Question on a saying

[Belianine Valeri]

Bonjour, Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
In my young years we added 1/10 of vodka to the beer.
And the saying is correct: _Pivo bex vodki - dengi na veter_
(beer without vodka is a waste of money)
Nowadays Ersh is not very popular: it is considered to be the
drink/curse:) of the working class.
Cordially, Val Belianine www.textology.ru
B> I don't know if it has anything to do with it, but there is a quaint little
B> "Russian Cocktail" called Ёрш (Ersh), actually a spiny backed fish, which is
B> a mixture of vodka & beer (I think in equal amounts).  I had this delightful
B> concoction last in Leningrad in the late 1980s when decent beer was almost
B> impossible to come by.  It did not improve the already bad beer.  Just
B> wanted to make it clear to those not familiar with this that beer may be
B> either a chaser for vodka or the two may be mixed.
B> Michael Brewer

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