We had leipajuusto (squeaky cheese) every winter, my grandmother would send it to use every year during the Christmas season. You can still buy it in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where there is a large Finnish population. My grandfather would make us watch “Finland Calling” on the weekends.
I tried nearly everything on this list when I went to Finland this summer, except the bloodsausage 🙁. My favorites though are karjalanpirakka and leipajuusto with coffee 😋😋. So so good!
Hi Aleksi, Im Todd from USA... half - FINN. LOVE your channel, love your open personality and the fun way you live life and share Finland with us! You are awesome!
Leipäjuusto looks very similar to a squeaky cheese we have in Brazil, called queijo coalho. We also have it grilled or baked, but usually with savory stuff. The viili texture seems so weird for a yogurt, I would love to try it. Also the rye chips, I wish there was something similar around here... I have a serious potato chip problem. (:
As a non-Finn American, I find I like salmiakki very much, and all of my friends and family wonder how I can stand to eat it. You either like it or you don’t, I guess. I always preferred black licorice to red, and I enjoy salty foods (like Japanese Miso) so there you go.
Salmiakki IS #1 candy in Finland ! Everybody LOVES salmiakki ! There are many TH-camrs - that has travelled to Finland to buy some ! Buy some and Film Your Friends taste some - some may never talk to you anymore ?
for the english speakers in here who are watching this video: Viili is really weird stuff as its sort of like sour milk or sour cream BUT the main difference is as you can see in the video that its really "gooey" or "stringy" and it sort of has this slimey consistency :D its really hard to describe but it tastes good and you can get them flavoured too if you want! :P
Hello from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA! My grandparents fled Finland around the turn of the century, to avoid advancing Russian overtaking. I am half Finntastic, but didn't know it until I was in my late 50s. My grandparents arrived at Ellis Island, and sent to Hibbing, Minnesota, whi by still has an intact Finnish population.
I once tried baking karjalanpiirakat at home on your Independence Day and they tasted nothing like those I had in Finland afterwards. :))) I think I'll try again with another recipe this December. I also baked pannukakku once (that one was a success). And I can't believe I visited Tampere this year and forgot to try mustamakkara (maybe my brain was deliberately trying to avoid it).
I also bake the Karjalanpiirakat at home, a lot actually. But what I found out is that the rye flour you use is really important and it can change how the final product taste. Once I baked using the finnish rye flour and it was reaaaally similar to what I had it Finland, but when I used the (in my case Czech) not Finnish rye flour - it was still pretty good but never as good as those from when I used the Finnish flour.
Aleksi, it will be nice if you can make a video of how to pronounce R of the Finnish language. It is way too much strong and difficult to get it correctly.
@@andriel137 The R pronounciation you use in "perro" is perfect for finnish. People don't really pay that much attention to it here. There are many different ways people say/pronounce "R" in Finland.
@@MasterTiccu yeah, I was gonna say that. As someone who did a tiny bit of dabbling in Spanish (and someone with Puerto Rican parents), the way we roll our R’s sounds pretty damn similar to how the Finns roll theirs, so if you know how to do that, it should be no big deal
I'm an American living here in Finland I've been watching your videos since I moved here. I also live in Tampere! My sister is coming to visit so I liked the video for food ideas to make here try! Never had blood sausage yet despite living in Tampere, I'll have to give it a go! Great video as always!
Se lihapiirakka syödää kahel nakil ja kaikil mausteil vikisemättä saatana. :D Tääl Haminassa sai aina yhen nakin lisää. En oo nytvaikoihin käyny nakkaril ni en tiiä saako enää. :D
I think Finland is one of the best kept secrets in gastronomy. The food is pure and of excellent quality whether it's bread, cheese, meat products, drinks (including both brewed and dairy drinks) and fruits. I know i'd like to grab some Leipajuusto and Makkara when I next go shopping. I even like Mammi.
Some say that We are too far away ? They still say IT today - Even Man has been to moon and back ! Turkus - Suomen Joutsen sailed to Australia - to get wheat - before Australia was too far away... Old sayings - are just too OLD !
I eat Rye bread 5 days a week when I'm at work. Growing up I would eat all the rye bread at my grandma's Christmas gathering. She didn't mind cuz I was the only one eating it! I wish I could've met my great great grandparents. Just for some food ideas, I'd like to find some dishes to try and bring to my work. I'm a lead line cook, so I get the ability to run specials where I work.
When I went to Finland, I really enjoyed lakka and mesimarja... cannot find these guys in Switzerland. And of course salmiakipippuri (not sure of the name, but you know hat I'm talking about 😊).
One or two years ago I got a recipe from the internet and made some Karelian Pies. It was pretty nice. I will wait until I visit Finland this year to try the original one.
Finnish ruisleipä is awesome. I come from Germany, we have masses of different bread sorts, but nothing like this. And leipäjuusto is also delicious, I ate it mainly in Lapland as a dessert (with cloudberries). Poronkäristys as main course (sautéed reindeer).
