Soviet pop with leopold. Food encyclopedia of our childhood

Granules in green or orange bags with the image of the cat Leopold. To obtain a drink, it was necessary to dilute the contents of the bag in water. However, children with b O It was a great pleasure to use the fizz in a dry form, enjoying the hiss of the granules on the tongue. Joy was doubled from initiation to the forbidden, because the parents categorically did not allow to eat dry pop.

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Original taken from dubikvit in On the waves of our memory! Drinks of our childhood

This post will focus on the soft drinks of our childhood. What we drank, where and how.


My childhood is strongly associated with two drinks - lemonade when I was older and apple-grape juice when I was very young.
Today we go to the supermarket, where before our eyes there are endless shelves with all kinds of juices, drinks - carbonated and still, iced teas and concentrates, cola and sprite in cans, dozens of types of mineralized and table water. Tolya case in the mid-80s, which I remember with such nostalgia.



Almost every Soviet family in the middle of summer began to prepare for the winter. The epic of conservation traditionally began with preserves, jams, juices and compotes. In dachas, in villages or city apartments, on Saturday and Sunday afternoons and evenings, huge pots of syrups, compote boiled, or freshly squeezed apple or plum juice was sterilized. Two and three-liter jars with cherry, apricot, apple and pear compotes were hidden in pantries until winter. In winter, it will be a delicious drink, and fruit from a jar will be a favorite dessert at the family table. After all, there was no real alternative. In addition to its own compote, it could be juice in the same three-liter jar from a grocery store, brewed Krasnodar tea, or dried fruit compote brewed by the hostess. Uzvar in other words.

In grocery stores, Juice-Water stores, as well as Vegetable-Fruit stores, as a rule, you could always buy juices in three-liter jars - tomato, apple, plum, pear, apricot and, of course, birch.

But any person could always skip a glass of his favorite juice right in the store - remember, there were such departments? There were either just open jars, or special inverted cones with a tap, where juice was poured from the jars, and a big woman in a white coat and cap poured juice into a glass for you. And there was always a glass with salt and a teaspoon. This is for tomato juice .. And after all, there was a queue for various juices ... Small, but standing ..

An alternative to juice on tap was, of course, soda. The street trade in soft drinks in the USSR has not changed for decades. Actually, there were 2 formats - manual and automatic. In the mid-70s, an approximate parity was established between these two forms, and each had its pluses and minuses.

It is interesting that a glass of "clean" both at the seller and in the machine cost the same - one kopeck, but the glass of water with syrup at the seller was a whole penny more expensive - as much as four kopecks. True, they poured a little more syrup. In addition, for 7 kopecks you could drink a delicious drink "with double syrup". Another advantage of the manual mode was the absence of problems with the exchange and surrender.

Automatic gas water had its undeniable advantages.

The most important of them was the ability to use instead of a coin a round “stamping” of a similar size and weight to a “three-ruble note”.

It was possible to deceive the machine by dropping a “three-ruble note” into the coin acceptor on a thread threaded through a hole specially drilled for this.

In addition, if you hit the machine in a certain place, then sometimes the machine could "return" other people's coins, which was a great success...

However, it was not a one-sided game. Often the machine "ate" the money, without giving out a drop of life-giving moisture in return.

Sometimes the machine ran out of syrup, and then for three kopecks he vilely poured "clean" water.

In addition to juices for bottling and vending machines, of course, everyone remembers barrels of kvass.

In the summer months, they stood in residential and working areas, under shops and grocery stores - yellow barrel trailers on large wheels. With obligatory fat aunt in a dirty dressing gown.

She was sitting on a chair, pouring kvass from the end of a barrel. There was also a washing cartridge for glasses and glasses. And on the left side of the workspace there were certainly crumpled wet rubles and three rubles, which were used to pay for a drink. And a plate of change.

Kvass could be bought in a glass or a half-liter glass with a handle. And of course, many came there with cans, thermoses or just three-liter jars. How many cans of kvass I dragged home on hot summer days ...

