'Doctor's', but not domestic: what popular products did the USSR borrow from the USA
'18.02.2021'
Source: Yandex Zen
We were all sure that, say, condensed milk and popsicle were invented in the Soviet Union. Is this really so, says the author of the blog "Traveler" on Yandex Zen.
Popsicle Ice Cream
It would seem that the taste of childhood is a popsicle on a stick, everyone has tried it, but in fact, Americans came up with this dessert. In 1936, People's Commissar for the Food Industry of the USSR Mikoyan went to the United States to learn from the experience of mass production of food, and the very first object he got to was just the New York ice cream factory.
After that, he immediately decided to purchase refrigeration units and everything needed for production. So in the Soviet Union, they began to produce delicious ice cream - the same one that many remember from childhood: according to GOST, it is as natural as possible.
And its name is also borrowed from America. There was an ice cream on a stick, on the packaging of which a little Eskimo boy was depicted. This ice cream, by the way, is still on sale, but just last year, in connection with the protests, it was decided to rename it, because this name is supposedly derogatory for the Eskimos themselves. It is now called Arctic Blasters.
Condensed milk
How did it happen? How could it have been invented outside the Soviet Union? It turns out that condensed milk was invented back in the XNUMXth century in France. The recipe was known, but an American businessman was the first to decide to patent the whole thing, and two years later, the first condensed milk production plant was opened in America. At the same time, the most amazing thing is that it was originally used to feed infants who were left without mother's milk.
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In Russia, the first condensed milk appeared, as the story goes, in 1860. But its production was fully developed only by 1932. Condensed milk is still sold in America.
Doctor sausage
It's also surprising: it seems like a Soviet sausage, we all remember it, but in the Soviet Union it appeared exactly after Mikoyan spied on the production of this product at a factory in Chicago.
The main idea is to produce a food product that would be dietary. The very first sausage was really given out in hospitals, doctors prescribed it because it was a high protein product, there were no additives. That is why the first sausage was called "doctor's". Now, of course, modern sausages are very far from what they used to be. In the United States at the moment, "doctoral" is most often sold in sliced form.
Canned food
It's no secret that Americans in general still sell many products in cans. They cover anything in them: peas, soups, fish. When the delegation of the Soviet Union arrived and saw how this whole thing was happening in America, they decided that such equipment should also be purchased and brought to the USSR.
This is how everyone's favorite stew, canned fish, peas, corn appeared, and all these canned foods became popular in the pre-war period. However, not all varieties of canned food took root in the USSR. On the shelves of American stores, for example, you can now easily find canned sausages and soups.
Hamburger
Delicious flat cutlets are also a technology brought from the USA. When the Soviet delegation arrived there and saw American hamburgers, they really liked this idea, because it is a quick and hearty snack.
Moreover, at that time everything was quite natural, why not do something similar here? After that, factories appeared throughout the Soviet Union, where they began to produce such cutlets. In different places, the dish could be called differently. For example, in the capital it was called “Moscow bun with cutlet”.
Tomato sauce
It appeared in the Soviet Union in the thirties, and it was recommended to put it not only with side dishes and meat, but even added to soups as a seasoning. Subsequently, the “soup” ketchup was replaced simply with tomato paste and tomato sauce.
Tomato juice
Well, here at first it is impossible to think that the Americans were somehow involved in its creation. But that's the way it is. When the Soviet delegation saw that Americans drink orange juice very often, they thought it was a good idea to sell various vegetables or fruits as drinks.
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But with oranges in the USSR it was tense, they were simply not enough. Therefore, it was decided to make juice from tomatoes, of which we have a lot. At first, this juice was not very popular, so they began to advertise it intensively, inform that it is useful for adults and children, that it strengthens the immune system, and so on. And in the sixties, the assortment was expanded, apple, pear and all other types of juices were introduced. But tomato still did not lose its popularity.
Cornflakes
When they just started to be produced in the USSR, they were even called a derivative of the American version of "Cornflex". The cornflakes themselves were recommended to be eaten with milk or jelly - in general, they could be put anywhere to your taste. And our people really really liked them in their time.
By the way, in America, breakfast cereals are mostly eaten by children. Adults with a bowl of cereal are very rare, except in films.
Drink "Baikal"
Many treat him ambiguously: some say that it is muck, similar to grass, others love and praise him.
The first "Coca-Cola" and "Pepsi" Soviet citizens tried in the sixties of the last century at the national exhibition of American goods in the Soviet Union. After that, the specialists were given the task of making an answer to the American "Coca-Cola", that is, coming up with something very similar - and thus the familiar "Baikal" appeared.
Original column published on the blog. "Traveler" on Yandex Zen
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