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Finnish Bassists Club

#41
Bett said:
Here's the homepage of the newspaper http://www.raivaaja.org/
and here's the subscription forms [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]
It costs $33 a year and it's a weekly newspaper. My mom was just telling me the other week that she didn't even renew her subscription this year and they still send it. It says on the site the fee is really only a donation, since it's a non-profit organization.

Yeah, I think that's the same one we were looking at. It was the FinnFun weekend we were thinking of going to. We didn't get there last year, but maybe this year we'll be able to go.
Have you ever been to Finland? I always go every summer vacation with my mom and brother (my dad gets to stay home and take care of the pets). Most of my family is in Savonlinna and we spend the summer there and at my grandmother's cottage. There's an opera festival every year at Olavinlinna castle in Savonlinna. Then on St. Olaf's day there's free admission to the museums and the castle in the town and there's people partying everywhere. Finland's really a nice place. I can't wait to go again this year.
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Yes I have been there, I had a very unusual experiece in Savonlinna, one I did not expect. I will write on that tomorrow or as soon as I can. I also had great stops in Espoo(sp?),
Lapeenranta, and further in Hyvaskyla.

I asked for a coffee to go in the gas station on pitstop,
and the young lady said to me, 'We don't have 'TO GO CUPS',
"Coffee is too important to drink out of styrofoam". So sit
down for a minute after your CLEAN BATHROOM break, and
enjoy a coffee and a snack with your wife and family.

This could change your whole attitude about coffee and how
we should view it.

I admit, I got the same response in Hveragerdi, Iceland.
Home of the worlds best Northern hothouses.

Can I get a coffee to go?
We don't have 'To Go' cups...

I got a hot chocolate cup, but it was a fight, Dang they are
stubborn up there.

Yeak, thanks for the paper link. They will keep sending it,
if you get 5 bucks extra, send it. I think keeping Finnish
American culture alive is worth the investment.

Kiitos

Edit: I'l edit it tomorrow, bedtime for me ...
 
#43
Ok, we're up to 16 now with arskas.
Yep that's Finland. Coffee in the morning, coffee for lunch. Hey, why not some coffee for supper too? :D Finland has the world record annual per capita consumption of coffee. As of 2003 it was 11.4 kg. I remember seeing it in a world records book I got some years back. I wonder why people in Finland don't seem, that hyper... Maybe they've grown immune to caffeine. I like coffee, but not if it's really strong. My mom will make coffee and put in a huge amount of the ground coffee with less water. I can't put in enough sugar to make it taste right. My coffee's usually more watered down and filled with sugar and cream. I have a teacher who has a coffee maker in the classroom. He just makes coffee and drinks it black without anything else in it. He's always with his mug in his hand. He's from Pennsylvania though.
 
#46
Bett said:
Ok, we're up to 16 now with arskas.
Yep that's Finland. Coffee in the morning, coffee for lunch. Hey, why not some coffee for supper too? :D Finland has the world record annual per capita consumption of coffee. As of 2003 it was 11.4 kg. I remember seeing it in a world records book I got some years back. I wonder why people in Finland don't seem, that hyper... Maybe they've grown immune to caffeine. I like coffee, but not if it's really strong. My mom will make coffee and put in a huge amount of the ground coffee with less water. I can't put in enough sugar to make it taste right. My coffee's usually more watered down and filled with sugar and cream. I have a teacher who has a coffee maker in the classroom. He just makes coffee and drinks it black without anything else in it. He's always with his mug in his hand. He's from Pennsylvania though.
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good Juhla-Mikka coffee, Karjalan piirakat or Reilu rye bread with egg butter and edam, and some pulla... I could eat that for every meal...
 
#47
Bett said:
Ok, we're up to 16 now with arskas.
Yep that's Finland. Coffee in the morning, coffee for lunch. Hey, why not some coffee for supper too? :D Finland has the world record annual per capita consumption of coffee. As of 2003 it was 11.4 kg. I remember seeing it in a world records book I got some years back. I wonder why people in Finland don't seem, that hyper... Maybe they've grown immune to caffeine. I like coffee, but not if it's really strong. My mom will make coffee and put in a huge amount of the ground coffee with less water. I can't put in enough sugar to make it taste right. My coffee's usually more watered down and filled with sugar and cream. I have a teacher who has a coffee maker in the classroom. He just makes coffee and drinks it black without anything else in it. He's always with his mug in his hand. He's from Pennsylvania though.
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I might be wrong but I heard something that the Finnish market actually imports special brands of coffee to get the stronger taste.

Yes, coffee in the morning, 10am, at lunch, 2pm, 5pm, and 8pm, and lots of 'pulla'* too. Still, the Finns are generally skinny and fit. Maybe one reason is that you could see at prime time TV programs about exercise and preventive health. --Kent

*) sweet buns.
 
#49
Yeah I love rye bread too, and karjalanpiirakat with that egg/butter mixture on top. Yum! :)

Have you tried Karjalanpaisti or poronkäristys? That's some good traditional food too.

I don't care for Finnish cheese though. They make better cheese in Sweden and the middle/southern Europe. Exceptions exist, like the Koskenlaskija processed cheese and Aurajuusto, a nice blue cheese. :)
 
#50
Deacon_Blues said:
Yeah I love rye bread too, and karjalanpiirakat with that egg/butter mixture on top. Yum! :)

Have you tried Karjalanpaisti or poronkäristys? That's some good traditional food too.

I don't care for Finnish cheese though. They make better cheese in Sweden and the middle/southern Europe. Exceptions exist, like the Koskenlaskija processed cheese and Aurajuusto, a nice blue cheese. :)
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I'm from the west coast of Finland, so we never got used to eating tiny fish inside bread :-) (kalakukko.)

