@@Anniarvaja It's really awesome you reply to comments directly! I respect you guys so much for that! You have a viewer for life in me. All of your content, across all 3 channels, is superb! Thanks again.
@@Anniarvaja Yes! With subscribers in the millions that is understandable! I am a machinist by trade and have done some tooling design and draw forming on a Hydraulic presses in the past myself. I have made many cool things including box magazines for experimental rifle calibers, etc. This is a big reason I enjoy your channels so much. I see what you and Lauri are doing as a public service to humanity by exposing people to science in a lot of different ways and allowing people to learn while probably not even realizing. ;-) Thank you again for all you do. Hopefully in the future I can send you guys something to "be dealt with" lol. Have a great day!
My youngest brother had a period of studying in Finland for his medication and lab tests. He said the Finnish are a hard people to interact with... I see the social abilities are determined by owning a hydraulic press, you two seem pretty much approachable and social.
Hahhah! I wouldn´s say Finns are poor at communication. :D It depends on person. My theory is some Finns are very uncertain with their english and communication is hard if you don´t dare to talk in english. Many Finns think they can´t speak english if the skills are not perfect.
2001, i went to the UK without speaking a word of english. I brought a note pad and pen, wrote the pump numbers and how much i was due.. paid and moved on. Did my shopping with a childrens book... pointed at bread, bacon and other items i needed from behind the counter. I have learned word for word... i expect a person to communicate as best as he can, if we can't work things out with words, hands and feet... we can work with pictures. I never laughed at a person trying his best as i was that person. Now i live in the UK and speak it well, to the point they see me as a local.
I made friends that came from Romania, Russia and other cultures i met. I worked in Amsrerdam at the time and treated everyone equal and showed interest in their cultures and food. It might be him that is the issue, being turned down a few times when he wanted a talk and judged a country on it. He still had some exitement as his Russian roommate tried to hang himself though, he had a tough time dealing with it.
Ohhh, it is very good to see how hard it is. Banana from starting point is F-ing cheap, if you visit Costa Rica or La Ecuador, Proably I used to buy some banana during visiting Lisboa, Capital da Republica Portuguesa.
SWEagle... You use the internet to watch this video but you don't use it to satisfy your curiosity... Idiot! Go Google and type "supermarket in X" where X = your country of choice. Next, go to the Supermarkets website and then you can see the prices of things. It's so easy to do.
Dirty Robot That isn't the same as seeing it from a first-person view. Online prices may not reflect in-store local prices. Show me the price of a can of Pringles in Yakutsk, Russia and name the supermarket since you know how to do this. Provide me with a link, please. A RUclipsr of your age and caliber can easily prove this.
www.google.co.jp/maps/place/Aygul'/@62.0595807,129.7230386,14z/data=!4m8!1m2!2m1!1ssupermarket!3m4!1s0x0:0x84f8a5ad2ffd506e!8m2!3d62.0497898!4d129.7487122?hl=en www.aigul.ru/yk/index.php But that's not the point. You would just need to find the price in Russia to get an idea. I would guess that Pringles are going to be an average price in Finland too.
I recently found your channels and love them all. I did the conversions and I pay about the same for my groceries in western Canada. Like you everything is from elsewhere in winter.
I am from Mexico city and of course its cheaper the fruits and vegetables as you said because of the weather (always we have seasons of different food) but even of that I prefer to live in Finland! I visit Helsinki two times and I love it! Even its really expensive for us! ...very nice videos! :)
This is one of my favorite things to do when I go to another country. I get really autistic about all the items that are there, and why they sell certain things next to each other. The snack aisle and the cleaning aisle are the most interesting to me for some reason.
Hi Anni, I'm a subscriber from North Carolina, USA and I'm really surprised at how expensive your foods are for such small portions. My girlfriend is from Oulu and has visited me here in the states three times in the past 18 months. She absolutely loves to shop at Walmart Supercenter but she always wants to shop for several hours because she is fascinated and often overwhelmed by the large selection of products that we have here. She was also amazed by the low prices and portion sizes in here the US... especially in restaurants and in our grocery stores. Our prices for beef, pork and chicken are also a lot cheaper but they also contains unhealthy hormones and antibiotics...which doesn't really harm the flavor. I really enjoy your informative and entertaining videos about life in Finland, the Finnish culture and language. Thank you and keep up the great work.
As a farmer, I'm always happy to see expensive vegetables because I have to work very hard, 7 days a week from dawn until after dark to grow them and pack them. Remember that whenever you're buying vegetables! Our lives depend on that money!
I love these vlogs Anni!! My favorite part about you and Lauri has always been your personalities and it's so entertaining to watch you guys interacting
This was fun and really interesting!!!! I too enjoy going to normal shops when in other countries to see what is normal for the people to eat and what things cost. I also find it really interesting the differences in packaging between countries! I think its interesting that the store you were in looks nearly identical to what a store looks like in the US. I mean, if you stuck me in that store but with foggy glasses so I couldn't read signs, I would think I was here in the US. Thanks Anni and Lauri!!! More of these would be great!
I love visiting grocery stores in other countries. You get a great idea of not only the diet of the locals, but the economy. Most things were pretty similar in price in winter here in Ohio. Tomatoes and avocados aren't cheap due to being out of season. What surprised me the most was the cost of Pepsi. $11 USD for 15? Yikes! If on sale, it's usually $9 for 36 cans. Off sale is $4-5 for 12-15 cans. Also...Crickets? WTF!
And I love taste exotic and weird food on abroad. :D Yes, soda it more expensive here than in States. Some times I think it is cheaper to drink soda than water in U.S. :D Yes, cricket food is the next big thing. But the cricket bread contains just 3 % crickets so not so much. :D
A cheap way for protein, crickets and worms found in flower and grain storage is getting cooked as beef replacements. Does this mean we give video responses to show our local foods and shops?
I'll just copy my other comment here: The thing with soda in Finland is that anyone that drinks any substantial amount of it doesnt buy cans because they are so expensive. Sure, the four bottle value packs aren't as cheap as somewhere else but they are a hell of a lot cheaper than cans. Around 65 cents/litre is fairly common. Cans are like 2.5 times more expensive.
In Finland if I remember correctly there is a tax on high sugar drinks like soda (pop), and energy drinks. It is a way to discourage unhealthy consumption of them, kind of like the heavy taxes on alcohol.
