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I’ll take and order of borscht over an ice pick any day.

Who wouldn't? LOL

For a quick change of topic, heard an old story long ago about how, when Stalin was on his deathbed, he called Nikita Khrushchev to his bedside and said "Nikita, I know that you will eventually become the new leader of the USSR, and so I am giving you two letters in two sealed envelopes.

"If you find yourself in a political crisis, open the first letter. Should your very life be in danger, open the second letter."

Nikita thanked Josef, and soon after Stalin died.

Not long after Khrushchev consolidated his power, the Soviet Union was faced with a great famine and the peasants were getting restless, so he opened the first letter, it said "blame everything on me." So Khrushchev blamed the famine on Stalin, denounced Stalin's 'cult of the personality' in 1956, and Khrushchev was seen as a 'new' kind of Soviet leader.

Not quite 10 years later, in the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the uncertainty of the Cold War, Khrushchev knew that Brezhnev and Kosygin were probably plotting to seize power, and being fearful for his life, Khrushchev opened the second letter from his mentor, which said "Nikita my old friend? Prepare two letters..."