Turunmaa is a very good cheese. There was this really good cheese (Swiss believe it or not) done by the milk from our farm south of Kristinestad that was exported around Europe, but I don't think it's produced any longer. Anyway, I ended up eating so much swiss cheese as a kid so I got tired of it. Now it's tasty again.

--Kent
 
#51
Mumma (is that right?) has made me a stew, but I'm not big on stews at all... I had reindeer at my wedding in Finland and it was real good... I really like Grandma's carrot soup, plus she breaks out the booze at night, Mannerheim Vodka and Lakka, and keeps me topped up real well... I love Finnish coffee shops, sandwich shops etc..., I'm very simple :D.

I don't know where she gets her Edam and if it's Finnish, but I like it a lot more than Dutch or any Jarlsberg etc...

Stockman's bakery makes me very happy!
 
#52
Nope, my coffee's never transparent. That'd just be coffee flavored water. It's just not ink black either. I usually have a cup on weekday mornings so I don't get tired in school. Then I may have tea at night. Speaking of coffee, I just saw an article in the newspaper today about overdosing on caffeine. It said though that coffee isn't usually dangerous. It's caffeine pills and energy drinks that do the harm.
Mmmm... Karjalan piirakoita. My second cousins' grandmother bakes around 200 of those every day and sells them to some stores. I like rye bread too, as does my mom, so my grandma in Finland always sends us some in a package :ninja: I really like leipäjuusto too. A university here in CT started making leipäjuusto. There was an article in the paper sometime last year. I haven't found out where they sell it though. Amazon.com sells Finncrisps now. The grocery store my dad got them from stopped selling them, but he found them online.
 
#53
We could form a Coffee Club while we're at it. I didn't drink coffee a while a go but since I stop drinking Pepsi Max I'm drinkin coffee like there is no tomorrow. Black and strong as hell.

Funny, I didn't know Finnish drink coffee more than average. I thought it was just the booze. Oh well.

Has there been Finnish GTGs? There should be.
 
#54
Finn Crisp is nice, you could find them here and there in California, usually in the health store section.

But Oululainen, ouch, that's hard to find. They used to sell it in the 90:ies over here in California, but I have not seen them on sale for a long time, sigh.

Oululainen multigrain/rye crisps saved me from a terrible stomach sickness after treking around Mt Annapurna in Nepal in the mid 90ies...

--Kent
 
#55
Rye bread is the king of breads! Seriously.

ksandvik said:
I'm from the west coast of Finland, so we never got used to eating tiny fish inside bread :-) (kalakukko.)
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Would you happen to be from Närpiö/Närpes?

I'd like to live in USA at some point of my life for at least some time and I hope my future career will enable this. Me and my wife were on a vacation in Florida for two and a half weeks in last December/January and I really liked it. After the trip I found out that Lake Worth (less than an hour's drive from Fort Lauderdale were we stayed for a part of the vacation) has got a fairly large Finnish community. It would've been nice to see that place. Medical treatment in the states was quite expensive though, 1800 bucks for a four hour hospital visit. Never been more happier about my insurance :hyper:
 
#56
Implosion said:
Rye bread is the king of breads! Seriously.



Would you happen to be from Närpiö/Närpes?

I'd like to live in USA at some point of my life for at least some time and I hope my future career will enable this. Me and my wife were on a vacation in Florida for two and a half weeks in last December/January and I really liked it. After the trip I found out that Lake Worth (less than an hour's drive from Fort Lauderdale were we stayed for a part of the vacation) has got a fairly large Finnish community. It would've been nice to see that place. Medical treatment in the states was quite expensive though, 1800 bucks for a four hour hospital visit. Never been more happier about my insurance :hyper:
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Yes, I'm originally from a small village south of Kristinestad, my wife is from Närpes so I had to learn her strange Swedish dialect, first time we met I understood half what she said.

Florida is nice, but very humid. But the music scene there is very wide.

I like the San Francisco Bay area, been here soon eighteen years. How time flies.

Yes, many of us have insurances via companies and they pay the big bills, I hope they would put pressure on congress/senate/US President to fix this craziness. --Kent
 
#57
I'm from Finland =)

I live in Malaysia at the moment but will be back in Finland this summer. Don't know where next then, my wife wanted to move Arizona cos we have some friends there but AFAIK you don't just "move to Arizona" heh heh =D NYC would also be cool cos my cousins live there and it pretty much is the capital of the world if you ask me =)

I'm a bassist/songwriter/bg voxman in a band called Kemosabe (Link Removed), the songs are on the front page and you do not have to understand Finnish to be able to download them =)
 
#59
Hi again,

As eastern is coming up in a week, I thought I'd mention another very typical Finnish food that is eaten only at eastern and AFAIK only by Finns: Mämmiä, or Memma in Swedish. It is a very strange dark brown, slightly porridge-like, lightly sweet and sour dessert made of at least rye flour (I don't know all the ingredients) you eat with cream and sugar. I like it, but it's enough to eat it only at eastern. What do you think about this food? I'm most interested to hear what non-finns like Thor and marcray think about it (if you have tried it), but anyone can of course comment... :)
 
#60
Deacon_Blues said:
Hi again,

As eastern is coming up in a week, I thought I'd mention another very typical Finnish food that is eaten only at eastern and AFAIK only by Finns: Mämmiä, or Memma in Swedish. It is a very strange dark brown, slightly porridge-like, lightly sweet and sour dessert made of at least rye flour (I don't know all the ingredients) you eat with cream and sugar. I like it, but it's enough to eat it only at eastern. What do you think about this food? I'm most interested to hear what non-finns like Thor and marcray think about it (if you have tried it), but anyone can of course comment... :)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mämmi

Some manage to eat it with large portions of cream and sugar.

--Kent
 

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