This is my longest food journey so far - how do you guys like the format? Thanks to KYRÖ for making this massive video possible and showing me so much love! Check them out at www.kyrodistillery.com 🥃💙
From someone who still watches Anthony Bourdain, watched Andrew Zimmern as "der Allesesser" and for the Netflix people, watched "somebody feed phil": more food travel. Now.
Thank you for not splitting this up into 8 episodes spread out over 4 months! I'm sure the temptation was there ;) I think this works really well! I'm not interested enough in Finnish food to click on short, incremental videos (sorry Finns!) but I can watch something nice and condensed like this in one go and feel like I learned something.
i think its because he would have to take off his gloves to handle either money or credit card, very common practice. i'm a fast food worker and i got white glove and black glove, white glove never touches the money and only food while black glove only touches money or containers etc. so if you want a taste test, i'm not going to 'unglove' for 50 cents
@grimmow187 well that was an entire black sausage not just a taste test. If it was a taste test then it only would have been a small piece. Trust me normally you would pay a couple of euros for that. Last time i was there, in August my friend bought one black sausage for 2.69€ which according to him was a fair price.
Tell me you're not Finnish without telling me. That sausage is definitely around 3 euros if not more. Do you really think he just gives out free sausages to everyone? What a poor business idea.@@grimmow187
@@grimmow187 Thats actually a really terrible reasoning you gave there lol. A shop keeper not taking money because they dont want to take their gloves off? Wow thats just dumb af. They are trying to make a living selling stuff and giving out stuff for free just because they are too lazy to take their gloves off sounds so stupid.
I don't know how much Hesburger's French fries differ between different Hesburgers, but I myself have never received French fries from any Hesburger that would have been good back home. McDonalds (and BurgerKing, whose local restaurant is boycotted for some reason) knows it much better, their french fries taste quite decent even at home. And as for Hesburger's mayonnaise and using it in hamburgers, yes, too much is too much. Well, of course it's a matter of taste, but in my opinion, Hesburger's hamburgers have too much mayonnaise. I don't like it. Fortunately, nowadays the nearest McDonalds is not much further than the nearest Hesburger, plus there are not a single traffic lights when driving to McDonalds, while there are three traffic lights when driving to Hesburger And yes, I know that these days there are food delivery services from all over the world, foodora, Wolt and you know what, but it's not really my style to order food delivered to my home.
Honestly the Hesburger Veke cheese burger (1.50e, Vegetarian option) is the only thing I feel is worth it at Hesburger (I don't like McDonalds much either for the record, but Hesburger definitely has the worst fries as well) You don't get the small sad meat patty or whatever else they decide to put on their "signature" burgers of the month, but I generally like the other aspects of a Hesburger - Mayo, Pickles, Cheese, Onion, Grillmauste - all pretty great on their own. The veke patty is pretty good too in my opinion, but it depends a bit on the prep (I prefer it when it's a bit more crunchy - make it's better when it dries out a bit) My super secret hack is if you want a super cheap and filling fast food burger, grab a couple of these Veke burgers, take them home, and add anything you want to make your own specialty burger. I've added my own home griddled patties, butter chicken, mushrooms, bacon etc - all pretty good on the veke burger base. Fast food should have a performance to dollar, period. Otherwise I'd go to a supermarket or something fast casual that actually is worth the price. Paying > 10 euro for a super basic meal just feels like a total waste to me when I imagine what I'd make at home for that same value Sorry for the text wall, but this is the only time I could drop my Hesburger hot takes, so I didn't want to waste my chance.
I've never seen someone cover finnish food culture with this much care and accuracy. I may be biased, but I think we have some of the best bread in the world.
I moved from Finland (my home country) to Germany and heard all the praise for the German bread products. I bought them in Germany often, and I'm thinking "yea...? It's normal bread...? What's the hype?" Well, it took me a long while to realize the bread is pretty damn good in both countries. I was just used to the Finnish bread :') Ich liebe Brot!
@@perhoskoiraI think, you missed the rye bread in Germany. 😉 Germans do have rye bread, of course, but they offer more wheat bread varieties. Personally, i love rye bread as an Austrian and always buy that here.
@Suedetussy Yes! Rewes sell Finn Toasties! Also Finncrisps! Sometimes Lidl has carried Finn Toasties that were actually made in Finland. The rye bread situation in Germany holds missing Finland at bay. 😉
The seagulls in Helsinki are clever. You not only have to worry about them stealing your food, but sometimes they poop on you from high above to distract you so they can steal your food.
I've seen seagulls in Kühlungsborn Germany sit high on a pole or lamppost and wait for someone to eat with their back to them. Then they dive on them from behind over the shoulder and kick the food out of the hands. And they know very well that the tourists will be so embarrased that they got played by a seagull that they will leave and pretend nothing happens so the bird can get the food from the ground uncontested. Oh and I've seen crying and mortified children because of that. edit: that's not a contest who has the smartest seagulls. Just want to add this. These fuckers are mean.
I was sort of shocked at first they didn't steal the hot dog, while he wasn't paying any attention to it. Then I realized they were preparing the full court press for the fried smelt. 😂
I still have one bottle of Kyrö Distillery hand sanitizer left from the Covid times. It was amazing how all the distilleries in FInland just decided, that fuck it, let's just start making hand sanitizer to cover for the losses of export.
@@Mambojambobombastic they are not the same and thus they should not be compared. They are both good berries in their own way and I happily eat both. You just have to be able to separate them in your mind.
Where are you from? In Sweden we translate our real wild blue berries in English to ”blueberries”. And the American type we called ”cultivated Blueberries”. Have never heard the word Billberries, it is an insult that you call our real wild ones for ”Billberries”? 😮 And then call the fake (cultivated) ones for ”Blueberries”.
Mustikka is wild blueberry in Finnish. Blåbär (Blue berries) is wild blue berry in Swedish. And now I have learnt that ”billberry” is the American equivalent of our wild blueberry. As the Americans call their own cultivated plant for Blueberry. 😮
32:37 Fun fact, that bottle on the right is hand sanitizer, which Kyrö started making during Covid when there was there was a big shortage of it, and a distillery was in a good position to start producing it.