This was really interesting to watch HAHAH, I’m currently on a year exchange in Finland and have tried a bunch of these foods and ahh leipäjuusto would have to be one of my favourites.
Hi! I had a childhood friend in Canada whose mom would make a drink called sima and a bread called pulla. Also what you were showing were raspberries not strawberries. I think the vili is healthy because it's soured ie fermented. It is a natural source of probiotics. Thanks!
Pulla IS sweet bread ! When You drink Coffee - You have pulla with IT ! Korvapuusti IS a cinemon pulla - and IT could be like tung twister - to learn how to order IT !
Karjalanpiirakka is good with munavoi, chopped soft boiled egg with butter. Leipäjuusto you can find here in Southern California. Lihapiirakka, lihis, is similar to what we can find in Chinese markets here. It is Northern Chinese style, they say.
Great video!! Does anyone know where I might order some Finnish foods to be delivered in the United States? I’m going to throw a dinner party with Finland as the theme. I can make many dishes but I’d love to be able to order some of the snacks.
I haven't been to Finland but I've been in Sweden before and the people I stayed with ate cloudberry and lingonberry on ice cream and I liked that a lot. I also really loved that yogurt like stuff you had. There's nothing like that in the states. The thickest yogurt you can get is Greek yogurt but that's still not the same. I loved it so much that I can almost taste it just thinking about it. And I'm sure I'd like the meat pies since I got hooked on another type of meat pie that has more of a crispy pot pie type of crust that I found when I was in New Zealand and the UK. But they do sell Jamaican meat pies at the Dollar Tree which are similar except very very spicy. But I'm fat so obviously there's not too many foods I don't enjoy. LOL
Its fun to watch this video before and after living in Finland for more than a year :D I would say to me its seems like a rather peculiar selection of foods, but most of them indeed seem quite unique either to Finland or at least northern europe. I definitely have to try that squeaky cheese! :) I haven't eaten specifically Finnish blood sausage, but overall I would say the blood sausage is one of my favorite foods ever. When i first tried villi it was a big surprise to me. I though i have bought a normal sour cream for my soup, but it crawled into my soup from the spoon like a little snot monster :D I guess I have to try with a different mindset and try to perceive it as a desert
Näkkäri sound like something called knekkebrød, its like näkkäri. You can find ones who are made frome white oat and one who are much more healthier ones too. We do have rye bread here too. I think its normal to have at least one type of rye bread in store up in north. One thing you shuld not do, is mess with cloudberries and the jam. It's super delicious
And I'm finding myself in need of that a branded t-shirt. Thank you for bringing out the authentic Finnish life. I have tried all the foods you've mentioned 😆. Kiitos paljon.
Moikka :D I'm from Poland and my fav Finnish food is Karialanpiirakka and vispipuuro, I like reindeer also ;D but I enjoy all of those you mentioned, besides bloodysausage.... we have similar here and I dont like it at all ;d
I can buy Cloudberry jam at Ikea. My grandmas and mom made rye bread. My son is making rye bread now that they have passed on. We ate that sausage when I visited Finland in 1993. I can buy Finnish mustard in a tube from a Finnish store about an hour and a half away from my home.
Great video ... one of the worst things about coming home to Australia is having to make my own rye bread, leipajuusto and Karelian pies ... you are so lucky that they are really accessible :)
ps. if you eat "leipäjuusto" I suggest you heat it (on a pan or even in a microwave oven). I think its tons better that way. But yes with cloudberries or cloudberryjam. Good stuff.
Have you tried the new linssisipsi? They're helvetin hyvä. Perhaps in the future sometime, you could also talk about Finnish drinks, like sima, gloggi, joulu olut, Koskenkorva, kotikalja, potato wine from Tyrnävä, and the Finnish love of cider.
The berries looked amazing and it's so cool you can just pick them wherever! I also love rye bread. I've never had or seen rye chips but I bet they're tasty too!😊
I love leipäjuusto! I was in finland last year, in Lieksa. And it was the best vacation in my life. Now i learn finnish and i hope that i will come to finland again.
Karjalanpiirakka is great. Indeed usually marketed as Riisipiirakka in Finnish and Estonian supermarkets. Simple and good stuff. And btw dough is made of rye flour. Kiitos!
3:08 näkkäri ... how does it compare to knäckebröd? Which type of Wasa knäcke is closest (I think näkkinleipä is a straight off translation from knäckebröd)?
Maksalaatikko is really good, Mämmi is in my opinion the best thing ever created :D but Karjalanpiirakat are my ultimate favourite finnish food. And Lohikeitto is the best kind of soup.
Awesome video! Thanks for sharing your top 10 foods! I'm from Iowa, USA and curious about Finland. Love your accent! Hope I can visit Finland sometime! Keep sharing about fabulous Finland! 😁
For the lihapiirakka you should try to stick cheese in in then microwave it. Take it out and put some ketsupi on it!! delicious! Im actually Swedish but all of my parents and grandparents are finnish so im common with the language, culture and the country. I feel way more finnish then swedish even do i dont speak finnish, All though i understand finnish with hearing. Hyvää ystävänpäivää
I really like your site so am not complaining. I just noticed that when I was ordering some of your merchandise that I am planning to buy for my friends who live in Finland that the delivery cost is higher to deliver in Finland than it is to send it to the Uk which seemed strange.
