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Pre 22 godine iy Nisa sam dobila na poklon stihove pesme...in Kazandžijsko sokače (Coppersmith's Alley)
Najbolja jagnjetina u gradu, uz Bovinovu tamjaniku -...in Mali podrum (English explanation or translation: Small Basement)
Totalni neprofesionalizam,već drugi put ,iako sam...in Оrač (English explanation or translation: The Plowman)
Pa jel ima salata il nema?! Samo dunja i kisela?in Kod Šipe-Kamenički vis (At Šipa's-Kamenički vis Resort)
Haaahhha. I'm not too bright today. Great post!in Оrač (English explanation or translation: The Plowman)
Interesting facts
The Bermuda Triangle
"The Bermuda Triangle" in Belgrade consisted of the kafanas "Šumatovac", "Pod lipom" (in English "Under the Lime Treee") and "Grmeč" and got its name after the real "Bermuda Triangle" since the journalists and the writers who...
Literature
Kafanas and Bakery Stores of Užice
Simply said - imagine cities, towns, even the most remote villages without kafanas. A city, big or small, without kafanas is just like a man without a palate sitting in front of the full table of delicacies. An urban giant or a dwarf without the feeling of the scent or taste deprived of the...
Kafana Life in Niš
"Coffee! Here you go!" (although the latter would sound something like "Na!" in Serbian, pronounced as spelled, and used when the Serbs want to express their anger unwillingly giving somebody what he/she asked for) - my mother would say putting a cup of coffee for sobering up in front of my drunk father who had just arrived from kafana where he mysteriously hadn't drunk any cup of coffee (coffee is spelled and pronounced like "kafa" in Serbian just like in "kafana"). It had always been odd to me since I couldn't figure out as a child how could something be called after a thing that didn't even exist there: the Health Centre was full of sick people, the Ministry of Defense planned wars, in the Employment Bureau everyone was unemployed, and in the Houses of Love people had bare sex... the clothes could invite unwanted romance.
The same thing applied to kafanas where a cup of coffee was ordered only by the naive ones. They would be explained soon enough, while still children, that coffee makes your tail grow, so people would give up and order something more specific: "ljuta!" (a type of rakija).
Note: Mr Blagojević, the author of the text, is the chief editor of the Publishing in SKC Niš (Student Cultural Centre in Niš), this text was a gift to the NišCafe site for the occasion of starting up the site.
15.08.2008.
