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There’s a “Holy Trinity” of Russian New Year’s Parties:
If any of these is missing, you DO NOT have a REAL New Year’s celebration… you have a phoney-baloney blah and boring New Year’s Get-Together. You can substitute American or Australian domestic bubbly or Sekt for the Russian champagne. To use French champagne is pretentious, snooty, and oh-so-precious… only terminally-brain-dead social climbers do that (you know who they are… they live in ostentatious, blowsy, tacky, and tasteless McMansions in the “right” exurban gated community). Any old tangerine can replace the Moroccan variety so long as the fruit’s firm and of good quality.
That’s the recipe for a Happy New Year à la Russe!
с Новым Годом!
BMD
NB:
The EU idiots who want to use the courts to try to force people to stop using the word “Champagne” for non-Champagne region bubbly are chock fulla shit… that shows ya what happens when there’s too many lawyers (as there are in the USA and the West). If it’s bubbly, it’s “Champagne”, and that ends the matter for me. I believe that I’m NOT alone in feeling that way.
31 December 2011
RIA-Novosti
http://en.rian.ru/infographics/20111231/170510998.html
