This young lad came up to us to the North to serve in his mother's ancestors army when called upon and found himself a home amongst us and learned the language. I find that a very positive thing. We are lucky to have a sharp and ballsy young Man to join our tribe.
Happiest does not mean that everything is just smile and laughter everyday. 08:07 Salty taste is the Salmiakki (Ammonium chloride). 14:51 Berries freeze/jam, apples juice/jam, etc.
14:43 Some store those berries for winter, but it is also a quite common to also sell those berries. And the end those sold berries end up to big kitchens that makes food for example schools. And some end up to a factories to make jam and other stuff like that. And those are sold frozen or processed for jams and other stuff on shops. I did pick up too berries back when I was still living with my parents on northern Finland. It is good way to make small, or not so small, money.
Hi Mauro, those berries are free and very healthy, can use them many ways...In my childhood we went to forest pick up berries for the winter time, many hundreds liters , blueberries, lingonberries, cloudberries and all what was in the forest growing ..then all winter time we had vitamines naturally ..Thank you Mauro , have a good Tuesday evening now 🇮🇹❤🇫🇮
Mauro, first of all I'm pretty sure that you have been a Finn in one of previous lives. Sometimes I feel like small talk, but that's kind of rare. Now that I'm a middle aged bastard I like more than I used to do. I force myself to do it with elder people, because some of them are really lonely and after a short small talk I can see how happy they are and it only took me a minute or two while waiting the bus or something like that and we both are happy, so I can recommend it every Finn. Try it even once, please?
I don't mind if you put out a video every day or even every week, but I just wish that you'll make more videos at Some Point That Suits You. Thank you for another great reaction
Wow, great to hear that ❤ I’ve also started taking to strange people in all kinds of situations. In my opinion, it’s sign of consideration for another person if you greet them and say even a few words to them 😊 It has often led to longer conversations and in the end both of us are in a good mood 🥰 Of course I still sense people’s need for their own space :)) 🇫🇮
Some people do drink milk with their meals, but some don't. I drink water. I drink milk only with coffee and hot chockolate drink. And I go and pick berries in the summer. Blueberries and lingonberries for example. And yes, I freeze those so I have berries also in the winter time.
I have to clarify: BILberry is as wild in our forests. “mustikka” in Finnish. BLUEberry is a cultivated bush berry that is cultivated on farms. I usually pick about 100 litres of bilberries and lingonberries every fall 🫐🫐 I put them into the freezer whole. I enjoy them every day on top of oatmeal for breakfast and with milk curd or yogurt for a snack. Sometimes I bake sweet berry pies with them to serve with coffee.
A minor correction to the guy's video: School lunches are only free in elementary and secondary schools, so up to around age 18. In universities they are not free, but they are heavily discounted for students (government pays for most of it). When I was in uni I paid 2,6€ for the school lunch, though I hear it's gone up by maybe 0,30€ since then
Forests and swamps are full of free berries in Finland. Local people make, for example, jams and juices out of berries. Or they freeze them. They are full of vitamins, antioxidants, flavonoids and minerals, so they are very, very healthy. They also sell them to berry dealers, which will sell them to manufacturers. Especially cloudberries. Prices vary from 10 euros/kilo up to 30 euros/kilo depending on supply vs demand. One can make thousands (even tens of thousands) of euros per month in autumn by picking cloudberries and selling them to dealers - and it's tax free (at least for Finns). It's also very hard work, you need to be in good physical shape - but it pays very well. It pays so well, that every autumn people from various countries (from Europe, all the way from Vietnam) come to Finland (especially Lapland area) to pick & sell cloudberries.
There is one video where James speaks only Finnish for a whole day and does quite well. It is funny when he speaks English words, he pronounces the letter R like he always does when speaking English, but for example in the word Rovaniemi he uses a rolling R sound. Italian is easy to speak. You only learn a few key words and add a double vowel at the end, and no one will notice the difference between you and a native speaker. Picking berries in the forest is the thing. Not because you get berries, but because you get to nature, fresh air and silence (unless there are American tourists nearby).
Personally I love milk with food because it's such a perfect neutralizer. Refreshes your palette due to the fats and creaminess. I usually don't sip it too much throughout the meal (unless it's very spicy 😆) but instead just chug a glass after I've finished eating.
