franken, Thüringen, Niederbayern, in that order). Soon after I moved to Thüringen, I was in the hospital and one of the menu choices was Jägerschnitzel. I was expecting the western German version of Jägerschnitzel - schnitzel with mushroom-cream sauce. I was surprised it met the hospital's dietary guidelines, but was actually looking forward to it. When the plate of fried Jagdwurst and pasta with sweet sauce showed up, I was extremely disappointed. "I don't think I got the right meal," I said. "We have you down for Jägerschnitzel," answered the nurse. She looked over at my plate - "Yep, Jägerschnitzel." It was a huge letdown. Here in Niederbayern, slices of Leberkäse (for non-Germans, this tastes a lot more like bologna than Jagdwurst does) and Milzwurst (spleen sausage) breaded and fried like schnitzel are pretty common, but I don't ever recall having seen it in Rheinland-Pfalz or Franken. I definitely prefer the breaded and fried Leberkäse and Milzwurst over the breaded and fried Jagdwurst. In terms of Russian-GDR dishes, I would really be interested in an episode on Soljanka and possibly also another appearance from Grandma. :)
I loved this vid! The deep history dive was magical and your grandmother is a treasure!
Oh my god your grandmother is adorable, please include her in more videos. I would love to hear more Oma recipes/stories
As a kid we would drive to Montreal and my dad would buy Blütwurst that we would eat for lunch just like you showed at the end... right in the car!! I myself kept buying it until 2010ish when I couldn't find it anymore!! Since then, everytime I'm in Germany I binge on the stuff the whole time I'm there!! Please do an episode showing how to make it!!
Living in Eastern Europe and not having a clue about why sausage is still so popular here, this was amazing! I like your channel even more now!
Also, "Fo shizzle!" 😂
We had family friends who somehow had relatives who somehow had permission to visit the US now and then. I can affirm that Soviet chocolate was EPIC. I remember one thing they brought as a gift to family friends was a WHOLE FREAKING JEWELRY BOX MADE OF CHOCOLATE WITH CHOCOLATE CANDIES INSIDE.
visiting the US was not difficult if you could prove that you would come back, they likely put down some sort of collateral to the government to ensure they didn't sell secrets to the US government or illegally immigrate.
Man, such a sausage as close to the original as possible, and you don't let grandma judge? We want to know what she said!
Perhaps she lives far away... You can't mail a fresh sausage...
@@ducomaritiem7160 But if/when he next goes to visit he should make a batch and do a follow up video for her opinion.
So glad I found your channel....fascinating...thank you from Australia
I love it when elders tell us storytelling it’s always great especially if it evolves food
This video, as a combination of historical and gastronomic research, is one of the best contents youtube could ever offer me. I find it very hard to find informations on food history, as it is often frowned upon by historians and scientists in general. This video provides historical context, interwiews with those who remember, intercultural comparisons as well as recipes, all in an entertaining way, it is IMHO truly the top thing internet can offer and I thank you for it very much. Keep up the great work!
Thanks so much!! May I recommend a podcast called "Gastropod" to you. Seems like it's right down your alley!
Yes! Exactly these channels likes Andongs are in fact peak internet .... i hope not forever though