Quote Originally Posted by VendingMachine
Quote Originally Posted by waxwing
Plebs!
Blini with caviar ... simply delectable.
hmm where's the dribbling mouth smiley?

Amazing, really, that I can buy them in my local cafe, when you consider that nobody in Russia ever eats them. Have they laid it on specially for me?! How touching!
Yep, they are there for foreigners. I once asked a girl I know who works at чайная ложка if anyone ever orders blinis with caviar and she said nope, no one except for foreigners. no russian has ever ordered blini with caviar at least in her living memory. can I ask you a question? do you wear bobby helmets? those tiny plastic ones? you must, otherwise why the hell would they be selling 'em all over London.
That's so weird, 'cos I just was so curious about this issue of caviar last week that I flew to Nizhniy Novogord and conducted a casual poll of Russians and discovered that 47/51 people polled enjoy blini with caviar and of those 51 only 2 believed that plastic bobby helmets are all the rage in Britain! And then I took the train to Petersburg went to the Чайная Самовар restaurant and asked the lady behind the counter about the relative rates of foreigners vs. Russians eating blini with caviar, and she said, wow, that's weird, this middle-aged fellow just asked me that, and then tried to pinch my ass! And then I was mugged by a horde of gypsy children who stole all my carefully documented research on the subject. Alas. Увы.

From this experience I learned that it's easier to just make stuff up when discussing things on an internet forum! Boy, if only I'd figured that out before buying my plane ticket!