Re: [Cz-L] Ribisel

From: Lydia Schmerler <lydia.sch_at_dbmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:16:02 +0100
To: HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
Reply-to: Lydia Schmerler <lydia.sch_at_dbmail.com>

Hardy, your "Ribisel" story is really very cute !!!
Lydia

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From: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 7:45 AM
To: "veni vici" <venivici_at_inbox.com>; "Czernowitz Genealogy and History"
<czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Subject: [Cz-L] Ribisel

>
> In German they call them Johanisbeeren. Ribes in English.
> When I was little we had a lot of Ribisel. The taste was divine.
> Then I went away -no more Ribisel . But the taste was there.
> As time went by , the missing taste became an obsession.
> This year as I was in a restaurant in Europe I noticed that at a
> nearby table Ribisel was served.
> I asked the waiter but he said that it comes only as an adding to
> ice cream. I insisted . Finally he brought some.
> Ribisel, after 70 years , Ribisel.
> Then I taste them . Sour , bitter , disgusting, unconsumable.
> I stop eating , I had enough.
> The morale of the story : If you have a memory from childhood
> dont try to revive it. It may be disappointing.
> Ribisel are now out from my nostalgia list .
>
> PS. The Ribisel were charged extra.
> Special order.
>
> Hardy

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