I was so upset over the duplicitous nannies last night that when N brought home four different kinds of sausage, I didn’t even look which kinds. And I didn’t look at the kilka he brought either. Me! Indifferent to kilka! That’s serious stress right there.
7 responses to “Indifferent to Kilka”
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What’s N’s approach to the nanny situation? (Besides keeping you well supplied with kilka, that is.)
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He wanted to try an agency but that is incredibly expensive. Maybe we will still use it, though. Or start checking out daycares.
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I’ve never heard of kilka. Is that Ukrainian? Is it perhaps similar to kilbasa? (I’m only asking because I’m thinking perhaps “kil” indicates something?)
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Okay the title threw me into cross-lingual limbo since kilka in Polish means ‘several’ Indifferent to several? Then my brain shifted ‘to kilka’ as Polish “(something) is several”.
It wasn’t until I red the post that I realized kilka was a food…
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And I don’t know how my other post here became a response to Evelina, it was meant to be separate….
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Kilka is apparently sprat(s) a kind of sardine in both Russian and Ukrainian.
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It’s a type of little fish sold in a can in tomato sauce. It’s the favorite food of Soviet alcoholics because it’s cheap and easy to use as an accompaniment to alcohol. Russian-speakers don’t drink without eating. I always found it strange, by the way, that English-speakers can drink copious amounts of alcohol with no food at all.
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