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Although Bistro is French, its Origin is Russian

After Napoleon’s defeat in Russia, the french soldiers were less than patient upon returning home to their famously slow cafes and would shout “быстро, быстро,”(beestra,beestra) the Russian world for fast. An enterprising Frenchman decided to open a Café which catered to the soldiers and was very fast by translating this Russian word into French and calling it Bistro.

The correct pronunciation of быстро is beestra, due to how Russians pronounce their unstressed о, yet when translating to french it was easier to copy the literal translation instead of the properly pronounced a sound, thus the world got the French Bistro and their version of fast food.

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