This prices are very similar in Estonia. Very expensive is cloudberry jam a 21€ kg. Al so fresh blackberrys 39 € kg, blueberries 20 € kg and raspberries 29€ /kg in. Eco foods in general are like 3,5 euro 10 eggs, beef 17 euro kg, tomatos 5€ kg, potato 1,65€ kg.
Finland is THE most advanced country in the world!!!!! Great video can you please make more video about Finland like people, food culture city life. Bow do you have sauna in your house? Can you show us how a real finish sauna look?
It is some more expensive than here in Washington, the home of Bill Gates, but fruit and vegetables do grow here and so we can buy locally or grow our own for the summer months. I love the content and how you show Finland. I like to watch more of your live and how you live in Finland. Thanks for the videos.
Lauri almost dying on the black ice was me this evening when i almost fell down the stairs going to make my dinner! In southern england we are having a pretty nasty week of snow/cold winds blowing in from the east- it’s nothing on a Finnish winter, but to us -2c days and a light dusting of snow is enough to think the world is ending 😂
I poured some chips out onto the road and they left a bad grease line. It has been there for two weeks so far with alot of rain too. Maybe you can put several bags into the extruder and see how much oils can be pressed out. It was Dorito chips that left the grease line
Well, chips have more grease than regular crisps. BTW they crushed some crisps with the hydraulic press and it was disgusting to see the oil coming out from them.
Hi, cheese here in Australia is 3.76euro per kilogram at the supermarkets, and Milk is 1.25 euro per 2 litres. My wife and I also like to go to supermarkets when we travel, its interesting, sort of like looking in peoples back yards when we travel by train. it shows you what a place is really like.
Toi on muuten tosi kätevä tapa saada hyötyliikuntaa sekä säästää rahaa, että asuu "kaukana" kaupasta, mutta kuitenkin niin lähellä, että auton käyttö olis vaivalloista matkaan nähden. Jos asuis vaikka 2 kilsan päässä, niin tulis kiusaus mennä autolla, ja liikunta jäis saamatta.
Joo, säästää lisäks hermojakin kun menee kävelleen. Aina hirvee homma pysäköidä tuolla Prismalla, kun kaikki mummot hituroi edessä ja lapset säntäilee pihassa alle. :D
Interesting to see this. Prices in Finland are pretty much the same as the prices here in Denmark, and the type of food you buy or make seems pretty similar too. Even the names on the packages and the companies making them are found here as well :) Pretty cool actually.
Living in Canada and not being with my family in Suomi has made me realize how much I miss really good ruisleipä. The Canadian stuff is so shit compared to the Finnish ruisleipä
CRICKETS???? WTF guys? Winter might be long and cold over there but you don't have to resort to eating bugs. The summer will return. It will warm up someday, just don't eat depressing bugs for dinner
:D So, tell the truth. Have you guys tried the crickets? And if so what do they taste like? The idea seems pretty weird to me but I would probably actually still try it just to say I ate a bug
We have tasted cricket bread but is was just basic bread because there was 3 % crickets and they were powdered. :D I think I haven´t tasted other cricket foods.
Nothing depressing in bugs - quite the contrary. In western societies the protein palette has been narroved down to dairy products, beef, pork, chicken, lamb, fish, shrimp, eggs and a couple of other things. To have a palette like this is not normal, not the other way around. Horse meat, game like rabbits, pheasants, kangaroo, guinea pigs, reindeer. All delicious! Some meats are taboo in some countries but typical in other. It's just our minds telling us think something is discusting. There's nothing wrong in eating dogs either (compared to other animals). We adore them because they're cute buy it's just meat in a different kind of package. There will always be issues when animals are involved. Where the meat is sourced from? How were the animals treated? What kind of medicine - antibiotics, hormones - were used to grow them? How much human edible food is fed to these animals vs. they produce? Is it even morally OK to grow animals to be butchered? How much environmental harm is caused? From food perspective cricket is just a lump of protein not much different from shrimp except less of the soft part and more of the hard part. For most foods they're dried and powdered so it goes unnoticed in the food you eat. People of SE Asia eat bugs. Cooked with spices it's a yummy street food snack likely a lot healthier than chips or burgers. Crickets seem to be friendlier to the environment than most of typical farm animals which means they and other bugs might help us to produce healty food for masses with lesser negative impact on the planet. There's some biology like bugs being heterothermic in contrary to birds and mammals which makes their protein conversion ratio better. However growing crickets in industrial scale might have some problems which are still unknown to us. Anyways they might be a good way to produce at least part of the protein we consume in a more sustainable way. A growing portion of people, especially youth, in Europe are environment and health conscious. We still consume way too much meat and majority doesn't care but in the long run some shift is required. Food trends like this are just welcome. Crickets might not be a silver bullet or the ultimate solution but a step in the right direction.
Ever time Lauri has a close call and yells 'Holy shit I almost died' I completely crack up laughing because for as long as I can remember I have yelled the same thing when I nearly injure myself! I love you guys!
I think if you bought a similar amount of food in the North East United States (near Philadelphia where I live) it would cost about the same. Good quality tomatoes are not cheap in the US either, especially during winter, but even in the summer when they are the cheapest, they still cost around $3.99 for 4 tomatoes (about a pound).
When I lived in Philly, the only way to buy tomatoes was to drive out to the Oley/Manatawny area and get 'em from some old guy that ran a fruit stand up off the highway somewhere (Hill Church Road, maybe? It's been a minute). Less than $1/lb and good tasting, but only from May through maybe September.
tomatoes are expensive because amount of energy needed to warm up and light greenhouses is huge, so i do not think those are quite nature friendly products :D
You know what though? when i shop at some stores like SaveA Lot or Aldi's where they have a smaller variety of food- they also often have the best buys and best quality for certain foods.
@@elizabethbennet4791 Where I live now, there are no Aldis. That sucks. I agree most of the brands of food there carry are equal to or better than name brands.
The first time I visited the U.S in 2008 and went into a Walmart it was like visiting the zoo, I saw things that some people would pay money to see. Walmart is definitely NOT a depiction of most of the Americans I meet.
Hey I am very interested in the living conditions of Finland. It would be great to see more videos where you talk about the big differences like Tax in Finland and how it might be a pain but it also helps make the country a better place to be.
