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This ritual repetitiveness of Soplica’s meals was adjusted only to the season and to the Catholic calendar of feasts and fasts. In this case, it’s Lithuanian cold borscht, a summertime soup that is still as popular on hot days in both Lithuania and Poland as ''gazpacho'' is in Spain.
This ritual repetitiveness of Soplica’s meals was adjusted only to the season and to the Catholic calendar of feasts and fasts. In this case, it’s Lithuanian cold borscht, a summertime soup that is still as popular on hot days in both Lithuania and Poland as ''gazpacho'' is in Spain.


There is a&nbsp;linguistic problem here, though. Mickiewicz has used two different terms, ''“chłodnik”'' (pronounced {{pron|HWawd|neek}}) and ''“chołodziec”'' ({{pron|Haw|Waw|jets}}). Both words derive from the adjective ''“chłodny”'', or “cold”, but while Mickiewiczologists have no doubt that ''“chłodnik”'' refers to a&nbsp;cold soup, there is some disagreement as to what kind of dish ''chołodziec'' was.<ref>{{Cyt  
There is a&nbsp;linguistic problem here, though. Mickiewicz has used two different terms, ''“chłodnik”''{{czyt|chłodnik}} and ''“chołodziec”''{{czyt|chołodziec}}. Both words derive from the adjective ''“chłodny”'', or “cold”, but while Mickiewiczologists have no doubt that ''“chłodnik”'' refers to a&nbsp;cold soup, there is some disagreement as to what kind of dish ''chołodziec'' was.<ref>{{Cyt  
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If you’ve never heard of ''kisiel'' (pronounced {{pron|kee|shel}}) or of this saying, don’t worry. Mickiewicz apparently thought that even Polish people living outside Lithuania might be unfamiliar with either of these, so he added the following explanatory footnote:
If you’ve never heard of ''kisiel''{{czyt|kisiel}} or of this saying, don’t worry. Mickiewicz apparently thought that even Polish people living outside Lithuania might be unfamiliar with either of these, so he added the following explanatory footnote:


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