Brit Reacts to 25 Weird Things about Life in Finland (American POV)
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- Do Finns really do all of these? Are they weird? Let me know in the comments section below.
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The two doors are because it prevents the heat from escaping when you open the outside door in the winter. Appartment buildings usually have these too, and in that case it brings privacy and dampens the sounds from the hall and vice versa :)
new buildings don't have them doors anymore because of fire safety. it works very well if it is a farmhouse, you leave your boots and smelly clothes in "eteinen" where it is not in house. if necessary you strip all of your clothes there before you go and take shower.
@@Gibbetoo there is also an equipment that can be installed on the door to make it firesafe so the door still opens If there's a fire
The pharmacy info was a bit off. You can get bandages and some other items from regular stores. Mostly things that need an licence to distribute are sold only at pharmacy like painkillers and stronger. Basically almost anything medication that could be miss used are sold from pharmacy. With some tiny exceptions like melatonin you can get from regular stores but they are weaker strength than the once you can get from pharmacy.
Yeah, you can get things that are categorised as supplements (vitamins, mineral supplements, weak melatonin, some antacids) as well as anything that's considered part of first aid supplies from most normal stores, but once they cross a certain level of strength, they count as _medical_ supplements and are in pharmacies. A lot of people like to buy even the weaker stuff from pharmacies though, since quality control for things categorised as medical supplies is better.
Cheese slicer is very common in the Nordic countries, and in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany
yeah like not having one is kind of wierd to me :) how do yall slice your cheese? :O
@@lullebulle2 I have one but rarely use it since I often buy prey sliced cheese
@@ykalon
So the countries that eat salty liquorice also! 🤗
@@ykalon
Prey sliced cheese have hihger price so i buy it really REALLY rarely.
you are so right about small talk, if i don't have anything to talk about, i won't force it😅 i'll happily go 1h car drives in silence if there's nothing meaningful to talk about
Many Finnish shower enclosures have a raised perimeter to direct most of the water to the floor drain. All the bathrooms with a shower have to be waterproofed by the building code. One neat thing about whole room floor drains and waterproof floors is that cleaning the bathroom is easy, use some cleaning product if necessary, take the shower and rinse it all down.
You can definitely get stuff like regular bandaids and contact solution from ordinary grocery stores in Finland. Vitamins and other supplements as well. However, it's true that the pharmacies will have a much wider variety of these products.
The only thing you cannot get anywhere but from pharmacies is actual medicine, because of safety reasons. The people working in the grocery store aren't trained in instructing you about medicine use, so they legally cannot sell it, only pharmacies with actual pharmacists can. It prevents people from misusing medication and unintentionally hurting themselves with it by, for example, overdosing or mixing medications.
I think she just doesn't know where to search for them in the store, or she mostly goes to small shops. Those small local corner shops may have bandaids but definitely won't have anything more specific, such as contact solution. You'll need to go to a bigger store for those.
Cheese slece in
Sweden to
that its normal.
Seven for sunset was a great guess. Here in Helsinki the sun sets today at 19:07
she definitely has some flaws on her list. you definitely can get bandaids from all regular stores.. most often even from a kiosk. also bottled water is common in stores and not hard to find at all.. just not in the quantities she is used to. also most people that want drivethru coffee, they just go to any fast food drive trough and get coffee that way.
she also definitely had a finnish surname so quite sure her husband is finnish.
oh and you have some trouble with your pc/browser. looked like hardware acceleration problems on the browser to me.
Another reason why it's not common with drive through coffee shops is that in Scandinavia you usually sit still in peace at the table when you drink coffee, never when you are on the go, it has to do with "fika". So I don't think such coffee shops would work in Scandinavia, it's simply not our culture to drink coffee that way, and also not something I would like to change it to.
"Never when you are on the go" isnt true tho. You see lots of people carrying coffee cups, mugs etc. when going to work etc.
Also people just drink coffee at home or work. Off work there's no reason to hurry and even if you have highly mobile job, you get breaks.
@@Ex0rz "lots of people carrying coffee cups, mugs etc" - I don't know where you live, but in Stockholm where I live you can exceptionally see a few, but definitely not very many.
@@LasseEklof In Finland take away coffee is very common in many places. I used to drive taxi for living and i can asure you that about half of the clients there would take coffee to go. I took sometimes, but as i had coffee brake and some nice collegue there i stayed in and drinked the coffee there.
@@ArchieArpeggio Okay, I'm not saying anything against you because I don't live in Finland, but I didn't think it would differ as much as it apparently does between Finland and Sweden. Very interesting anyway.
