Do any of you have Ukrainian ancestry?

Hmmmmm.....
Pigs' trotters?

and some salo to go with that!

I'm there too!

Oh, definitely!

again, attempting to break the silence of this wonderful forum topic :


what are your predictions about team Ukraine in next week's upcoming World Cup Soccer event?

Oh, a Ukrainian victory, definitely! Without a doubt they are superior in every possible way!






(Now don't go putting any money on this, s'n'c .... I should warn you I know absolutely zilch about world cup soccer. But I feel a victory is definitely on the cards! :wink:

my step family (dad's wife's side) are all ukranian. Dad's wife and step daughter now live in UK but the rest of the family is back in Odessa

Sorry haven't read this whole topic, but has anyone ever experienced a Ukranian Chritsmas dinner.... all 15 courses of it???? I managed to course 3 and then was done.... Dad's Mrs was royally pi**ed off that i couldn't eat 4 - 15. Never in my life have i seen so much food! No wonder they have to start eating when the first star appears in the sky... that way they're just about finished for New Year!

Nope, never done a formal 15 courser, ffydownunder. (I think one would have to do some serious training for that!) But I'm very familiar with the "groaning Ukrainian table" - I grew up with it! This is how it worked: unsuspecting guests would sit down at the table & bits of this & that would appear, piled high. Then the dishes kept coming & coming. It didn't matter that the guests declared themselves seriously full, after 3 or 4 serves. My father would declare that the the pikers (usually my friends) were "skinny rabbits" that needed to eat more to build up their strength! Needless to say, often my poor friends were almost comatose, totally stuffed with food. No amount of warning them in advance could prepare any of them for the first time they experienced good old Ukrainian hospitality!

Havent had a Ukranian for a while. The only guy I know from Ukraine is so irritating that everytime he opens his mouth I want to punch him.

Really?
That's not like you, G!
He must be quite obnoxious!

An obnoxious Ukrainian? Not possible. He clearly must be trying to fit in where he doesn't belong.

Oh my!

Don't ask me why, but this afternoon I reread this thread (started in 2004) & found all sorts of things here I'd completely forgotten about. Found myself laughing out loud at some of farmerman's Ukrainian observations. Funny, at the time (not knowing fm very well) I took a lot of his comments quite literally. Silly me. In fact, they were very, very amusing. Like this one on church:

Better a few late laughs than to miss the humour altogether, I guess? :wink:

Did you now?


(well you said not ask Why)

Yes, indeed I did!

And very entertaining & informative it was, too!

You know, I really miss some of the older A2K threads where anyone might just pop in & say their bit. Often going right off topic in the process. (Like Setanta's impassioned defence of Irish cooking against farmerman's criticisms. On a thread about Ukrainian ancestry! )These days we seem rather more segregated into different different interest/friendship groups.

On another thread (on of the tsar's, which I can't find again) Merry Andrew & I (& others) had a discussion about perogies .. about whether they are eaten with a fork or not. (after Ceili had posted a photograph of a gigantic perogi monument from somewhere in Canada, which was an astonishment to behold! )

Anyway ... Andrew (who has Lativan ancestry) said he had never eaten perogi with a fork .. which surprised the rest of us, because we had only ever eaten the little devils with a fork. Was there any other way, we responded?

Andrew, if you should read this, I did a little online research (then promptly lost the appropriate thread & couldn't respond!) and you're absolutely correct .. perogi are traditionally cooked differently by Lativians & are eaten with the hand, not a fork at all. As an accompaniment to soup. Borst, if I recall correctly.

But Ukrainians (& many other cultures) do it differently. As they are boiled & served hot, a fork is absolutely essential to eat them.

So that clears that up!

The other thing that confused me a little was that others called these dumpling-like creations "pirogi", while I had always called them "varenyky". How come, I wondered?

Then a little more research revealed that varenyky is (one of the) the traditional Ukrainian names.

So that clears that up, too!

Fascinating stuff this, isn't it?






Varynyky recipe:
http://www.allthingsukrainian.com/Recipe/Varenyky/index.html

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Happy Easter to any Ukrainian A2Kers out there, who ever you might be..
Easter is a very big deal, I know.

I'm afraid I'm not a very good Ukrainian when it comes to such things, but enjoy your celebrations.

Especially the part on Easter Sunday when the girls & boys get to kiss (after the marathon service!) declaring "Christ has arisen!" (That was just about the only good bit I can recall, to tell the truth! )

http://web.mac.com/lubap/Ukrainian_Easter/Traditions.html

a bad joke from the troll thread

http://able2know.org/topic/143018-28#post-3951667

Spot on, djjd!

A bad joke, indeed!