If you could only eat one food ...

[One Eyed Cat]

I'm a vegetarian too, can live without the candy but need chocolate, nuts and grapes to survive (mentally). Sad thing is that grapes give me rather more wind than I can hide even in rude company ...

mmm chocolate. Chocolate and catnip makes a one eyed cat purr.


OEC

[Forestghost]

Ukrainka! Dobrii Den! Do you mean varenyky? I love varenyky between toasts of horilka (ukrainian vodka, much better of course) Na Zdrovya!


Do-Po

OEC

Wow, I really wish I could actually understand that! I would love to learn to speak Ukrainian.....*sigh*...alas it has faded out of my family, there are no native speakers left that I know!

[One Eyed Cat]

Wow, I really wish I could actually understand that! I would love to learn to speak Ukrainian.....*sigh*...alas it has faded out of my family, there are no native speakers left that I know!

Ukrainka - Ukrainian Girl
Dobrii Den - Good day to you (greeting)
Varenyky is somewhat similar to perogies
Na Zdrovya - A toast to your health (whilst drinking horilka)
Do-Po - Colloquial for do-pobachennya (til we meet again)

Interesting facts about Ukrainian Culture - It is considered rude not to drink after
*all* toasts made, regardless of how many are made lol. It is also a "tradition" to have sex on the first date to get the compatibility issue out of the way. Exciting things are happening in Ukraine now. You should really go over sometime!



OEC

[Nightingale]

It is also a "tradition" to have sex on the first date to get the compatibility issue out of the way.

hmm....

[One Eyed Cat]

hmm....

Haha. It really is. I tried to pull up an article in Kyiv Post on it, but am not a subscriber. It's also chronicled in a book called "Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex" by Oksana Zabuzhko



It is not applicable to American Ukrainians nor hardcore Orthodox or Uniate.



OEC

[Nightingale]

It's also chronicled in a book called "Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex" by Oksana Zabuzhko

I can understand how her fieldwork would be reasonably successful ...