Question on a saying

[Brewer, Michael]

I don't know if it has anything to do with it, but there is a quaint little
"Russian Cocktail" called Ёрш (Ersh), actually a spiny backed fish, which is
a mixture of vodka & beer (I think in equal amounts).  I had this delightful
concoction last in Leningrad in the late 1980s when decent beer was almost
impossible to come by.  It did not improve the already bad beer.  Just
wanted to make it clear to those not familiar with this that beer may be
either a chaser for vodka or the two may be mixed. 

 

mb 

 

Michael Brewer

German and Slavic Studies Librarian

Fine Arts/Humanities Team

Main Library A210

621.9919

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Alina Israeli [mailto:aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU] 
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 9:36 AM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Question on a saying

 

>There is a Russian syaing that begins "Pivo bez vodky ..." .  Would

>anyone know the rest of this saying which implies that one drinks to

>enjoy and get drunk?  Thanks ahead of time---Jerry Sabo.

 

Пиво без водки, деньги на ветер. (Pivo bez vodki - den'gi na veter.) Which

means, I would say, that if you are drinking beer without vodka you are

wasting money (because you are not getting appropriately drunk).

 

Dear drinker, please correct me if I am wrong.

 

AI

 

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Alina Israeli

LFS, American University

4400 Mass. Ave. NW

Washington, DC 20016

 

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