Your prices are not all that different to the USA except they changed $ for the Euro symbol. Of course that means they are about 1.25 times more expensive but in all honesty that isn't all that bad. Tomatoes taste like shit here in the USA no matter what time of year unless you grow your own or go to the farmer's market as well. I wanted to let you know that what you call expensive is nothing here in the USA for Avocados because I used to eat them a few years ago then, all of a sudden, they went up to .89c USD for each one. I think I have found some for .69c once for each one so that bag at 4.29 Euros is insanely cheap as you can see. Btw, I have seen the cheap Avocadoes go up to $1.69 each.
I am so glad the icy sidewalk didn't take out Lauri ;D I love visiting supermarkets in different countries too, to see what is different, what is similar, the packaging design, the prices etc. Its like a little gallery. A curated collection of items based on the wants and needs of the local people in that particular country.
I get the flyers in and plan for a week. I get curry korma in, sweet and sour extra pineapple sauce and half a kilo of chicken per meal, then boil up a pan of rice for three days and get half a kilo of cod in, ten make rice,fish with parsley sauce. That is 3 days, i can make scrambled egg, fried egg with sliced roast beef on bread, that is day 4, pizza with garlic bread is day 5, mash potato , baked beans, sausages and egg is day 6. Mash potato , oven baked pie (steak and ale, chicken and mushroom) with vegetables is day 7. I have cans of pasta, soups and spare veg / meat in the freezer and fruit as snacks. We rely on the car as 3 miles is long in a wheelchair and not a lot can be kept in my lap.
We seem to be in your camp Anna. We go to the store almost everyday. From what I understand that is a common practice in Europe. Although I cannot speak to it directly. It saves on storage as our house is small. Once a month we go to one the larger towns with a Walmart and pick up the things that are definitely cheaper than our home town stores.You should tells what some of the packages are in English, most of us don't speak Finnish. ;)
I have travelled a bit around the world and I always go to local supermarkets in every country I visit. It is often one of my favorite parts of the trip. I have been to Denamark, Norway, and Sweden, but didn't make it far enough east to visit Finland, unfortunately. Your part of the world is quite the opposite of where I live: Southern California, USA. It is winter here now and most of this season so far has had daily temperatures between 21-26C. Only in the last week have we gotten down to 1-2C just before dawn. I love your channels and really enjoy seeing your part of the world. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for comment! We were in California three weeks 2013 and it was the best trip ever! There we usually shopped in Whole Foods, Walmart and random stores. Actually we also filmed something there. I have to check could I publish some video about California trip. :D
I been to finland a few times... and being from Sweden its almost a surrel experience. So much of the signs are in Swedish. Not everywhere, but in a lot of places. Still i´m impressed how clean and nice its is everywhere. Its quite a diffrance between Sweden and Finland, and sadly its growing for every day.
Adamas97 Actually it's now fairly bright until 5pm at their home town. Even then the refraction of the light behind the horizon gives you some light for half an hour or so. It was most likely around 6-7pm or later. Middle day would be very bright (has been like that for few days) and snow makes it even brighter since most of the light is reflected.
While this comments is 2 weeks old, March equinox is actually the day after tomorrow. Its the day when the sun is up exactly the same time all arount the world. Because the sun is so shallow here in the north (i live in Sweden, almost as far north as Anni does) the sunset is really long. That is, half or less of the sun is over the horizon for quite a while. And even after it sets it can be light for quite a while (specially if its just a bit clowdy). So there might be twilight for over a hour.
Interesing, how much are Avocados at your place? Most of the Finnish prices seem to be quite comparable to the prices over here in Germany. Avocados are expensive though. Cheap one who taste like sh** are around 1€/piece, decent ones 2...2,5 €/piece. I love my guacamole, but I don't make it all that often. ^^
I love that you're able to take your groceries in backpacks. In the States most stores won't allow you bring in anything but open-top bags because they're so skeptical about theft. Many stores won't let you bring in any outside bags at all. Even if a woman's purse is deemed "too large" or you have your shopping bags from another store with you, they try to confiscate it and make you leave it at the front of the store (usually somewhere it is not being watched) until you finish your shopping.
I live in Houston, TX currently (past 10 years). But you're right, I'm from and grew up in New York and it isn't like that on the East Coast. Or in California either. But the vast majority of the places I've been in-between the coasts seem to be really anal about it. In your average suburbs anyway. Probably not Chicago or most major cities though, or anywhere more liberal or with a lot of culture (Austin is an exception within Texas, for example).
I wish we had the self serve candy selections here in the states still. We used to have them years ago, and not close to as big of selection maybe 10 types, but I guess to many people would steal from it so you don't see them anymore. And the rolling baskets are a great idea! Wish we had those here. Maybe one day we'll catch up to the rest of the world.
:D I know it! I just like to shop at Wal Mart, it is so cheap and weird experience every time. :D When we were in California, we did shoppings at many stores. Whole food market was my favorite!
Also, alot of us in US refuse to shop at Walmart. They pay their workers almost nothing and often have very bad quality things from China. Some of us instead try to do as much shopping as possible in local non- chain stores to support the local economy. I hope Walmart is not what people think of first in the US!
Herbert Susmann I'm not sure where in the US you are from, but where I am people mostly go to Walmart because there is no alternatives. Walmart is affordable, while places like Whole Foods and family owned stores are quite expensive.
YaBoiCasillas I live near Ithaca NY. We here call it "10 square miles surrounded by reality". This is a smaller college town, very progressive, we have several good alternatives for groceries besides Walmart. Wegmans is one, often considered one of the best companies in the US to work for. We have a good local health food store also called Greenstar. I know in many parts of the US those options are not there.
It's your choice. But there is no much differences because consumers look at price tag. But is it really worth of it? One of sellers in Hong Kong say, If you like to be sure, know actual price before getting through.
Your cat really loves you I can tell! She acts like mine too, but I can never quite get her to sit on my shoulders! Even though she does sleep on the back of the couch above my head when I sleep! I love how you end the video on the cat's face!! Man I really want to move to Finland, I love Florida but there's a lot of misogyny in the states! Still,, I am doing research!
I like temperatures below -15 C (roughly zero F ) because then it is so cold that roads are no more slippery. IDK why is that so but the ice starts to act different when it gets colder.
