Because we're a small country Finns like to highlight supporting Finnish companies/produce/jobs and the flags make it really easy for consumers to know

Reindeer is quite expensive so it's not an everyday meat for most people. It's eaten instead of/more than other meats mostly in families who own reindeer and get their meat that way. Definitely a delicacy for most, I'd eat it a lot more if I could afford it! You should DEFINITELY try sauted reindeer with mashed potatoes and lingonberry jam if you get the chance, it's so good and for sure a traditional finnish (or lappish) dish :)

The eggs are not refrigerated because they're not washed here. That's why they don't need fridge. They will last long time just on shelf. I usually put them in fridge when I get back to home from store but it's not necessary. About eating reindeer: I eat it maybe four to five times a year. The same goes with deer, moose and wild boar.

Regarding eggs. The eggs in the US are washed. Washing the eggs removes the cuticle, so the eggs must be kept at refrigeration temperature. Otherwise, the bacteria could easily enter the egg and multiply to dangerous levels. Most other countries do not wash their eggs. BTW, finnish mustard is the best! Greetings from Sweden!

Reason why some products have that flag, is it means they are mostly made in Finland from finnish things. And what comes to that reindeer. We don't eat it so much. It's more like delicacy and made for special occations. It's like you don't eat turkey everyday

Im kinda surprised that I have never even tried putting mustard and tuna on bread before.. on some good rye bread of course. Gotta try it! Finn here 😅😅

Just wanted to make it clear as someone on the comments said that Karl Fazer, the founder of the Fazer company, was Swiss. That's not true. He was a Finn, born in Helsinki. His parents though were from Switzerland.

In Lapland reindeer dishes are eating more often. In other parts of Finland, it is just a special occasion food. I really love it though. Oh and the chocolate you ate that had the crunchy bits are ginger bread cookies.

The cider is from Sweden. The website doesn’t really tell where the product is from. They just have websites for each country they export to. When it comes to chocolate, you can’t really go wrong with anything from Fazer.

I LIVE for how excited you were to see so much Finnish mustard, I am so happy that you guys like it so much! Also - Tuna and mustard on rye bread: easy and delicious snack! Also, reindeer is expensive even to us Finns, so at least in my family which is half-Laplandish reindeer is a special delicasy. The itty bitty reindeer buttons you had won't give the full spectrum of reindeer. It's almost like beef but with gamier taste. Also Finnish reindeer is their own subspecies of reindeer/european forest deer, so if you want Finnish reindeer, you can only get in Finland unless they say in a menu in a different country that the reindeer meat is from Finland.

If you came all the way from the USA, maybe it doesn't matter so much if an occasional Swedish item ended up in your shopping basket. There still ought to be differences compared to the USA. Finns and Swedes would know there are differences between Swedish and Finnish foods, but they could be harder to spot for visitors from afar. Many dishes and delicacies are shared by both countries, as you'd expect from friendly neighbouring countries with similar cultures/societies and plenty of shared history.

That wooden cup/mug is called "kuksa" in Finnish.

Kopparberg is a Swedish cider, if you want Finnish cider, you should try Sinebrychoff's Golden Cap or Crowmoor cider. Hartwall's Happy Joe is also a Finnish cider

Wow, never thought of combining mustard and tuna. Will definitely try that! Sounds like it would be good with soft ryebread

Kopparberg, Abba and Estrella are Swedish brands. The brands also exists because their licenced in Finland. This is the first time I've ever seen or heard someone eat canned tuna with mustard.

Reindeer, mash potatoes, lingonberry jam, pickles. Sure, I'd eat it like once or twice a week, but only if I could afford it. But at least up north, it is somewhat of a regular dish.

