On 10/22/2018 at 1:25 PM, shain said:We found Borjomi to be a pretty, quite and overall very pleasant town.
There was some interesting ice cream being sold. Like this Russian ice cream, which I noticed for it's unique/strange albel, but in retrospect I regret I haven't tasted, since it's flavor (of sesame and poppy) sounds like one I would have liked.
There was also this Smurfs flavored ice cream (JK ofcourse no idea what it is). Cherry with chocolate/vanilla are also common flavors.
Various pastries.
Nuts, honey, home made wine.
This nice old lady was selling honey and jams and insisted on sampling us with them, at least until a bee landed and got stuck in one of the jars...
We bought a jar of preserved pine bads in syrup, they have a lovely and very strong piney-resiny aroma, and the lady said that they are good to relieve a cough.
But when we got home it was nowhere to be found
Are you sure the pastries were truly pastries? That first picture looks like a type of khatchapuri made with layers of dough similar to filo. Also, the churchkhela is making me salivate! My family is from Kabuleti and so while I've been to Georgia quite a few times, I've never traveled around - I'm really enjoying this post!
Also, as a side note - the label on the ice cream (it looks to be in Ukrainian) also includes the warning "Stop Narcotics!" which is amusing not just in its placement on ice cream but in the context of that leafy background which looks similar to marijuana. Also - just got the association between the narcotics and poppy seeds - is it a warning that it may give you a false positive narcotic test or a suggestion of a more law abiding use for poppies?
