”This is very pure this year,” said Djordje Milenkovic, 80 years, while he was still in its chugged into a wide-brimmed hat beekeepers. ”The plums are beautiful this year.”
Serbs, proud of the upper crust in the district of Belgrade, Dedinje snobs to the farmers in remote villages in Bosnia, known always to hand lighter bottles of plum brandy, plum brandy or sljivovica have. It is homemade, usually the family, a far higher level of evidence, and in every moment of the day in small clear shot glasses. To refuse the stuff is ridiculous in court, if not anger. And to sing after a few drinks, people always start Serbian sad songs chronicle of the last sad defeats, of which there are many, and Breakup Songs about lost loves, of which there seems so much more.
Said ”I’m getting old, so it did not work like it used to after a few drinks,” Velimir Milojevic, 64 ”If I’m drunk now I’m useless, but my old lady never says a word when I sit around at night. Always wait until I wake up with a hangover to speak of me.”
Sljivovica good is rarely sold, and daily doses color the lives of many Serbs, whose charm and conviviality shared by the inertia intolerable to adjust.
The ritual of drinking is mainly to be a male, although women are in good company of one or two shots.
”This is not to drink, but good manners for a woman too,”said Nada Milenkovic, 70, who is a turkish coffee in the small brick shed near her family orchard SA not ”Drunken women are considered of all respect. ”
Dr. Tanja Lazarevic, 36, Milenkovic visiting family in this village was five miles east of Prokuplje, went to shake black high heels and dropped a red mini skirt tight spots through the round of prune juice and pits that dirt courtyard of color, like a giant polka dots.
”I tell my patients that it is good to have a glass before meals and good to have a drink after dinner,”he said, lighting a cigarette. ”But the problem is that most Serbs do not understand the concept of self-control. Serbs need to do something about it. My husband does not drink, but you eat too much. And by the way, I seem to smoke. We are not Swiss. We still have a problem to use clocks and alarm clocks. We follow our biological rhythms.”