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 et Bill were first published by Dupuis, then from 1988 by Dargaud. Cinebook has published three books in English, with "Boule and Bill" renamed "Billy and Buddy", respectively. "Boule et Bill" is among the best-selling French-language comics, with 300,000 copies for the new album by Verron in 2009. In 2013 a Belgian-French-Luxembourgian film was released, "Boule et Bill", based on the comics. It stars Franck Dubosc as the father, Marina Foïs as the mother, and Charles Crombez as Bill. It received bad reviews, but was commercially successful enough to warrant a sequel "Boule et Bill 2", released in 2017. Four animated television