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Doktorskaya kolbasa
Russian Докторская колбаса (Doctor’s sausage) had it’s origins in the United States.
The Bolsheviks mismanaged food production resulting in a widespread famine, so in 1936 Josef Stalin sent his food industry administrator to find out what the Americans were doing. Anastas Mikoyan found a lot of bologna.
Here is the exact recipe of Doktorskaya kolbasa that was used as industry standard from 1936 till 1974:
Quantities of ingredients to produce 100 kg of Doktorskaya kolbasa:
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- 25 kg of beef meat
- 70 kg of semi-lean pork meat
- 3 liters of milk
- 2 liters of eggs
- 2 kg of salt and 200 gr of sugar
- 30 gr of cardamom
- 50 gr of ascorbic acid (color stabilizer)
Manufacturing technology included dicing and mixing all ingredients in a homogenous paste, filling the tubes and later drying and boiling the sausage. Final product was incredibly tasty and quite healthy.
At least it was tasty and healthy enough for those who hadn’t starved to death during the famine, or slaughtered during Большой террор.
Nothing Much Happened Today.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 629 – Snow Pantser, Sluggo & Wiggly Wind
The Black Hole
[Found here.]
Leonard Nimoy In Pantyhose…
[Found here. No description.]
Monoblepsial Hot Links
“My boss turned herself into a potato.”
Dominican Republic Quarantine Police.
Meanwhile at the Mattress Races. [Story here.]
Even with all the hoarding, there are still some generous people out there.
From the Instant Karma Department: Venezuelan Warship Attacks German Cruise Ship, Rams It and Sinks Itself.
Inspired by The Lemon Juice Bandits, David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University did a study and discovered that stupid people often don’t realize they’re stupid.
On homemade fabric masks: “Common fabrics have pores too large for viruses (that are about 100 nanometer in diameter) and most airborne droplets that contain viruses.”
-Dr. You-Lo Hsieh, professor at the University of California
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
[Top image from Bunkarina via FB.]
Creeps me right out.
Nothing Much Happened Today.
[Found in here.]
Social Distance Shaming Hot Links
Jungle Boogie, The Bobby True Trio, 1948:
I spy Walter Wick.
Who did the voice of Cecil the Turtle best?
COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic stats are interesting. To date, less than four-thousandths of one percent (0.003.5%) of the US population has contracted it; six ten-thousandths of one percent (0.0006%) of the US population has died from it. Italy’s death rate from the virus is 1.7%.
The Republic of San Marino is a 24 sq. mi. micronation surrounded by Italy. It has the highest fatality rate (of the countries listed) at 6.5%.
PJMedia parsed the same statistics I did and posted the graphs below:
From the What-Are-They-Hiding Department:
This. Oh, and also This.
Earlier this year, a Beijing district office for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced that pants should be an effective barrier against farts that might disperse the Wuhan virus.
[Status update: A Humble Request.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Tacky Raccoons 