Recipe for rich and simple French Onion Soup: Melt butter with olive oil in an 8 quart stock pot on medium heat. Add onions and continually stir until tender and translucent. Do not brown the onions.Add beef broth, sherry and thyme. Season with salt and pepper, and simmer for 30 minutes.Heat the oven broiler.Ladle soup into oven safe serving bowls and place one slice of bread on top of each (bread may be broken into pieces if you prefer). Layer each slice of bread with a slice of provolone, 1/2 slice diced Swiss and 1 tablespoon Parmesan cheese. Place bowls on cookie sheet and broil in the preheated oven until cheese bubbles and browns slightly.
In the bible it rained for forty days and forty nights and they called it a catastrophe.
Here in Norway we call it summer.
Same here. And +8 celsius degrees all the time.
as they say about the finnish summer, short and slightly snowy (lyhyt ja vähäluminen)
I can't stop myself I have to agree, it is the same in Sweden. Especially in northern.
Sokul Marotvasha Summer is the best day of the year.
here in finnish we call winter summer
You two guys are a really nice couple!!! Cheeers!!!
Thanks very much!
You two are doing a wonderful job. The honesty in which you represent Finland is beautiful.
I love the shoulder cat at the end!
"Best exploding playing cards on the market"...Awesome!
Thank you from Tennessee, USA. This was a nice look into your lives in Finland. Anni and Lauri are the best. Real people, real videos.
:-D
Thanks for watching! It's pleasure to show Finnish lifestyle to viewers. 😁
@@Anniarvaja It's really awesome you reply to comments directly! I respect you guys so much for that! You have a viewer for life in me. All of your content, across all 3 channels, is superb! Thanks again.
I always try to answer as many comments as I can, but on BtP and HPC it's almost impossible. 😀 Thank you and greetings from sunny Finland! ☀️
@@Anniarvaja Yes! With subscribers in the millions that is understandable! I am a machinist by trade and have done some tooling design and draw forming on a Hydraulic presses in the past myself. I have made many cool things including box magazines for experimental rifle calibers, etc. This is a big reason I enjoy your channels so much. I see what you and Lauri are doing as a public service to humanity by exposing people to science in a lot of different ways and allowing people to learn while probably not even realizing. ;-) Thank you again for all you do. Hopefully in the future I can send you guys something to "be dealt with" lol. Have a great day!
Snow looks so awesome, we don't get snow where I live in Australia.
We have cold and snowy winter here right now and I enjoy so much!
It's okay I know how you feel.
I live in California where everything's on fire.
It's pretty much like Finland in the UK right now.
My youngest brother had a period of studying in Finland for his medication and lab tests. He said the Finnish are a hard people to interact with... I see the social abilities are determined by owning a hydraulic press, you two seem pretty much approachable and social.
Hahhah! I wouldn´s say Finns are poor at communication. :D It depends on person. My theory is some Finns are very uncertain with their english and communication is hard if you don´t dare to talk in english. Many Finns think they can´t speak english if the skills are not perfect.
2001, i went to the UK without speaking a word of english. I brought a note pad and pen, wrote the pump numbers and how much i was due.. paid and moved on. Did my shopping with a childrens book... pointed at bread, bacon and other items i needed from behind the counter. I have learned word for word... i expect a person to communicate as best as he can, if we can't work things out with words, hands and feet... we can work with pictures. I never laughed at a person trying his best as i was that person. Now i live in the UK and speak it well, to the point they see me as a local.
I made friends that came from Romania, Russia and other cultures i met. I worked in Amsrerdam at the time and treated everyone equal and showed interest in their cultures and food. It might be him that is the issue, being turned down a few times when he wanted a talk and judged a country on it. He still had some exitement as his Russian roommate tried to hang himself though, he had a tough time dealing with it.
Moxxi !
Stereotypes are never always true. But they exist for a reason.
Petri Manninen Unless you're made of clay. Then you will be dealt with...
Excellent packing skills; The bread was not the slightest bit crushed!
Lauri is master of packing. :D
Frozen bread cannot be crushed! lol
Breads weren´t frozen. :)
Sounds like a press challenge, frozen bread, water soaked then frozen bread...
Crushed bread is one of my shopping tragedies.
Wow - youre Walmart is much nicer than any I've seen here in the states. Love the video! Very neat to see differences in cost
"That's why we go to the Walmart when we go to the US, because that's where you see the real people." I live in the US and this statement made me sad.
It's true, though
Thank you SO MUCH for this video!! I've always been curious about grocery prices in different countries. :)
Thanks for watching! :)
Ohhh, it is very good to see how hard it is. Banana from starting point is F-ing cheap, if you visit Costa Rica or La Ecuador, Proably I used to buy some banana during visiting Lisboa, Capital da Republica Portuguesa.
SWEagle... You use the internet to watch this video but you don't use it to satisfy your curiosity... Idiot!
Go Google and type "supermarket in X" where X = your country of choice.
Next, go to the Supermarkets website and then you can see the prices of things. It's so easy to do.
Dirty Robot That isn't the same as seeing it from a first-person view. Online prices may not reflect in-store local prices. Show me the price of a can of Pringles in Yakutsk, Russia and name the supermarket since you know how to do this. Provide me with a link, please. A RUclipsr of your age and caliber can easily prove this.
www.google.co.jp/maps/place/Aygul'/@62.0595807,129.7230386,14z/data=!4m8!1m2!2m1!1ssupermarket!3m4!1s0x0:0x84f8a5ad2ffd506e!8m2!3d62.0497898!4d129.7487122?hl=en
www.aigul.ru/yk/index.php
But that's not the point. You would just need to find the price in Russia to get an idea.
I would guess that Pringles are going to be an average price in Finland too.
I recently found your channels and love them all. I did the conversions and I pay about the same for my groceries in western Canada. Like you everything is from elsewhere in winter.
Hello from Alaska! I love seeing your videos about Finnish life, thank you for posting them! :)
Thanks for watching my videos! :)
Everyone in the U.S. who sees this will want to say Wal-Mart isn’t representative of the country, but the truth is, it totally is.
Oh my god! Is Lauri ok? Will he EVER recover??
I promise he will survive!
what happened to Lauri?
Pekka Pökkersön what happend to him please answer me anni
Night Dream207 He nearly died, while walking over slippery ice.