Oooo, the most practical is a bathroom is a wetroom. Imagine how much you have to clean with kids, in a wetroom with a heated floor you just spray the whole thing toilett everything with the shower and just leave while it dry. And about the brands, it is because in the nordic counties we rather buy quality stuff and keep it for a long time. The names, arabia, ittala, finlayson is quality stuff with good design. We have that in sweden too, kosta, orrefors, rörstrand…
Refills on soda???? That is a recipe for obesity.
The coffe thing is serius matter in the Nordics.. its time to relax and/or socialising! Wonder why they dont have tea drive trough in UK? We do have Starbuck, but those is located in areas with a lot of public transportation often indoors of trainstaions!
The cheese slicer is invented in Norway and we use it in Sweden too
In Denmark they have another type of slicer with a wider gap, since their cheese is not as hard as in Sweden and Finland. I don’t know about Norway. At least when I as a Swede worked in Denmark, I had to bring a Swedish slicer so we could eat the Swedish cheese.
@@helenalissing6475 True in Denmark they use jigsaw.
i have allways have it was invention in sweden but i might be wrong
In Finland we have different slicer for Hard or soft cheeses
Fully grown adults drinking soda with meals is weird as fuck if you ask me
And its effects are clearly visible
Ventoniemi is a distinctly Finnish surname so yeah she’s married to a Finn
Yes Finland is very similar to Sweden, lots of Swedish speakers even. But we can buy pain killers and similarnin grocery stores in Sweden
But that is something that was changed a while ago, before that so was it restricted.
If everything stopped because it snowed here in Finland, our economy would crash and burn so hard every single winter, it's just not pheasible, we have to keep everything running no matter the weather
Alko (Finland), Systembolaget (Sweden) and Vinmonopolet (Norway) it is Denmark that is the odd one out.
She's not a McGyver type of person. If she want's a drive thru coffee, just ddrive thru a McDonalds for instance 😅 How hard can it get?
Again the common error, private property is also included into everyones rights, just not peoples actual yards or cultivated fields.
So youre completely free to roam privately owned forests.
To Americans this is understandably a completely alien, unthinkable thing.
💡Yes The Cheese Slicer! I can not understand why it hasn't found it's way to every home all around the world! That IS weird. So useful, the most used tool in the kitchen. There also is different type slicer for softer cheese.
💡Yes, everyone has Moomin something.
💡Finnish bathrooms are built very differently, they are very carefully waterproofed and ventilated so there's no need for separate shower booths & stuff. Also, people are expected to get their own shower curtain rods if they want to have one. Bathroom won't stay wet long after shower as long as it is properly built. There's strict guidelines how they are supposed to be.
💡Yes, there is no weather too bad. Everything keeps going no matter what. I have once walked to work when it was -42'C, but that was late 90's, haven't been that cold here where I live since, But in most northern Finland it still sometimes is.
💡Milk thing is weird, milk is for babies. Not all places have free refills for coffee, but it can be like cheaper than 1st cup.
💡Travelling to Iceland is ridiculously expensive. Also, the volcanoes.
💡Coffee drive-throughs wouldn't be popular n Finland, because Finns want to brew their coffees themselves at their homes. Also, those people who live the busy city life, use rather public transport and bikes etc, so they might as well go inside coffee shops. American people have these drive-throughs because they don't usually make their coffee at home, but grab it on their way to work and want to make it as quick as possible. (Sorry to shoot down this idea😔)
That's all folks ❣😄
atleast I have kinda like a channeling system in my bathroom where all the water goes straight from shower to sewer but the sewer outlet is still located outside the shower.
The slicers in Scandinavia everywhere 😂
You can get band-aids and prescription free medicine like headache pills etc in all grocery stores in Finland. Not sure what she is on about.
Bandaids yes, but any type of medicine not.
Why should you take your Windows down in the Winter to get Coffee so the inside of the car gets cold again makes no sence get out of the car fast instead
Also the car windows might very well be frozen shut. I once drove to a fast food drive-through and then the windows didn't open 😅
Every-mans Rights *include* private property, that’s the main point.
If you don't have a cheese slicer, then how in heck you cut cucumbers?
I prefer cut cucumbers with a knife because I like to keep the crunch with thicker slices. Cheese slicers are a great plan B, for flipping things in a pan.
Still water is called "Lähdevesi" (=Spring Water) or "ilman poreita" (=without bubble) and there are always 2-3 different brands in Supermarkets, but sure much more water with bubble exist.. In Finland medicine is regulated, whereas in USA it is a Supermarket level and if you compare the amounts of ingredients in USA you have 5-6 times more and it is rather easy to end up in overdose and make damage to your liver or kidneys. Yeah in Finland it is not a big issue to walk in urban area and also a cold weather is not a big issue - in USA you drive everywhere which makes a havoc on the weight management and over weight so..