Can’t believe I am laughing watching a guy eat! This is so great. The berries, white stuff in a carton and chips all looked yummy and you seemed to enjoy them. I came to Texas from North Dakota. Lots of bbq! Nice meeting you. Thanks
Bread cheese is best cheese I have eaten. Keeping it in a micro while it little bit melted. After that a touch of salt to it and having enjoy any jam. It is our family favorite.
I understand that this is 6 years late, but what are your thoughts on lohikeitto? I didn’t try it yet, but it really caught my eye when I saw it, and I really want to try it when I eventually move to Finland after college (I’m American)
I don't want to try salmiakki, but I do want to go on the "Pub Tram" when in Helsinki... can you do a video on where to catch it and what route it takes?
Making it is simple but you need a little bit viili as a base. Add milk. Leave it in room temperature. It's done when it remains still even if you try to shake it. Just remember to leave a bit and keep re-filling it with milk. That way you never run out.
Wah! Berries! In Indonesia, any kind of berries equals luxury 🤣 soo expensive. Btw, you have lots of healthy snacks. But the names are incredibly long and difficult 😅
What a surprise; here in Colombia we also have like a kind of sausage, which is made of blood and rice, of course, it's combined with other ingredients, but it's basically the same as the black sausage. Here it's called "morcilla" or "rellena"
Blood sausage, something similar to traditional boudin from Louisiana. I think most people, at least here in Texas, don't think of the blood variety though. Typical boudin around here is similar to the Czech's jaternice, rice and liver, or some other gibblet meat.
So interesting, that finnish word for ,,pie”- ,,piirakka”, sounds so simmilar to lithuanian word for ,,pie”- ,,pyragas” :D even the pronouncation very simmilar, but in our language the ending of the word ends with ,,as”, masculine form. :)
Moi Aleksi, loved your video! My favorite Finnish food is näkkäri. My sister and I eat it almost every day. My grandpa always talked about blood sausage, fish soup and reindeer! I don’t like mustard either. I am stuck on that Lidl kesä kreisi- Gen-chan talked about it on his channel, will you talk about it? I just love it! 😍
Wow.. I like any kind of healthy food. And I gotta say.. your Finnish little snacks look so awesome.. like they would be even more boosted up from the classic ones 😊 I love also raspberries as you do... 😂 there's no summer I wouldn't eat them 😂 we have them too everywhere.. however i think I have already eaten leipäjuusto and I liked it quite a lot 😊 but.. there's definitelly one thing I need to taste in my life.. and that's viili or viilis 😊 it looked so tasty.. and by the way.. here in the Czech Republic you can also find mustamakkara on some places.. I have no idea how we call it here haha 😂 and I cannot imagine how you can eat it with some jam on it.. but it could be nice try for me next time 😂 however in this vid viili won for me 😊
I remember my Mummo making karjalanpiirakka for me as a kid and and for years i tried making from scratch back in the states and failed every time only to find out as an adult she just bought it at the supermarket frozen. XD
I'm 1/4 ethnically Finnish born in the states. From what I've researched about my ancestry, my great grandparents immigrated from Pudasjarvi and Väyrylä to Michigan. I am trying to get in touch with my Finnish side and am planning to visit soon. Do you know if there are any traditional Finnish dishes that are vegan?
We have long winters so most traditional Finnish dishes are not vegan. We, like most European countries have our own version of cabbage rolls and you leave the ground beef out if you want to make it vegan.
I’m looking forward to trying Finnish squeaky cheese. My dad said when he was younger and would attend any special family occasions (weddings, funerals😆, etc) there would be squeaky cheese. One day I will be blessed 😂😭 But that texture of that “yogurt” is making me uncomfortable but intrigued to try! 😂😂
Nostalgia and munchies. I miss bread cheese, I miss karelia pies, I miss meat pies, I miss rye chips and berries As for raspberries, Im from Serbia, we are a great exporter of raspberries. Got some yummies at home.
Aaaw yeah, all the good stuff right there! Rruischips with a dab of savory mixture of ham/sourcreme(or viili) "salad" ... Or a dab of shrimp/mayo is always a great apetizer or just snackos deluxe. Huh! Weird, I've never stumbled across this black sausage, I'd probably enjoy it too since I regularly eat Swedish blood pudding (black pudding). The finnish rye näkkileipä made super thin like long rectangular wafers are slowly creeping out and taking market shares in Europe. I can find this thin Finnish crisp bread all the way down into Germany! Seen it in stores as far south as Cologne. The problem is, once you pop the packet you just can't stop eating it... just one more... yes, thats all I need... a li'l butter, some tasty cheese, a li'l finely chopped onions 😍😍😍
Having lived in Poland for few years, I can tell that kaszanka may look and sound the same, but it most certainly does not taste like mustamakkara. Mustamakkara is my favourite food and I was so happy in Poland to find kaszanka, only to disappoint that its so different
I go to a week of total emersion Finnish language usually once a year. All the food is Finnish, for the whole week. It is amazing!!! I love, love, love Finnish food!
