Posted on 09/22/2011 11:01:10 AM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
KIEV — A 77-year-old Ukrainian man won a jar full of sour cream for coming first in a dumpling eating contest and then promptly died, local media reported on Wednesday.
Ivan Mendel ate 10 dumplings in half a minute to win first place and a one-liter jar of sour cream in the contest held in the town of Tokmak in the southeastern Zaporizhya region on September 18, Fakty I Kommentarii newspaper said.
Shortly afterwards, Mendel became unwell and died, according to local news websites.
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Interesting salad, that...
The winner forfeited by death, so the runner-up got it, maybe?
In this battle of man vs. food, food won.
Yeah, those too.
Oh well. I FEEL good as long as I watch what I eat, and if I don’t let myself get too hungry, being around food isn’t all that bad.
But eating those Ukrainian dumplings is no hardship either. It's a free, good meal.
My grandmother was from the old country, the Ukraine, and she made dumplings to die for......
(Yeah I know.....)
When I’m ready to throw in the towel, I’ll eat dumplings. I see them akin to banana slugs and sea cucumbers. I say this freely, though I’m still wanted in three (southern) states on felony grits violations. Some folks just take things too seriously. Just gimme an elk sirloin, barely burnt on both sides over a raving hardwood fire, then shoot me in the head. You can keep the sour cream.
If they were the kind of dumplings I think they were, I’m not surprised. I wouldn’t be surprised if they weren’t what the Czechs call “knedliky” or potato dumplings. They are half boiled potatoes and half flour, with a little farina sometimes thrown in to hold them together (as if they needed it). They are generally about the size of a medium potato, although I have seen them bigger and smaller. Usually served with gravy, sauerkraut, roasted pork. They are a very substantial component of a central European meal.
Was the runner up named winner and given the sour cream? It’s only fair.
They’ll kill you by beaning you with a dumpling.
Could have been. That would explain it..
Yep. I went to grade school in a mostly Mennonite community and varenika was on the menu every couple of weeks. It was usually stuffed with cabbage and ground beef and was pretty good.
I didn't realize there were Mennonites in Idaho. I thought the communities were in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana.
You may have the sour cream. Further, on my way out, I’ll set up an account for the finest bagels and lox in all of Manhattan, just above 35th, maybe 36th, above Time Square on a south west corner, if it’s still there. And there’s a little Irish pub across the street from the Omni Park Central, if that’s still there. I haven’t been back since the Windows closed for the last time... had swordfish up there, and looked down at the tourist helos circling Lady Liberty, two weeks prior.
Guinness for everyone!
You like me! You really like me!
Follow your bliss, maaaaan.
“I didn’t realize there were Mennonites in Idaho. I thought the communities were in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. “
This was in Kansas. There were three... sects? factions? The two main groups dressed as usual, but one did not dance. The third and very small groups dressed in the Amish way but drove cars. They did not have radios in their cars, however. And a few counties over were some of the real Amish with buggies.
The only Mennonites I’ve met were in Lancaster. I thought they were Amish. Never really got the differences between the German Anabaptists.
>>> “I once had a Ukrainian friend (coincidentally also deceased) whose idea of a “salad” was nothing but fresh chopped garlic and sour cream.”
Yikes. I don’t reckon ‘twas a vampire what got him dead.
Or should that read “undead”?
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