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 series based on "Boule and Bill" were produced: A Nintendo DS video game based on the comic was launched in 2008 by Atari and Anuman Interactive. In the Belgian Comic Strip Center in Brussels the permanent exhibition brings homage to the pioneers of Belgian comics, among them Jean Roba and his series "Boule et Bill". Boule et Bill is among the many Belgian comics characters to jokingly have a Brussels street named after them. The Rue au Beurre/ Boterstraat has a commemorative plaque with the name "Rue Boule et Bill / Bollie en Billie straat" placed under the actual street