The little old-timey key-shaped Finnish flag symbol you see on many Finnish products is governed by “Suomalaisen työn liitto”, aka “Association for Finnish Work”. You can find their website and more information in English by searching for those names. “Association for Finnish Work” is an industry association whose members may use the flag symbol (a registered trademark officially called ”Avainlippu-merkki”, or the “Key Flag Symbol” in English) to promote the level of “Finnishness” of their products or services to consumers. The symbol is primarily meant to help the domestic audience find and choose Finnish-made products rather than foreign, imported ones. This is all in the name of keeping the wheels of the local industry turning, supporting local jobs etc. so the symbol is essentially promoting voluntary protectionism as a customer choice - but of course foreign visitors who specifically want to buy genuinely Finnish-made products (with some guarantees about their actual level of “Finnishness”) will benefit from this symbol as well. Companies who wish to join the association are charged a membership fee according to their annual gross revenue. The permission to use the Key Flag Symbol is awarded for three years at a time and requires that the product is made in Finland and at least 50% of its cost price pertains to materials and work of domestic origin. An additional royalty (0.01%) will calculated from the gross revenue of the products on which the Symbol is used.

It is perfectly ok to buy Swedish products in Finland, the Finns do it all the time. It is very Finnish to buy Swedish. You can try Pågens gifflar, really good. About chocolate it is even difficult to say where the products are from. Marabou is originally Norwegian, but then it became American and to compete against it, the Swedish Cloetta, which I think is originally Italian, and Finnish Fazer (founded by a Swiss) formed a single company for a while...But yes, Fazer is the best.

I may not be Finnish but I come there every year. Reindeer is very tasty if hey are prepared properly. Actually at the hotel where you stayed in Levi you can eat delicious reindeer. You get reindeer prepared in different ways. Fried, smoked like sausage> Super tasty and already looking forward to it when I go back to Levi on holiday on 11 February. By the way, your videos are very nice and very recognisable. Lots of fun and Tromso is also a very nice place!

Eggs are not washed in Finland like in America and because of that they do not need to be kept in a cool place because it protects the egg

Always good to know the yummy snacks of a country! Jenny ain't waiting for them! Really like the back and forth editing! Jacob had us rolling rating the caramel machiato candy! 😂😂 Really liked this video!

I'm 57 and have eaten reindeer once. I happened to be in a restaurant in central Finland (I'm from the southern coast) with friends and they recommended the sauted reindeer with mashed potatoes and it was great.

You should go to a restaurant and order ” Poronkäristys” thats a good reindeer dish. maybe kind of pricey but have to try it while in Lappland.

We dont eat much reindeer meat. its expensive. i think most known reindeer food is poronkäristys with mushed potatoes and lingonberry jam

Stuff I always bring back from finland: koti or turun mustard, rye bread, oltermanni cheese and salmiakki.

Personally I eat reindeer but like you pointed out it's expensive so most either reserve it for special occasion or know someone that farms them to get it for cheap. More commonly people eat deer instead.

7:52 The logo which is a mixture of the big key and Finnish flag means that the product was manufactured in Finland. The contents / raw material can be literally from anywhere. It's about supporting Finnish work.

I'm a Finn but I don't eat reindeer often because it's expensive. However, in my opinion, reindeer is more ethical meat than pork, beef or chicken, because reindeers live their lives quite freely. In 2008, a Finnish pizza named "Berlusconi" was chosen as the best pizza in the world in New York. "Berlusconi" has reindeer, red onion and chanterelles. The name of the pizza comes from an Italian guy who had insulted Finnish food. 😉

If you like Taffel I suggest testing out Oikia brand chips too. They're a smaller company but they've won over my taste buds fast with their flavors, Musta Melody and Sähäkkä Sabina are my favorites out of them.

That was gingerbread chocolate. We're Christmas-crazy over here.

I really liked how you edited this video! aand yea Im from finland and havent eaten raindeer in years. It might be more common in north tho

North part Finland we eat more reindeer than south part. I eat it at least once a month. It's just like beef but much better.

The cider comes from the town of kopparberg in sweden. And the estrella chips from gothenburg.

I eat reindeer very rarely, maybe once a year in a restaurant. I do eat moose like a few times a month

Workplace's diner has sauted reindeer and smashed potatoes occasionally, maybe once a month. I also like local pizzeria's reindeer pizza, it's so good! And you can also get cold smoked reindeer slices bit like salami slices that you can eat with bread, those are good too. Also there's ready made reindeer soup dish in most food stores that you need to just heat in microwave. About drinks, have you tried the original long drink called Lonkero? It's made of Finnish gin and grapefruit soda, something like 4-5% alcohol.

