A Greek Face On Turkish Yoghurt Means Trouble

[Absinthe]

Hahahahaha!!! :D

http://www.thelocal.se/articleImages/25980.jpg

By Bruno E Mitchell
Published: April 12, 2010

Imagine your surprise when you walk down the dairy products aisle, you want to reduce your blood pressure or become thinner or do whatever else; you decide to pick up yoghurt (ah the healthy food that’s been with us forever) and then you get the biggest shocker of your life: your face is on the yoghurt cups.

It’s what happened to a Greek man who, contrary to his face on the yoghurt must have had a very irritable expression instead of a smiling one, found out through his friend Anthanasios Varzanakos in Stockholm, Sweden who phoned him telling him about his surprise when he saw someone he knew on a foods product.

"Yoghurt Man's" friend, Athanasios Varzakanos: "I was surprised and I could not believe my eyes. It was a shock to see him there suddenly, someone I know. He didn't like it, he was upset and wondered how it had happened."

The yoghurt is made by Lindahls Dairy in Jonkoping, Sweden based on a Turkish recipe.

The Greek man featured on the yoghurt containers (his name was not given) immediately handed in a 40-page legal complaint that accused the dairy of falsely using his image in a Turkish context, specifically displayed as a traditional Turkish farmer…and we all know from the history books the Greeks don’t like being put together with their longtime rivals the Turks.

Source (http://inewp.com/?p=2539)

BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8612575.stm)

The Local (SE) (http://www.thelocal.se/25980/20100409/)

[Tabiti]

Turkish recipe.
Turks are damned thieves of local culture and cuisine;)

[Arrow Cross]

Shoo! Turks R teh Aryan too!

http://zoomorphism.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/720px-ayrangetrank.jpg

[Absinthe]

This Ayran stuff actually tastes quite good, in case you're ever in Turkey. ;)

[Bari]

This Ayran stuff actually tastes quite good, in case you're ever in Turkey. ;)

- Ah yes a bit salty taste and excellent with Burek/Gyros/,..:)

[Eldritch]

The Greek man featured on the yoghurt containers (his name was not given) immediately handed in a 40-page legal complaint that accused the dairy of falsely using his image in a Turkish context

:eek:

Note to self: apparently, Greeks don't like Turks. ;)

[SwordoftheVistula]

He should look on the bright side: at least it is not Turkish Yogurt on a Greek face

[Absinthe]

LOL, to me this event is absurd and hilarious at the same time :D :D

Imagine being a 70+ (as it seems?) year old goat herder from some remote part of Greece who doesn't even speak English (I presume, judging from that face and the traditional costume?) and then you have a friend your age who somehow and for some bizarre and inexplicable reason lives in Stockholm (I mean, WTF) and one day goes to the super market and sees your face on a yoghurt box and as if this wasn't enough already, presumably, you're Turkish!! :D :D

And then somehow you're capable of immediately putting together a 40-page long complaint letter in English and asking a Swedish company for compensation not just because they used your picture without permission but also because they insulted your nationalist sentiments...

I mean, what are the odds of that? :lol: :lmao

[Pallantides]

Their vanilla yogurt is delicious.

[Arrow Cross]

And then somehow you're capable of immediately putting together a 40-page long complaint letter in English...
Mr. Lawyer probably had a small hand in it. :p

[Absinthe]

Obviously, but it's much funnier to assume that he had his grandchildren, e.g. write it on his behalf :p

[Arrow Cross]

It's still insanely hilarious. But be ware, o', all ye laughers. It might very well start a wave of nationalism that'll make the glorious Greek army of reconquista stop only at Armenia.

Yoghurt Revolution!

[Osweo]

Obviously, but it's much funnier to assume that he had his grandchildren, e.g. write it on his behalf :p
No, he just assembled all the goatherds of the mountain, seized a passing student, and sat round and thought up the most suitable phrases...
http://www.rusidea.org/picts/kalendar/Repin_Zaporozhtsy.jpg

Greek army of reconquista stop only at Armenia.

How unambitious. TO THE INDUS, HOPLITES!!! :thumb001:

[Osweo]

Er...

