I love this comment. Most of the stops at stations in Russia were short - about 15 minutes or so. I would usually walk around the platform and buy something to supplement the borscht and vodka on the train. Sometimes it was a couple of bottles of not very good beer, sometimes some apples, and once a babooshka had a cardboard box with a bunch of these ice cream cones in it. I remember that the ice cream was distinctly different than what I was used to - not particularly good but it was fun to have. This ice cream was bought in a pretty rural Siberian area only 10 months after the USSR collapsed - I have no idea but would guess that 1992 version that I had was still the ‘old taste’.