7:48 I've been to Helsinki three times now and I've had these little fried fish every time. My favorite snack there. Too bad you didn't get to taste them. On my last visit a few months ago I've had the exact same experience with the seagulls. But I somehow managed to defend my fish. Gonna be back there in a month, already looking forward to it.
we usually have warmed up(or cold) bread cheese with the cloudberry jam for dessert. not on rye. deffo not on dry rye. ....buuut I guess I'll have to try that now. OH and! Thanks for coming over and highlighting our small corner of the globe and being soo very polite about everything. much love!
Me, a Finn having this stupid smile on my face the whole duration of the video, so many praises and i'm suprised you actually liked almost everything, your face when you ate lingoberry+black sausage, i knew you would like it, it makes all the difference compared to when eating only the sausage.
Those weren't the tyrkisk pebers the guy was talking about. He was talking about the original ones in dark blue bag not that sweet and sour stuff you got.
I'm just one minute in and I'm already amazed by how beautiful their country is. Edit: Okay, the guy who gave you the free blood sausage is really cool, and so are the people at the distillery, I've really (really) enjoyed watching this vid. I've wanted to visit this country for a really long time, but now i want to visit it even more.
Hope you get to visit Finland some day, but keep in mind if you want to taste lots of stuff, the country is really expensive compared to many other places - budget accordingly so you won't get disappointed.
@@LauraGrantKyrö Important question: What brand was that liver casserole? Just asking because in my experience, Saarioinen's is the only one worth eating. (And is actually best eaten cold straight out of the box)
"Long drink" might be the 'actual' name, but really we call it "lonkero", which is derived from Long Drink. Coincidentally "lonkero" also means tentacle, which is kind of weird.
The typical finnish coffee is a medium roast or even a light roast. Darker roasts have been gaining popularity in the last 10 years or so. I prefer the darker roasts myself.
Water also makes the coffee taste different, that's why in Finland we like medium/light more cause we have better water than like Russia and russians drink darker roasts cause it tastes better with the water they use...learned about this in Paulig's tour in their factory. They tested the same coffee with water from multiple countries and the coffee tasted different cause of it. Russia is just an example, a lot more other countries has the same thing.
The original purpose of egg-butter (and potato butter and some other variations) was to save butter, which was very expensive and valuable. In old times, Finns used to pay their taxes with butter.
Leipäjuusto (Bread Cheese) is only meant to be paired with cloudberry jam when heated. Heating the cheese makes it soft and bring out the flavour more and somehow it works very well with the jam
There is a Finnish version of the Danish pastry, where the chocolate is replaced with cinnamon and icing. It is called "telamiina" (anti-tank mine) and is sold in certain military canteens. And the canteens are usually accessible to outsiders either by having an outside entrance or by informing the military police at the gate, that you are going there.
@@MrVovansim I have to mention that by canteen I mean the "soldier homes" that are ran by voluntary association in every base. They sell coffee, pastry and some food items at very affordable price. That is why it is a popular place for others than military personnel also. The actual canteens where soldiers eat their daily meals are ran by a government owned catering company. And even that food is usually very decent. When the military service is compulsory, you cannot serve as bad of a slop to people I guess. 😅
Finland, Finland, Finland The country where I want to be Eating breakfast or dinner or snack lunch in the hall Finland, Finland, Finland Finland has it all (Monty Python). Great video! (Laura did an incredible job!)
Its funny how many people think finland as a country with amazing flavours but as a finn especially traditional finnish dishes are bland and almost tasteless (apart from some game recipes those are the best)
According to an urban legend, when Lenin was in Tampere in 1905 and tasted the local blood sausage, he declared “The people who make sausage this good deserve their independence!”
Hesburger used to be in Germany as well. I only ever had it between 2-5am completely drunk at which point it tastes amazing! Hesburger at the Reeperbahn/ Kiez in Hamburg was amazing! 😂
There is a certain craving you get like once a month for that "i need hesburger rn" you know it isnt healthy or even the best thing you can get for your money but you have to have it..
Kyrö Distillery Company has won gold in the prestigious British International Wine and Spirits Competition. The competition is the same in which the distillery's Napue Gin was already awarded as the best in its category in 2015. For the second time, the company won gold with rye whiskey, and now the prize came from a new drink category, vodka, which is made from 100% Finnish rye with birch charcoal filtration.
As a finn this video was so heartwarming to watch. Brings alot joy to see how someone can enjoy what is so basic to us but this makes always me think more how normal it is to us and how granted we are for that. Amazing video and was really fun to watch.
I'm pretty sure the spiral potato snacks are that shape to more effectively pick up large quantities of dip. At least that's how I've always approached them.
Raffel chips are almost the most boring chips you can find individually, but they turn amazing when you make a sourcream and dill (from fresh dill) dip for them.
I've never been to Finland, but Finncrisp is a permanent staple in my pantry. I've never tried it with butter though! Going to do that as soon as I get home!
As an avid lover of rye bread and salty liqorice, the food in Finland would make me feel like home. That icecream made me so envious! Not to speak of the churros with liqorice sauce, omg! 😋
I am still very proud that I can make fantastic Karelian Pies from scratch. They are great to make in big batches. Just freeze those that you couldn’t eat.
Nice timing Andong! I am a head chef and just came home from a five day camper van tour around southern Finland eating Nahkiaiset(Lampreys), Vorschmack(meat and sill purée), Lörtsy(big fried pastry), Kalakukko(worlds oldest canned food) and of course the more everyday food like voipulla, kylmäsavulohi, ruisleipä, leipäjuusto and more. I actually live quite close to the Taffel chips factory.
Pro tip for the next time - the first part of the brand name "Fazer" doesn't sound like the English word "faze." The vowel sound is the same vowel sound as at the beginning of "father," but it's even shorter.
@@Asphyr Yes, but that's a misnomer as well. Like salted caramel there is salted liquorice which is salted with sodium chloride. Salmiak is always salted with ammonium chloride. So when an english or dutch tells me that they like salted liquorice I always ask which one they mean.
@@topilinkala1594 That explains a lot. I wonder which one the average non-scandinavian hates more on average. I hate it when salmiakki isn't strong enough, whenever salmiakki tries to "half ass" it it just doesn't work! I usually have a bag of turkisk pebers on my desk.
