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[10-days-of-freakin-olives]

so I was going through Tasting History with Max Miller

(quality content, pls go and subscribe, my little food-archaeology-loving heart adores that channel)

and today I got around to watching the borshch (/borsch/borscht/barszcz) video, which means that TIL that the Soviet Union put out a book in the 30s called

The Book About Tasty and Healthy Food. To the Soviet Housewife from the People's Commisariat of the Food Industry

and that apparently everyone just called it

The Book

which is both way more culinarily ominous and somehow therefore infinitely more stereotypically Slavic.

Like.

They didn't shorten it to The Book About Tasty and Healthy Food, or call it The Cookbook or something

no, they called it The Book.

110% The Book About Tasty and Healthy Food. To the Soviet Housewife from the People's Commisariat of the Food Industry is a regular cookbook with a boring cover and neatly printed recipes

but The Book is 120% some kind of cursed leather-bound grimoire stained with unrecognizable ingredients from magical concoctions and written in the spiky dramatic scrawl of a long-dead slightly-mad wise woman

Yanno?

"We're having borshch tonight - bring me...The Book About Tasty and Healthy Food. To the Soviet Housewife from the People's Commisariat of the Food Industry" is an insane thing to say, for sure.

But somehow

"We're having borshch tonight - bring me...The Book" is both more sensible and more threatening at the same time

and I think that's beautiful

unrelated but that video also made me cry so thanks for that Mr. Max Miller

[10-days-of-freakin-olives]

Okay, so my once-pristine Good Omens Tumblr has been steadily branching out into my other interests, which...fine? Normal? But I know not everyone is here for all of what I'm reblogging or posting about.

To that end, I'm gonna start tagging my posts - reblogs and original stuff - and if you want to either follow along with or block that content from your dash, please do. Then I don't have to feel annoying about my various and sundry ADHD-fueled shenanigans.

Taglist (so far):

Kpop content: olivepops

BTS stuff specifically: bulletproofolives

Stray Kids stuff specifically: strayolives

General Good Omens: goodolives

Ineffable Spouses specifically: ineffableolives

SCA stuff: medievalolives

Bookbinding: olivebound

Metalworking: forgedinolives

Classic rock content: olivesrocks

Various general music content: spolivefy

Hurling and/or various athletics: runolivesrun

My original content: olivesoriginals

Fics I'm recommending: recs4later

Fics I've written: oliveswrites

Fashion content: nexttopolives

Queer stuff (possibly political): olivethehomo (please tell me you get that reference)

Kdrama stuff: olivethedrama

Video games: 8bitolives

Welcome to Nightvale: facelessoldolive

Plants: olivesgarden

Pagan stuff: satanicolives

General witchery: magicolives

Astronomy: olivesinspace

My IRL nonsense: oliveshenanigans

Service job specific nonsense: olivesserves

Fiber arts: olivessews

Polish language posts: jestemoliwki (I'm still a novice learner but come talk to me!)

General dance content: danceolivesdance

Leverage (TV series): theolivejob

More to be added as I collect interests. I'm not gonna go back and re-tag everything, but I'll try my best to be diligent about it going forward.