Showing posts with label kaTUSHka bless you. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kaTUSHka bless you. Show all posts

Sunday, 13 December 2015

I'm just looking for some sweet Katushka

I tripped over a Lithuanian/Russian pastry shop
in London. I thought I'd try something different,
so looking around I saw this big danish-looking
confabulation.  It had yellow filling and I was
told it was cream cheese.

I was thinking what kinda rube would call this
a pastry? but because of the righteous cheery
gals behind the counter, I tried it. It was v good.

I thought they called it "katushka". but a quick
online search shows no such thing.
If you look up kartoshka, you'll get a hundred
different pastries, none of which match what
I had.
Some cream cheese treats are called Vatrushka.
I'm confused.
Wikipedia may help:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatrushka
the pic they have, seems to be the one:

anyway, why ruin a good meme:
I was thinking "i wonder if they call it 'tush' for short."
When you think of tush, Russian is a good collocation.

So my mind went racing to an old song
Tush by ZZtop which has a barely hidden message:


ah, to dream,
perchance to squeeze