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Stranger Things smuggler Yuri tells Joyce and Murray that peanut butter is banned in Russia, but that doesn’t quite match the truth.
warning! spoilers ahead strange things Season 4.
strange things Season 4 character Yuri claims that peanut butter, banned in Russia, is one of the most popular items he smuggles out of the United States. yuri is a proper sequel strange things‘Russian characters are fascinated by American culture – whether it’s food, events or TV shows. strange things Season 4’s Yuri has a crush on American peanut butter, and Season 3’s Russian scientist Alexei has a crush on 7-Eleven’s Cherry Slurpee.
When strange things Introducing Season 4″Enzo“Yuri’s Russian smuggler friend, ships American goods from his fish and chip shop in Alaska, and the quirky character explains why peanut butter is so loved by his customers like it. Yuri revealed that peanut butter is in “hometown‘, and the crunchy style is his personal favorite. When Hopper briefly escapes from a Russian prison and arrives at the church where Yuri is hiding, he finds jars of Jif’s peanut butter, which he tasted after being banned for nine months .
strange things Oddly enough, season 4 made the peanut butter smuggling a major spin-off in Joyce, Murray, and Hopper’s Russia plot, but people thought it was really “banβAt home, this seems like an exaggeration. In fact, Russia never seemed to have an official ban on peanut butter, but in the 1980s it was virtually impossible to find peanut butter in the Soviet Union. Without a similar obsession, Cold War tensions between the United States and Russia would likely make shipping and finding products in Yuri’s hometown nearly impossible.
Even today, peanut butter is considered the most important.”lack of food“In Russia, it is usually only found in high-end markets, health food stores and large supermarket chains (via SRAS). However, although peanut butter is now available”does not existIn Russia in the 80s, so Yuri’s successful smuggling spread still has a real historical basis. strange things Season 4’s Peanut Butter Smuggling Might Not Be Real”ban‘, but it’s related to tensions between the two countries that led to some trade embargoes in the 1980s β but not peanut butter.
reason strange things Season 4’s focus on Russia’s lack of peanut butter may not be entirely accurate, but at least Yuri’s can of Jiff helped Joyce and Murray escape their confinement on the plane. Yuri’s role strange things The Russian subplot in season 4 also seems to detail how Russians see Americans in the show’s timeline, as Russian jailer Dmitry Antonov believes that peanut butter, entertainment magazinecigarettes like”The best America has to offer“It seems that when Hopper returned to the United States, strange things Season 4 will likely complete the side story by letting the characters enjoy a jar of peanut butter.
strange things Season 4, Episode 1 is now streaming on Netflix.