Yeah ,when McDonald's burgers were cheaper ,I used to buy burgers from there and then go buy sauces from Hesburger separately and then put them into McDonald's burgers lol it was so good.
Same here, he also picked the worst burger available. Mega hamburger is the best but if you don't like mayo you won't like Hesburger, personally I would pick Hesburger over McDonalds every time
Hesburger is much better in smaller towns because they dont have as many customers so the things arent as rushed and it doesnt wait in a warming light for 2 hours. I was shocked when I tried a busy Hesburger place. They are so bad
A woman can get pregnant and give birth in the time it takes Hesburger staff to get your order ready, And they're expensive. Those b^^^^^s from Turku also bought Carrols burger business, which was by far the best burger in Finland.
Yeah I don't live in a big city and Hesburger is my usual pick if I'm in the mood for basic fast food. I don't think I've ever had Hesburger fries that didn't seem like fresh from the fryer. They're really good too, just the right level crispy and salty.
Blood sausage "not meant to be good"?! As a Irish person who loves black pudding, how DARE you ;D glad you had your mind changed, now I need to try it with cranberry sauce
Blood sausage is amazing. Taking a blood sausage cutting it into coins, frying them up on a pan, serve with some potatoes and white sauce and it's a match made in heaven.
Yeah, Irish Black pudding is a very good blood sausage. Also white pudding, especially from Dublin, rocks. I remember in the 90s it was a thing in Irish restaurants to have Clonakilty black pudding with cranberry sauce. Kinda works. You can also get lingonberry jam in Ikea if you want to try it. Mustamakkara is a bit looser than Irish black pudding. You could eat a whole plate of it and not feel like you've eaten too much.
Such a fun video to watch for someone who lives here in Finland. You really did a ”best of” finnish food, seagulls included. They are a pain in the ass during summer season. The double cheeseburger is my fave at Hesburger. The mozzarella sticks I usually eat with barbecuesauce. Think that’s a great combo. And yeah, the chicken nuggets at Hesburger are absolutely awful..
At 10:53, you saw part of the guard parade. The orchestra was the Guards Band, which is the President of Finland's orchestra. However, it's not a big band. The Finnish Air Force has its own big band in Jyväskylä, and it's the only military big band in Finland.
I've watched quite a few "Foreigner visits Finland" videos and I have to say this one is the best so far. I appreciate your honesty and you give a genuine vibe. Though I will not forgive the way you butchered that oatmeal.
If you come back, some dishes and drinks you missed: mämmi, poronkäristys, makaronilaatikko, kalakukko/muikkukukko, karjalanpaisti, hernekeitto, viili, mustikkapiirakka, graavilohi, muurinpohjaletut, loimulohi, kaalikääryleet, lihapiirakka, Tupla chocolate, Fazer Geisha chocolate, Apteekin salmiakki, salmiakkikoskenkorva, sahti, glögi... And the fried vendace (with mashed potatoes) those seagulls ate behalf of you.
You are supposed to eat lingonberry porridge with milk. You certainly can add lingonberries on lingon berry jam in it. i think it just makes it have more like home made feel.
This is great, most interesting and you are so lucky!! My brother lives in Sheffield, England and they have 2 Finnish bakeries - and maybe more Finnish stuff, I don't know. But the bakeries are great and sell genuinely unusual stuff, very tasty.
Maksalaatikko (liver casserole) was always one of my favorite school foods. I hate the taste of liver in any other food but I find maksalaatikko heavenly. I always took as much of it and lingonberry jam as I could in school
The Kyrö wood-smoked whiskey is really good. Best one in the 4 mini bottle tasting set. Hesburger used to do a rye-bread hamburger. And Black Long Drink (7.5%) is the best.
I'd say that "Blaubeeren" are billberries and "Heidelbeeren" are bluebuerries. I do know lakka, but as a Lapponia liquor that you use as sauce for vanilla ice.
that sounds fair, here in UK we also have bilberries (which go by other names, too) wild on the moors, they are tiny and tangy, and when you pick them you get bitten by midges. Blueberries if I remember right are originally N American, though they are grown all around the world. They are bigger but blander and no, they do not grow in the forest. They grow on farms.
Great video, I really enjoyed that. Living in Scotland we seem to enjoy a lot of the same flavours as the Finnish. I have bilberries (we call them blaeberries) & cloudberries (sometimes called averin here) growing up the hill from the house. That liquorice ice-cream looked good. I love liquorice & one of my early memories is my Grandfather taking me for ice-cream as a kid. One day I got to have a double scoop so I got a tangerine sorbet & a liquorice gelato. The gelato was a homogeneous grey, not little bits of liquorice, the orange & the grey looked so good glistening in the sunshine. (You should try making brown-bread ice-cream, it is especially good with rye-bread), I'm a big fan of whiskey - I even live in a whiskey producing village. I've tried the Kyrö & it really is very good. I prefer their non-smoked whiskey, but then I'm more of a Speyside style fan than an Island style which I find can taste like medicine. Really enjoy the longer form videos, hopefully you'll get a chance to do more again? Plus it would be fun seeing you hit the food scenes in different countries.
Thanks for visiting Finland :) Hesburger's mayo quantity divides people, but I love it. But definitely head to smaller chains if you want a better burger.
Liquorice in the Nordics hits different! Tyrkisk peber is one of my absolute favourites, but unfortunately you got the wrong version. The best one is the original. Also, cloudberries are the best! But the jam you had looked too processed for my tastes. It is better when you have whole berries in the jam. It is delicious on ice cream!
The other drink that was made for the olympics was the brandy long drink. Which sold 48% of the whole gin sale. And it is still sold in stores after a while being gone. It is delicious btw.
Thank you so much for the video and visiting here! One funny thing about "everything rye added is insanely good", is with a pizza dough. Those really are the best, honestly.
I was hoping you had gotten Hesburger's paprika mayo with the nuggets but instead you ended up with a full row of pickle/cucumber mayo with the two burgers and nuggets, the wrap/'taco' may have had paprika mayo though.
