Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1890 — Russians as Eater?. [ARTICLE]

Russians as Eater?.

The Russians eat on an average once every two hours. The climate .and custom—requires such frequent meals, the digestion of which is aided by frequent draught of vodki and tea. Vodki is the Russian whisky,and made from potatoes and rye. It is fiery and colorless, and flavored with some extract like vanilla ot orange. It is drank from small cups that hold, perhaps, half a gill. Vodki and lea are the inseparable accompaniments of friendly as well as of business intercourse in the country of the czar. Drunken men are rare. Russia and Sweden are the only countries in which the double dinners are the rule. When you go to the house of a Russian, he he a friend or a stranger, you are at oned invited to a side table, where salted meats, pickled eel, salted cucumbers and many other spicy and appetizing viands are urged upon you with an impressiveness that knows no refusal. This repast is washed down with frequent cups of vodki. That over, and when the visitor feels as if he had eaten enough for twenty-four hours, the, host says: ‘-And now for dinner.”