5:00 Mustard and tuna on fresh rye bread is definitely a good option. I would add some butter, too.

My parents are from Lapland and as I was growing up reindeer was normal food in our household. We ate it like every week. But it's not so common here in south (South Finland). Neither anyone I know is cooking it here in south. So no in my case, reindeer is only common if you live in north Finland.

Reindeer is a delicacy, we eat it as a specoal meal.

yes.... I'm not from Finland but we did the (not-so-Christmasy) tour. was at the slaughter of 7 reindeer and bought 5 reindeer tongues @ €5 per tongue. ( the only part you can eat right away) so yes! reindeer is on the menu! also had the more acceptable reindeer stake @ Santa village ;)

Very traditional alcoholic drink would be a long drink or "lonkero", good alternative for cider. For best reindeer experience, really need to get it in a restaurant. I live in Southern Finland, so it is definitely not common here, not an everyday meat. In the North it's more popular due to local produce. If you like beef jerky, "Kuivalihakundi" has good products, I like the Haba flavor, not too hot, but it is spicy. 150 gram bags go for 12-15 euros, so it is pretty expensive, but lasts for some time. The Dumle bar you had was basically licorice with Dumle filling which is kinda caramel chocolate. Not my favorite either, I would go for real black licorice.

"im going to try this finnish cider" ==> picks up the only swedish cider in the store :D

the box is when u driving u can have 1 in every 15 min to keep u avake =)

I usually have cold-smoked reindeer cold cuts on my toast, which is a great combo (I don't like reindeer with rye bread). But because of the price I often substitute it to cold-smoked horse meat, which is also really nice.

My grandma makes actually best reindeer casserole (or what ever it's called) and we eat it quite often :)

Not sure if someone already mentioned, but the two pastries you ate in the beginning, were both from Finland. You were just reading the wrong price tag haha

It would so much fun to be a "guide of finnish stuff" travellers like you guys!!😍 Mustard and tuna is crazy or is it? Never try it.. Lonkero=long drink is so good and Finland "only" thing and very good alcohol😁 Salmiakkikossu=liquervodka is also very good and dangerous!😁 Reideer is not common food as daily or ever. Kinda northern luxus. Very nice video, thanks!😊💯♥️🇫🇮

Reindeer is food what is eaten usually max two times in year if you go to Lapland while being on holiday. I eat mostly chicken, pork or cow. Sometimes fish or deer or moos. I eat rarely lamb or horse. and even rarelyer reindeer and bear.

Risto Mikkola's reindeer jerky pizza contains, in addition to reindeer jerky, Koskenlaskija sauce, lingonberry mayonnaise, dried lingonberries, potato chips, pickles, thyme sprouts and reindeer dust. HOME PIZZA

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Mustard and tuna? Now something new came to me too.. Must try. Wow. But how did you get the can open upside down? Reindeer is usually eaten quite rarely because it is expensive. Especially in the shops. The owner of the reindeer can sell at a lower price. I usually eat cold-smoked reindeern (Kylmäsavu poro), which is found next to the sausages. However, the taste is quite strong, but good. I love the Pantteri in the green bag. Along with the black ones, there are also colored ones, and the black ones don't have a strong taste either.

Yes. Whit riisipiirakka you should have munavoi=eggbutter. Heat also abit . Love video edit on taste part. Interesting

Mustard with fishfingers is really good.

Can you really try Riisipiirakka being made rigth. U could heat it up and put fish and egg butter on it. Or just buy ready one at cafe or square

1:58 There is no cheese in Karelian pie, it is rice porridge in rye crust.

Now I need to try Finnish mustard!

I'll sometimes eat just bread and mustard, nothing else. Also bread, slices of sausages or meatballs and mustard. Aura is the only option for mustard, it goes with anything!

guy was lucky to pick mild one for mustard, and Kopparberg is Swedish brand, finnish flag means that it was brewed in Finland if remember correctly

I eat reindeer mayby one time/3years. Horse meat tastes great and is cheap so i eat it weekly as cold cuts and as a steak sometimes.

12:14 Quite sure all Fazer products have an English description as well 🤔

We eat dear, moose and smaller animals and birds in south in restaurants etc. and north they eat more raindeer. Poronkäristys is the traditional raindeer food. I think we had it even in school back days. But it lives north and its quite rare for normal southern people.

