Posted on 09/07/2004 10:44:18 AM PDT by lizol
Maybe I'm sheltered, but the only other time I've heard of a "milk bar" was in "A Clockwork Orange". Alex and his droogs used to hang out at the Koroba Milk Bar, or some such fine establishment.
I liked the Moloko Plus myself...
That is the first thing that popped into my mind too. lol
The "milk bar" is just a name. In fact you can get all kind of lunch or breakfast there.
I wonder myself why the name is like that, even though I'm Polish, I live here and I've been to "milk bars" several times.
Yummy.
Mc Ping
>>How to Say 'Fast Food' in Polish
Perogies! MMmmmmMMmmmmmm!
Anthony Burgess' "Clockwork Orange" satirized a lot of Communist totalitarian ideas. The droogs spoke Nadsat--a satirical language melding Russian, English and slang. I think the milk bars were an appropriate setting.
"MMmmmmMMmmmmmm!" indeed!
So polish girls eat healthy? This must be why they're so beautiful.
We used to have milk bars in the US--they were called cafeterias. You could take your child there and feed him a low-cost and fairly nourishing meal without tons of fat and sugar. Where have all the Luby's gone?
I remember eating at the Prague Automat one night in the early 1990s, and it was packed. The hockey player Petr Klima was there entertaining anyone who would listen, and he bought us a round of beers.
Pierogies
2 cups flour
3 egs
knead into dough, adding flour or egg as necessary
roll into 6" circles
Filling:
add saurkraut and musrooms
-OR-
add mix of farmers cheese, onions, one boiled potato, a little salt
Cooking:
fold in half, seal edges with as little air inside as possible
boil for 10 minutes.
store in freezer wrapped in wax paper
To server fry with butter and salt to taste.
"Though they've become less prosperous since the fall of the Iron Curtain"
Well, there's the first lie right there. At least they didn't make us wade through much of the story before they got down to it. Crowd booed Clinton bump.
My wife and I eat lunch there every other week on payday. They have turned into an all-you-can-eat-in-one-trip kinda place, you no longer pay per item (except dessert and drink). Good stuff.
I remember once, when I was in the US I was taken to some place like you've described. A friend of mine told he'd show me some traditional old- fashioned American "fast-food" bar - in opposition to McDonald's, that look everywere the same.
We went there very early in the morning (about 5 a.m.) and the place looked just like I could see on American movies from 50's-60's - a long bar table with several bar chairs, and a few sleepy guys drinking their morning coffee.
Nice place. I thik that was "a cafeteria", that you've mentioned.
Bad management for one thing.
Luby's used to be considered one of the top 100 stocks to own.
Now they are down to something like $5.00-$6.00 per share.
I fear it won't be long before Luby's is a thing of the past.
Without the subsidies, the Kebab places would eat their lunch (no pun intended!).
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