And then he's wondering if his pronunciation of Kyrö is even near the correct (it was practically perfect)... If you can pronounce mozzarella, you can pronounce Fazer, just follow the same patterns for a, z, and e.
This has to be the fastest 53mins in my life. Usually this long videos are a bit boring time to times but you actually made it work very well. I don't like bread cheese or cloudberry jam my self at all but some seems to like it. You did a very good job tasting different items that Finnish people actually eat and not those "all Finns eat this" kind of items that most of us haven't even heard of. I am not quite sure but i have a feeling that you like rye :D Very nice and enjoyable video.
You tried the wrong Tyrkisk bebers. You need the og black ones. And oat porridge cannot be made instantly, it needs time and love. But when you do it right, you get the reward.
I love this video. It reminds me of the videos you made in China years ago. It was actually those videos that convinced me to start following your channel.
On occasion, you get Mustamakkara with crushed barley instead, and it's fairly good as well. I have no idea when / why they switch between the two, but it's a thing. Liver casserole is best when it's been fried in butter. As for the whipped porridge, I've often made similar stuff with e.g. elderflower cordial. It's just mannagryn / mannasurimo (Griess, I guess?). Often, it's served with milk poured over it.
This is my longest food journey so far - how do you guys like the format? Thanks to KYRÖ for making this massive video possible and showing me so much love! Check them out at www.kyrodistillery.com 🥃💙
From someone who still watches Anthony Bourdain, watched Andrew Zimmern as "der Allesesser" and for the Netflix people, watched "somebody feed phil": more food travel. Now.
Спасибо большое! Пожалуйста, ещё!
My favorite foodie picked my favorite distillery!
It works!
I like it. Great contents. Feel free to do it again.
Thank you for not splitting this up into 8 episodes spread out over 4 months! I'm sure the temptation was there ;) I think this works really well! I'm not interested enough in Finnish food to click on short, incremental videos (sorry Finns!) but I can watch something nice and condensed like this in one go and feel like I learned something.
the guy who sold gave you the black sausage is the most finnish person ever. seems really cold but is actually very kind.
i think its because he would have to take off his gloves to handle either money or credit card, very common practice. i'm a fast food worker and i got white glove and black glove, white glove never touches the money and only food while black glove only touches money or containers etc.
so if you want a taste test, i'm not going to 'unglove' for 50 cents
@grimmow187 well that was an entire black sausage not just a taste test. If it was a taste test then it only would have been a small piece. Trust me normally you would pay a couple of euros for that. Last time i was there, in August my friend bought one black sausage for 2.69€ which according to him was a fair price.
Finnish people: Cold on the outside, warm in the inside.
Tell me you're not Finnish without telling me. That sausage is definitely around 3 euros if not more. Do you really think he just gives out free sausages to everyone? What a poor business idea.@@grimmow187
@@grimmow187 Thats actually a really terrible reasoning you gave there lol. A shop keeper not taking money because they dont want to take their gloves off? Wow thats just dumb af. They are trying to make a living selling stuff and giving out stuff for free just because they are too lazy to take their gloves off sounds so stupid.
Hesburger is known for their extremely excessive use of mayo. Some people love it for that reason, others hate.
yeah i find it disgusting sometimes when the burger is completely cold and full of mayo
It is the best
I don't know how much Hesburger's French fries differ between different Hesburgers, but I myself have never received French fries from any Hesburger that would have been good back home. McDonalds (and BurgerKing, whose local restaurant is boycotted for some reason) knows it much better, their french fries taste quite decent even at home.
And as for Hesburger's mayonnaise and using it in hamburgers, yes, too much is too much. Well, of course it's a matter of taste, but in my opinion, Hesburger's hamburgers have too much mayonnaise. I don't like it.
Fortunately, nowadays the nearest McDonalds is not much further than the nearest Hesburger, plus there are not a single traffic lights when driving to McDonalds, while there are three traffic lights when driving to Hesburger
And yes, I know that these days there are food delivery services from all over the world, foodora, Wolt and you know what, but it's not really my style to order food delivered to my home.
Honestly the Hesburger Veke cheese burger (1.50e, Vegetarian option) is the only thing I feel is worth it at Hesburger (I don't like McDonalds much either for the record, but Hesburger definitely has the worst fries as well)
You don't get the small sad meat patty or whatever else they decide to put on their "signature" burgers of the month, but I generally like the other aspects of a Hesburger - Mayo, Pickles, Cheese, Onion, Grillmauste - all pretty great on their own. The veke patty is pretty good too in my opinion, but it depends a bit on the prep (I prefer it when it's a bit more crunchy - make it's better when it dries out a bit)
My super secret hack is if you want a super cheap and filling fast food burger, grab a couple of these Veke burgers, take them home, and add anything you want to make your own specialty burger. I've added my own home griddled patties, butter chicken, mushrooms, bacon etc - all pretty good on the veke burger base.
Fast food should have a performance to dollar, period. Otherwise I'd go to a supermarket or something fast casual that actually is worth the price. Paying > 10 euro for a super basic meal just feels like a total waste to me when I imagine what I'd make at home for that same value
Sorry for the text wall, but this is the only time I could drop my Hesburger hot takes, so I didn't want to waste my chance.
I very much agree about the fries. Hesburger fries are clearly the worst of the three. Even when they are hot and fresh, they are just mediocre.
This was actually really good. Sometimes finnish food blogs are full of weird crap nobody in finland eats, but this was the real deal
True, but you never, NEVER eat leipäjuusto with ryebread.
@@Hilirimpsuti true, you add it with coffe or eat it with little bit cream and cloudberries!
@@Hilirimpsuti Why not? I often eat it with bread
@@Hilirimpsuti Goes well with ryebread so why not
@@Finnspeed Sitä ei laiteta leivä päälle vaa haukataa leivästä ja otetaa neliöpala juustoa perään.
I've never seen someone cover finnish food culture with this much care and accuracy.
I may be biased, but I think we have some of the best bread in the world.
I moved from Finland (my home country) to Germany and heard all the praise for the German bread products. I bought them in Germany often, and I'm thinking "yea...? It's normal bread...? What's the hype?" Well, it took me a long while to realize the bread is pretty damn good in both countries. I was just used to the Finnish bread :') Ich liebe Brot!