I love wet rooms. My bathroom is fully tiled, floors and walls, and it was one of the reasons I bought the place. I do have a showercurtain though, so not EVERYTHING gets splashed when I take a shower. And generally the floor is made so that water will run back towards the outlet. I don't need to scrape the water back at any rate. Bonus is that cleaning the bathroom is super easy, you just remove any towels and then spray the whole room and let dry. Done.
We just waterproof the entire bathroom instead of just the shower area. It's mandated in the building codes so it's not something you can cheap out on.
We don't have drive-through coffee shops because we respect the coffee. If you're in enough of a hurry that you want to have the coffee in your car, you don't have the time to have coffee. Just get to where you're going and have coffee there. If you have time to have coffee, you have time to get out of your car and sit down with your coffee, and then continue about your day afterwards.
Also, while it's not _illegal_ to eat or drink (non-alcoholic drinks) while you drive, the mandatory classes we have to take to get a driving license usually make it very clear just how bad of an idea it is to do something like that while behind the wheel, especially when the roads are so often treacherous due to weather.
The 2 door thing is most likely to help with the cool, if you only have the entrence door it can get very cold. 2 doors help to get it more insulaited.
We love monon proucts in Sweden too
Over the American style drive thru coffee shop, i wish the Dutch style coffee shops to Finland😇
This :D
The US even has drive through ATMs, they are so ridiculously car-centric and if they could, they'd probably never get out of their cars ever besides when they got back to their house 😅
There is a drive through ATM in my Swedish city as well, but that's just an ATM that you can access by car, it's obviously also used by people by foot or bike.
When there is -20 C outside, you don't want to just open the door directrly to that coldness. That little space between those two doors are a bit like airlocks in the space station. It helps to keep your house warm at winter. It also prevents your pets from escaping.
...and I thinkt here is something wrong with the bathroom floor if water goes everywhere during taking the shower. Before taking the shower, set a small towel on the floor to step on when you come under the shower head so you don't move water everywhere with your wet feet. The way Finnish bathrooms are built prevents water damages if built correctly.
Airconditioners are becoming more common in finland as heatwaves are becoming more frequent
Come on, she should have understood that these brands is ONLY important, because its "MADE IN FINLAND"... We aren't just proud, but we Finns are also very patriotic aswell....
Why? We have always been a small country, that many would have loved to conquer and to humiliate and conquer aswell........
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Finland mainly has Colombian dark roast. Very high quality.
Finland sun rises today 7:10-7:25 and goes Dow at 18:55-19:17
mc donalds and burger king have coffee drive thru.
Today in Helsinki sun came up at 7.14 and went down at 19.06
To the defense of American cheese there are many good ones. But yes, individually wrapped Kraft slices… Shudder.0
Regarding Alko, yes it is similar to the Swedish system, but with one major difference, in Sweden, the maximun alcohol percentage you can buy in a regular store is 3,5%, but in FInland, you can buy anything containing up too 8%
Drinking coffee while driving could easily cause accidents.
I don't know the laws in Finland, but in Sweden it's illegal to use a cellphone while driving.
I think that the "fika" culture is all over the Nordics, it's not just having your quick fix of caffeine, it's more of a sit down and relax situation
Uhmm... Finns drink the most coffee in the whole world per capita. We take our coffee seriously.. You absolutely can find bad and good coffee here too, but you can also find it everywhere.
Almost everything applies to Sweden too
Uhhh, in Finland in my apartment in summer its +28-30 C day and night.
Just now in autumn its gone down to +22 C.
I have three fans going in summer whrn Im around.
They dont have coffe in USA 😂😂😂 Anf you dhall drive not drink 😂
As a finn that's been to England a few times, the coffee in Finland is miles better than anything I've had in England when travelling. You guys probably have some great artisanal places to get coffee but can't say I have experience with that. Some people bring coffee with them from Finland when they travel to other countries, and while I don't exactly agree with it, I also can't blame them. The Nordic countries, the Baltics, France and Italy have good coffee cultures too but I can't speak for other countries.
I could see drive-through coffee shops becoming a thing here. Not really because of the cold but it might be better for older people not having to risk slipping on ice just for a cup of coffee while on the road. And we are likely the most car-centric nation in Europe because we're far and few in relation to the size of the country.
And yeah, almost certain she's married to a finn. Her last name was clearly a finnish one.
