B&W PHOTO CONTEST - Originally Russian snack

in bwphotocontest •  7 years ago 


Salted cucumbers, black bread and lard - are excellent snacks for strong alcohol.
On the photo - Balsam "Veliky Ustyug", produced by the local Distillery.


Canon 5d, EF 50 mm

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Salted cucumbers, black bread and lard oh you made me drool here now. It is amazing (and sad too) how little people in the world know this lovely combo!
Keep the alcohol - I want all the cucumbers there :D

Love it, upvote from Serbia :) Haven't seen anybody eat bread and lard beside my family!

Looks good. What kind of liquor is this @evildeathcore?

Ingredients: water rectified, ethyl alcohol rectified, cranberry spirituous mors (juice), sugar syrup, balsam infusion (cranberry leaf, valerian officinalis, clove, sweet clover, oregano, angelica, spruce needles, St. John's wort, ginger, galangan, cardamom, coriander, bark of oak, cinnamon, coffee, juniper, orange peel, bell pepper, cumin, yarrow, dill), black currant, sea bramble, honey natural, rose hips.
Carbohydrates - 15 g/100 ml, Energy value 283.3 kcal/100 ml

damn thats a lot of ingredients! So do you drink it straight or mix it with something else? Doesn't sound like any kind of drink I have ever had, but it sounds amazing. Cheers

it's a balm! Exclusively for medical purposes))))

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Nice. It reminds me of many late nights eating black bread and drinking with friends around a kitchen table.

Is it true Russians didn't consider beer as alcohol before because it was too light? Haha.