@perhoskoira people who can't get vaasan ohut herkku are really missing out
@@SetaRotta 🤤🤤 love that stuff
@@perhoskoiraI think, you missed the rye bread in Germany. 😉 Germans do have rye bread, of course, but they offer more wheat bread varieties.
Personally, i love rye bread as an Austrian and always buy that here.
@Suedetussy Yes! Rewes sell Finn Toasties! Also Finncrisps! Sometimes Lidl has carried Finn Toasties that were actually made in Finland. The rye bread situation in Germany holds missing Finland at bay. 😉
The seagulls in Helsinki are clever. You not only have to worry about them stealing your food, but sometimes they poop on you from high above to distract you so they can steal your food.
I've seen seagulls in Kühlungsborn Germany sit high on a pole or lamppost and wait for someone to eat with their back to them. Then they dive on them from behind over the shoulder and kick the food out of the hands. And they know very well that the tourists will be so embarrased that they got played by a seagull that they will leave and pretend nothing happens so the bird can get the food from the ground uncontested.
Oh and I've seen crying and mortified children because of that.
edit: that's not a contest who has the smartest seagulls. Just want to add this. These fuckers are mean.
How do you know that?
Same here in Devon, England!
@@lehatikhonov Personal experience.
I was sort of shocked at first they didn't steal the hot dog, while he wasn't paying any attention to it. Then I realized they were preparing the full court press for the fried smelt. 😂
As a Swede, liqourice in the Nordic is just built different. We know and respect it the product.
Love liqourice as an north german. Strong and salty
@@Highteczero North German, or South Danish?
@Ran-tan-tan north sea....close to Schleswig Holstein
Kouvolan liqourice 11/10, always champion, GOATED. Dont @ me.
@@KGDHMF sounds good......i will try
I still have one bottle of Kyrö Distillery hand sanitizer left from the Covid times. It was amazing how all the distilleries in FInland just decided, that fuck it, let's just start making hand sanitizer to cover for the losses of export.
gotta say Laura was really good at selling finnish culture.
Laura was amazing 🥰
She was really sweet! Loved the humorous and outgoing vibes she gave, she also had a really pretty smile. felt big warmth in my heart
Finally someone who talks about the difference between bilberries and blueberries! Ty so much ❤
indeed they are not even comparable bilberries are heaven, blueberries are alright basically a watered down version of bilberries
@@Mambojambobombastic they are not the same and thus they should not be compared. They are both good berries in their own way and I happily eat both. You just have to be able to separate them in your mind.
@@Juhpol There's hardly a point in comparing things that are the same, now is there
Where are you from? In Sweden we translate our real wild blue berries in English to ”blueberries”.
And the American type we called ”cultivated Blueberries”. Have never heard the word Billberries, it is an insult that you call our real wild ones for ”Billberries”? 😮
And then call the fake (cultivated) ones for ”Blueberries”.
Mustikka is wild blueberry in Finnish. Blåbär (Blue berries) is wild blue berry in Swedish. And now I have learnt that ”billberry” is the American equivalent of our wild blueberry. As the Americans call their own cultivated plant for Blueberry. 😮
32:37 Fun fact, that bottle on the right is hand sanitizer, which Kyrö started making during Covid when there was there was a big shortage of it, and a distillery was in a good position to start producing it.
Where's the fun?
@@Strela90I find fun in learning stuff, so for me it is fun :)
Oh dear, you really done that porridge wrong 😅
no no no you dont see, he MEANT to make oat soup instead😂
Yea microwave it and if possible add some berries and/or honey.
The oatmeal soup counts as a warcrime in my books. He wasn't lying when he said he hates oatmeal
Instead of the 1 dl of water per pouch, he put some 5 dl or so. 😅
7:48 I've been to Helsinki three times now and I've had these little fried fish every time. My favorite snack there. Too bad you didn't get to taste them.
On my last visit a few months ago I've had the exact same experience with the seagulls. But I somehow managed to defend my fish.
Gonna be back there in a month, already looking forward to it.
Made with ryeflour and butter, he would have loved it.
Those seagulls know what's the tastiest stuff out there.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to visit Finland but I tried these in Talinn and they were great, they still come to my mind in random moments 🙂
Fried vendace, and you need the garlic mayo too.
Joo. Ne paistetut muikut on parhaita. Jos muistan sen kalan oikein.
we usually have warmed up(or cold) bread cheese with the cloudberry jam for dessert. not on rye. deffo not on dry rye. ....buuut I guess I'll have to try that now. OH and! Thanks for coming over and highlighting our small corner of the globe and being soo very polite about everything. much love!
Me, a Finn having this stupid smile on my face the whole duration of the video, so many praises and i'm suprised you actually liked almost everything, your face when you ate lingoberry+black sausage, i knew you would like it, it makes all the difference compared to when eating only the sausage.
Those weren't the tyrkisk pebers the guy was talking about. He was talking about the original ones in dark blue bag not that sweet and sour stuff you got.
he would've hated them and the brown ones in that bag are close enough anyway
That sweet and sour is really good when mixed in vodka. A 0.5L bottle of vodka and a bag of the sweet and sour Tyrkisk Pebers is a godly mix
By the way Turkish pebers was invented by the Danish guy Per Fjelsten in 1976.
@@butterflies655 Yep, they were so good Fazer just had to buy the product for themselves! :D
I love the originals but hate the ones he got
I'm just one minute in and I'm already amazed by how beautiful their country is.
Edit:
Okay, the guy who gave you the free blood sausage is really cool, and so are the people at the distillery, I've really (really) enjoyed watching this vid.
I've wanted to visit this country for a really long time, but now i want to visit it even more.
Welcome brother 🤝
If you visit, get out of the helsinki to see real Finland
Hope you get to visit Finland some day, but keep in mind if you want to taste lots of stuff, the country is really expensive compared to many other places - budget accordingly so you won't get disappointed.
Petition to make "Food tasting with Laura" a permanent genre of videos! She is delightful.
I'm game.
@@LauraGrantKyrö Important question: What brand was that liver casserole? Just asking because in my experience, Saarioinen's is the only one worth eating. (And is actually best eaten cold straight out of the box)
@@Norpal Agree and to me it's usually just a side dish or as a kid I would mix either that or liverwurst in my potatoes.
