Re:A Supermarket Visit Brought Down the Soviet Union
by Tade0 on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @03:23AM
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> Then he saw the bananas. He really wanted bananas.
My friend's high school physics teacher had many memorable lines, one of them being:
"Bananas! I saw my first banana when I was already in college!"
My father hosted a few Americans in (back then) communist Poland. To them it was like time travel to some bizarro world bygone era. They really wanted to drive his car, which was also a "classic" tech and design wise.
Anyway all this spilled over to the 90s, making the weirdest things to be considered premium goods, like Vans shoes, vacation in Malta/Greece or McDonald's.
Eventually this all ended and I remember the exact moment I realized it: I saw a somewhat overweight teenager in a mall holding a pizza slice.
Every part of this sight would be out of place in the mid 90s, not to mention the previous system.
My friend's high school physics teacher had many memorable lines, one of them being:
"Bananas! I saw my first banana when I was already in college!"
My father hosted a few Americans in (back then) communist Poland. To them it was like time travel to some bizarro world bygone era. They really wanted to drive his car, which was also a "classic" tech and design wise.
Anyway all this spilled over to the 90s, making the weirdest things to be considered premium goods, like Vans shoes, vacation in Malta/Greece or McDonald's.
Eventually this all ended and I remember the exact moment I realized it: I saw a somewhat overweight teenager in a mall holding a pizza slice.
Every part of this sight would be out of place in the mid 90s, not to mention the previous system.