Hi, i live in Finland now, but originaly i am from Latvia. In Latvia we have black sausage as well, but we dont eat it with jam, we fried it on pan and then eat. That cheese we have as well, but we eat it as a cheese without the jam 😅
Well, i'll never find those foods to try since I'm from Brazil, but I like your channel, I love Finland and it's nice to be in touch with all the things about thy country.
What about places to visit from head to toe...common Finnish names...what to do with less many in winter time...both indoors and outdoors...how to practise social skills and get touch with people than voluuntery work and Red Cross friend service...what Finn people think about foreign outside of Capital and big cities...friendliest places for foreign to live...
We had leipajuusto (squeaky cheese) every winter, my grandmother would send it to use every year during the Christmas season. You can still buy it in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where there is a large Finnish population. My grandfather would make us watch “Finland Calling” on the weekends.
That's great! Do you like it?
We had it at my sister's wedding in minnesota....it was the only food the groom requested
You can also heat in oven leipäjuusto.
i know it is kinda off topic but does anybody know of a good site to stream new series online ?
@Emory Parker Flixportal =)
I live in Upper Michigan in the US. We have a large Finnish-American population. Many of these foods are at our local grocery stores.
Wow that’s nice 😊
Hello beautiful, hope you’re doing good today?
I tried nearly everything on this list when I went to Finland this summer, except the bloodsausage 🙁. My favorites though are karjalanpirakka and leipajuusto with coffee 😋😋. So so good!
That's great! Mustamakkara can be bought anywhere from the meat counters of supermarkets as far as I know.
Karjalanpirakka XDD
They have even baked bread - with blood ! On The Åland Islas - to Your knowledge !
Hi Aleksi, Im Todd from USA... half - FINN.
LOVE your channel, love your open personality and the fun way you live life and share Finland with us!
You are awesome!
Thanks for the comment ToddAndelin!
Hei Aleksi, I went to Tampere last week and tried mustamakkara with lingonberry jam. Deeeelicious! :D
That's great!
When its cold it looks like a stick
@@AleksiHimself Does it taste like Swedish blodpudding?
@@MissSylvia67 No it doesnt at all. Im finnish from Tampere but living in Sweden, so I know.. :)
@@LordiS87 Tack för svaret! I'll have to try it sometime, I don't like blodpudding tho 😁
I also tried the Vispipuuro. I don’t know if it’s a finnish food but was delicious and pink 🥰
Leipäjuusto looks very similar to a squeaky cheese we have in Brazil, called queijo coalho. We also have it grilled or baked, but usually with savory stuff.
The viili texture seems so weird for a yogurt, I would love to try it. Also the rye chips, I wish there was something similar around here... I have a serious potato chip problem. (:
As a non-Finn American, I find I like salmiakki very much, and all of my friends and family wonder how I can stand to eat it. You either like it or you don’t, I guess. I always preferred black licorice to red, and I enjoy salty foods (like Japanese Miso) so there you go.
Salmiakki IS #1 candy in Finland ! Everybody LOVES salmiakki ! There are many TH-camrs - that has travelled to Finland to buy some ! Buy some and Film Your Friends taste some - some may never talk to you anymore ?
Ifucking love Karjalan piraka... Eggs and butter on that.
for the english speakers in here who are watching this video: Viili is really weird stuff as its sort of like sour milk or sour cream BUT the main difference is as you can see in the video that its really "gooey" or "stringy" and it sort of has this slimey consistency :D its really hard to describe but it tastes good and you can get them flavoured too if you want! :P
Hello from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA! My grandparents fled Finland around the turn of the century, to avoid advancing Russian overtaking. I am half Finntastic, but didn't know it until I was in my late 50s. My grandparents arrived at Ellis Island, and sent to Hibbing, Minnesota, whi by still has an intact Finnish population.
I once tried baking karjalanpiirakat at home on your Independence Day and they tasted nothing like those I had in Finland afterwards. :))) I think I'll try again with another recipe this December. I also baked pannukakku once (that one was a success). And I can't believe I visited Tampere this year and forgot to try mustamakkara (maybe my brain was deliberately trying to avoid it).
No problem you can try it next time!
I also bake the Karjalanpiirakat at home, a lot actually. But what I found out is that the rye flour you use is really important and it can change how the final product taste. Once I baked using the finnish rye flour and it was reaaaally similar to what I had it Finland, but when I used the (in my case Czech) not Finnish rye flour - it was still pretty good but never as good as those from when I used the Finnish flour.
@@TheMonis25 aaah I see, thanks for the tip. I was actually wondering where I had gone wrong. I'll ask my Finnish friend to send me some flower. :)))
you're welcome. And it's not your fault actually, it's a fault of the flour ;-) anyways, good luck with baking in the future :)
Aleksi, it will be nice if you can make a video of how to pronounce R of the Finnish language. It is way too much strong and difficult to get it correctly.
