Once a long time ago, 30 years ago, my wife’s aunt brought her future husband to meet her mother. She prepared for the visit, cooked a whole mountain of blines, planted a potential snail, well, let him eat, let him ask. And that sluggish one, eats without a special appetite, but does not refuse the supplement.

Here the aunt decides to eat a blend, bites, chews a couple of times... Fu! and splashes out.

Have you tried your own blends?

Not yet, not yet...

And you try!

Mom bites...yo-yo, and the blines are nauseous some, bitter! They conducted a small investigation and realized that instead of sugar, she generously poured soda into the paste. My mother is surprised:

Oh, and I think, how wonderful, what gorgeous blades have been made! Honey, why did you keep silent?

I didn’t want to hurt...

I laughed, and at the end, my mother said:

“Well,” said the daughter, “at least he’t get angry with your scratch!

They have lived since then.

My daughter, like all children, learns at a distance. The lessons went on all subjects, the most pleased me was the teacher of work. She asked the children to wash, chew, clean up the room, prepare lunch and send a video report.

Our country is governed by a secret government.
That is, we, of course, know where it is and how it looks, but what it makes useful to us is unknown to us.

The French historian Bulange a few years ago came up with the theory that all the geniuses of medieval France – artists, scientists, commanders – were born the following year after the country had gathered a good harvest (and, accordingly, pregnant and nursing mothers received enough nutrients to develop a full-fledged child). During the collection of evidence to confirm his theory, Bulange, however, faced unforeseen difficulties - a single accounting of the crop in France in the Middle Ages did not exist, the accounting books of the duchies and counties for the most part did not survive, and the records in the historical chronicles were uncertain ("in Aquitaine collected as many apples as not seen since the times of the world flood", but in the same year "in Burgundy all eaten bear and hammer").

Then Bulange came up with a trip around the archives in four parts of France and searched for menus and business books of old courtyards and hotels. It was accompanied by luck: it managed to find such a number of preserved old records to track the history of French lunches each year for centuries. But how do you know from the old menu the amount of harvest or non-harvest? After all, many courtyards and tractors had their own kitchen, and many dishes were not served to the table due to the harvest, but because of the craving of the cook.

The hero of the study was the vineyard. For centuries it went to the food of the poor and the rich, if the country had a shortage of bread, vegetables and meat. Relying on the appearance in the menu of dishes from grapefruit, Bulange concluded that in the years of his interest in France there were non-harvests, and the price of the grapefruit determined their scale. These calculations were subsequently confirmed by other indirect evidence and allowed the historian to prove the truth of his theory.

The sheep chose a wolf to be the leader of the herd. The wolf, in order not to be caught by the shepherds, brought the herd to the shady side of the hill and appointed friends from his herd as shepherds.
After some time, the rare grass on the pasture ended and the herd turned to the leader:
“O our Sunshine, do you not see that we have nothing to eat and our children are starving, let us go to the other side of the slope, where the sun illuminates the slopes, there is thick and juicy grass.
“What are you talking about, sheep,” replied the wolf, “you don’t need to shake the boat. I don’t see any problems with food.