Re: [Cz-L] Restaurants in Czernowitz

Thanks Arthur,
  Your testimony puts things into proportion,
Hardy
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From: "Arthur von Czernowitz" <vonczernowitz_at_yahoo.com>
To: "Czernowitz List" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>; "HARDY BREIER"
<HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Restaurants in Czernowitz

I was posted for 2 years in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) USSR, representing an
American Airline.
I was restricted and not allowed to leave Leningrad without permission. I
very much wanted to visit Czernowitz but several requests were denied.
Finally, on my last request I received permission.
>From Leningrad I flew to Lvov and from there by train to Czernowitz.

I stayed at the Ceremush, the only thing that I could get there was
breakfast, which consisted of black bread, marmalade, cut up red beets and
cold weak tea. In town I did not find one restaurant. There was a small
market near Am Fishplatz, where I saw people standing in line, a peasant
woman was selling warm pies, the smell was inviting it was of fried onions.
I was hungry so I stood in line. Suddenly I saw several people who bought
the pie started to spit after eating the pie. I went hungry. I returned to
Lvov by train and was picked up by an Inturist rep. I had several hours to
kill before flying back to Leningrad. I told the Inturist rep that I am very
hungry. She took me to a restaurant in a hotel nearby. There they did not
want to feed me, after some arguments, I was served a weak cold tea and a
slice of a week old cake.
The place was dark and I was all alone, at the end of the room waiters were
fixing up a buffed with several dishes and a big plate with water melons.
The waiters left, I thought should I go and steal some of the food? Suddenly
one of the slices of water melon started to move, am I seeing thing? Slowly
I walked over to the table; there I saw 2 rats the size of small kittens
eating water melon. I did not finish my tea or cake and left the place.
When I returned to Leningrad, I told the story to my employees and one of
them remarked “In Lvov even rats eat water melon and here in Leningrad we
eat govno”

Arthur

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