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August 5, 2005
Everybody drink Mishka Vodka!
It's nice to see that somebody has finally bought a bottle of Mishka, which I rashly and frivolously ordered a case of for the store on my first day on the job, largely (ok, entirely) so I could buy a bottle at cost for then-Boy's birthday later that week (it's his namesake). I blame its failure to take off on being hidden away among the kosher wines (it's Israeli). It's really a very decent vodka.
Speaking of vodka, here is the most wanton, needless use of the word "zakuski" I have yet seen by an institution that should know better. What is it about Russian cliches and people's willingness to repetitively misappropriate them? (From Russia with Herpes, and so on.) Other than the collection being disjointed and meagre, what is really zakuski-like about the items on display?
Posted by michele at August 5, 2005 2:10 PM