Republic of Serbia Local Customs

 
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PASULJ (beans)

by Aurorae

PASULJ is one of the most common dishes, beans. It's a veeeeeery popular in Serbia/ex-YU, famous for the Army service days and often it's called VOJNIČKI PASULJ - soldiers beans. it is easy to prepare and very nutritive, and extremely CHEAP, so it's understandable why it is cooked in huge masses in the Army service. Also, people often cook it when they go camping. And funny thing is, the longer it stays - the better it is!!! Unlike the other food! :-)Many people often make jokes about pasulj and laugh at it as it's considered the food of the poor, but it's actually very very tasty!Here is a photo of home made pasulj at camping by the Ibar river.

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trubači

by Aurorae

Trubači literally means "trumpet players", but is how we call local orchestras (usually Gypsies) who go around playing folk music (our folk involves a lot of trumpets, drums and accordions), so I took this photo on Easter from my balcony.People often throw them money from the balconies and windows, or sweets. Usually they are invited to play on weddings and celebrations (birthdays for example).Every year there is a "sabor" (meeting, reunion) of trumpet players in Guča, a village in central Serbia, that lasts for several days and there is a lot of food and drink, feasts all day long, lots of music, and at the end they elect the best trumpet musician. Of course, not only Gypsies participate, but often Gypsies are the best in that.

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yummy food

by Aurorae

Here are some traditional Serbian dishes: Leskovačka mućkalica (mixed meat with vegetables), Zlatiborski urnebes (meat and potatoes baked with kajmak, a kind of cream made from milk), ražnjići (cut pieces of meat rolled in bakon and grilled), and salad. It is in the pots. And the inevitable wine, of course.

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Making bread

by Aurorae

All the women make the bread in traditional ways, not only in the villages, but also in the cities. My mom makes a delicious one! In villages it's more traditional and usually made in these special pots.

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AJVAR

by Aurorae

Ajvar is extremely delicious winter salad made out of red paprika. Whoever visited of my foreign friends, they said it was their favourite in Serbian food. But, I've recently heard that Slovenia protected trade mark AJVAR, which is ridicilous, since it was invented in Macedonia and southern Serbia (before they weren't split). However, ajvar is made only in ex-Yugoslav countries, being the most popular in Macedonia and Serbia still. it is a legendary tradition of every woman who holds to her domestic dignity :) to prepare ajvar every autumn. People go in masses to big open markets buying dozens and hundreds of kilos of red paprika. Then they grill them in their yards, and you can smell grilled paprika all over Serbia (since this is a page dedicated to my country :)) in October. Even here in Belgrade, with concrete and skyscrapers people go down to yards and grill paprika. Hilarious!The...

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AJVAR (continued)

by Aurorae

So, here is how to do it:DAY #1- Buy fine, juicy red paprika and grill them- Peel off the skin and remove the seed from inside- Ground them in a machine - Add salt and hot peppers according to the taste. If you want to put hot peppers, just ground them as well and mix into red paprika mixture. But be attentive with amounts of hot! :))- Add 1 litre of oil at every 50kg of bought paprika (so, if you are not so ambitious, and you buy only 10 kg, add 2 dl of oil)- Mix constantly on a veeeeeeery light, easy fire so it simmers, for 3 hours (!!!) - Increase the fire, and mix for another 1/2h on a more powerful fire until the water evaporates and you get a dense mass, like mayonnaise- Cover with paper, not nylon, some paper that is thin and can let the air through. Like wrap paper at the market where they sell flowers, simple white one that you can buy in the big roll. Cover with it, so it can...

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Three

by Prasnjavi

Be careful, both men and women show their affection with three kisses on the alternate cheeks. Otherwise, someone will tell you: "God helps three times". Three is, in some way, national sign. All people in the World show two fingers as the sign of victory, we use to show three.

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Football knowledge

by Prasnjavi

Also, we don’t have to worry about our National football team future. Every old woman can be better coach than the actual or formal or… Even if our football is going worst and worst. Someone we’ll find himself as The Man Of The Moment.On one demonstration against Milosevic someone was carrying the transparent “SLOBO YOU ARE SANTRAC” (Slobo is Slobodan Milosevic’s nick name and (Slobodan) Santrac was surname of the coach which, under which leadership, Yugoslavia lost any solution to qualify for European Championship).Don’t try to join conversation about the football – you don’t know anything!

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Sense of humor

by Prasnjavi

During the NATO aggression on the Serbia and Montenegro, people showed unseen sense of humor. You could buy everything with some funny message or saw that on the streets even when bombs felled too close. One of that was this badge which was appeared when Serbian defense overset American "invisible" bombardier F-117 A.After that, one of the graffiti was:“If it is invisible for you, we’ll send you the picture”..In fact, it started even before aggression. One of graffiti was:“Will you bombard or I can paint my walls”.

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Easter

by Aurorae

In Serbia, for Easter, as a greeting we say "HRISTOS VOSKRESE" which means "Christ resurrected", and the answer is "VAISTINU VOSKRESE" ("Indeed he resurrected").There are many Easter customs, the main ones are to go to church at midnight and bring coloured eggs (they were dyed on Good Friday in RED, although recently many started using different colours and colourful stickers). Easter fasting end on the Easter day, it is broken by cracking eggs and eating them. The one who doesn't have his egg cracked when they are knocked one against the another, is a winner! There is even an egg-knocing world championship in a small place in norhtern Serbia! :)It is also a custom to light the candle on that day in the house...

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Q:  We visited Serbia many years ago and are returning for a visit to Belgrade in May. We have fantastic memories of people, food, and... 

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A: Cross at Horgorosh/ Subotica into SRB from HUN. You can drive to Belgrade on the Way stop at Sremski Karlovci, Novi Sad And Belgrade. The Road from the border to BG has... 

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