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Something for our Finnish friends
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Søren Mexico:+15 °C, Spanish wear caps, gloves and winter coats, Finns are sunbathing.
That would be a very nice day here.
Thanks Søren
Personally, I'd rather stay inside drinking glühwein instead of going out there
--mika
Haha,
-15 Lars is going out for a long run.
Meanwhile tournedos enjoys a bottle of the original one ;-)
But hej that´s mine for tonight.
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As a matter of fact, Lars, ...
What's "Soumi"?
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tournedos: As a matter of fact, Lars, ...
Tournedos,
how do you get our glühwein? That is very interesting they seem to export to "everywhere".
Enjoy!
Lars: Tournedos, how do you get our glühwein? That is very interesting they seem to export to "everywhere".
At the local liqueur monopoly - and it's not even too expensive (in local standards). Our domestic and most other Scandinavian brands are a bit too sweet for my tastes. For Christmas, I usually make my own from white wine.
Orava, take a look at your passport. In the extremely tiny print, there's one intentional misspelling "SOUMI FINLAND"
Very interesting!
I do not want to go too off-topic but do you have 8, 10 oder 12,5 % alcohol in it.
Here in Germany you never know how much you get when you take a bottle. Instead, you have to read the details.
Back in the days my mom made her own with wine and the necessary spicery. The she moved to the Nürnberger but you hardly get it in the US, so she is back to home - made. ;-)
Never mind glühwein. You should have Glögi!
Vähintään yhdeksänkymmentä prosenttia suomalainen!
Lars:I do not want to go too off-topic but do you have 8, 10 oder 12,5 % alcohol in it.
Never realized it would vary! This bottle seems to be 10.0%. I had an empty one in the cupboard and that has been stamped as 10.3%.
Offtopic, huh? I'll move this thread to the Lifestyle subforum if anybody complains...
Lars:Back in the days my mom made her own with wine and the necessary spicery. The she moved to the Nürnberger but you hardly get it in the US, so she is back to home - made. ;-)
As an international experienced Dane I see it as my duty to serve Gløg to my Mexican friends and neighbors, I have my Gløg pot on the stove from December 1st, I keep it up to date and check myself every day, it takes a lot of testing to get it just right, when female visitors are expected I add extra Vodka, the girls gets rosy cheeks and are acting more funny than normal. Gløg without Klejner is a crime, so also these famous Danish cookies are served.
beocool:Never mind glühwein. You should have Glögi!
It's sleepy time after a mug of that 21° stuff!
That passport thing... it's only in the blue pre-EU passports that have all expired by now, so I didn't give away too much to the forgers after all...
Søren Mexico:when female visitors are expected I add extra Vodka, the girls gets rosy cheeks and are acting more funny than normal.
BeoNut since '75
Søren Mexico: Something for our Finnish friends +15 °C, Spanish wear caps, gloves and winter coats, Finns are sunbathing. +10 °C, French desperately try to get their central heating on. Finns plant flowers. +5 °C, Italian cars won't start. Finns drive with convertibles. 0 °C, Pure water freezes. Water in river Vantaa thickens a bit. −5 °C, First people are found frozen in California. Finnish midsummer festival ends.
I don't understand this picture
He seems to be drinking !
Surely given the sunny weather it should be
Or perhaps with some ice thrown in
tournedos: Orava, take a look at your passport. In the extremely tiny print, there's one intentional misspelling "SOUMI FINLAND"
Oh, no! I'll have to return it to the factory!
No, I havent found a error in mine, phew...
elephant: Søren Mexico: Something for our Finnish friends +15 °C, Spanish wear caps, gloves and winter coats, Finns are sunbathing.+10 °C, French desperately try to get their central heating on. Finns plant flowers.+5 °C, Italian cars won't start. Finns drive with convertibles.0 °C, Pure water freezes. Water in river Vantaa thickens a bit.−5 °C, First people are found frozen in California. Finnish midsummer festival ends. I don't understand this picture He seems to be drinking ! Surely given the sunny weather it should be Or perhaps with some ice thrown in
Søren Mexico: Something for our Finnish friends +15 °C, Spanish wear caps, gloves and winter coats, Finns are sunbathing.+10 °C, French desperately try to get their central heating on. Finns plant flowers.+5 °C, Italian cars won't start. Finns drive with convertibles.0 °C, Pure water freezes. Water in river Vantaa thickens a bit.−5 °C, First people are found frozen in California. Finnish midsummer festival ends.
he must be short of ice...
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elephant: I don't understand this picture He seems to be drinking !
Well here in the north is not always pure . In Sweden is sometimes (a lot more common a long time ago, obviously) had with a splash of "brännvin" (clear hard liquor), then called "kask". I'm sure our neighbors to the east do that too with vodka.
Things are not always what they seem.. :-)
/ Johan
In Finland the do a "kask" like this.
Put a sugar cube at the bottom of a coffee cup.
Pour coffee until you don´t see the sugar cube.