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/4630/yogurtcrusader.jpg

[Osweo]

The Swedish raid over, and the land laid waste, the emperor's attentions focessed once more on his eastern conquests. Many at court urged him on with foolish flattery, pushing him to excel his Macedonian predecessor. But Stavros knew his history, and wisely turned back once the Taurus Mountains had been secured, and a strong Armenian buffer state created. Turned back... to live out the rest of his long reign tasting the sweet fruits of victory...
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/8933/oskonanyog.jpg

His sexual conquests made even his military ones pale into insignificance, but it is said that he never truly loved any woman apart from his senior concubine and mother of his twelve sons (including Stavros II the Cruel and Stavros III the Mad), the Lady Blaxis...
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/9638/osvgvm3blhairybbbyoggg.jpg

[Absinthe]

Oh Gods I hope this doesn't become viral... :D

[Freomæg]

Is that a stereotypical 'Turkish' face? Take the hat off him and he could be from almost anywhere in Europe.

[Osweo]

*Tip of the Day: Never hire Freomaeg to sell your products*

:D

[Ibericus]

Is that a stereotypical 'Turkish' face? Take the hat off him and he could be from almost anywhere in Europe.
that's what I thought

[Absinthe]

Not sure about "anywhere in Europe", but "anywhere in the Balkans", definitely ;)

[Göte]

I feel with the old man. He knows his honor.

[poiuytrewq0987]

Is that a stereotypical 'Turkish' face? Take the hat off him and he could be from almost anywhere in Europe.

The yogurt is made by a Swedish company who sells Turkish-branded yogurts who also put a Greek face on their Turkish yogurt containers. It just sounds like a bunch of idiots are in charge of that company. :thumbs up

[Nairi]

Turks have nothing of their own. Whatever is nowdays called "Turkish" is mostly authentic Armenian or Greek whose lands and ancient civilizations they occupied and now represent our achievments as "theirs"...
Even famous "Turkish delight" is a usual thing in Armenia and I believe in Greece, also in Arabic countries...

When Turks invaded our lands they were simply nomads, it took them 700 years to learn an agriculture from Armenians and Greeks to feel safe to get rid of us committing genocide on us...

Open European doors for them and it will no take them long to do the same with you! Wake up, Europe!

They sell Armenian yougurt with a Greek face as "Turkish" product...

Origin of Yougurt...(wiki)

"Yoghurt was first introduced to the United States by Armenian immigrants Sarkis and Rose Colombosian, who started "Colombo and Sons Creamery" in Andover, Massachusetts in 1929.[11][12] Colombo Yogurt was originally delivered around New England in a horse-drawn wagon inscribed with the Armenian word "madzoon" which was later changed to "yogurt", the Turkish name of the product, as Turkish was the lingua franca between immigrants of the various Near Eastern ethnicities[citation needed] who were the main consumers at that time. Yoghurt's popularity in the United States was enhanced in the 1950s and 1960s, when it was presented as a health food. By the late 20th century yoghurt had become a common American food item and Colombo Yogurt was sold to General Mills in 1993."

Oh, no, sorry, Turks do have something of their own, mass animal rape and honour killings which they and their kin Azeri Turks practice a lot...

[poiuytrewq0987]

Turks have nothing of their own. Whatever is nowdays called "Turkish" is mostly authentic Armenian or Greek whose lands and ancient civilizations they occupied and now represent our achievments as "theirs"...
Even famous "Turkish delight" is a usual thing in Armenia and I believe in Greece, also in Arabic countries...

When Turks invaded our lands they were simply nomads, it took them 700 years to learn an agriculture from Armenians and Greeks to feel safe to get rid of us committing genocide on us...

Open European doors for them and it will no take them long to do the same with you! Wake up, Europe!

They sell Armenian yougurt with a Greek face as "Turkish" product...

Origin of Yougurt...(wiki)

"Yoghurt was first introduced to the United States by Armenian immigrants Sarkis and Rose Colombosian, who started "Colombo and Sons Creamery" in Andover, Massachusetts in 1929.[11][12] Colombo Yogurt was originally delivered around New England in a horse-drawn wagon inscribed with the Armenian word "madzoon" which was later changed to "yogurt", the Turkish name of the product, as Turkish was the lingua franca between immigrants of the various Near Eastern ethnicities[citation needed] who were the main consumers at that time. Yoghurt's popularity in the United States was enhanced in the 1950s and 1960s, when it was presented as a health food. By the late 20th century yoghurt had become a common American food item and Colombo Yogurt was sold to General Mills in 1993."

Oh, no, sorry, Turks do have something of their own, mass animal rape and honour killings which they and their kin Azeri Turks practice a lot...


