Bublik and to eat them with jam (varenye), sour cream (smetana), or other similar dips. While they often accompany tea, bubliks, again unlike modern bagels, are rarely considered a breakfast food. There are number of similar bread products in Russian cuisine, and the main one of this type is baranka (pl. "baranki"), a dough ring somewhat smaller than a bublik, but much thinner and drier. While bubliki originate from Pale of Settlement (Ukraine and Belarus), baranki are an original Russian dish, their very name, baranka or baranok, being a contraction of a word obvaranok, "scalded". They are usually harder than bubliks,
Boule bretonne Boule bretonne Boule bretonne is a sport popular in Brittany, France, similar to boule lyonnaise and to a lesser extent, pétanque. The method of playing varies widely among those that play it. Boule bretonne is very similar to bocce in that it involves one team tossing out a jack, known as the 'petit', and following it with tossing of boules, points being scored for having balls ending up closest to the jack. Games are played with varying teams of various sizes, from one to four players per team. Balls used to play are 92 to 110 mm diameter and weigh