Janet Wilder > wrote:

> Husband is disappointed that he didn't get cold borscht
> like his grandmother served him.

The notion of "borscht" as what appears you think it is exists only in
America. It is otherwise a total misnomer, as I posted before.

Your husband should have ordered "svekolnik", then he would have got
what he wanted - if it was offered at all.

> Russian vodka is the bomb!

Russian vodka is basically no different from any other - it is rectified
spirit diluted with water.

Victor