My first encounter with free soda refills was in Burger king, and I remember feeling so weird about it. First I was so exited that really, I can get all the soda I want by just paying for one? But then when I actually went to fill my mug, I felt like I was doing something illegal. I was stressing about that will they remember that I already paid for the soda, as I just went and took it without going to the cashier again.
Loved the #22 reaction. I knew it was coming immediately when you said you have a secret to tell :D
We think that the people that comes to talk with you some nonsense are annoying. Mostly old lonely people does that.
I was about to say that i don´t have anything related to Moomins, but i actually have one empty cookie (tin) jar. But i actually have several mugs with Disney characters and some glasses too (for my kids).
It is getting dark about 19:30 here at Tampere. 20:00 it is pitch black.
I actuly told her in that videos comment section that there is some places with free soda refils, but then it is usually buffet restaurant. In buffets you can drink as much you want. But it depends whst kind of food they serve is there soda, milk or/and juice. Coffee refils also are the same in lunches yes, but not in coffee houses, hotels or gas stations. Instead you can get the refil cheaper. Also you can buy some bandates from almost any store.
Well mostly in burger places you can get coffee from drive trough and everywhere you can take coffee as take away. Most times that is quicker than go to line and wait your turn in McDonalds car lane. (i told her this too)
Well, the generic food stuff as coffee and most pastries is very similar in all the Nordics so test them in Sweden, Finland or Denmark and save money.
No, we stop for coffee. We drink it inside a cafeteria inside a porcelain cup. And then we continue.
Ha ha I was sure of that people had that form of cheese-slicer in the UK too😊 Its so practical and so standard here (in the Nordic countries) that I assumed it was something almost universal.. (Or at least common all over the West).
cheease slicer is Swedish invention
Haha yeah, we have no drive throughs in general. The only thing that has it in my home city is McDonalds.
We drink drip coffee 99% of the time, and the caramel lattes are reserved for the hipsters in central Helsinki where no one owns a car.
The cheese slicer was invented in Norway 1925. In our nordic countries we like to sit down and fika. Not going around in a car. A lot of the things she talked about is the same in the nordic countries. You have Greenland and Faroe Islands wich is danish to check out too
20:40 in sweden i once bought some non-sparkling norwegian water
it's a bit unusual, although i've seen bottles of swedish water in some more restaurant like places
No you can today by alcohol up to 8% in grocery stors in finnland up to 21 a clock.
She's married to a Finn. There's another video from her about cabin life in Finland and you can she her husband in the video. There was also an article on Iltasanomat (finnish tabloid) about her move to Finland.
I was so suprized to hear cheese slicers weren´t a thing every where, its such a good kitchen tool, and it´s great if you want to make cucumber slices to.
the concept in america whith free stuff is you will pay in hidden fees and tipping .
All people natur rights is not about picking berries or fruit . you can camp and cook on a fire with responsible care of the nature. On comunity properties in forest you can camp over nigth without asking. after that you have to ask .but yes everything you can eat from the ground is free .
It's really funny when a person sees for the first time such an amazing invention as a cheese slicer.
Yeah summer has gone away in Finland, still wearing shorts trying to see how long I can go this year 😅
7 O'clock dark? More like 2 O'clock
conversations should be earnest
Driving on the left is sinister…
Her sir-name is finnish (married to a Finn).
It's already getting dark at like 8.30 pm
If you have AC to cool the house down, insulation also helps keeping the cool in.
How does a Britt slice cheese?
Hii! :)
Drivethu coffeeshop 😂😂😂😂😂
Drive trough, mean. Never going To happen here. Not In million year😂
Turning right on red is actually a genius American invention. There is little to none risk at turning right on red because you don't cross the cross roads and there is usually a lane or a shoulder which is basically only used for turning right on red. Although in Europe there are lights separately for turning right. Amber light just tells that the lights are turning red from green.
Turning right on red only works if you're in a place with no pedestrians (that's why it's so prevalent in the USA). Red light for cars means pedestrian crossings have green light, and driving instead of waiting carries a very real risk of running someone over.
@@akaittou but you still have to stop even if turning right on red. Also we still have those lights in Europe where there is green light for turning right and pedestrians also have green light. So in that case it’s even more safe as the red light still means you have to stop unlike in Europe.
@@tompsu9536 The separate lane light for turning works differently from turning on red, as it usually only overlaps partially with the pedestrian green and is placed in a way that has it visible for the pedestrians as well, so they can time their crossing for either part depending on their needs. If you're walking in an intersection where the lights also have audio tickers for visually impaired foot traffic, the difference is especially easy to spot.
Of course I'm only speaking from my own experience, Europe is a large continent with a lot of variety. This is how it works in southern Finland though.