invented by Stalin's Minister of Trade and Torture, Atanas Mikoyan.

seems odd to portray Mikoyan as some evil Stalinist when he was a pretty important part of the destalinization gang.

while the French original is made with candied fruit, almond extract and other bourgeois additives the proletarian Plombir bears no trace of such extravagances.

In the absence of competition, there was no incentive to improve the product when the most basic variety was good enough for the masses.

Hmmm yes the obvious reason why this very unimportant consumer treat isn't flavored is because of ideological reasons/because they didn't bother to innovate because of communism. Could it perhaps be explained by simply comparing the USSR with any other developing country? Where is the ice cream for the people in the slums in the outskirts of cities? Where is the ice cream for the people dying of cholera? Oh wait right. They don't get the treats that westerners take for granted. The soviets simply tried to treat their people better than the impoverishment forced onto developing countries even though they had much bigger issues to be preoccupied with (foreign support for the subversion of their state) so they did it cheaply.

Several years ago, I myself ran a Plombir taste test on my very American son and the results were quite conclusive. He deemed it the most boring ice cream he ever had and refused to proceed beyond the second bite. But Plombir's malign influence on Russia's brains hasn't abated.

Actually, having a full large pizza for lunch is actually good and salads are bad because my child liked one and disliked the other. Like your child has actively been propagandized to love flashy looking foods and wrappers with twirls and shit since they saw their first phone or tv. And they're also ingested way more sugar than a soviet child manipulating your child to like to eat junk with way more sugar than this old ice cream recipe. And one of the "benefits" that was mentioned by you was that they supposedly used fresh, natural ingredients without chemical additives making it more healthy. Obviously that would make an American kid dislike the product because of what they're used to.

Also apparently Ben and Jerry's supports Putin! I actually remember something about them and Israel. I just don't remember if it was backlash because they were against Israel or backlash because they were for Israel.