On Tue, 13 Sep 2016, barbie gee wrote:
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> On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, Sqwertz wrote:
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>> On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:11:18 -0700 (PDT),
>> wrote:
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>>> On Monday, September 12, 2016 at 2:20:05 PM UTC-5, tert in seattle wrote:
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>>>> sour cream? yes
>>>> yogurt? ok
>>>> lemon juice & pepper? yes
>>>> marinara? not so much
>>>>
>>>> These are the frozen ones from costco. Anyone try these? They're pretty
>>>> good. What do you eat them with?
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>>> I don't get the appeal of these things.
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>> I'm with you. They should be filed with minimal potato and generous
>> with the cheese and other savory bits (onions, bacon, peppers,
>> anything but more potato) . All the store-bought ones I've had are
>> extremely boring - starch wrapped in starch <yawn>.
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> well, there's a reason the Potato Pierogi are called "Ruskie" in Polish,
> meaning Russian-style pierogi. It always seemed to me to be "poor people"
> food.
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> I've known pierogi filled with meat, kraut, cabbage, mushrooms, mushrooms and
> cabbage, and in the summer, filled with fruit. But potato pierogi? Never!
> Grandma never made them that way, we never ate them. Maybe because she left
> Poland during the time the Russians were occupying her neck of the woods?
After doing a bit of extra research, I discovered that "Ruskie Pierogi" do
NOT refer to Russia, but instead are "Rusyn" or Ruthenian. That's an
Eastern Slav or Slovakian ethnic group, that existed in parts of Poland,
Slovakia and Ukraine (Czechoslovakia).