I might do at some point!
@@AleksiHimself You need to se Perkele :D
@@andriel137 The R pronounciation you use in "perro" is perfect for finnish. People don't really pay that much attention to it here. There are many different ways people say/pronounce "R" in Finland.
@@MasterTiccu yeah, I was gonna say that. As someone who did a tiny bit of dabbling in Spanish (and someone with Puerto Rican parents), the way we roll our R’s sounds pretty damn similar to how the Finns roll theirs, so if you know how to do that, it should be no big deal
I'm an American living here in Finland I've been watching your videos since I moved here. I also live in Tampere! My sister is coming to visit so I liked the video for food ideas to make here try! Never had blood sausage yet despite living in Tampere, I'll have to give it a go! Great video as always!
THanks! Try Mustamakkara. ;)
Mr Tapola - was The One WHO started MUSTAMAKKARA - and now those are sold all over !
I love karjalan piirakka, ruisleipä, leipajuustu, all berries, with Kahvi. I ate these frequently in Finland. Got to like viilis and makkara too.
Jos syö lihistä tolleen, ilman kepsuttia, kurkkusalaattia ja sinappia. Saatana, selekääsi sietäsit saara! :D
Kieltämättä tuosta ois voinu mainita. :D
Se lihapiirakka syödää kahel nakil ja kaikil mausteil vikisemättä saatana. :D
Tääl Haminassa sai aina yhen nakin lisää. En oo nytvaikoihin käyny nakkaril ni en tiiä saako enää. :D
@@blackheavyblans ja se puuro syödään vikisemättä saatana :D
ei kannata huudella, jos unohtaa nakit!
Sen voi lämmittää myös. Maistuu silloin paremmalle.
I think Finland is one of the best kept secrets in gastronomy. The food is pure and of excellent quality whether it's bread, cheese, meat products, drinks (including both brewed and dairy drinks) and fruits. I know i'd like to grab some Leipajuusto and Makkara when I next go shopping. I even like Mammi.
Some say that We are too far away ? They still say IT today - Even Man has been to moon and back ! Turkus - Suomen Joutsen sailed to Australia - to get wheat - before Australia was too far away... Old sayings - are just too OLD !
I eat Rye bread 5 days a week when I'm at work. Growing up I would eat all the rye bread at my grandma's Christmas gathering. She didn't mind cuz I was the only one eating it! I wish I could've met my great great grandparents. Just for some food ideas, I'd like to find some dishes to try and bring to my work. I'm a lead line cook, so I get the ability to run specials where I work.
As a Chinese, I really like blood sausage with berry jam, wonderful favor, but I know most of the Chinese never want to eat it.
I really liked the Karajalanpiirakka when I was in Finland. I went to Tampere but never had a chance to try the mustamakkara. For sure next time!
Sounds like a plan!
When I went to Finland, I really enjoyed lakka and mesimarja... cannot find these guys in Switzerland. And of course salmiakipippuri (not sure of the name, but you know hat I'm talking about 😊).
What about mammi runerberign cakes Laskiais pullat..tippa leipa...maksa laatiiko makorooni laatikko ...sima..korvapuustit
One or two years ago I got a recipe from the internet and made some Karelian Pies. It was pretty nice. I will wait until I visit Finland this year to try the original one.
Finnish ruisleipä is awesome. I come from Germany, we have masses of different bread sorts, but nothing like this.
And leipäjuusto is also delicious, I ate it mainly in Lapland as a dessert (with cloudberries). Poronkäristys as main course (sautéed reindeer).
Straight up thought the screen said TORTILLA. I was like, "Ah shit, the Finns have tortillas?!"
Haha :D
This was really interesting to watch HAHAH, I’m currently on a year exchange in Finland and have tried a bunch of these foods and ahh leipäjuusto would have to be one of my favourites.
That's amazing! Leipäjuusto is good. :)
Hi!
I had a childhood friend in Canada whose mom would make a drink called sima and a bread called pulla.
Also what you were showing were raspberries not strawberries. I think the vili is healthy because it's soured ie fermented. It is a natural source of probiotics.
Thanks!
Pulla IS sweet bread ! When You drink Coffee - You have pulla with IT ! Korvapuusti IS a cinemon pulla - and IT could be like tung twister - to learn how to order IT !
Karjalanpiirakka is good with munavoi, chopped soft boiled egg with butter. Leipäjuusto you can find here in Southern California. Lihapiirakka, lihis, is similar to what we can find in Chinese markets here. It is Northern Chinese style, they say.
Great video!! Does anyone know where I might order some Finnish foods to be delivered in the United States? I’m going to throw a dinner party with Finland as the theme. I can make many dishes but I’d love to be able to order some of the snacks.
You can check out Taste of Finland: bit.ly/2sMOtII
Aleksi, et maininnut Fazerin Sinistä!!!! Siis sitä maitosuklaa klassikkoa?? MIelestäni maailman parasta maitosuklaata.
