Re: [Cz-L] Ribisel

Aren't riebiesel called "currants" in English?

Nancy

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From: "Paul Heger" <pheger_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Dec 18, 2010 8:51 am
Subject: [Cz-L] Ribisel
To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>
Cc: "veni vici" <venivici_at_inbox.com>, "Czernowitz Genealogy and History" <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>

The Riebiesel were tasty in Czernowitz and are tasty now. We buy them at th=
e
Super in Canada and obviously I bought them at the market in Kiev; they are
sour, but that is their excelent taste. In Czernowitz dry wine was called
in Yiddish "Sauerer Wahn (Wein)
Paul Heger
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 8:45 AM, HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net> wrote:

> 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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