page_title: Bublik
section_title: Cultural references
hierarchical_section_title: Bublik / Cultural references
context_page_description: Bublik is a traditional Eastern European bread roll. It is a ring of yeast-leavened wheat dough, that has been boiled in water for a short time before baking.
context_section_description: A short poem called Protoptala stezhku cherez yar ("I beat a path through the ravine") in Kobzar book by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko refers to a young woman who sells bubliki at the market to the Cossacks.
  Bublitchki, a diminutive of bubliki, is a title of a famous Yiddish-Ukrainian-Russian song written in Odessa in the 1920s. Leonid Utyosov popularised the song in the USSR. The Barry Sisters together with the Ziggy Elman Orchestra made it popular in the US in 1939. Today it belongs to the repertoire of klezmer, jazz and pop musicians.
  A common Russian and Ukrainian phrase is "a hole from a bublik" (Russian: дырка от бу́блика, romanized: dyrka ot búblika, Ukrainian: ді́рка з (від) бу́блика, romanized: dírka z (vid) búblyka) - which means "absolutely nothing" or "worthless". Examples:
  I worked so hard, and what did I get for it? A hole from a bublik,
  He is not worth a hole from a bublik.
  This expression in literature is found in Mystery-Bouffe, a socialist dramatic play written by Vladimir Mayakovsky in 1918/1921:
  Someone got a bublik and another one got the hole of the bublik.
  So that is to be a democratic republic.
caption: Ivan Kulikov, Market with baranki, 1910
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