Famine 1932-1933. Life was getting harder and harder. Horse skeletons, covered with scabby hide, roamed the streets. Not having what to feed, the peasants threw them to other villages or to the regional center, like kittens or puppies. Peasants who did not want to join the collective farm were taken away

Is a rather funny and not entirely clear expression. Even completely incomprehensible. The opposition itself is incomprehensible “ hunger is not an aunt". What aunt? Tolya is my father's sister, or just any aunt ...

But everything falls into place when you find out that hunger is not aunt, this is only the first part of the expression. In full, it looks like this Hunger is not an aunt, she won't bring a pie... That is, hunger prompts a person not to wait, but to act. As the saying goes, "What you drown, so you burst."

This proverb is quite old, found even in dictionaries published at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Such abbreviations, or truncations of full expressions, are not uncommon. For example, ", (yes, they forgot about the ravines.)" "Don't say gop! (until you jump) "...

There is, however, another version of the interpretation of this expression:

Hunger is not an aunt, but a mother and it should be understood in terms of the benefits of fasting. Although this version of the full phrase raises some doubts.

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"It was under Tsar Pea"They say, meaning" in the old days, "a long time ago. But what is this king peas why exactly peas and not radishes, for example?

Hunger is not an aunt

Analogs of the saying about hunger that is not aunt

• Hunger drives the world
• Hunger is not aunt, belly is not a basket
• Hunger is not an aunt, and a belly is not a basket
• Hunger is not an aunt, a soul is not a neighbor
• Hunger is not a neighbor: you can't get away from it
• Hunger is not an aunt, it will make you speak
• Hunger is a grumpy godfather: he gnaws, he won't catch
• Hunger is not an aunt, it will make you work
• Hunger drives the wolf out of the forest (to the village).
• Hunger is not an aunt, she will not put a kalachik
• Hunger does not run away to the forest
• Hunger does not puff up the stomach, but on an empty stomach it is more fun
• Hunger is not an aunt, frost is not a brother
• The belly will not burst with hunger, it will only shrink
• They don't die of hunger, they just swell

"Hunger is not an aunt," the people say, but they add: "Stepmother is fierce, but hunger is fierce!" (E. A. Salias "In Moscow")

Application of the saying in literature

— "They were guarded to protect them, but hunger is not aunt - they broke bread crusts for themselves, but for the future."(Daniil Granin "Bison")
— "I used to think - hunger is not aunt, but it turns out that aunt is hunger"(Vasily Grossman "Life and Fate")
— “But nothing. Hunger is not an aunt. - It is clear, ― the woman did not immediately say and walked away, it seems, losing interest in frogs in a hat and in both men ”(Vasil Bykov "The Wolf's Pit")
— "But if hunger is not your aunt, then the cold is also not your own uncle, do you agree?"(Vladimir Sanin "Do not tell the Arctic - goodbye")
— “Enough, isn't it,” I thought as I listened, “for example, isn't it according to the proverb:“ hunger is not your aunt ”?”(I. A. Goncharov "Frigate" Pallada ")

“Che stood up like a tree stump? And staring at the food? Lie all in a row! ”- I heard a loud female voice behind me. A family of five is comfortably seated at breakfast - at a large table, right at the main buffet table. “Bring that tray over here. Here we will figure out what we eat and why bite, ”the guest laughed. The man took his wife's command literally. He dashed to the edge of the table, grabbing a half-empty tray of cold cuts. And he began to impose everything on him.

At first, half a can of herring adhered to the meat leftovers. Herring was replaced by a huge portion of cheesecakes. Pancakes lay on top, sprinkled with sour cream and honey. “The greenery is just not the lodges, the grass grows at home,” the wife continued to command.

Approaching the table with pickles, the guest with a confident movement stuck a fork into a jar of olives. With difficulty holding a heavy tray in his left hand, the guest began to fish out fruits from the common jar. And send them directly into your mouth, without noticing the drops of the marinade, abundantly falling directly onto the snow-white tablecloth.

Everything that happened reminded me of an old anecdote. The man saw the buffet for the first time. And he was sincerely surprised at the absence of chairs at the main table. He arbitrarily took one of the chairs standing nearby, put it to the distribution, sat down. And he began to devour food greedily. “Sorry, but this is a buffet. Please free him! ”- asked the administrator. "I will stand up when the Swedes come"

“Che sat down? Go help your father, pick up something hot! " The girl obediently got up and went to the "Swede". “Do not take porridge, you will eat it at home. Don't bang your ears, put chicken and boiled pork on the plate, don't miss the shrimps, ”the guest handed out commands. Suddenly, turning sharply at another shout from her mother, the girl did not notice how a lock of her long, loose hair dived into the gravy boat with ketchup. And after a couple of seconds, a bright red strand of hair was already drawing strange patterns on the girl's snow-white shirt. "Dirty!" - the guest screamed loudly throughout the hall.

Waiters standing nearby ran up to the girl - with an offer to help clean her shirt on the spot. “They have placed their banks here, boobies. You don't know how to work! This shirt is enough for your entire monthly salary, ”- the waiters immediately got it.

Finally putting the heavy tray on the table, the father of the family went back to the distribution. And he began to put mountains of hot dishes on the plates. Mixed with a side dish, the guest for some reason grabbed a few eclairs along with the chicken, sprinkling them abundantly with cherries.

