The weirdest Soviet foods I remember are as follows:
A. Boiled potato sandwiches. You slice boiled potatoes and place them on bread with some salt and pepper on top.
B. Watermelon rind jam. It was not at all bad-tasting, by the way. In the same family is candy made out of sugared orange peel.
C. Canned pasta. People were so into canning that when there was nothing else to can, they'd can cooked pasta in some weird liquid. It was like Chef Boyardee but in glass jars. Disgusting, both visually and taste-wise.
D. Of course, there's also the famous Olivier salad that was a rendering of the signature dish of a French chef in cheap Soviet ingredients. The Olivier salad is such an atrocious mix of ingredients that even Spanish cuisine pales in comparison. I adore it, though, even knowing how exceptionally unhealthy it is.
E. Pasta with sugar. My family never reached such levels of poverty but among the even less fortunate it was popular to eat cooked pasta with a generous sprinkling of sugar. Nobody heard of pasta sauce. Cheese and butter were a distant dream, so this was a way to make the sad, grey-colored and very sticky Soviet pasta slide in better.
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