Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20151224121621/@comment-1496755-20160224071024

During the early 1990's Bulgaria could be best described as a "gaming wasteland" - there were few gamers, most of them on consoles (NES, SNES, Sega Genesis for the luckier folks). And a small number of lucky bastards with actual computers at home (including me).

The late 1990's was when things really started to take off - computers at home were still very rare, so this gave rise to gaming clubs. They were good because you could play the latest stuff on the latest hardware. And the other thing was gaming magazines - very valuable due to the lack of internet. They gave you both news about new games, and demo CD's, which often contained other goodies as well - programs, patches for games, etc. They were like little treasure chests :)

Oh, the pepper roaster is one of our greatest technological achievements - it's a relic from communist times, when food products wre very scarce in the winter and so we had to conserve all sorts of fruits and vegetables in glass jars of all imaginable sizes, otherwise we'd have nothing to eat when it got cold. These are called "zimnina", which literally means "food for the winter". Roasted peppers are one of the staples of Bulgarian cuisine, and the chushkopek device was the best way to roast large amounts of them in a short time - very useful when the time comes to conserve them. You roast 'em, then put them in a jar with some aspirin (not kidding) and seal it tightly. The tradition is still alive nowadays, even though on a much smaller scale.

By the way, I don't like the taste of roasted peppers and I never eat them :P

Hammurabi!