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Ok, I just got back. Tasty Ukranian foods everywhere. I enjoyed the food, as some of it is similarly made like Czech food, the music, and I understood half of what people were saying around me.
Lots of tables set up selling Uki-fare like clothes, flags, stickers, t-shirts, anything Uki.
Traditions I found were somewhat similar. I had the pleasure for us Czechs to share the same tradition of beating girls and women with braided pussy-willows on lent. However, there is one Ukrainian object that perturbed me, kinda looked like a mace. Picture is below. Can any of my Slavic cousins explain me the story behind this Ukrainian traditional object? I believe it has to do with the Kozaks.
So in ending, I had a great time, I ate Perogies with sour cream, susage with hot spice/herbed 'salsa' with boiled cabbage, sourcraut, mashed potatoes and gravy. Best deal I found was at (I forget the name) that food deli/prepared foods market on the south side of bloor near the Chapters, which sold a European Combo above for $6. MMMMMmmmmmmm good!
So if you like speaking with round-faced Slavic ppl like me, who drink real bottles of REAL beer (500ml, not puny Canadian bottles), speak either Polish, Slovak, Macedonian, etc, you'll appreciate this event, and feel a little at home. No need to say, if you're Ukrainian, you're right at home here.
Oh, btw, I heard soome POLKA music, which was cool, cuz as per popular misconception, Polka music is NOT POLISH, it's Czech!
Enjoy,
AJ
(Phone-camera pix)
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