In the school or work cafeteria, you were offered either warm tea from a huge pot, or one of several types of juice, or dried fruit compote during the winter months. No bags or bottles of juice that are now familiar. Cup, often chipped, and more often just a glass

By the way, many Soviet housewives made their own unique drink - homemade kvass.

There were two main methods of preparation - using kvass yeast and black bread - using the same technology as natural kvass.

And the second - kvass from the so-called kombucha. When water was poured into the jar, a little sugar was added and weak tea leaves were constantly added (usually leftovers from the teapot - hello to tea bags), and crap in the form of a jellyfish floated on top, gradually increasing in size. The taste of the drink really resembled kvass in some way. The mushroom that swam gradually grew, then part of it got off and was passed on to friends or relatives with the words - "so chic kvass turns out .." The most important thing was not to forget to cover the jar with gauze, because if this was not done, thousands of unpleasant flies would immediately start Drosophila, who apparently were very attracted to the fermentation process.

And of course, I can’t help but write about the favorite drinks of the children of that time - lemonade. By lemonade, we meant any carbonated sweet drink in a bottle with a metal stopper.

There were a lot of names. They were sold in light, light or dark green glass bottles. They had two labels - the main rectangular in the lower part and a recumbent crescent-label on the neck. And of course, a metal cork. Which could be opened either with a bottle opener, or on any protruding metal part with a straight edge anywhere. The upper handlebar nut on a bicycle was used very effectively for this purpose).

The coolest drink was of course Pepsi-Cola.

In large cities, she was not something surprising, but residents of small towns, and especially villages, rarely saw her. I was always very happy when my father was going on a business trip to Kyiv or Moscow - after all, he always brought five or even more bottles of Pepsi-Cola from there. We opened one for everyone - 0.33 liter, poured into cups and savored ... Saving the rest for tomorrow ....

It was very cool to bring Pepsi-Cola with me to my grandmother in the village. It was real currency. For a bottle of Pepsi-Cola, you could exchange a cool shot slingshot. Or a bamboo fishing rod with a feather float and a hardened hook. Or three bottles of regular selpo lemonade. And half a kilo of candy "barberry" in the appendage.

A real breakthrough, a truly knockout blow to lemonade, was the appearance in the 80th year of an orange drink - Fanta!

Perhaps, for the sake of this, it was worth holding the Olympics in Moscow. Finnish servelat and salami in outlandish vacuum packaging, and most importantly - Fanta, were the most coveted Olympic awards for all residents and guests of the capital.

Of course, the fact that the orange has always been exotic in the USSR also played a role here. Not that there was a terrible shortage, from time to time you could buy delicious orange balls, but orange juice was not common, and soft drinks based on orange juice were also not common. Therefore, the explosive orange taste of Fanta instantly made me forget about all the drinks that were previously considered quite tasty). Even the wonderful Pepsi-Cola had to give way to Olympus to the magnificent Fante!))

And there were also Georgian lemonades. Arad, Tbilisi, Bakhmaro, Isindi

Here we must also recall home-made lemonades, which we made using household siphons and gas cartridges

It looked something like this: In order to get soda, it was necessary to pour water into the siphon (preferably with syrup or jam) and screw a gas canister into a special connector. When screwed in, a primer was pierced at the can and gas was released from it into the siphon. And if you then press the lever, then carbonated water "flies" out of the siphon under pressure.
At that time, siphon cartridges could be exchanged for a fee. You bring a set of used cartridges (10 pieces and always in a cardboard box), pay extra money and get 10 refilled cartridges in a cardboard box. After that, you can pamper yourself with sparkling water 10 more times.

How about milkshakes?

They were made either in a cafe on powerful mixers

or at home with the help of household mixers, although the foam then turned out much less

But still, carbonated drinks were more beloved - Lemonade, Citro, Cream-Soda, Pinocchio, Sayans, Baikal, Tarragon and many others ...