When I was a kid we used to go out to the forest the whole family and had picknick buckets with us so we could stay there several hours. Me and my siblings used to compete who would get most and it was hard not to eat of the berries while picking. Our Mother baked blueberry pies, made blueberry soup, jam etc and of course we eat them just like that with milk or whipped cream.
I don't drink milk, and my family has hardly ever consumed milk. I use oat milk. It's tastier and suits me better. That videoclip is from the early days of Salatut elämät ('Salkkarit'), when it was an absolutely great series. I used to watch it with my mom. It brings back good memories. Now my mom is in a nursing home with dementia.
As a kid used to harvest blueberries and lingonberries to get money. Every autumn there are many buyers for those. Even when was 19, collect berries to pay my car cluths repair. 600 marks at the time, not hard job to do.
I think many people drink milk here because we had to at school. Like basically what I remember the options at my school (talking grades 1 to 6 here) were three or four different types of milks and that was it. As an adult I have switched to oat & soy though.
You should react to the Finnish song written by Vexi Salmi called Maailma on kaunis, both Irwin Goodman and Vesa-Matti Loiri versions and tell us which one you prefer.
As a Finn, I love small talk. It comes natural for me and I love speaking all the time anyway. But I have always been little weard here in Finland because of that. 😅 So I think others don't like that here as much as I do. But I do also think that it is also little like habit here that "no small talk". I actually do believe peoples would like to do that more but they just don't know how and it won't come natural for many Finn's. Most do like if tourists talk to them but they just don't know how to start conversation... As a Finn, I drink milk every day, I love salmiakki and sauna and I do think I'm happy here. Why? Because I love our culture, I love other Finn's, we can trust eachothers and our land and coverment, we have free education system and healthcare and we have different seasons so we won't get bord same weather. I'm also proud of our culture, history and sisu and our grandparent who build this country with that sisu thing. And we really do appreciate them and this land. So I believe that for those reasons we are the happiest country in the world. Because of history, we understand that things could also be very different as a bad way in these days if something would went differently in our history. So we appreciate what we have now. That is the secret.
It should be also noted that all earnings made from selling self picked wild berries and mushrooms are exempt from income tax so hard working berry picker can earn hundreds of euros per day tax free during the berry season.👍
Not this salmiakki thing again🙈 Please people!!! Liquorice is NOT salmiakki!!! Liquorice is made of halva. Natures own product. Salmiakki is made from ammonium chloride. If you paint a Toyota with Ferrari red, does it make it a Ferrari 🙄 Well...If you roll liquorice in Salt, it doesn't make it salmiakki. That's stupid. And about the milk thing... True. I read about it from some Science magazine years ago. It is actually really weird thing. Adult persons are supposed to be lactose intollerant, but for some unknown reason, northern people are not. Could it be because we need all extra vitamines 🤔 we add some D in our milk too. Small talk...no. we absolutely hate it😣 when we say something, we mean it. All that stupid exaggeration without really saying nothing is annoying. Plus, we don't lie. If you have a Bad haircut, you don't hear any compliments from a Finn😂 Shoes off...definatelly. Sauna...we love it. You can join If you want to. Sun...yeah, when it's up, it's up. When it's down, you'll wait for it to rise again. Oh, and If you didn't found out it yet..this guy has Finnish roots. So maybe he has heard some Finnish all his Life.
In Finland you still have to buy books in secondary education (“Lukio”) and in the university. Tuition is free. And school lunches past secondary are not free but heavily subsidized.
This young lad came up to us to the North to serve in his mother's ancestors army when called upon and found himself a home amongst us and learned the language. I find that a very positive thing. We are lucky to have a sharp and ballsy young Man to join our tribe.
As a Finn I have absolutely no difficulty in owning the Happiest Country moniker. It's not about happy ha ha, it's about being safe and content.
korvapuusti ja kylmä maito is gooooood
Hot one straight from the oven and with a glass of ice cold milk. Heaven on earth... 😋
Happiest does not mean that everything is just smile and laughter everyday.
08:07 Salty taste is the Salmiakki (Ammonium chloride).
14:51 Berries freeze/jam, apples juice/jam, etc.
14:43 Some store those berries for winter, but it is also a quite common to also sell those berries. And the end those sold berries end up to big kitchens that makes food for example schools. And some end up to a factories to make jam and other stuff like that. And those are sold frozen or processed for jams and other stuff on shops. I did pick up too berries back when I was still living with my parents on northern Finland. It is good way to make small, or not so small, money.