Türklerin üstün ırk vardır

http://www.getsmileyface.com/sm/evil/676.gif

[poiuytrewq0987]

Turks have nothing of their own. Whatever is nowdays called "Turkish" is mostly authentic Armenian or Greek whose lands and ancient civilizations they occupied and now represent our achievments as "theirs"...
Even famous "Turkish delight" is a usual thing in Armenia and I believe in Greece, also in Arabic countries...

When Turks invaded our lands they were simply nomads, it took them 700 years to learn an agriculture from Armenians and Greeks to feel safe to get rid of us committing genocide on us...

Open European doors for them and it will no take them long to do the same with you! Wake up, Europe!

They sell Armenian yougurt with a Greek face as "Turkish" product...

Origin of Yougurt...(wiki)

"Yoghurt was first introduced to the United States by Armenian immigrants Sarkis and Rose Colombosian, who started "Colombo and Sons Creamery" in Andover, Massachusetts in 1929.[11][12] Colombo Yogurt was originally delivered around New England in a horse-drawn wagon inscribed with the Armenian word "madzoon" which was later changed to "yogurt", the Turkish name of the product, as Turkish was the lingua franca between immigrants of the various Near Eastern ethnicities[citation needed] who were the main consumers at that time. Yoghurt's popularity in the United States was enhanced in the 1950s and 1960s, when it was presented as a health food. By the late 20th century yoghurt had become a common American food item and Colombo Yogurt was sold to General Mills in 1993."

Oh, no, sorry, Turks do have something of their own, mass animal rape and honour killings which they and their kin Azeri Turks practice a lot...

You talk like the dirty Armenians invented the yogurt... :rolleyes2:


The oldest writings mentioning yogurt are attributed to Pliny the Elder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder), who remarked that certain nomadic tribes, including the Bulgars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgars), knew how "to thicken the milk into a substance with an agreeable acidity".[citation needed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)] The use of yoghurt by medieval Turks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkic_peoples) is recorded in the books Diwan Lughat al-Turk by Mahmud Kashgari (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmud_Kashgari) and Kutadgu Bilig (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutadgu_Bilig) by Yusuf Has Hajib (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf_Has_Hajib) written in the 11th century.[6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogurt#cite_note-toygar-5)[7] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogurt#cite_note-ogel-6) Both texts mention the word "yoghurt" in different sections and describe its use by nomadic Turks.[6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogurt#cite_note-toygar-5)[7] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogurt#cite_note-ogel-6) An early account of a European encounter with yoghurt occurs in French clinical history: Francis I (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_I_of_France) suffered from a severe diarrhoea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diarrhoea) which no French doctor could cure. His ally Suleiman the Magnificent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suleiman_the_Magnificent) sent a doctor, who allegedly cured the patient with yoghurt.[8] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogurt#cite_note-7)[9] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogurt#cite_note-8) Being grateful, the French king spread around the information about the food which had cured him.

[Osweo]

LOL, time for all easterners to get in a huge war about who invented yoghurt! Good one Blaxis; Stavros I the Great's initial invasions will be much aided by this squabbling! :clap:

За чем 'ГРЯЗНИЕ армяне', Войд? Как ето слово помогает ситуацию? :tsk:

Oh, and if that's a Wiki quote, it's a load of боллокс; the Bulgars had never been heard of in Pliny's day. Dearie me...

Obviously, some pastoralists up in Asia somewhere invented this stuff, but we're never going to get to the bottom of who was first, so forget it.

[hajduk]

what about shopska salad?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Shopska_salata.JPG
http://www.foodfrombulgaria.co.uk/images/recipes/shopska_salad.jpg

[Absinthe]

what about shopska salad?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Shopska_salata.JPG
http://www.foodfrombulgaria.co.uk/images/recipes/shopska_salad.jpg
Looks a lot like a Greek salad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_salad) and the Turks also have a variation called Çoban Salatası (the Shepherd's salad), but without cheese.

[hajduk]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopska_salad
Shopska salad (Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian: Шопска салата, Shopska salata; Czech: Šopský salát; Albanian: Salat Shope; Hungarian: Sopszka saláta) is a traditional Bulgarian cold salad [1] popular throughout the Balkans.