Text and photo taken in part from aquatek_philips in the post Remembering the USSR. Beverages

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Favorite drinks
Of course, soda was not invented during the Soviet Union, but long before its appearance, but today we will only talk about the history of Soviet soda, which began in the 20s of the last century. It was then that the production of sweetened sparkling water "Sitro", "Duchess", "Pinocchio" and "Cream-soda" was launched at the enterprises of the USSR.
All the children liked these drinks. They were given a unique taste by natural fruit syrups and sugar.
Subsequently, food industry enterprises mastered many more varieties of soda, among which, undoubtedly, exotic and scarce in the province drinks "Baikal" and "Tarhun" stood out.
What were the most popular Soviet carbonated drinks made from?


"Citro"
Perhaps the oldest soft carbonated drink. In Soviet times - a proper name for one of the produced types of lemonade. Now often used by many people as a common noun for all types of carbonated drinks. Soviet "Sitro" was created decades ago by selecting combinations of citric acid, sugar, flavorings and syrups of various citrus fruits. So, the aromatic basis of the Citro-Extra drink was infusions of orange, tangerine, lemon with the addition of vanillin.

Pinocchio
The most famous Soviet soda. The childhood of almost every person born in the Soviet Union is associated with Pinocchio. It was prepared very simply: water, sugar, lemons and oranges. It's all natural, which is probably why it tastes so good.
There was a label with the image of Pinocchio on the bottle, and the cost of the drink was 10 kopecks “without the cost of dishes”, as they liked to write on Soviet bottles.


"Cream Soda"
Highly carbonated soft drink. "Cream soda" is one of the first fizzy drinks, which began to be prepared on the basis of soda (carbonated) water, invented at the end of the 18th century, and ice cream (ice cream), which is where the word "cream" comes from in the name of the drink. Unlike Lemonade, in which the lemon base is the primary one (they began to fill it with gas later), in Cream Soda the flavor component and carbonated water are necessary and mandatory components.

"Duchess"
Pear carbonated drink "Duchess" perfectly replaced sweets and cakes for Soviet children. Pear infusion was added to the usual lemonade base, lemons, sugar and carbon dioxide bubbles completed the picture. This soda was loved by both children and adults. After all, fragrant, sweet pear lemonade "Duchess" perfectly quenched thirst.
"Baikal"
The most popular and rather scarce carbonated drink in the late 70s of the last century, of course, was Baikal. In the USSR, they began to produce it in 1973, but it began to be sold en masse before the Moscow Olympics-80. The drink almost immediately gained wild popularity. The composition of Baikal favorably distinguished the drink from Western analogues: in addition to traditional water, sugar, citric acid, it was supplemented with an extract of St. John's wort, licorice root and eleutherococcus. As well as essential oils: eucalyptus, lemon, laurel and fir.

"Sayans"
Carbonated tonic drink "Sayany" was developed in the 70s of the last century by specialists from the All-Russian Research Institute of the Brewing, Non-Alcoholic and Wine Industry. The drink instantly became popular in the USSR, because, in addition to the usual lemonade base (lemon juice, sugar and sparkling water), it contained an extract of the mountain grass leuzea, which gave it an original taste (wormwood bitterness and a slightly pine aroma) and a tonic effect.




"Tarhun"
The Tarragon recipe appeared in the 19th century. It was invented by the pharmacist Mitrofan Lagidze, who lived in Tiflis (modern Tbilisi). He was the first to think of adding the extract of the famous Caucasian plant tarragon (tarragon) to sweetened carbonated water.


In mass production, the drink appeared in 1981. And since 1983, "Tarhun" began to be produced and sold in many republics of the former USSR. They made a drink from water, citric acid, sugar and tarragon extract. In Soviet times, green dye was added to it. Now such a dye is considered harmful, so manufacturers often tint this soda yellow, but pour it into green bottles.