@@fatherlandchild2780 yeah, it was close.
I am from Mexico city and of course its cheaper the fruits and vegetables as you said because of the weather (always we have seasons of different food) but even of that I prefer to live in Finland! I visit Helsinki two times and I love it! Even its really expensive for us! ...very nice videos! :)
Howdy! thank you for sharing your country and life with us. I certainly enjoy it. Have a great day!
His natural Finnish loose-surface skills saved him that time.
Luckily!
This is one of my favorite things to do when I go to another country. I get really autistic about all the items that are there, and why they sell certain things next to each other. The snack aisle and the cleaning aisle are the most interesting to me for some reason.
I avoid Walmart if at all possible, that place is creepy.
Hi Anni, I'm a subscriber from North Carolina, USA and I'm really surprised at how expensive your foods are for such small portions.
My girlfriend is from Oulu and has visited me here in the states three times in the past 18 months.
She absolutely loves to shop at Walmart Supercenter but she always wants to shop for several hours because she is fascinated and often overwhelmed by the large selection of products that we have here.
She was also amazed by the low prices and portion sizes in here the US... especially in restaurants and in our grocery stores.
Our prices for beef, pork and chicken are also a lot cheaper but they also contains unhealthy hormones and antibiotics...which doesn't really harm the flavor.
I really enjoy your informative and entertaining videos about life in Finland, the Finnish culture and language. Thank you and keep up the great work.
As a farmer, I'm always happy to see expensive vegetables because I have to work very hard, 7 days a week from dawn until after dark to grow them and pack them. Remember that whenever you're buying vegetables! Our lives depend on that money!
You two are so fun to watch and listen to.
Here in Greece, the tomatoes cost 2€/kg and feta cheese costs about 8€/kg. Cheaper than Finland but still expensive for Greece.
I really enjoyed this one, Finland is high on my list of places to visit so I love seeing everyday life stuff, thanks!
Thanks! Welcome, this is great country. :)
Finnish shops look so NICE!! I would like to visit them someday.
I love these vlogs Anni!! My favorite part about you and Lauri has always been your personalities and it's so entertaining to watch you guys interacting
Thanks very much! I enjoy making these vlogs videos!
3:00 4,89 € for that block of cheese??? In germany it's around 1,90 €! Wow
It's always interesting seeing the grocery stores in other countries. Thanks for this video.
Thanks for watching!
This was fun and really interesting!!!! I too enjoy going to normal shops when in other countries to see what is normal for the people to eat and what things cost. I also find it really interesting the differences in packaging between countries! I think its interesting that the store you were in looks nearly identical to what a store looks like in the US. I mean, if you stuck me in that store but with foggy glasses so I couldn't read signs, I would think I was here in the US. Thanks Anni and Lauri!!! More of these would be great!
Thanks, nice to hear you liked it! I could make "grocery stories around the world" video serie. :D
The most fascinating thing about this video... the shopping cart. I’ve never seen anything like that.
I love visiting grocery stores in other countries. You get a great idea of not only the diet of the locals, but the economy. Most things were pretty similar in price in winter here in Ohio. Tomatoes and avocados aren't cheap due to being out of season. What surprised me the most was the cost of Pepsi. $11 USD for 15? Yikes! If on sale, it's usually $9 for 36 cans. Off sale is $4-5 for 12-15 cans. Also...Crickets? WTF!
VampFaye that's crazy cheap we pay $40 for a 30 pack of coke in Australia.
And I love taste exotic and weird food on abroad. :D Yes, soda it more expensive here than in States. Some times I think it is cheaper to drink soda than water in U.S. :D
Yes, cricket food is the next big thing. But the cricket bread contains just 3 % crickets so not so much. :D
A cheap way for protein, crickets and worms found in flower and grain storage is getting cooked as beef replacements. Does this mean we give video responses to show our local foods and shops?
I'll just copy my other comment here: The thing with soda in Finland is that anyone that drinks any substantial amount of it doesnt buy cans because they are so expensive. Sure, the four bottle value packs aren't as cheap as somewhere else but they are a hell of a lot cheaper than cans. Around 65 cents/litre is fairly common. Cans are like 2.5 times more expensive.
In Finland if I remember correctly there is a tax on high sugar drinks like soda (pop), and energy drinks. It is a way to discourage unhealthy consumption of them, kind of like the heavy taxes on alcohol.
I really Enjoy your videos I love seeing what the different country have
Thanks!
05:37 oooh Almost died
It was so close!!
"Oh oooh, I almost died! -The Movie" 2019 reprizent.
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Britain: oops i slipped on ice
Finland: uh oh almost died
UH OH-UH OH
It's not really Lauri unless there is at least one "...almost died!"
Tough life! Wish you all the best!George from Skiathos, Greece.
This prices are very similar in Estonia. Very expensive is cloudberry jam a 21€ kg. Al so fresh blackberrys 39 € kg, blueberries 20 € kg and raspberries 29€ /kg in. Eco foods in general are like 3,5 euro 10 eggs, beef 17 euro kg, tomatos 5€ kg, potato 1,65€ kg.
I just found channel, subscribed! Thank you for the shopping adventure :)
Thanks for subs and have a nice day! :)
Finland is THE most advanced country in the world!!!!! Great video can you please make more video about Finland like people, food culture city life. Bow do you have sauna in your house? Can you show us how a real finish sauna look?
Yes, I will make more Finland videos. :D Yes, we have really big sauna in our house!
It is some more expensive than here in Washington, the home of Bill Gates, but fruit and vegetables do grow here and so we can buy locally or grow our own for the summer months. I love the content and how you show Finland. I like to watch more of your live and how you live in Finland. Thanks for the videos.
Good ole viili, the best finnish breakfast meal? The red can please! No low fat anything for me.
Lauri almost dying on the black ice was me this evening when i almost fell down the stairs going to make my dinner!
In southern england we are having a pretty nasty week of snow/cold winds blowing in from the east- it’s nothing on a Finnish winter, but to us -2c days and a light dusting of snow is enough to think the world is ending 😂
You almost died too! Huh, luckily you survived!
It is really cold right now over the Europe, brrr!