Inside that chocolate was gingerbread... It is holiday flavor.

As a Finn, I would eat reindeer with smashed potatoes ("poronkäristys") regularly if it were cheaper. You can get the lower quality parts of reindeer with sensible prices but those are definitely worse than high quality reindeer meat which I would love to eat. However, high quality reindeer meat is even more expensive than high quality beef tenderloin.

Dried pastries from a convenvience store yumm. 😅 Taste of finland I guess.

Some weird reason i´d missed this episode completly, but just like in other episodes where you eat something i´ve commented so this is not different of those other vids. Dumle were actualy originally swedish lollipop stick that had heart of thick and sticky caramel and covered with chocolate. Well it tasted good and were popular in Finland too. So Fazer bought it from swedes and made also better known wrapped paper candy version of it and it became hit. That candy is softer inside and is easier to eat. After that theres been lots of different Dumle things like that little bar you purchased. There is also been at least liquirice and mint versions of the candy and big bars like that crunchy ginger bread chocolate that has some small dumle caramel drops in the chocolate. Ilaughed so hard that you were eating Abba tuna with Kopparberg cider, both swedish but still available here as well. Only thing finnish were the mustard. Swedish doesn´t have decent mustard so once upon a time swedes bought that mustard company and builted factory to Poland to produce it cheaper. Then polish bought it from swedes and after that finnish bought it back from Poland. When it returned in Finland production also returned here too. Some finnish boycotted Turun sinappi when it were made in Poland so at those few years that it were manufactured only in there became other comppany to make finnish mustard Auran sinappi. Turku is actually city by the western coast and Aura is in the neiborgh city of Turku. So that time people bought that other mustard becouse it were made in Finland. Now we have those bouth. And jes, like in last video comment i propably recommented that little bit of mustard in the peasoup makes it so much better (at least someone i recommented it 😄). Hopefully you didn´t get hungry at this time after my comment 😂!

Jenny, your hat is so cute! Where did you buy it? In Finland? I would like to get one🥰🥰 Thank you for the awesome video!

Next time you guys should test smoked herring = savumuikku if you are in to fish. With smashed potatoes. 😋

Mustard and tuna... wow.. have to try that. The hotter version of that same mustard is my favorite. There is a story behind that brand. It used to be Turun Sinappi which was the more favorite brand at the time, but then Swedish company bought it and changed the recipe just a bit. Finns did not like that, so the Aura was established to bring back the old Turin Sinappi.. In truth, there is no real difference between them, i doubt anyone can notice the difference in a blind test.

I think I need to try mustard and tuna...

i'm from helsinki and i LOOOOVE reindeer. don't eat it often b/c of the price. but when in lapland, you have to have reindeer, even though you're a finn in finland. "poronkäristys" might be the best dish ever according to me and one or two people i've spoken to about it. like. my favorite trio is: kebab, hamburgers, pizza. but. "poronkäristys" might take the crown still!

you gotta get the strong mustard !!!!!!!!!!!

As weird as it sounds mustard and cucumber is a great vegetarian snack, especially at an outdoor festival oi the summer, does not need refridgeration, keeps you hydrated, and somewhat evokes the feeling of eating a sausage.

Every reindeer is domestic, so naturally, the people who own reindeer probably eat them a lot. Overall I don't think reindeer's meat is very common dish, as it's quite expensive, but you can basically get it anywhere in Finland so technically we do eat it "a lot". It's probably used more like a celebrational dish on special occasions. 'Poronkäristys' is probably the most common dish and even some luncheons have it on their menu some times, more on the northern Finland I think but it's not uncommon south either.

You are not alone, tuna and mustard are a great combination. eindeer is not a Finnish food in the sense that it is eaten often. It is mainly served in hotels and restaurants and places for tourists,

4:06 - Yes, mustard with tuna IS weird.. (and you got the wrong mustard, the mild one.. ;))

yall should rlly try liquorice with chocolate, in my opinion its really good! you guys should also try more fazer products ^^

Riisipiirakka, rice pie as Karjalanpiirakka, Karelian pie. Kopparberg is Swedish brand

Dont worry, ppl eat "wild" Reindeers, not those one which have a name.