I haven't been to Finland but I've been in Sweden before and the people I stayed with ate cloudberry and lingonberry on ice cream and I liked that a lot. I also really loved that yogurt like stuff you had. There's nothing like that in the states. The thickest yogurt you can get is Greek yogurt but that's still not the same. I loved it so much that I can almost taste it just thinking about it. And I'm sure I'd like the meat pies since I got hooked on another type of meat pie that has more of a crispy pot pie type of crust that I found when I was in New Zealand and the UK. But they do sell Jamaican meat pies at the Dollar Tree which are similar except very very spicy. But I'm fat so obviously there's not too many foods I don't enjoy. LOL
Thanks for the comment Seth Perry!
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Its fun to watch this video before and after living in Finland for more than a year :D I would say to me its seems like a rather peculiar selection of foods, but most of them indeed seem quite unique either to Finland or at least northern europe. I definitely have to try that squeaky cheese! :) I haven't eaten specifically Finnish blood sausage, but overall I would say the blood sausage is one of my favorite foods ever. When i first tried villi it was a big surprise to me. I though i have bought a normal sour cream for my soup, but it crawled into my soup from the spoon like a little snot monster :D I guess I have to try with a different mindset and try to perceive it as a desert
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Mustarakkarra ( black sausage) similar in the UK to the black pudding which is sliced and eaten for breakfast.
Karjalan Paisti ? Rosolli ? Borscht ? Kalamojakka ?
Mun aivot vasta nyt sai tietää, että muun maalaiset ei oo todennäköisesti maistanut näitä ruokia. Ne on mulle perus kamaa.
the Mustamakkara is also a french sausage, it's called : boudin noir with some cooked apples 😄 very delicious
Näkkäri sound like something called knekkebrød, its like näkkäri. You can find ones who are made frome white oat and one who are much more healthier ones too. We do have rye bread here too. I think its normal to have at least one type of rye bread in store up in north. One thing you shuld not do, is mess with cloudberries and the jam. It's super delicious
It's the same thing. Näkkileipä, knäckebröd.
Teppo oh, thanks for clearing up and for the info
Yep it's the same stuff!
And I'm finding myself in need of that a branded t-shirt.
Thank you for bringing out the authentic Finnish life. I have tried all the foods you've mentioned 😆.
Kiitos paljon.
Moikka :D I'm from Poland and my fav Finnish food is Karialanpiirakka and vispipuuro, I like reindeer also ;D but I enjoy all of those you mentioned, besides bloodysausage.... we have similar here and I dont like it at all ;d
Thanks for the comment neverbeyourwoman!
what about fish head soup, and i cannot remember what it called but a fish baked in loaf of bread
That's probably Kalakukko.
Yes that was it. Have had it, kind of a surprise when you cut into the loaf not knowing itvis there.
Leipäjuusto is also good if you warm it up on a pan with cream and add some cinnamon. Delicious!
4:45 start to wonder, how many meals does making the video correspond to?
I can buy Cloudberry jam at Ikea. My grandmas and mom made rye bread. My son is making rye bread now that they have passed on. We ate that sausage when I visited Finland in 1993. I can buy Finnish mustard in a tube from a Finnish store about an hour and a half away from my home.
3:31 the local cheese place here in NC makes this. Its my favorite cheese. I like to heat it up and put on crackers.
Aleksi, you are a master, I really enjoy your videos, Best Regards from Chile, Congratulations ¡¡¡
Hello beautiful 😍
I must confess you’re so beautiful 🥰😊😊😍😍
Hope you’re doing good today??
Great video ... one of the worst things about coming home to Australia is having to make my own rye bread, leipajuusto and Karelian pies ... you are so lucky that they are really accessible :)
Thanks for the comment Ian Bishop!
No one mentions he was eating yogurt with a fork... 6:05
"Porilainen" is great fast food from Osterbothnia. Specially when we stand in Kahuoki, where an 24/7 open kiosk had the best "Porilainen".
Good stuff! 😃🙌
ps. if you eat "leipäjuusto" I suggest you heat it (on a pan or even in a microwave oven). I think its tons better that way. But yes with cloudberries or cloudberryjam. Good stuff.
Thanks for the tip!
Have you tried the new linssisipsi? They're helvetin hyvä.
Perhaps in the future sometime, you could also talk about Finnish drinks, like sima, gloggi, joulu olut, Koskenkorva, kotikalja, potato wine from Tyrnävä, and the Finnish love of cider.
The berries looked amazing and it's so cool you can just pick them wherever! I also love rye bread. I've never had or seen rye chips but I bet they're tasty too!😊
Good stuff!
Mustamakkara really reminds me of something we have in the UK called black pudding, which I love so much but almost never actually have.
Thanks for sharing!
I love leipäjuusto! I was in finland last year, in Lieksa. And it was the best vacation in my life. Now i learn finnish and i hope that i will come to finland again.
Hello beautiful 😍
Hope you’re doing good today??