I poured some chips out onto the road and they left a bad grease line. It has been there for two weeks so far with alot of rain too. Maybe you can put several bags into the extruder and see how much oils can be pressed out. It was Dorito chips that left the grease line
Uh, pretty disgusting video idea. :D Once we pressed chips with the press and it was also very nasty...
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I think you mean crisps, chips are hot and eaten with fish 😄
Get Schwifty Oh come on
Well, chips have more grease than regular crisps. BTW they crushed some crisps with the hydraulic press and it was disgusting to see the oil coming out from them.
I like the place where you put all your shopping. Your home looks cozy.
I'm from The Netherlands and prices are pretty much the same. Only tomatoes are cheaper. €2,18 per kilogram.
1,50 euro on the market
No surprise there I guess since all the tomatoes that are not grown locally here in Sweden come from Holland (Or Spain).
Hi, cheese here in Australia is 3.76euro per kilogram at the supermarkets, and Milk is 1.25 euro per 2 litres. My wife and I also like to go to supermarkets when we travel, its interesting, sort of like looking in peoples back yards when we travel by train. it shows you what a place is really like.
Toi on muuten tosi kätevä tapa saada hyötyliikuntaa sekä säästää rahaa, että asuu "kaukana" kaupasta, mutta kuitenkin niin lähellä, että auton käyttö olis vaivalloista matkaan nähden. Jos asuis vaikka 2 kilsan päässä, niin tulis kiusaus mennä autolla, ja liikunta jäis saamatta.
Finnisch, die Sprache mit Umlaut-Overkill. :)
Joo, säästää lisäks hermojakin kun menee kävelleen. Aina hirvee homma pysäköidä tuolla Prismalla, kun kaikki mummot hituroi edessä ja lapset säntäilee pihassa alle. :D
Mä oon samaa mieltä
@@Anniarvaja jep samaa mieltä ku aina kauppojen parkki paikat on muutenki täynnä
Wow, that's a lot of "a"s, "k"s and "l"s XD
Interesting to see this. Prices in Finland are pretty much the same as the prices here in Denmark, and the type of food you buy or make seems pretty similar too. Even the names on the packages and the companies making them are found here as well :) Pretty cool actually.
Living in Canada and not being with my family in Suomi has made me realize how much I miss really good ruisleipä. The Canadian stuff is so shit compared to the Finnish ruisleipä
Colby Parkkila Bake your own.
The real ruisleipä is so good. Especially I like little bit dried ruisleipä, mmm! As Eemeli said, you can bake it. :)
I am planning to. Finding the correct ingredients is difficult. I have to make my own syrup for making piparkakku as you cannot find it anywhere.
Nice snow, we have NO snow in Houston. We have two seasons, the hot season and the DAMAN HOT season. Enjoy your snow!
5:37 The ice nearly killed you, we must deal with it!
I'm really enjoying your videos and look forward to visit Finland one day. I have a cat too, please keep showing your cats too 🙂
Dese are the best explosion playing cards on der market.
Dats truu!
Interesting. A good perspective regarding shopping and snow and ice. Less expensive in England xxx
Always go with products made in your own country! In this case, Local Tomatoes from Finland! :)
Alien Observer I agree! I always try to support finnish companies and food!
I love the chorus of "uh oh" with you two. This was a very interesting peek into your lives!
CRICKETS???? WTF guys? Winter might be long and cold over there but you don't have to resort to eating bugs. The summer will return. It will warm up someday, just don't eat depressing bugs for dinner
Hahhah! Food is running out and we have to eat crickets and snow. :D :D Just kidding. It is just one alternative for meat.
:D So, tell the truth. Have you guys tried the crickets? And if so what do they taste like? The idea seems pretty weird to me but I would probably actually still try it just to say I ate a bug
We have tasted cricket bread but is was just basic bread because there was 3 % crickets and they were powdered. :D I think I haven´t tasted other cricket foods.
Nothing depressing in bugs - quite the contrary. In western societies the protein palette has been narroved down to dairy products, beef, pork, chicken, lamb, fish, shrimp, eggs and a couple of other things. To have a palette like this is not normal, not the other way around.
Horse meat, game like rabbits, pheasants, kangaroo, guinea pigs, reindeer. All delicious! Some meats are taboo in some countries but typical in other. It's just our minds telling us think something is discusting. There's nothing wrong in eating dogs either (compared to other animals). We adore them because they're cute buy it's just meat in a different kind of package.
There will always be issues when animals are involved. Where the meat is sourced from? How were the animals treated? What kind of medicine - antibiotics, hormones - were used to grow them? How much human edible food is fed to these animals vs. they produce? Is it even morally OK to grow animals to be butchered? How much environmental harm is caused?
From food perspective cricket is just a lump of protein not much different from shrimp except less of the soft part and more of the hard part. For most foods they're dried and powdered so it goes unnoticed in the food you eat. People of SE Asia eat bugs. Cooked with spices it's a yummy street food snack likely a lot healthier than chips or burgers.
Crickets seem to be friendlier to the environment than most of typical farm animals which means they and other bugs might help us to produce healty food for masses with lesser negative impact on the planet. There's some biology like bugs being heterothermic in contrary to birds and mammals which makes their protein conversion ratio better. However growing crickets in industrial scale might have some problems which are still unknown to us. Anyways they might be a good way to produce at least part of the protein we consume in a more sustainable way.
A growing portion of people, especially youth, in Europe are environment and health conscious. We still consume way too much meat and majority doesn't care but in the long run some shift is required. Food trends like this are just welcome. Crickets might not be a silver bullet or the ultimate solution but a step in the right direction.
It’s always good to have perspective. I’d say prices are pretty similar there to here in U.S.
I love how you pronounce “halves” 😂❤️
Kevin Benoit Actually we didn't pronounce it in english, it was in swedish. 😀
:O I thought Lauri said it afterwards in English, but that would make sense :P
Yeah they said "Halvor" and added an english S in the end for plural aswell xD "Halvors"
I love how she pronounces "shituation" : )
So funny, the tomatoes taste like sheet😅😅😅
Ever time Lauri has a close call and yells 'Holy shit I almost died' I completely crack up laughing because for as long as I can remember I have yelled the same thing when I nearly injure myself! I love you guys!
I think if you bought a similar amount of food in the North East United States (near Philadelphia where I live) it would cost about the same. Good quality tomatoes are not cheap in the US either, especially during winter, but even in the summer when they are the cheapest, they still cost around $3.99 for 4 tomatoes (about a pound).
