Why do all the inhabitants of the USSR yearn for Soviet ice cream and whether it was so beautiful

Ice cream of the USSR is one of the most delicious masterpieces of Soviet times. For this gentle delicacy were ready to stand in queues, they came from the villages and typed in reserve for themselves and neighbors. There was an opinion abroad that the Union was worth visiting for ballet, circus and ice cream.

Since 1966, the dessert was produced according to interrepublic technical conditions. After 1980, its price was determined by the industry standard. Therefore, in each individual region of the Union, the same type of product could cost differently. All ice cream was produced to strict quality standards without preservatives. It contained only milk fats and was stored for no more than a week.



Do not think that the choice of ice cream in the USSR was limited only to an Eskimo on a stick and a filling in a cup. Let's go back to our childhood and remember our favorite cold desserts.

The favorite Soviet seal melting in the mouth cream filling in briquettes and simple waffle cups cost 20 kopecks. It was, however, the most popular summer dessert (if the waffle cracked, it was considered a great luck). The cup also sold ice cream cake, decorated with butter cream rose. It cost 28 cents.



Many people remember the big seal “Family”. It was sold in foil or a large cardboard box for 48 cents. It was a delicious meal for all the households.

Classic Eskimo on a stick in the form of a cylinder Remember the famous Eskimo with glaze "Lakomka"? It began to be produced in 1972 using a special technology developed by the locksmith No. 8 in Moscow. He invented a special nozzle to apply pre-foamed chocolate to the side surface of a filling cylinder in a stream rather than by dipping.



Other varieties of glazed ice cream appeared after 1977 during a period of poor harvest of cocoa beans in Latin America. To cover the shortage of imported chocolate, crushed nuts were added to the glaze. Ice cream "Nutcracker" has become such a kind of "Lacomca". Then there was “Borodino”, where for glazing used foamed cream-brulet.

Eskimo "Chestnut" with a filling and chocolate glaze for 28 kopecks appeared on sale quite rarely, and spread it in a matter of minutes. It was considered the most delicious. It was much less common to find a chestnut with a chocolate filling.



He had an analogue - ice cream "Leningrad" for 22 kopecks, also in a icing of chocolate, but with a simpler filling, from cream ice cream. His namesake - "Leningrad" Moscow production - filled with nuts, and it cost 30 kopecks.

Ice cream USSR: Other types of sugar horn captured the hearts of Soviet sweet tooth in the 1970s-1980s. It began to be produced in Leningrad in 1946 after the invention of an automatic machine that rolls waffles into sugar straws. Such a crispy tank differed favorably from the filling in an ordinary waffle cup: it was strong and did not soak. Waffles were made from flour, milk, sugar, eggs and butter.



If you wanted something tasty and cool, and there was not enough money, you could buy bright ice cream with fruit and berry taste for 7-9 cents. The tastes of raspberries, cranberries, apple, lemon, blackberries, blackcurrant and strawberries were very liked by children.

In the second half of the 1970s, a dessert experiment called Tomato ice cream was invented. It was rarely offered to customers, but they were reluctant to take it, despite the price of 10-12 kopecks. Some considered it an open disgust, others would not refuse to taste this delicacy now.



You could taste a little bit of everything in a classic ice cream cafe. They brought you a big cremanca filled with appetizing balls of cream brulee, creamy, chocolate, strawberry and nut ice cream. All this charm was watered with fruit toppings, jam, caramel and sprinkled with grated chocolate or crushed nuts. In some restaurants, you could taste a delicacy: for example, ice cream with liquor, cognac or champagne.



It is not superfluous to recall the healing function of ice cream. It was given to children for free after removing the tonsils, so schoolchildren often woke up before an unpleasant operation: “Here I will remove the tonsils and eat ice cream from the belly!”

What kind of ice cream do you still remember? Share it in the comments!