With difficulty dragging mountains of food to his table, the head of the family finally took his place of honor. The family began to eat breakfast.

“Stop and wait! We finish eating and go out, ”the guest replied in a businesslike manner to someone who had called her mobile, obviously overestimating the gastronomic possibilities of her household.

“Fruit lodge in the bag. Faster, we're late. We will eat on the way to Peterhof, ”the guest ordered again at the exit from the restaurant. "Why do you need apples?" Do you miss them at home? Top with peaches, pears and grapes. Paid for everything "

The husband rushed back to the "Swede". And in a hurry he began to lay out a dozen apples from the bag and from the two side pockets in his jacket back into the fruit basket. He tried to trade apples for something that "does not grow at home." But in the bustle he dropped them, not holding them in his hands. Apples rolled in different directions under the loud shouts of an angry wife and mocking glances from other guests.

The family left. I went to the table and carefully examined the "battlefield". The waiters have just taken away from the table about ten plates filled to the brim with almost untouched food. Meat mixed with chicken, fish, pieces of fruit, the remnants of desserts, abundantly seasoned with ketchup, honey and sour cream, went safely to the trash cans. Only the accidentally escaped apples, previously washed in the kitchen, returned to the "Swede".

The term "buffet" exists only in Russian. In Europe, the United States and Asia, this type of service is called a "buffet"

In support of the Russian version of this name, historians cite enough arguments and facts attributing this invention to the nation of northern navigators.

Legend has it that even in ancient times, for most feasts, the Scandinavians prepared simple but varied food for long-term storage - from salted and smoked fish and meat, boiled eggs, from vegetables, mushrooms and berries, so that when new guests arrived, they would not think about how to feed them. ...

This service concept has always been easier to implement in cold climates. And in that national cuisine, which is adapted to various kinds of preparations.

Few opponents of the “Swedish theory” argue that this most democratic way of serving food originates from the traditional Russian meal “vodka is a snack”. But this hypothesis, according to historians, does not stand up to criticism - after all, democracy was not born in Russia. And the meaning of the "buffet" is not in strong drinks.

In Sweden itself, this format of serving food is called smorgasbord, that is, "sandwich table". Sandwiches mean any satisfying meal that can be prepared from anything.

The presence of bread is not as important as the principle of serving dishes that are easy to eat. And unlike, for example, pasta with tomato and cheese, they do not lose their taste for a relatively long time.

The concept and idea of ​​the "buffet" is closely related to the national characteristics of the inhabitants of Scandinavia. Its main principle is reasonable self-restraint in the absence of external control.

Konstantin Skalkovsky, a Russian historian and journalist of the second half of the 19th century, described a meal in a local inn: “Everyone demands both, the maids barely had time to uncork the bottles. There is no consumption metering here; there is a book on the table, a pencil is tied to it on a pink ribbon, and the guest himself is obliged to write down what he ate and drank in the book. Upon departure, he also sums up his account himself. It is clear that all mistakes remain on the passenger's conscience, but the Swedes prefer to lose something rather than subject the traveler to humiliating control. "

Alexander Kuprin, who underwent treatment in Finland in 1909 (which was part of Sweden at the beginning of the nineteenth century), described the “miracle of the self-assembled tablecloth” in this way: “The long table was lined with hot meals and cold snacks. All this was unusually clean, appetizing and elegant. There was fresh salmon, fried trout, cold roast beef, some kind of game, small, very tasty meatballs and the like. Everyone approached, chose what he liked, had a snack as much as he wanted, then went to the sideboard and, of his own free will, paid exactly one mark thirty-seven kopecks for dinner. "

“When we returned to the carriage, a picture in a truly Russian genre was waiting for us,” the famous writer recalled. “The fact is that we were accompanied by two stone contractors. Everyone knows this type of fist from the Meshchovsky district, Kaluga province: a wide glossy, high-cheeky red muzzle, red hair curling from under a cap, a sparse beard, a rogue look, piety for a five-year old, ardent patriotism, and contempt for everything that is not Russian - in a word, well-known a truly Russian face. "

“I should have heard how they mocked the poor Finns,” Kuprin continued. "What a fool, so foolish. After all, such idiots, the devil knows them! Why, if you count, I ate three rubles for seven hryvnias from them, from the scoundrels ... Oh, you bastard! They beat them a little, sons of bitches. One word - Chukhontsy ". And the other one picked up, choking with laughter: "And I ... deliberately booted the glass, and then took it in the fish and spat. So they should be bastards!"

Quoting these disgusting statements, Kuprin concludes: "And it is all the more pleasant to confirm that in this sweet, wide, semi-free country they are already beginning to understand that not all of Russia consists of contractors for the Meshchovsky district of the Kaluga province."

These days, the "buffet" has literally conquered the planet. Hotel complexes, casinos, cruise ships and large restaurants - those establishments that are faced with the task of feeding a large number of guests quickly, tasty and high-quality - widely use this type of service. And they receive a stable solid income - despite the false idea that the cost of meals eaten significantly exceeds the revenue of the establishments. This is wrong. An important feature of the "Swede" is that the unlimited appetites of eaters are limited by the size of their stomachs, the presence of a culture of consumption, and upbringing. And the observance of the banal principle by the majority of guests: it is a pleasure, but not to take too much. And do not take food with you.