Expensive tomatoes is problem over the northern world. :D
When I lived in Philly, the only way to buy tomatoes was to drive out to the Oley/Manatawny area and get 'em from some old guy that ran a fruit stand up off the highway somewhere (Hill Church Road, maybe? It's been a minute). Less than $1/lb and good tasting, but only from May through maybe September.
tomatoes are expensive because amount of energy needed to warm up and light greenhouses is huge, so i do not think those are quite nature friendly products :D
depends, if you live in the country that exports second most argiculture products in the world.
Finnish tomatoes cost in summer time when the prices are lowest € 1.5 / 1 kg.
headed over to Finland in 3 weeks time. this video is really helpful!
Really bright clean store!
Yep, the Prisma stores are really clean and clear!
Thank you for the Info! As I’m moving there soon, I really need it! ❄️♥️
Great! If you need help, dont hesitate to ask! I am professional Finn so I can help you. 😀
Don't go to Walmart in the US. That's not us.
You know what though? when i shop at some stores like SaveA Lot or Aldi's where they have a smaller variety of food- they also often have the best buys and best quality for certain foods.
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Where I live now, there are no Aldis. That sucks. I agree most of the brands of food there carry are equal to or better than name brands.
The first time I visited the U.S in 2008 and went into a Walmart it was like visiting the zoo, I saw things that some people would pay money to see. Walmart is definitely NOT a depiction of most of the Americans I meet.
You are 100% correct it's good to go to local supermarkets in different countries to see how the real people live.
--casual finishenglish talk *URGHLUGH!!!!!* ALMOST DIED!!
haha perkele
PERKELE!!!
Hey I am very interested in the living conditions of Finland. It would be great to see more videos where you talk about the big differences like Tax in Finland and how it might be a pain but it also helps make the country a better place to be.
Sweetest couple on youtube!!
Never had Rahka; looks good! Hey, hope that since the weather is getting warmer in the summers you can plant tomatoes!
Rahka is really good breakfast and snack. :)
Your prices are not all that different to the USA except they changed $ for the Euro symbol. Of course that means they are about 1.25 times more expensive but in all honesty that isn't all that bad. Tomatoes taste like shit here in the USA no matter what time of year unless you grow your own or go to the farmer's market as well.
I wanted to let you know that what you call expensive is nothing here in the USA for Avocados because I used to eat them a few years ago then, all of a sudden, they went up to .89c USD for each one. I think I have found some for .69c once for each one so that bag at 4.29 Euros is insanely cheap as you can see. Btw, I have seen the cheap Avocadoes go up to $1.69 each.
This was great, I'm amazed at the amount of stuff you guys packed into two backpacks! Love these vlogs!!!!
Thanks! We have large backpacks!
"ooahhh shii. almost died" rofl
I am so glad the icy sidewalk didn't take out Lauri ;D I love visiting supermarkets in different countries too, to see what is different, what is similar, the packaging design, the prices etc. Its like a little gallery. A curated collection of items based on the wants and needs of the local people in that particular country.
I nearly lost him! :D
Exactly, supermarkets tell the stories about culture and people! And always can find some interesting products!
How often do you go shopping at the store?
Almost every day, because we are very poor at planning our food and meals. :D
I get the flyers in and plan for a week. I get curry korma in, sweet and sour extra pineapple sauce and half a kilo of chicken per meal, then boil up a pan of rice for three days and get half a kilo of cod in, ten make rice,fish with parsley sauce. That is 3 days, i can make scrambled egg, fried egg with sliced roast beef on bread, that is day 4, pizza with garlic bread is day 5, mash potato , baked beans, sausages and egg is day 6. Mash potato , oven baked pie (steak and ale, chicken and mushroom) with vegetables is day 7. I have cans of pasta, soups and spare veg / meat in the freezer and fruit as snacks. We rely on the car as 3 miles is long in a wheelchair and not a lot can be kept in my lap.
Sounds good! The grocery store is too near for us, we don´t plan foods because we can always go to shopping. Bad manner!
We seem to be in your camp Anna. We go to the store almost everyday. From what I understand that is a common practice in Europe. Although I cannot speak to it directly. It saves on storage as our house is small. Once a month we go to one the larger towns with a Walmart and pick up the things that are definitely cheaper than our home town stores.You should tells what some of the packages are in English, most of us don't speak Finnish. ;)
Good cardio going to the grocery store every meal
Love you guys. We watch all the time.
Justus Koshiol Nice to hear, thanks for watching! 😄
Sadly in the US, WalMart only has the worst of people to show. Uuuurg.
I have travelled a bit around the world and I always go to local supermarkets in every country I visit. It is often one of my favorite parts of the trip. I have been to Denamark, Norway, and Sweden, but didn't make it far enough east to visit Finland, unfortunately. Your part of the world is quite the opposite of where I live: Southern California, USA. It is winter here now and most of this season so far has had daily temperatures between 21-26C. Only in the last week have we gotten down to 1-2C just before dawn. I love your channels and really enjoy seeing your part of the world. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for comment! We were in California three weeks 2013 and it was the best trip ever! There we usually shopped in Whole Foods, Walmart and random stores. Actually we also filmed something there. I have to check could I publish some video about California trip. :D
This was fun!
I been to finland a few times... and being from Sweden its almost a surrel experience. So much of the signs are in Swedish. Not everywhere, but in a lot of places.
Still i´m impressed how clean and nice its is everywhere. Its quite a diffrance between Sweden and Finland, and sadly its growing for every day.
except chicken, it's actually sometimes more expencive in france than in finland xd the chicken is ssooooo expencive
It's interesting to know about your country and you.
I like that it is pitch black outside but it is most likely the middle of the day. :P
Adamas97 Actually it's now fairly bright until 5pm at their home town. Even then the refraction of the light behind the horizon gives you some light for half an hour or so. It was most likely around 6-7pm or later. Middle day would be very bright (has been like that for few days) and snow makes it even brighter since most of the light is reflected.
It was about 8pm when we filmed this video. :D And this drone videos is filmed about 5-6pm ruclips.net/video/wlvgyjrDFQA/видео.html
Spring winter is actually very sunny and bright in Finland. Not dark. Its only dark in early and mid winter.
