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10 things from the USSR that we did and our children will not understand
It is unlikely that a modern child will blur into a smile at the prospect of eating powdered jelly with a spoon.
Today, children will never understand why we were so happy in winter when we found a large piece of cardboard or an old tire on the street, and why glass balls and small tiles were so valuable.
The editorial staff of healthy-food-near-me.com remembered the disappeared favorite pastimes of those who were born in the USSR.
Every child knew how to cook yummy on their own. It was only necessary to melt banal sugar in a mold on the stove. But it was important to catch the moment, not to overexpose, otherwise the sugar would turn into black, that is, burnt. Although we also ate burnt. Where to go if chocolates are a luxury and they are hidden in the closet on the top shelf?
It cost a penny, but how much joy it brought! True, not in a boiled form, but when you catch the moment, you open a square briquette and chew the pressed jelly from your heart, and then your tongue will be colored. The parents cursed, but the children still gnawed. Delicious and interesting.
We didn’t even have a trace of modern plastic ice cakes. It’s cool if a box of something appeared in the house by the winter, then you walked up the hill proudly with your own cardboard. Either he was looking for her near the service entrances of shops, or even in the trash heap. Finding an old car tire was just a bit of luck! The one who flew from the hill on it was looked at with envy.
The younger ones in the family could also earn money, for example, collecting waste paper or bottles. Glass containers had to be washed from labels before delivery, but they paid more for it than for paper, and you could scrape together for soda!
Even as preschoolers, we could easily go somewhere alone and buy something at the request of our parents! For example, the same kvass from a barrel or milk that was sold on the street. We did not go with bags or bottles, but with iron cans. And as a reward, they often received change in your pocket and also the feeling that you were such an adult.
Each house had a round iron disc. You get up on it or sit down, unwind as much as possible – and here’s your home carousel. In fact, it was a waist trainer, but the children used it that way, because we did not have any machines, like real ones, in which they sat down as if by magic.
For some reason, in every courtyard, you could find multi-colored glass balls, and even tiny tiles. They were real children’s currency. They could be exchanged for something, and they were also played – who was thrown next, who would knock the opponent’s ball with his ball, etc. In fact, it was all construction waste, but for us – a whole treasure.
It is now children who collect toys from chocolate eggs, and we were glad when we found blue plastic numbers in the crust of the cheese triangle! And no one knew why they were there and where they came from. The answer turned out to be simple: this is just a marking of the date and month of cooking the product.
Overeat vitamins to allergies
As mentioned above, there was not a lot of sweets, so the Soviet children liked going to the pharmacy, because they could ask for ascorbic acid or some other vitamin. Even the mint cough tablets were a joy, because they are tasteful. At that time, many of us had diathesis and manifestations of allergies, because we ate vitamins simply because they were tasty and sweet.
The gum itself was a wild joy, and the inserts were even more so. Everyone hunted for the rare, exchanged the same for those that were not in the collection yet, shook over their stacks of multi-colored pieces of paper and first of all showed the guests this wealth. And it really was.