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Making me hungry...I think I will soon go to the Russian General Store and get some of these sweets!
Davidthehappyfellow 3 months ago in playlist More videos from 513755
Our 'snickers' was called a 'marathon'...then it was replaced with the US version. We also had 'opel fruits'...they were replaced by the US 'starburst'. Both items are the same as the other, but at some point the companys that make them decided to use the US names. Most sweets from my childhood don't even exist now...or not with the name they had anyway. Soviet Union or UK...no one escaped the long arm of Ronald Mcdonald. xD
MrEvilronald 3 months ago
@MrEvilronald I have an idea of making the following study: copy ingredients and nutritional facts from popular products prior their acquisition by big transnational companies and see how the change the formula once the reins are in their hands. I have a gut feeling that they do change it, using cheaper equivalents to drive down the cost of production and skimming fat margins in the process....hapless us barely noticing we've been dumbfounded for the umpteenth time :(
513755 3 months ago
@513755 I suspect they do...also, im sure some items are getting smaller!. Btw your English is pretty much perfect for a Russian speaker were did you learn?
MrEvilronald 3 months ago
@MrEvilronald thanks mate :) am an autodidact :D
513755 3 months ago
@513755 dude...you taught yourself english?? ...damn, i wanna teach myself russian!!
how did you do that?! Russian and English are so different! i can't even teach myself Spanish and its so similar to english compared to Russian!
...*sigh* i'll never be a language master :( lol
FluffyPuff16 1 month ago
@FluffyPuff16 It's just because I like the language, plus it happens to be very useful these days ;) In fact I'm studying Spanish now, since I'm in Bolivia and came here knowing only how to say "Hasta la vista, baby!" :) I will not venture any tonal language though, i feel I'm way too old for that :D
513755 1 month ago
@513755 i really like russian a lot, so i want to learn it one day. hopefully it wont be too hard for me to learn. But with the completely different alphebet, and all that, i dont know if ill ever be able to. how did you teach yourself english? ...and you dont look very old, you look like your like, 25 :D
FluffyPuff16 1 month ago
Look at the Russian alphabet somewhere. You maybe find quite a few letters that are familiar to you. Look at Armenian, Georgian, Korean, Devanagari (Indian), Arabic, Mongolian alphabets in Wikipedia and try to discern the meaning of any. And these are just alphabets, we are not talking about other writing systems, like the one they have in China. So the goal is not insurmountable.
513755 1 month ago