Mustamakkara; in Croatia we have something similar - Krvavica (literally bloody sausage), just what looks much bloodier :-)
Good stuff!
Karjalanpiirakka is great. Indeed usually marketed as Riisipiirakka in Finnish and Estonian supermarkets. Simple and good stuff. And btw dough is made of rye flour. Kiitos!
Good stuff! 😃🙌
Very good list of traditional Finnish foods! 💎
i live in estonia and we eat all the foods. also we have the blood sausage as a traditional xmas food :) it all is super tasty
3:08 näkkäri ... how does it compare to knäckebröd?
Which type of Wasa knäcke is closest (I think näkkinleipä is a straight off translation from knäckebröd)?
same shit same shit ... (lol ! I love knäckebröd and you are right, we got the name "näkki"leipä from Swedish language)
Maksalaatikko is really good, Mämmi is in my opinion the best thing ever created :D but Karjalanpiirakat are my ultimate favourite finnish food. And Lohikeitto is the best kind of soup.
I like all of those!
Another mämmi lover 😁😁😁😁
I remember getting lihapiirakka at the train station in Helsinki- when they were freshly made they were delicious !
Good stuff!
It seems that I tried all of these. But one thing which I want to try and which is not mentioned in this video is Mämmi.
Mämmi is mentioned in another video.
Awesome video! Thanks for sharing your top 10 foods! I'm from Iowa, USA and curious about Finland. Love your accent! Hope I can visit Finland sometime! Keep sharing about fabulous Finland! 😁
Hi 👋
I just made riisipiirakka and they are delicious thank you for introducing theese to me! Kiitos
Glad you like them!
For the lihapiirakka you should try to stick cheese in in then microwave it. Take it out and put some ketsupi on it!! delicious! Im actually Swedish but all of my parents and grandparents are finnish so im common with the language, culture and the country. I feel way more finnish then swedish even do i dont speak finnish, All though i understand finnish with hearing. Hyvää ystävänpäivää
The rye chips. Had them yesterday. They were fantastic. I am obsessed
I really like your site so am not complaining. I just noticed that when I was ordering some of your merchandise that I am planning to buy for my friends who live in Finland that the delivery cost is higher to deliver in Finland than it is to send it to the Uk which seemed strange.
Can’t believe I am laughing watching a guy eat! This is so great. The berries, white stuff in a carton and chips all looked yummy and you seemed to enjoy them. I came to Texas from North Dakota. Lots of bbq! Nice meeting you. Thanks
Thanks for the comment Shirley Baughman!
Bread cheese is best cheese I have eaten. Keeping it in a micro while it little bit melted. After that a touch of salt to it and having enjoy any jam. It is our family favorite.
Awesome!
And if you ever visit Savo-region you have to try mykyrokka and kalakukko
Good stuff!
I understand that this is 6 years late, but what are your thoughts on lohikeitto? I didn’t try it yet, but it really caught my eye when I saw it, and I really want to try it when I eventually move to Finland after college (I’m American)
I don't want to try salmiakki, but I do want to go on the "Pub Tram" when in Helsinki... can you do a video on where to catch it and what route it takes?
In English we just called viili Finnish yogurt. My grandmother used to make it. I haven't had it since she died.
That's interesting! Yogurt and viili are two different things, but seems you made a good name for viili.
Making it is simple but you need a little bit viili as a base. Add milk. Leave it in room temperature. It's done when it remains still even if you try to shake it. Just remember to leave a bit and keep re-filling it with milk. That way you never run out.
Wah! Berries!
In Indonesia, any kind of berries equals luxury 🤣 soo expensive.
Btw, you have lots of healthy snacks. But the names are incredibly long and difficult 😅
Thanks for the comment Rininta!
What a surprise; here in Colombia we also have like a kind of sausage, which is made of blood and rice, of course, it's combined with other ingredients, but it's basically the same as the black sausage. Here it's called "morcilla" or "rellena"
Thanks for sharing! 😀👌
I forgot mentioning that it's cow's blood 🤗
'blood sausage' is 'black pudding' in England and 'boudin noir' in France.
Thanks for the comment Beta Vulgaris!
No worries, it's one of my staples ! Gotta have HP sauce on it though ;)
In Finland blood sausage and blood pudding and blood bread are all different types of blood dishes. Blood bread was more common before.
Kiitos! My favorite would have to be the cloudberry jam maybe with some cheese on rye bread. 👍😋
So good!
Blood sausage, something similar to traditional boudin from Louisiana. I think most people, at least here in Texas, don't think of the blood variety though. Typical boudin around here is similar to the Czech's jaternice, rice and liver, or some other gibblet meat.
Really enjoyed your video, very interesting and hello from England👋
Thanks Carlos!