[Aramis]

LOL, time for all easterners to get in a huge war about who invented yoghurt! Good one Blaxis; Stavros I the Great's initial invasions will be much aided by this squabbling! :clap:

За чем 'ГРЯЗНИЕ армяне', Войд? Как ето слово помогает ситуацию? :tsk:

Oh, and if that's a Wiki quote, it's a load of боллокс; the Bulgars had never been heard of in Pliny's day. Dearie me...

Obviously, some pastoralists up in Asia somewhere invented this stuff, but we're never going to get to the bottom of who was first, so forget it.

What about Kefir? ;)


what about shopska salad?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Shopska_salata.JPG
http://www.foodfrombulgaria.co.uk/images/recipes/shopska_salad.jpg

It's delightful. A few days ago I made me one, and as far as I am concerned it's Bulgarian. :thumb001:

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As for the greek man, I support him in his cause. Yet if that was my photo on the yoghurt I probably wouldn't care.

[Absinthe]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopska_salad
Shopska salad (Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian: Шопска салата, Shopska salata; Czech: Šopský salát; Albanian: Salat Shope; Hungarian: Sopszka saláta) is a traditional Bulgarian cold salad [1] popular throughout the Balkans.
Pffft.. :p

http://themothertongue.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/my-big-fat-greek-wedding-6.jpg

[Kanasyuvigi]

Ranger, the Shopska salad is not that "traditional". Actually, it was invented by the Bulgarian company Balkantourist in the 1970s ;)
And about the origin of the yoghurt, or as we call it "кисело мляко" (kiselo mlyako).... it is produced using a culture of Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoghurt

[Tabiti]

I wonder if the real peasant from the Shoppe region (around Sofia) ever knew what salad is :D
Furthermore, in that region only potatoes, beans and cabbage grow, not tomatoes, nor cucumbers.
Greek salad variant is with olives and the fetta is on cubes. Shepherd's salad we eat here is with extra eggs, mushrooms, ham and yellow cheese.
However, I just hate fresh tomatoes, so I never eat such salads;)
None of these is traditional food, actually.
As for yoghurt it is just a way to preserve milk, so it was used by many nations, mostly nomadic ones. We are just the biggest consumers of it and it was a Bulgarian (Stamen Grigorov in 1905) to found the bacteria.

As for Kefir I drank it for first time in Hungary, because it's not common here. I liked it so much so I grew my own Kefir bacteria in home.

[poiuytrewq0987]

I wonder if the real peasant from the Shoppe region (around Sofia) ever knew what salad is :D
Furthermore, in that region only potatoes, beans and cabbage grow, not tomatoes, nor cucumbers.
Greek salad variant is with olives and the fetta is on cubes. Shepherd's salad we eat here is with extra eggs, mushrooms, ham and yellow cheese.
However, I just hate fresh tomatoes, so I never eat such salads;)
None of these is traditional food, actually.
As for yoghurt it is just a way to preserve milk, so it was used by many nations, mostly nomadic ones. We are just the biggest consumers of it and it was a Bulgarian (Stamen Grigorov in 1905) to found the bacteria.

As for Kefir I drank it for first time in Hungary, because it's not common here. I liked it so much so I grew my own Kefir bacteria in home.

:eek:

:mmmm:

[Tabiti]

OK, sometimes I combine with someone to eat the damned tomatoes.
BTW, red tomatoes were considered as poisonous in Europe until 30's, so that's another nail in the coffin of the so called popular traditional salads;)

No need of food nationalism, please...It's retarded.

[Absinthe]

Ladies and gentlemen, LO and Behold


THE EPIC MUSTACHE MAN

ZAIa_qeEuxc

:rotfl::bump2::rofl:

[poiuytrewq0987]

Oh where would we be without the Hellenes? :D

[Absinthe]

Awesome irony is, his last name is Turkish :D

[Arrow Cross]

Ladies and gentlemen, LO and Behold

ZAIa_qeEuxc
Silly demands aside, as long as people with that kind of attitude exist, a nation isn't lost yet.

Salutations.

[Óttar]

Turks have nothing of their own. Whatever is nowdays called "Turkish" is mostly authentic Armenian or Greek whose lands and ancient civilizations they occupied and now represent our achievments as "theirs"...
Don't forget the Persians. ;)

[Nairi]

Awesome irony is, his last name is Turkish :D

It was a commmon case for Armenians and Greeks to have Turkish rooted surnames in Ottoman Empire since we were not allowed to have our own Armenian and Greek ones.Usually we were given names by the Turks according to our profession or anything else we were known for...