@@Norpal It was indeed the one and only Saarioinen. Same for the roiskeläppä (pizza).
@@LauraGrantKyrö you look like a model btw
"Long drink" might be the 'actual' name, but really we call it "lonkero", which is derived from Long Drink. Coincidentally "lonkero" also means tentacle, which is kind of weird.
The typical finnish coffee is a medium roast or even a light roast. Darker roasts have been gaining popularity in the last 10 years or so. I prefer the darker roasts myself.
In sweden they drink more darker roasts than in Finland but i prefer the lighter roast(also more coffein in lighter i think)
Darker is better for your stomach
I’ve always liked darker roasts more. When I was young and lived my mom, I had my own coffee for that reason 😄
The typical finnish coffee is the cheapest crap you can get from shop, like Juhla Mokka.
Water also makes the coffee taste different, that's why in Finland we like medium/light more cause we have better water than like Russia and russians drink darker roasts cause it tastes better with the water they use...learned about this in Paulig's tour in their factory. They tested the same coffee with water from multiple countries and the coffee tasted different cause of it. Russia is just an example, a lot more other countries has the same thing.
thank you for visiting Finland! very cool to see someone explore my country's cuisine
Lohikeitto will always be the best food on the planet
nostan hattua Kyrön porukalle
The original purpose of egg-butter (and potato butter and some other variations) was to save butter, which was very expensive and valuable. In old times, Finns used to pay their taxes with butter.
Leipäjuusto (Bread Cheese) is only meant to be paired with cloudberry jam when heated. Heating the cheese makes it soft and bring out the flavour more and somehow it works very well with the jam
I prefer cold leipäjuusto with clouberry jam 🤷♂️
I actually prefer leipäjuusto with bilberry jam🤷♀️
I prefer leipäjuusto with salt, you jam guys are weird
Try with cranberry jam, or cherry marmalade! Be adventurous.
There is a Finnish version of the Danish pastry, where the chocolate is replaced with cinnamon and icing. It is called "telamiina" (anti-tank mine) and is sold in certain military canteens. And the canteens are usually accessible to outsiders either by having an outside entrance or by informing the military police at the gate, that you are going there.
The idea of going to a military base to eat is wild to me. 😂 Where I'm from, we think of army food as prison-food levels of bad.
@@MrVovansim I have to mention that by canteen I mean the "soldier homes" that are ran by voluntary association in every base. They sell coffee, pastry and some food items at very affordable price. That is why it is a popular place for others than military personnel also. The actual canteens where soldiers eat their daily meals are ran by a government owned catering company. And even that food is usually very decent. When the military service is compulsory, you cannot serve as bad of a slop to people I guess. 😅
Finland, Finland, Finland
The country where I want to be
Eating breakfast or dinner
or snack lunch in the hall
Finland, Finland, Finland
Finland has it all
(Monty Python).
Great video! (Laura did an incredible job!)
Its funny how many people think finland as a country with amazing flavours but as a finn especially traditional finnish dishes are bland and almost tasteless (apart from some game recipes those are the best)
One if the best videos about Finnish food I've never seen! Keep it up 😊
According to an urban legend, when Lenin was in Tampere in 1905 and tasted the local blood sausage, he declared “The people who make sausage this good deserve their independence!”
Thanks Lenin
Hesburger used to be in Germany as well. I only ever had it between 2-5am completely drunk at which point it tastes amazing! Hesburger at the Reeperbahn/ Kiez in Hamburg was amazing! 😂
My dad is friends with the owner of Hesburger. To him, it was a joke that he needs to have a hamburger restaurant in Hamburg :D
There is a certain craving you get like once a month for that "i need hesburger rn" you know it isnt healthy or even the best thing you can get for your money but you have to have it..
@@extremeprejudice0I’ve always wondered why there only ever was one. 👍
Kyrö Distillery Company has won gold in the prestigious British International Wine and Spirits Competition.
The competition is the same in which the distillery's Napue Gin was already awarded as the best in its category in 2015.
For the second time, the company won gold with rye whiskey, and now the prize came from a new drink category, vodka, which is made from 100% Finnish rye with birch charcoal filtration.
Now that company knows how to do a legit sponsorship.
As a finn this video was so heartwarming to watch. Brings alot joy to see how someone can enjoy what is so basic to us but this makes always me think more how normal it is to us and how granted we are for that. Amazing video and was really fun to watch.
Now I need to add Finland to my bucket list.
I hate the fact that Andong was a partial reason I moved from Finland to Germany, and now he makes a Finland video? I LOVE YOU ANDONG!
I'm pretty sure the spiral potato snacks are that shape to more effectively pick up large quantities of dip. At least that's how I've always approached them.
Yeah I can second to that. It seems to be more designed to be eaten with dip.
I’m so jealous right now, I recently came back from Finland and I miss everything. I could kill for a jar of lingonberry jam.
Raffel chips are almost the most boring chips you can find individually, but they turn amazing when you make a sourcream and dill (from fresh dill) dip for them.
Yeah i love them but only buy them when i plan to have a dip also. Theyre the perfect delivery system for it :)
I've never been to Finland, but Finncrisp is a permanent staple in my pantry. I've never tried it with butter though! Going to do that as soon as I get home!
As an avid lover of rye bread and salty liqorice, the food in Finland would make me feel like home. That icecream made me so envious! Not to speak of the churros with liqorice sauce, omg! 😋
I am still very proud that I can make fantastic Karelian Pies from scratch. They are great to make in big batches. Just freeze those that you couldn’t eat.
Äijä on kyllä Pro.
Best RUclips tasting video. I've been watching quite a lot this kind of stuff and you got some real knowledge here!
Nice 🎉
Bread cheese, despite what the name might suggest, is actually a dessert. That's why it's eaten with jam.
Nice timing Andong! I am a head chef and just came home from a five day camper van tour around southern Finland eating Nahkiaiset(Lampreys), Vorschmack(meat and sill purée), Lörtsy(big fried pastry), Kalakukko(worlds oldest canned food) and of course the more everyday food like voipulla, kylmäsavulohi, ruisleipä, leipäjuusto and more. I actually live quite close to the Taffel chips factory.
