Speaking of Hogs
The Wild Red Boar Restaurant
I explained to Moe that this old Volga car was actually a KGB car, and cars like this came to “pick people up” at 3 am or 3 pm. Any time of the day or night was fine with those guys. She was offended by the very idea of being taken away. Thus, the scornful face and some kind of weird two-pronged finger gesture.
The text in the menu reads:
– “Hello, Leonid…Everybody is here, we’re only waiting for you…The boar is cooked as usual…psst.” – “Well, that’s good Eddy…very good. “
“Eddy” is Edvard Gierek, Brezhnev’s Polish counterpart at the time.
A catchy photo there. Although, it’s not something I want to look at right before I eat dinner. But, that is the way these big shots greeted each other back then in the Sovietskii Soyuz.
20th Century Super Commies
In that painting above, I can make out Fidel Castro, Brezhnev, Evita and Juan Peron, and Chairman Mao. Is that the Ceausescus? The guy who got the ball rolling; his picture is on the wall. If they could only teach what these people were famous for in every school around the world. And include the popular expression used at the time which was, “Kill a commie for mommy”.
Maureen had chicken noodle soup and I had pig’s feet in aspic. For dessert, we had plums in ice cream. The waitress didn’t smile. She had the same attitude they used to have in Poland and Hungary before they got rid of communism. Maybe it was part of the Wild Red Boar ambiance. They wanted to keep it real. So, I tipped her. Good job, comrade.
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