For example this girl's surname is Aslanyan ( she is an actress in Moscow who later on took on Russian pseudonim and will be assimilated and forgotten as an Armenian), she is Armenian, and the root in Turkish means "lion" which means her family was as brave as lions according to the Turks and they named them like that...

4337

[Absinthe]

It was a commmon case for Armenians and Greeks to have Turkish rooted surnames in Ottoman Empire since we were not allowed to have our own Armenian and Greek ones.Usually we were given names by the Turks according to our profession or anything else we were known for...

I know, mine is turkish as well (Epic Yogurt Man's surname minus the -oğlu :p) as my family descents from Constantinople. My comment was kind of self-sarcastic :p

[Nairi]

I know, mine is turkish as well (Epic Yogurt Man's surname minus the -oğlu :p) as my family descents from Constantinople. My comment was kind of self-sarcastic :p

Ah, I was in the same boat with u on a Turkish-rooted last name with Armenian typical "yan" Luckily not any more! Have always hated my surname for that reason! :D

Yes, Constantinople...Hellas...our ancestors had good and peaceful times sharing borders before Turkish invasion...


The other day I saw a surname of an Armenian from Turkey with "oglu", was shocked :cool: :D

[Sadie]

While their economies are collapsing, wogs have no better thing to do than to squabble over some face on some yoghurt.

Oh, wait a minute, northern Europeans dragged them out of their shit once more, with there hard-earned money. Now they can continue to squabble over inanities and do nothing for some more time. But it won't last forever.

[Osweo]

Here's the true story about the yogurt:

JWeU-QPFjiY
:p :swl

[Eldritch]

While their economies are collapsing, wogs have no better thing to do than to squabble over some face on some yoghurt.

Oh, wait a minute, northern Europeans dragged them out of their shit once more, with there hard-earned money. Now they can continue to squabble over inanities and do nothing for some more time. But it won't last forever.


I think it's time somebody threw some yogurt on that slab of three-week old flattened roadkill you call a "face".

[poiuytrewq0987]

I think it's time somebody threw some yogurt on that slab of three-week old flattened roadkill you call a "face".

I thought Sadie was banned? :confused:

[Eldritch]

I thought Sadie was banned? :confused:

Unfortunately it was only a temporary ban.

[poiuytrewq0987]

Unfortunately it was only a temporary ban.

I'm looking forward to read her posts composed of her high intellect. :ranger:

[Absinthe]

The die has been cast :D

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article7463955.ab

http://adland.tv/content/greek-man-gets-2-million-kronor-damages-being-turkish-yoghurt

[poiuytrewq0987]

So the Greeks continue to mooch from the EU... one way or other. :dielaughing:

[Absinthe]

So the Greeks continue to mooch from the EU... one way or other. :dielaughing:
Weren't you defender of all things Greek up until a few days ago? :rolleyes:

[Eldritch]

Raivostui jugurttipurkista - saa 200 000€

http://kuvat.uusisuomi.fi/sites/default/files/imagecache/suurennettu/kuvat/lindahls.jpg


Iäkäs kreikkalaisherra Minas Karatzoglis saa tuntuvat kipurahat ruotsalaiselta Lindahl-meijeriltä. Meijeri maksaa korvauksia, koska se on käyttänyt Karatzogliksen kuvaa turkkilaisen jugurttinsa pakkauksessa.

[Fortis in Arduis]

This Ayran stuff actually tastes quite good, in case you're ever in Turkey. ;)

Duckie, I only have to walk round the corner to buy a large bottle of it.

[poiuytrewq0987]

Weren't you defender of all things Greek up until a few days ago? :rolleyes:

Was I? I was merely making a joke, if you can't see it, well...

[Pecheneg]

Turks have nothing of their own. Whatever is nowdays called "Turkish" is mostly authentic Armenian or Greek whose lands and ancient civilizations they occupied and now represent our achievments as "theirs"...
Even famous "Turkish delight" is a usual thing in Armenia and I believe in Greece, also in Arabic countries...

When Turks invaded our lands they were simply nomads, it took them 700 years to learn an agriculture from Armenians and Greeks to feel safe to get rid of us committing genocide on us...

Open European doors for them and it will no take them long to do the same with you! Wake up, Europe!

They sell Armenian yougurt with a Greek face as "Turkish" product...

