Sunday, March 15, 2009

Vodka Museum

Saturday evening we went to a Vodka Museum, as you can imagine the Russians take their vodka seriously. I learned a lot on the tour, like....
The Russians have experimented twice with Prohibition in the past 100 years. Apparently prohibition was as disastrous for the Russians as it was for the United States.
Dolls and Vodka do mix.
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev, also famous for making the original Periodic Table of the Elements, has a wax figure display at the vodka museum because he was the first to standardise the Alcohol content of Vodka at a rich 40%. Whereas previously the content had varied from 15-40%.
A Display for one of Russia's original vodka families... Smirnoff. This causes some controversy because the American known Smirnoff resulted from one son of the original CMEPHOB (best attempt at Russian script as Blogspot won't recognize it) family selling the rights to the name and vodka, now some members of the original family consider that a mistake.
Here is the main reason for the tour, the post tour tasting! Three vodka shots and a spread of traditional vodka drinking snacks. Below is Nikki's appetizer plate, pickles, fish, and a processed pork fat on bread with mustard. As you can see Nikki loved it.......

Nikki eating her appetizers, she thought three shots of vodka was enough to convince her to eat a pickled lake fish.

Down the Hatch.

After tortuing her fish Nikki decided there was no way she would eat it, and I ended up with two fishes.

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