AIN'T NO WAY YOU VISITED MY HOMETOWN AND TASTED MY FAVOURITE TREAT Mustamakkara and enjoyed it. Richtig und Wichtig!
12:08 "i think i'm not aboard with the mayo" that's the best part wdym!!
Normally breadcheese doesn't go close to breads :D You mostly eat it as desert with the cloudberry jam or something similar.
Pro tip for the next time - the first part of the brand name "Fazer" doesn't sound like the English word "faze." The vowel sound is the same vowel sound as at the beginning of "father," but it's even shorter.
Yes. The Fazer family came to Finland from Germany.
Ironically, it's a German-language name. The Fazers were originally Swiss. The original spelling was "Fatzer", but they dropped the t in the 1850s.
@@JukkaSarkijarvi Now that makes sense.That's why their chocolate used to be so good!!
Again, I must clarify that liquorice and salmiak are two different things.
They usually call salmiakki "salted liquorice" in english
@@Asphyr Yes, but he didn't say salted liquorice.Or at least I didn't hear it. ✌
@@Asphyr Yes, but that's a misnomer as well. Like salted caramel there is salted liquorice which is salted with sodium chloride. Salmiak is always salted with ammonium chloride. So when an english or dutch tells me that they like salted liquorice I always ask which one they mean.
@@topilinkala1594 That explains a lot. I wonder which one the average non-scandinavian hates more on average. I hate it when salmiakki isn't strong enough, whenever salmiakki tries to "half ass"
it it just doesn't work!
I usually have a bag of turkisk pebers on my desk.
I am so envious! Finland is one of my favourite countries =D
I'm from Finland, so this was really fun to watch.
I just got back from Helsinki and Tampere, food was great there! 🇫🇮
Big love for Laura. So good to see you meet your snack nemesis! 🤣
Haha, their mayo based sauces are the reason I prefer Hesburger to McDonald's personally.
Yeah ,when McDonald's burgers were cheaper ,I used to buy burgers from there and then go buy sauces from Hesburger separately and then put them into McDonald's burgers lol it was so good.
Same here, he also picked the worst burger available. Mega hamburger is the best but if you don't like mayo you won't like Hesburger, personally I would pick Hesburger over McDonalds every time
After watching this video I bet Kyrö distillery would be amazing and fun place to work in
"The fox candy" Pihlaja, does not actually contain any rowan ash berries (Or Pihlajan marja) anymore. They actually use pears.
Rödbetssallad, red beet sallad 🤌greatest Swedish/Finnish food i miss when i travel abroad. Meatballs with red beet sallad in a baguette 🤤
Hesburger is much better in smaller towns because they dont have as many customers so the things arent as rushed and it doesnt wait in a warming light for 2 hours. I was shocked when I tried a busy Hesburger place. They are so bad
A woman can get pregnant and give birth in the time it takes Hesburger staff to get your order ready, And they're expensive. Those b^^^^^s from Turku also bought Carrols burger business, which was by far the best burger in Finland.
Yeah I don't live in a big city and Hesburger is my usual pick if I'm in the mood for basic fast food. I don't think I've ever had Hesburger fries that didn't seem like fresh from the fryer. They're really good too, just the right level crispy and salty.
Hesburger stores food for 25 minutes max, then it's thrown out, 2 hours would be illegal.
@@JDelwynnif the fries are not fresh from the fryer they are the worst fries you can ever have
One correction, Lehtipihvi is usually made from beef, not pork. In abc restaurants they are also beef
Blood sausage "not meant to be good"?! As a Irish person who loves black pudding, how DARE you ;D glad you had your mind changed, now I need to try it with cranberry sauce
Blood sausage is amazing. Taking a blood sausage cutting it into coins, frying them up on a pan, serve with some potatoes and white sauce and it's a match made in heaven.
It's good because it is made of pig and pork.
blood with cranberry jam is amazin
Yeah, Irish Black pudding is a very good blood sausage. Also white pudding, especially from Dublin, rocks. I remember in the 90s it was a thing in Irish restaurants to have Clonakilty black pudding with cranberry sauce. Kinda works. You can also get lingonberry jam in Ikea if you want to try it.
Mustamakkara is a bit looser than Irish black pudding. You could eat a whole plate of it and not feel like you've eaten too much.
Such a fun video to watch for someone who lives here in Finland. You really did a ”best of” finnish food, seagulls included. They are a pain in the ass during summer season. The double cheeseburger is my fave at Hesburger. The mozzarella sticks I usually eat with barbecuesauce. Think that’s a great combo. And yeah, the chicken nuggets at Hesburger are absolutely awful..
At 10:53, you saw part of the guard parade. The orchestra was the Guards Band, which is the President of Finland's orchestra. However, it's not a big band. The Finnish Air Force has its own big band in Jyväskylä, and it's the only military big band in Finland.
I always wanted to go to Finland. Must save a lot of money, then i‘ll go, especially during hot summer.
I've watched quite a few "Foreigner visits Finland" videos and I have to say this one is the best so far. I appreciate your honesty and you give a genuine vibe.
Though I will not forgive the way you butchered that oatmeal.
If you come back, some dishes and drinks you missed: mämmi, poronkäristys, makaronilaatikko, kalakukko/muikkukukko, karjalanpaisti, hernekeitto, viili, mustikkapiirakka, graavilohi, muurinpohjaletut, loimulohi, kaalikääryleet, lihapiirakka, Tupla chocolate, Fazer Geisha chocolate, Apteekin salmiakki, salmiakkikoskenkorva, sahti, glögi... And the fried vendace (with mashed potatoes) those seagulls ate behalf of you.
This was very good. I always enjoy watching when foreigners enjoy our food and the kyrö tour was really cool.
You are supposed to eat lingonberry porridge with milk. You certainly can add lingonberries on lingon berry jam in it. i think it just makes it have more like home made feel.
I love everything about this video!!!