Origin of Yougurt...(wiki)

"Yoghurt was first introduced to the United States by Armenian immigrants Sarkis and Rose Colombosian, who started "Colombo and Sons Creamery" in Andover, Massachusetts in 1929.[11][12] Colombo Yogurt was originally delivered around New England in a horse-drawn wagon inscribed with the Armenian word "madzoon" which was later changed to "yogurt", the Turkish name of the product, as Turkish was the lingua franca between immigrants of the various Near Eastern ethnicities[citation needed] who were the main consumers at that time. Yoghurt's popularity in the United States was enhanced in the 1950s and 1960s, when it was presented as a health food. By the late 20th century yoghurt had become a common American food item and Colombo Yogurt was sold to General Mills in 1993."

Oh, no, sorry, Turks do have something of their own, mass animal rape and honour killings which they and their kin Azeri Turks practice a lot...

really? :rolleyes:

The word is derived from Turkish: yoğurt,[2] and is related to the obsolete verb yoğmak "to be curdled or coagulated; to thicken". The use of yoghurt by medieval Turks is recorded in the books Diwan Lughat al-Turk by Mahmud Kashgari and Kutadgu Bilig by Yusuf Has Hajib written in the 11th century.[6][7] Both texts mention the word "yoghurt" in different sections and describe its use by nomadic Turks.[6][7] An early account of a European encounter with yoghurt occurs in French clinical history: Francis I suffered from a severe diarrhoea which no French doctor could cure. His ally Suleiman the Magnificent sent a doctor, who allegedly cured the patient with yoghurt.[8][9] Being grateful, the French king spread around the information about the food which had cured him.






Yes, Constantinople...Hellas...our ancestors had good and peaceful times sharing borders before Turkish invasion...

good and peaceful times??? :rolleyes:

Armenians of Byzantium welcomed the Seljuk conquest with celebrations and thanksgivings to God for having rescued them from Byzantine oppression. The Seljuk Turks gave protection to an Armenian Church, which the Byzantines had been trying to destroy. They abolished the oppressive taxes which the Byzantines had imposed on the Armenian churches, monasteries and priests, and in fact exempted such religious institutions from all taxes. The Armenian community was left free to conduct its internal affairs in its own way, including religious activities and-education, and there never was any time at which Armenians or other non-Muslims were compelled to convert to Islam. The Armenian spiritual leaders in fact went to Seljuk Sultan Melikshah to thank him for this protection. The Armenian historian Mathias of Edessa relates that,

"Melikshah's heart is full of affection and good will for Christians; he has treated the sons of Jesus Christ very well, and he has given the Armenian people affluence, peace, and happiness."

After the death of the Seljuk Sultan Kılıch Arslan, the same historian wrote,


"Kılıch Arslan's death has driven Christians into mourning since he was a charitable person of high character. "

Without the Seljuk Turks, The Byzantines would smash you. :coffee:

[Petros Houhoulis]

Was I? I was merely making a joke, if you can't see it, well...

I think that you are a joke, but even we can't stick a name upon your joke, much less you!

Dusan, bring the boobs back!

[The Lawspeaker]

A nice case of people that haven't got anything better to do. It's not like the economy is going to great any more any these days but instead of focussing on that they launch a little pathetic squabble over a face on the yoghurt. I suppose it's all about setting the right priorities.

[Queen B]

A nice case of people that haven't got anything better to do. It's not like the economy is going to great any more any these days but instead of focussing on that they launch a little pathetic squabble over a face on the yoghurt. I suppose it's all about setting the right priorities.
Tuan, the thread is 2 years old , and it was opened for fun .

Its about time to get over it :coffee:

[Siberian Cold Breeze]

Twinkle twinkle litle star
what you eat is what you are


The Yakut made a great variety of utensils out of wood and leather, including a bag used to ferment mare's milk to make the intoxicating drink kumys. Iron working was also prominent among the Yakuts, even before the coming of the Russians; once again, no other northern people traditionally worked metal.

Dairy and meat products were extremely important to the Yakut. Fish and wild game were of secondary importance, except in poorer households. Beef and horsemeat were considered delicacies. Cow's milk was rarely used fresh; instead it was made into a variety of cheese and yogurt-type products. Sour milk products were sometimes frozen in blocks for winter storage.

Because the entire Yakut territory is rich in mammoth bones and tusks, the Yakut also engaged in bone and ivory carving.

Try kumys next time :D