Pour vodka until you see the sugar cube again.
Drink!
//Bo.A long list...
Bos00: In Finland the do a "kask" like this. Put a sugar cube at the bottom of a coffee cup. Pour coffee until you don´t see the sugar cube. Pour vodka until you see the sugar cube again. Drink!
hey Bos00 and Johan ... now THAT sounds a great plan
The Kaffekask is actually a Danish invention , a coin (10 øre) is placed in the cup, add coffee until you don't see the coin, add Aquavit (life giving water) until you can see the coin again, adding sugar is only for women. A rumor says that this Kaffepunch gives hair on the bre^st on men, and hair on the teeth on women. Another rumor says it was invented by a priest in a west Jutland village, the church had no heating, and during the long Sunday sermon he was freezing his but of, These communities are very religious and living by the old book, no liqueur, no dancing, no gaming, and no sex before marriage or you go straight to hell. The priest found his way to keep warm, drinking coffee during the sermon is no sin.
hehe soren,
actually that sounds very good to me. Hopefully the 10 ore is very coin . ;-)
Meanwhile, in Finland...
(not my pic, and not from this winter - but quite well could be)
What an awesome thread!
Too long to list....
But it's "Suomi".
bayerische: But it's "Suomi".
Sorry, sometimes my fingers are faster than my brain.
Now for gløg lovers and an opportunity to learn Danish
Søren Mexico: bayerische: But it's "Suomi". Sorry, sometimes my fingers are faster than my brain. Now for gløg lovers and an opportunity to learn Danish
I have the same problem.
This will be a good day to defrost the freezer!
We only have -18, but that works too, I guess. :-)
tournedos: This will be a good day to defrost the freezer!
Not that bad actually...
Apparently a true story, this. Back in 1999 they scored a cold record in Kittilä, Finland. The thermometer dropped to -51.5C
A radio station in Helsinki called a resident of Kittilä to get a first hand reaction to the cold. From memory this, and I'm probably not getting it exactly right.
"We hear you've set a cold record. 51,5 degrees below! Congratulations!""No, it's not that cold here, only around 20 below.""You're in Kittilä, right? The weather service says you have 51,5 degrees below?""Oh, you mean outside?"
soundproof: Apparently a true story, this. Back in 1999 they scored a cold record in Kittilä, Finland. The thermometer dropped to -51.5C A radio station in Helsinki called a resident of Kittilä to get a first hand reaction to the cold. From memory this, and I'm probably not getting it exactly right. "We hear you've set a cold record. 51,5 degrees below! Congratulations!""No, it's not that cold here, only around 20 below.""You're in Kittilä, right? The weather service says you have 51,5 degrees below?""Oh, you mean outside?"
Only in Finland!
tournedos:This will be a good day to defrost the freezer!
Ah, great idea! I'll do that tomorrow.
-18° C here in Stockholm. I'm originally from the north of Sweden, so I have no problems with this :)
Unfortunately I can't confirm the story one way or the other, but it's plausible.
It's not always that easy, though - that same night, there was a five hour electricity break in Inari elsewhere in Lapland and the authorities were getting ready to evacuate hundreds of people from their homes. I'm not sure if this old newsflash can be viewed outside of Finland - and it's all in Finnish anyway - but the funny line is:
"This morning in Inari, only about a third of the lower grade pupils arrived to school."
beocool:"Oh, you mean outside?"
....+10....c :-)
I always enjoy reading your posts Soren - this is my favourite yet
Made me feel a lot better about the UK grinding to a standstill due to one day of snow.
Chris.
Whoa...
-and we thought it was cold in Denmark when we just had -16 C...
Medogsfat: I always enjoy reading your posts Soren - this is my favourite yet Made me feel a lot better about the UK grinding to a standstill due to one day of snow. Chris.
Thanks Chris, it is a bit off forum, but I have a soft spot for Finlandians and Finland, When I worked in Sweden I met a lot of them, worked with some and I never met anyone, before or after, that could work harder, be more honest or be better friends. Very very tough people, not much talk but a lot of DO.
Finns are great. Hardy, resilient, reliable and fun - as well as crazy. I've been fortunate to have worked with Finns for a number of years, and also to have done projects for some excellent companies (iittala, Amersports Group brands, etc).
A very long time ago, as I was starting out making commercials, I was shooting one in the Turku Castle. There were pillars supporting arches there, and the whole place looked impossibly photogenic. We had set up a "crypt" inside this location and were about to film.
When I noticed a large dark smudge on one of the pillars. The photographer confirmed it would show up on film, and we couldn't mask it. So I told the set designer to just paint over it with white, which was promptly done.
Turku Castle is a national treasure, the oldest building still in use in Finland. As the crew were wrapping up, the custodian noticed that the "smudge" on the pillar had been painted over ...
Turns out it was a pillar that had been "touched for luck" over the ages, and that was the reason for the now no longer to be seen smudge.
We made the national news as despoilers of the national heritage of Finland.