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This is the opinion, for example, among the majority of Russians, which are often poisoned with either vodka or expired vodka canned food, not to mention the “terrible” products with GMOs, pesticides, about all kinds of “goodies” stuffed with dangerous for health with colorants and flavors, and so on and so forth like that.
And from this unscrupulousness of producers and traders we are not neither the epidemiological service nor the consumer protection society saves. But in Tsarist Russia did not even have such organizations, while people ate, Like, everything is natural and high quality.
But were all the products in Tsarist Russia quality?
And here modern man is deeply mistaken. IN pre-revolutionary Russia falsification of food, because of which people suffered and even often died, was put on a wide leg. And if something was poisoned by, say, the whole family, then often it was impossible to even determine what caused this poisoning – the level of medicine was much lower than now.
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For example, at that time butter was widely faked when in the creameries they produced a certain substance from the most waste fats, say, mutton brains, coloring it in the color of the best Vologda oil. But because the Russians, before you start eating bought butter, put a small piece of it on the hot potatoes and thus checked the product for quality. In milk at that time lime was added everywhere and everywhere, and in cream and sour cream – chalk, which made these dairy products heavier and brought producers and traders extra income. Not the best way the situation was with sausages …
But the most falsified were various drinks, for example, wine, coffee, tea. Buy in the same Moscow or St. Petersburg quality Crimean or Caucasian wine was a problem. Suffice it to say that in the same Moscow a year was imported two to three times less wine than exported. And this despite the fact that in the city had no wineries. It is no coincidence that the great winemaker of Crimea Prince Lev Sergeyevich Golitsyn fought against his whole life forgers of Crimean wines, but his efforts were in vain.
Coffee (ground) in Tsarist Russia counterfeiters were made on basis of dust, gypsum, tinted clay and other inedible substances, tea was sold already drunk (collected by teahouses and again dried), staining it with Prussian blue, tobacco, infusion alder bark and so on. At best diluted quality Kropotkino Chinese tea and sold at exorbitant prices (this the most harmless sell).
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Pasta and other flour products were made from cheap or (most often) even spoiled flour, with the addition of there to mask lime water, copper sulfate, and sometimes road dust. By the way, none of today’s shopping enthusiasts dumplings, dumplings did not think why they are so tasteless dough, very similar to cardboard? After all, if you make the dough at home, then it’s enough to dilute the flour with ordinary water – and you won’t tear off your ears, as it turns out deliciously. Do not you think, gentlemen, that modern manufacturers painstakingly studied the production technology of such flour products, widely used in pre-revolutionary Russia?
Food counterfeiters are indestructible
Did the authorities of the Russian Empire fight with such falsifiers? Certainly, but the fines applied and minor prison imprisonment (like today) few of these scammers scared, moreover, profits from fake products covered everything – and fines, and bribes, and other legal costs. They, these fabulous profits, and now more than cover any fines and sanctions against crooks.
So complain about today’s times, comparing them to some gracious former, not worth it. Insecure traders and manufacturers have always been and will remain, I think, for a long time to come. AND fighting them is useless since they are the same field of berry with those who allegedly fight them. So it was in Tsarist Russia, so remains in our country to this day. And do not build illusions gentlemen, things are much better in the West in this regard – yes same…
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