I would love to eat reindeer more often because it's delicious and more ethical than beef, pork or chicken. And no, never in burger, too expensive and precious to be wasted that way. Usually sauted, sometimes in steaks. During the peak of pandemic restaurants in Lapland weren't buying nearly as much reindeer meat as usual, so it was quite cheap to buy it straight from the herders, around 200€ for an entire calf. I bought one and it lasted for a while. Can't remember the exact weight of the meat, but it was around 25 kg, including some bones. Also, it's almost criminal to visit Lapland and not eat proper reindeer. That reindeer jerky was actually pieces of reindeer sausage.

You really should try a portion of reindeer in a respectable restaurant in Northern Finland. Some reindeer beef jerky produce is nothing compared to the real deal. I think a typical course of proper reindeer costs something like 30-40 €, and consists of the sauteed reindeer itself (swimming in butter, beer, fat, salt and pepper), with mashed potatoes, pickled cucumber and lingonberries. The feast of gods.

nice video!

Reindeer is definitely more of a Lapland food. Rest of the country it's more of a special treat every now and then. I live in the south and it's been over 15 years since I was last up there so it's been a while since I ate reindeer.

You can store eggs in the fridge or in the room temperature but don’t do both.

Did you heat the mulled wine (glögi)? Just steam. Do not boil

l live in Helsinki. Me and any of my friends has never eaten reindeer. We eat mainly noodles because food is too expensive... of course bigger meal at school or work were its free or we get dinner cheaper.

Reindeer is a regional dish. I eat maybe once a year. Students drink Kopparberg on the ferry to Stockholm. Kalakalle kalakukko is our local dish. You can get fresh kalakukko at marketplace in Kuopio or Alahovin Viinitila.

That cider was Swedish but they just have localtized website. Typically we Finns eat beef, pork and chicken like everyone else. Reindeer meat is so expensive that it really isn't everyday food. That symbol in products that is a key and the flag of Finland guarantees that the degree of domesticity of the product is at least 50%. Typically it's over 80%.

mustard and tuna goes so well together! and subway is the criminal for taking mustard off the shelves >:(

I would eat reindeer more often if I could afford it... but now it's just holiday thing for me.

So, rice pie you didn't like it so much. I recommend to get Karelian pie with egg butter from a cafe or bakery, heated up. It's a traditional salty pastry.

most do not eat reindeer a lot coz it is insanely expensive so it is more like rare delicacy for most... other that is even more expensive is moose meat but that is kinda rare coz moose can be hunted only for like a month or two... reindeers are hearded so it is more accessible... but yeah pizzerias and restaurants do have reindeer as a option but dining there is obviously rather expensive too

Eating reindeer is there with going ice swimming. I have maybe had reindeer once or twice in my life, and never done ice swimming. I'm Finnish.

You bought mild version of mustard. I suggest trying hot or strong version instead. Reindeer is too expensive, same as bear meat and so on. So no, we usually do not buy it. But if you live at north you eat it more often same as deer and moose (specially if you hunt).

12:30 Glögi should be warm.

Finnish flag means made in finland. If you wanna taste some alcohols, i recommend salmiakki kossu, jaloviina, fisu shotti and Minttu viina

You gotta try Taffel Jumbojuusto which are cheese and bacon flavored corn snacks with real cheddar dust on them. They are like huge cheetos but not as hard.(and taste better)

Dumble is if I remember correctly Swedish brand.

Tap water is not always safe. You can shower or wash your hands everywhere but always be careful

13:16 - You really need to try some good raindeer stew or stake... That jerky was just a jerky. And no, we do not eat raindeer all the time. It is expensive, but OH SO GOOD! :) **edit** And now I'll go to see your other vids and commentspam them as well. :P

If the reindeer would be cheaper I would eat it it all the time, I love it in every form but my favorite one is dried Lapland reindeer meat, but it is so expensive all most 150€/kg if you buy it from store, but luckily I have some relatives that makes it, so when ever I visit lapland it is must have treat for Me.

Beaver Brand Hot Sweet Mustard is the closest to Finnish style mustard in the US.