Hi Mauro, those berries are free and very healthy, can use them many ways...In my childhood we went to forest pick up berries for the winter time, many hundreds liters , blueberries, lingonberries, cloudberries and all what was in the forest growing ..then all winter time we had vitamines naturally ..Thank you Mauro , have a good Tuesday evening now 🇮🇹❤🇫🇮
Mauro, first of all I'm pretty sure that you have been a Finn in one of previous lives. Sometimes I feel like small talk, but that's kind of rare. Now that I'm a middle aged bastard I like more than I used to do. I force myself to do it with elder people, because some of them are really lonely and after a short small talk I can see how happy they are and it only took me a minute or two while waiting the bus or something like that and we both are happy, so I can recommend it every Finn. Try it even once, please?
I don't mind if you put out a video every day or even every week, but I just wish that you'll make more videos at Some Point That Suits You. Thank you for another great reaction
Wow, great to hear that ❤
I’ve also started taking to strange people in all kinds of situations. In my opinion, it’s sign of consideration for another person if you greet them and say even a few words to them 😊 It has often led to longer conversations and in the end both of us are in a good mood 🥰 Of course I still sense people’s need for their own space :)) 🇫🇮
3:35 that’s the most popular tv show in Finland called Salatut Elämät, it has 25 seasons and has been airing since 1999
@@christiansalminen3000 and it's absolute crap. 🤣
Some people do drink milk with their meals, but some don't. I drink water. I drink milk only with coffee and hot chockolate drink.
And I go and pick berries in the summer. Blueberries and lingonberries for example. And yes, I freeze those so I have berries also in the winter time.
I have to clarify:
BILberry is as wild in our forests. “mustikka” in Finnish.
BLUEberry is a cultivated bush berry that is cultivated on farms.
I usually pick about 100 litres of bilberries and lingonberries every fall 🫐🫐 I put them into the freezer whole. I enjoy them every day on top of oatmeal for breakfast and with milk curd or yogurt for a snack.
Sometimes I bake sweet berry pies with them to serve with coffee.
@@PapilioArgiolus I have always called mustikka as blueberry, but thanks for the bilberry info. Didn't know that.
A minor correction to the guy's video: School lunches are only free in elementary and secondary schools, so up to around age 18. In universities they are not free, but they are heavily discounted for students (government pays for most of it). When I was in uni I paid 2,6€ for the school lunch, though I hear it's gone up by maybe 0,30€ since then
Oooh, speaking of milk, cold milk combined with eating salmiakki is heavenly!
Forests and swamps are full of free berries in Finland. Local people make, for example, jams and juices out of berries. Or they freeze them. They are full of vitamins, antioxidants, flavonoids and minerals, so they are very, very healthy. They also sell them to berry dealers, which will sell them to manufacturers. Especially cloudberries. Prices vary from 10 euros/kilo up to 30 euros/kilo depending on supply vs demand. One can make thousands (even tens of thousands) of euros per month in autumn by picking cloudberries and selling them to dealers - and it's tax free (at least for Finns). It's also very hard work, you need to be in good physical shape - but it pays very well. It pays so well, that every autumn people from various countries (from Europe, all the way from Vietnam) come to Finland (especially Lapland area) to pick & sell cloudberries.
Today the sun set at 15 pm. So yes, it is dark earlier that at 18 pm.
There is one video where James speaks only Finnish for a whole day and does quite well. It is funny when he speaks English words, he pronounces the letter R like he always does when speaking English, but for example in the word Rovaniemi he uses a rolling R sound.
Italian is easy to speak. You only learn a few key words and add a double vowel at the end, and no one will notice the difference between you and a native speaker.
Picking berries in the forest is the thing. Not because you get berries, but because you get to nature, fresh air and silence (unless there are American tourists nearby).
Personally I love milk with food because it's such a perfect neutralizer. Refreshes your palette due to the fats and creaminess.
I usually don't sip it too much throughout the meal (unless it's very spicy 😆) but instead just chug a glass after I've finished eating.
