[Eric]

Three Olives? I would say Schreiner, Oyl, and Olive... er... Cromwell.

Rarely drink flavoured vodka myself. Used to drink Jarzebiak and Wybrówka when living in Poland. Though I preferred the Tokay you could get in the Balaton, the Hungarian restaurant in Kraków, one of the few civilised restaurants in Kraków in 1976. Drunk a lot of Pepsi in those days. The capitalists and their communist importers had divided Poland up into zones, so that you could only buy Coca Cola in Warsaw, only Pepsi Cola in Kraków. And when you wanted a nice cup of coffee and a cake, you could go to the Holiday Inn. Kraków will be utterly changed now, regarding consumer goods. Nowadays, you won't have to go to the state shop where you could only buy things with dollar coupons. Important things, such as sunglasses, whisky, sun cream, toilet paper, cameras, and other things that were impossible to buy in normal shops. (I remember using Le Monde as a substitute for toilet paper. One of the very few Western newspapers you could get, and then three days old.)

I don't think that many young people who never experienced the Soviet bloc have the slightest idea what everyday life was like then, while the West was basking in luxury and moaning about the occasional shortage.