So interesting, that finnish word for ,,pie”- ,,piirakka”, sounds so simmilar to lithuanian word for ,,pie”- ,,pyragas” :D even the pronouncation very simmilar, but in our language the ending of the word ends with ,,as”, masculine form. :)
Moi Aleksi, loved your video! My favorite Finnish food is näkkäri. My sister and I eat it almost every day. My grandpa always talked about blood sausage, fish soup and reindeer! I don’t like mustard either. I am stuck on that Lidl kesä kreisi- Gen-chan talked about it on his channel, will you talk about it? I just love it! 😍
That's great! The song never really got stuck on me tho. 😅
Aleksi Himself - Videos about Finland 🤣 who is the boy with the tattoo? Is he a famous actor?
Probably something like that. I don't know.
The only finnish food I have ever eaten was Mokkapalat (kid-variant with milk instead of coffee), it is delicious😍
Lol I was literally like wtf, the entire video. Great to see how and what people eat all over world. Hope to try these different foods one day.
What about hapan korrpu
Wow.. I like any kind of healthy food. And I gotta say.. your Finnish little snacks look so awesome.. like they would be even more boosted up from the classic ones 😊 I love also raspberries as you do... 😂 there's no summer I wouldn't eat them 😂 we have them too everywhere.. however i think I have already eaten leipäjuusto and I liked it quite a lot 😊 but.. there's definitelly one thing I need to taste in my life.. and that's viili or viilis 😊 it looked so tasty.. and by the way.. here in the Czech Republic you can also find mustamakkara on some places.. I have no idea how we call it here haha 😂 and I cannot imagine how you can eat it with some jam on it.. but it could be nice try for me next time 😂 however in this vid viili won for me 😊
Thanks for the comment VlastYs Music!
You use too many emojis
I remember my Mummo making karjalanpiirakka for me as a kid and and for years i tried making from scratch back in the states and failed every time only to find out as an adult she just bought it at the supermarket frozen. XD
Good stuff! 😃🙌
I'm 1/4 ethnically Finnish born in the states. From what I've researched about my ancestry, my great grandparents immigrated from Pudasjarvi and Väyrylä to Michigan. I am trying to get in touch with my Finnish side and am planning to visit soon. Do you know if there are any traditional Finnish dishes that are vegan?
We have long winters so most traditional Finnish dishes are not vegan. We, like most European countries have our own version of cabbage rolls and you leave the ground beef out if you want to make it vegan.
I’m looking forward to trying Finnish squeaky cheese. My dad said when he was younger and would attend any special family occasions (weddings, funerals😆, etc) there would be squeaky cheese. One day I will be blessed 😂😭
But that texture of that “yogurt” is making me uncomfortable but intrigued to try! 😂😂
Nostalgia and munchies. I miss bread cheese, I miss karelia pies, I miss meat pies, I miss rye chips and berries
As for raspberries, Im from Serbia, we are a great exporter of raspberries. Got some yummies at home.
Good stuff!
Aaaw yeah, all the good stuff right there! Rruischips with a dab of savory mixture of ham/sourcreme(or viili) "salad" ... Or a dab of shrimp/mayo is always a great apetizer or just snackos deluxe. Huh! Weird, I've never stumbled across this black sausage, I'd probably enjoy it too since I regularly eat Swedish blood pudding (black pudding). The finnish rye näkkileipä made super thin like long rectangular wafers are slowly creeping out and taking market shares in Europe. I can find this thin Finnish crisp bread all the way down into Germany! Seen it in stores as far south as Cologne. The problem is, once you pop the packet you just can't stop eating it... just one more... yes, thats all I need... a li'l butter, some tasty cheese, a li'l finely chopped onions 😍😍😍
i regularly order those rye crisps, theyre just so good
so happy we have a finnish shop nearby haha
So good!
We have mustamakkara here in Poland, we call it kaszanka
Having lived in Poland for few years, I can tell that kaszanka may look and sound the same, but it most certainly does not taste like mustamakkara. Mustamakkara is my favourite food and I was so happy in Poland to find kaszanka, only to disappoint that its so different
I go to a week of total emersion Finnish language usually once a year. All the food is Finnish, for the whole week. It is amazing!!! I love, love, love Finnish food!
That's great!
1:41 How does it compare to German rye bread?
Less black, more like French rye bread, from the look of it.
Hi, i live in Finland now, but originaly i am from Latvia. In Latvia we have black sausage as well, but we dont eat it with jam, we fried it on pan and then eat. That cheese we have as well, but we eat it as a cheese without the jam 😅
Good stuff! Didn't know that.
I love rye. Would love to try the rye chips! Yum
Good stuff! 😃🙌
I do love Finnish bread cheese. Much nicer than halloumi (less oddly salty).
Good stuff!
Well, i'll never find those foods to try since I'm from Brazil, but I like your channel, I love Finland and it's nice to be in touch with all the things about thy country.
You can visit Finland some day and try them!
@@AleksiHimself Not that easy, but it is on the plans.
What about places to visit from head to toe...common Finnish names...what to do with less many in winter time...both indoors and outdoors...how to practise social skills and get touch with people than voluuntery work and Red Cross friend service...what Finn people think about foreign outside of Capital and big cities...friendliest places for foreign to live...
Hello from USA, This was Finntastic. Thank You.