When I was a kid we used to go out to the forest the whole family and had picknick buckets with us so we could stay there several hours. Me and my siblings used to compete who would get most and it was hard not to eat of the berries while picking. Our Mother baked blueberry pies, made blueberry soup, jam etc and of course we eat them just like that with milk or whipped cream.
I don't drink milk, and my family has hardly ever consumed milk. I use oat milk. It's tastier and suits me better.
That videoclip is from the early days of Salatut elämät ('Salkkarit'), when it was an absolutely great series. I used to watch it with my mom. It brings back good memories. Now my mom is in a nursing home with dementia.
As a kid used to harvest blueberries and lingonberries to get money. Every autumn there are many buyers for those. Even when was 19, collect berries to pay my car cluths repair. 600 marks at the time, not hard job to do.
berry, well juice, frozen hall or make jam
The sauna scene in the beginning was from a television series called “Salatut elämät”
I think many people drink milk here because we had to at school. Like basically what I remember the options at my school (talking grades 1 to 6 here) were three or four different types of milks and that was it. As an adult I have switched to oat & soy though.
You should react to the Finnish song written by Vexi Salmi called Maailma on kaunis, both Irwin Goodman and Vesa-Matti Loiri versions and tell us which one you prefer.
Oh, seen that 24h speaking Finnish, ❤️ed it
As a Finn, I love small talk. It comes natural for me and I love speaking all the time anyway. But I have always been little weard here in Finland because of that. 😅 So I think others don't like that here as much as I do. But I do also think that it is also little like habit here that "no small talk". I actually do believe peoples would like to do that more but they just don't know how and it won't come natural for many Finn's. Most do like if tourists talk to them but they just don't know how to start conversation...
As a Finn, I drink milk every day, I love salmiakki and sauna and I do think I'm happy here. Why? Because I love our culture, I love other Finn's, we can trust eachothers and our land and coverment, we have free education system and healthcare and we have different seasons so we won't get bord same weather. I'm also proud of our culture, history and sisu and our grandparent who build this country with that sisu thing. And we really do appreciate them and this land. So I believe that for those reasons we are the happiest country in the world. Because of history, we understand that things could also be very different as a bad way in these days if something would went differently in our history. So we appreciate what we have now. That is the secret.
The berries.
You either eat them right away or you make jam for long term storage.
Salmiakki is best candy in the world!!
React to Skånska dubbningar(the Scanian version of bad lip reading)
Or like teknik 2000(some old Swedish commercials and stuff)
RIP Kummeli actor Heikki Silvennoinen 😔
Coke with dinner, No. Only with like pizza or fastfood.
No Cocaine with Dinner,Only at nighclubs,Im just joking with you guys haha
as a finn i drink every day around 2 litters milk
eww
It should be also noted that all earnings made from selling self picked wild berries and mushrooms are exempt from income tax so hard working berry picker can earn hundreds of euros per day tax free during the berry season.👍
Not this salmiakki thing again🙈
Please people!!!
Liquorice is NOT salmiakki!!!
Liquorice is made of halva. Natures own product. Salmiakki is made from ammonium chloride. If you paint a Toyota with Ferrari red, does it make it a Ferrari 🙄
Well...If you roll liquorice in Salt, it doesn't make it salmiakki. That's stupid.
And about the milk thing... True. I read about it from some Science magazine years ago. It is actually really weird thing. Adult persons are supposed to be lactose intollerant, but for some unknown reason, northern people are not. Could it be because we need all extra vitamines 🤔 we add some D in our milk too.
Small talk...no. we absolutely hate it😣 when we say something, we mean it. All that stupid exaggeration without really saying nothing is annoying. Plus, we don't lie. If you have a Bad haircut, you don't hear any compliments from a Finn😂
Shoes off...definatelly.
Sauna...we love it. You can join If you want to.
Sun...yeah, when it's up, it's up. When it's down, you'll wait for it to rise again.
Oh, and If you didn't found out it yet..this guy has Finnish roots. So maybe he has heard some Finnish all his Life.
"liquorice is made of halva"
No it's not? 😂 It's made of licorice root (and other ingredients). Halva is a completely different thing.
There is NO "soviet" architecture in Finland. PERKELE!
Juventus 🤗
Suomalaiset marjat ovat terveellisiä.
In Finland you still have to buy books in secondary education (“Lukio”) and in the university.
Tuition is free. And school lunches past secondary are not free but heavily subsidized.
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