At least now they know at Kyrö Distillery that if they got a bad batch of booze they can fix it with some lingonberry jam 😂
This is great, most interesting and you are so lucky!! My brother lives in Sheffield, England and they have 2 Finnish bakeries - and maybe more Finnish stuff, I don't know. But the bakeries are great and sell genuinely unusual stuff, very tasty.
Leipäjuusto is usually eaten on its own, not on top of bread 😅
Maksalaatikko (liver casserole) was always one of my favorite school foods. I hate the taste of liver in any other food but I find maksalaatikko heavenly. I always took as much of it and lingonberry jam as I could in school
The Kyrö wood-smoked whiskey is really good. Best one in the 4 mini bottle tasting set.
Hesburger used to do a rye-bread hamburger.
And Black Long Drink (7.5%) is the best.
Even the seagulls knew it; frittimuikku (fried small finnish vendace) is something to die, or from seagull's perspective, to attack for.
Loved this video(I am from Helsinki) Yes,the rye bread from Finland is the best. As for those seagulls,one of them once stole my ice cream...
Thank you for visiting 😊
Finnish candy is the best in the world. There are abundance of great sweets found in every grocery store and most of them are very good.
This is like Abroad In Japan, even has the same soundtrack.
I'd say that "Blaubeeren" are billberries and "Heidelbeeren" are bluebuerries. I do know lakka, but as a Lapponia liquor that you use as sauce for vanilla ice.
Bilberries sind Heidelbeeren oder Blaubeeren und blueberries sind Kulturheidelbeeren.
that sounds fair, here in UK we also have bilberries (which go by other names, too) wild on the moors, they are tiny and tangy, and when you pick them you get bitten by midges. Blueberries if I remember right are originally N American, though they are grown all around the world. They are bigger but blander and no, they do not grow in the forest. They grow on farms.
@@juliuseder Gotta love google translator: 'Mustikat ovat mustikoita tai mustikoita ja mustikat ovat viljelty mustikoita'
This Kalle guy was gold. Genuine love for the art of spirits
Thanks Andong for hitting the salmon soup notes, and hitting on those liquorice products, Hesburgers is all mayo no brakes
Great video, I really enjoyed that. Living in Scotland we seem to enjoy a lot of the same flavours as the Finnish. I have bilberries (we call them blaeberries) & cloudberries (sometimes called averin here) growing up the hill from the house.
That liquorice ice-cream looked good. I love liquorice & one of my early memories is my Grandfather taking me for ice-cream as a kid. One day I got to have a double scoop so I got a tangerine sorbet & a liquorice gelato. The gelato was a homogeneous grey, not little bits of liquorice, the orange & the grey looked so good glistening in the sunshine. (You should try making brown-bread ice-cream, it is especially good with rye-bread),
I'm a big fan of whiskey - I even live in a whiskey producing village. I've tried the Kyrö & it really is very good. I prefer their non-smoked whiskey, but then I'm more of a Speyside style fan than an Island style which I find can taste like medicine.
Really enjoy the longer form videos, hopefully you'll get a chance to do more again? Plus it would be fun seeing you hit the food scenes in different countries.
Thanks for visiting Finland :)
Hesburger's mayo quantity divides people, but I love it. But definitely head to smaller chains if you want a better burger.
And of course for the original experience you need to find a grilli
Now I would really like to try the Finnish rye whiskey ! I have already been making rye bread myself. 😊
Liquorice in the Nordics hits different! Tyrkisk peber is one of my absolute favourites, but unfortunately you got the wrong version. The best one is the original.
Also, cloudberries are the best! But the jam you had looked too processed for my tastes. It is better when you have whole berries in the jam. It is delicious on ice cream!
You are right. By the way Turkish peber was invented by a danish man Per Fjelsten.
The other drink that was made for the olympics was the brandy long drink. Which sold 48% of the whole gin sale. And it is still sold in stores after a while being gone. It is delicious btw.
The name Fazer (Fatzer) is of Swiss origin. The pronunciation is German
Thank you so much for the video and visiting here! One funny thing about "everything rye added is insanely good", is with a pizza dough. Those really are the best, honestly.
Obviously you hate liquorice if you've only ever had non-Finnish liquorice.
I was hoping you had gotten Hesburger's paprika mayo with the nuggets but instead you ended up with a full row of pickle/cucumber mayo with the two burgers and nuggets, the wrap/'taco' may have had paprika mayo though.
Paprika mayonnaise was the best. Always had that to dip the fries in. Hesburger was great after a night shift.
Omg how lucky am I to be born in Isokyrö, the place where we have the worlds best gin!
an entire hour? you're feeding us so well!!!
He seriously couldn't be bothered to ask a single person he met how to pronounce Fazer... 😂
And then he's wondering if his pronunciation of Kyrö is even near the correct (it was practically perfect)... If you can pronounce mozzarella, you can pronounce Fazer, just follow the same patterns for a, z, and e.
This has to be the fastest 53mins in my life. Usually this long videos are a bit boring time to times but you actually made it work very well. I don't like bread cheese or cloudberry jam my self at all but some seems to like it. You did a very good job tasting different items that Finnish people actually eat and not those "all Finns eat this" kind of items that most of us haven't even heard of. I am not quite sure but i have a feeling that you like rye :D Very nice and enjoyable video.
Oh i am going to subscribe! Hello from Finland!
Ohh I love this format! Please keep this length. And go to Georgia next!🇬🇪
we have the "chocolate potato" in Denmark too, we just call them "romkugler" or rum balls
You tried the wrong Tyrkisk bebers. You need the og black ones.
And oat porridge cannot be made instantly, it needs time and love. But when you do it right, you get the reward.
I love this video. It reminds me of the videos you made in China years ago. It was actually those videos that convinced me to start following your channel.
"I'm committing war crimes" 😂
It wasn't a joke
On occasion, you get Mustamakkara with crushed barley instead, and it's fairly good as well. I have no idea when / why they switch between the two, but it's a thing.
Liver casserole is best when it's been fried in butter. As for the whipped porridge, I've often made similar stuff with e.g. elderflower cordial. It's just mannagryn / mannasurimo (Griess, I guess?). Often, it's served with milk poured over it.
Traditional Finnish food contains 3-4 incredients.
Butter, salt and pepper are included. Sometimes cream too.
Butter, salt and sometimes cream.