adidasss

haha..good man,it's cheese filled phyllo pastry, it occured to me this morining while i was buying it that people who don't live in the balkans don't even know what it is and i eat it almost every day....i don't think there's a bakery from turkey to slovenia that doesn't sell it...it was originaly a turkish meal, but it spread thoughout the balkans when the turks invaded europe, the bosnians think of it as some sort of national meal and they laugh at our croatian bureks... they say that the best bureks are made in sarajevo....hahaha....it's funny....it's very much a part of our pop-culture so much that the best rapper from these parts ( a bosnian ) Edo Maajka and my very own The beat fleet mention it in a couple of songs and a bosnian singer Dino Merlin even has a song named "Burek"..ahahahahahahahahaha...it's hilarious.....

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Fenixpunk

a feta and spinach burek sounds good right now.

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adidasss

yuk man...plane ol feta is the bestest....although the bosnians wouldn't call that a real burek, only the one with meat.....*vommits*

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Fenixpunk

feta and spinach are great together...my wife turned me on to the spinach alfredo pizzas w/ feta, yummy...instead of pizza sauce its alfredo sauce, get it with grilled chicken and its some of the best pizza ive had.

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shandapanda

well i know people who've lived here all their lives and haven't gotten really used to the cold weather, some get colder much faster than me, but i have a strange body. the summers are surprisingly warm and that warmth stays throughout the night so one can take nice dips at night, but i was referring to the winters though...the people in the north probably do have it worse though

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jibber

^yea I guess its the same in canda. friends of mine who have lived here their entire lives still cant get used to the cold winters. but what can ya do, at least they're not living in the territories.

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adidasss

what are the territories?

and does anyone know what a chevapchich is?( another meal, if you can call it that, that you can find in almost every restorant throughout the balkans )

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right-track

How did the war in the Balkans effect you and your family?
What hardships, if any, did you have to endure?

jibber

northwest territories, the yukon territory, and nunavut. northernmost provinces in canada, very low population, and huge landmass, and also extremely cold.

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What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways

Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass.

HOOKED ON THE WHITE POWDER

adidasss

oh hello, interesting question....well it started when i was 9 so i wasn't completely aware of the dangers, my island wasn't ( well not exactly ) on the front line so we were fairly safe, somewhere along the line we had air raids because they were bombing the bridge that connects our island with dalmatia ( it was the only way to get from north croatia to the south, split, dubrovnik, the serbs occupied all the other roads ), i actually thought it was fun going to a shelter...what the fuck did i know...also, the first couple of years we were without electricity, the serbs occupied the biggest powerstations in the south,that was a bitch, no tv, no hot water... before the war my family owned 2 restorants and a night club, ( along with the apartment renting ) that was our main income, tourism, so when the shit hit the fan and the tourists stopped coming, we were in a bit of a perdicament and my father had to do all sorts of shit to earn money ( that was the poorest we ever got and i wont even mention all the things we did to get food ).....and the most importaint thing, which i wasn't completely aware of at the time, my brother got drafted and went on the front line, he spent a couple of years there and only recently i started to realize in how much danger he was and what he actually went through ( he told me that at a certain point he was assigned to dispose of dead bodies , and at the end of the war, he was a part of the liberation action and some of his comrades got killed a few feet from him )..other that that i was fairly traumatised by what i saw on the tv ( dead masacrated bodies at that age? not nice...)...but i also realise that we were spaired of the real hardships ( someone being killed, home being occupied, being bombed like many cities were....)

thanks for asking....

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