It's only dark from 1600-1000. That's now bad.
While this comments is 2 weeks old, March equinox is actually the day after tomorrow. Its the day when the sun is up exactly the same time all arount the world.
Because the sun is so shallow here in the north (i live in Sweden, almost as far north as Anni does) the sunset is really long. That is, half or less of the sun is over the horizon for quite a while. And even after it sets it can be light for quite a while (specially if its just a bit clowdy). So there might be twilight for over a hour.
I always go to supermarkets on holiday in Finland :D - Once had to row a boat to the bus stop to go to the shop.
5:38 almost died 🤣😂
Avocados are super expensive there!!! Yikes! Thanks for another great video Anni, I love watching you two vlog style!
Yes, and usually they are not very high quality avocados... Thanks for watching!
Interesing, how much are Avocados at your place? Most of the Finnish prices seem to be quite comparable to the prices over here in Germany. Avocados are expensive though. Cheap one who taste like sh** are around 1€/piece, decent ones 2...2,5 €/piece. I love my guacamole, but I don't make it all that often. ^^
I love that you're able to take your groceries in backpacks. In the States most stores won't allow you bring in anything but open-top bags because they're so skeptical about theft. Many stores won't let you bring in any outside bags at all. Even if a woman's purse is deemed "too large" or you have your shopping bags from another store with you, they try to confiscate it and make you leave it at the front of the store (usually somewhere it is not being watched) until you finish your shopping.
Chicago? I mean, that's the only place I've been in the US that acts like that. Not Philly, not NYC, and none of the other places I've lived.
I live in Houston, TX currently (past 10 years). But you're right, I'm from and grew up in New York and it isn't like that on the East Coast. Or in California either. But the vast majority of the places I've been in-between the coasts seem to be really anal about it. In your average suburbs anyway. Probably not Chicago or most major cities though, or anywhere more liberal or with a lot of culture (Austin is an exception within Texas, for example).
Jacky Lawrence im always paranoid and go into a store with other stores plastic bags so they dont think that i stole it from them(i live in finland)
I take my backpack to Publix all the time for shopping.
They dont do that in Detroit..
I wish we had the self serve candy selections here in the states still. We used to have them years ago, and not close to as big of selection maybe 10 types, but I guess to many people would steal from it so you don't see them anymore. And the rolling baskets are a great idea! Wish we had those here. Maybe one day we'll catch up to the rest of the world.
Good video but not very interesting _for me_ because thats my local grocery store, nothing new to me.
What a coincidence!
En ymmärrä miksi edes katsoin videon prismassa käynnistä.
Jonkinlaista uteliaisuutta kenties sittenkin?
it is new for us americans though!
You guys are so cute! Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks for watching and comment!
But there's no cat food!
I buy cat food on pet shop. :)
OK, just worried about the four footed family members.
There are lots of pets food in food markets in Finland.
I love the fact the you include your kitties in your videos
Wal-Mart isn't the best place to see the real people of America. We can do much better than some of the people you'll see there!
Exactly! People of Wal Mart website is not the best example of our population (God help me if it is, and I just don't see it) :)
:D I know it! I just like to shop at Wal Mart, it is so cheap and weird experience every time. :D When we were in California, we did shoppings at many stores. Whole food market was my favorite!
Anni Vuohensilta you do great editing Anni. Keep it up!
In Walmart, the thugs and sexual weirdos come out around 11pm to 2am.
You can get shanked or mugged at our Wal Mart. I hate going there, but I occasionally have to.
Very nice video Anni, thank you.
Also, alot of us in US refuse to shop at Walmart. They pay their workers almost nothing and often have very bad quality things from China. Some of us instead try to do as much shopping as possible in local non- chain stores to support the local economy. I hope Walmart is not what people think of first in the US!
Herbert Susmann I'm not sure where in the US you are from, but where I am people mostly go to Walmart because there is no alternatives. Walmart is affordable, while places like Whole Foods and family owned stores are quite expensive.
walmart pays their employees decently the problem is they give a lot of their staff just under enough hours so they're part time instead of full time
Walmart is always east to find because there are Walmarts every where in states! But yes, usually we did shoppings at Whole Foods or other markets.
YaBoiCasillas I live near Ithaca NY. We here call it "10 square miles surrounded by reality". This is a smaller college town, very progressive, we have several good alternatives for groceries besides Walmart. Wegmans is one, often considered one of the best companies in the US to work for. We have a good local health food store also called Greenstar. I know in many parts of the US those options are not there.
It's your choice. But there is no much differences because consumers look at price tag. But is it really worth of it? One of sellers in Hong Kong say, If you like to be sure, know actual price before getting through.
I miss shopping in Finland, it is different to Australia.
I always stock up on Dippi when I am there, we don't have it here.
Almost 50 euro that is crazy.
Yep, but normal in Finland!
Hahaha I should do one on Switzerland -.-
A hefty shopping trip (maybe buying some food for Christmas or something) is around 150€ - 200€
Your cat really loves you I can tell! She acts like mine too, but I can never quite get her to sit on my shoulders! Even though she does sleep on the back of the couch above my head when I sleep! I love how you end the video on the cat's face!!
Man I really want to move to Finland, I love Florida but there's a lot of misogyny in the states! Still,, I am doing research!
Wow does it look cold there. Never nice when the snow is crunchy.
Very cold! Today is -16 C and 7m/s wind = feels like -27 C.
I much prefer the "crunchy snow" to slush. Also it's not as slippery when the snow doesn't get a chance to melt and refreeze.
I like temperatures below -15 C (roughly zero F ) because then it is so cold that roads are no more slippery. IDK why is that so but the ice starts to act different when it gets colder.
Recipe for rich and simple French Onion Soup: Melt butter with olive oil in an 8 quart stock pot on medium heat. Add onions and continually stir until tender and translucent. Do not brown the onions.Add beef broth, sherry and thyme. Season with salt and pepper, and simmer for 30 minutes.Heat the oven broiler.Ladle soup into oven safe serving bowls and place one slice of bread on top of each (bread may be broken into pieces if you prefer). Layer each slice of bread with a slice of provolone, 1/2 slice diced Swiss and 1 tablespoon Parmesan cheese. Place bowls on cookie sheet and broil in the preheated oven until cheese bubbles and browns slightly.