Full Supermarket Tour in FINLAND (expensive?) 🇫🇮
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- čas přidán 16. 05. 2024
- Grocery shopping in Finland.
On this episode, we went to one of the most popular supermarket in Finland, S-Market.
Check how Finnish grocery stores look like, and what Finnish grocery prices are like.
Are grocery prices cheap in Finland?
Is Finland expensive?
What are some unique things found in Finnish supermarket?
What is the cost of living in Finland?
Is it cheap to travel Finland?
Check out our full supermarket tour in Finland!
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Smokestack out front of the supermarket?
00:35 - Finnish price tags are the BEST! (per unit conversion on every product)
1:16 - Fruit and veg pricing
1:36 - UNIQUELY FINNISH: Karelian Pie
2:08 - STAPLE FOODS: Rye bread & cinnamon rolls
3:24 - Meat, fish, eggs & milk prices (EXPENSIVE?)
5:36 - Who knew Finland had such good cheese?
6:47 - UNIQUELY FINNISH: Bread cheese? Cheese bread? What is this?
7:52 - Coke & Pepsi prices (Xtra brand for the WIN!)
8:37 - BIG FAN OF STRONG MUSTARD!
9:03 - Where's the cheap beer in Finland?!?!?!
9:42 - UNIQUELY FINNISH: "Long drink"
10:15 - STAPLE SNACK: Licorice flavored everything!
11:26 - Do Finns love tacos? I see taco shops everywhere
11:52 - UNBEATABLE COFFEE PRICES IN FINLAND, WOW
12:40 - Supersize chip bags, same like Canada!
13:09 - FINAL REVIEW & BONUS: Long drink sample
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The cheapest beer is something like 1.02€ per 0.33l can, but when you return it to a recycling spot you get 0,15€ back. We have a deposit on each can and bottle to encourage recycling, and it's a system that works really well.
Yeah, he was in expensive beer isle :D
Kyllä kalja on pirun kallista Suomessa. Ainakin täältä Ruotsista katsottuna. Ja täällä on kallista verrattuna Tanskaan tai Saksaan.
@@zekevarg3043baareissa hinta kuulemma halvempi kuin ruotsissa ainakin näin siellä asuva serkku sano
And EU is going to wreck that system as well.
@@zekevarg3043 No paljon on sit Ruotsisaa kaupasta saatava halvin kalja? Entäs noi muut paljon niissä maksaa sit kaupasta halvin?:D
Finnish is not related to English at all. But we have quite a lot loanwords.
*loanwords :)
@@Kadotus thats what he said
@@degubooi798the original comment was edited, so it most likely was incorrect before.
@@degubooi798 Yes, the original message mentioned 'borrowed words' and was edited after my comment. While 'borrowed words' isn’t incorrect, it's somewhat informal. In Finnish, we use 'lainasanat,' which directly translates to 'loanwords.' I aimed to provide clarity with this distinction.
@@Kadotus i see and i know finnish since i am finnish
9:26 the reason why it's not double the price is that the price includes a deposit. So it includes the price of the can. When you return the empty can to the store, you get the can price back.
exactly, the empty bottles have a deposit of 0.10€, 0.15€, 0.20€, and 0.40€ depending on size
Well lets see if EU ruins that too
@@GamSpu what 😭 theres really no downside to it, no one loses money and it keeps cans&bottles out of the environment.
thats why we should leave eu tbh :D@@oraakkeli
@@tiii4017 "thats why" whats why? Youre not saying anything sensible
The law says there must be the price per kilogram/litre/whatever is the most convenient way to measure it.
True. This is an EU-wide practice and it is obligatory (Price Indication Directive of the European Commission, 1998).
In Romania also
@@aussietomik84not just the EU it is also the case here in Switzerland. It just brings clarity to the customer and makes tricking customers more difficult.
Indeed, Superbus753 ;)
Also if there is sale, they must tell what was the lowest price past was it 3 months?
Before 2020 coffee used to be even cheaper in here, that's why you would find finnish people still complaining how coffee is expensive nowadays. Fun fact: finnish people consume more coffee per capita than any other country in the world.
100%
About equal to Netherlands, I think.
I think the price of the coffee has over doubled in the last few years..
A detail which isn't often mentioned is how Finnish dairy carton are marked with colors. What I mean is:
Light blue = milk, 0% fat
Dark blue/blue = milk, 1,5% fat
Red = milk, 3,5% fat
Orange = Cream (mainly for desserts)
Light green (large carton)= soured milk, either low fat or no fat
Dark green (large carton)= soured milk with fat
Dark green (small carton/cardboard bottle) = Cream (for salty foods)
Dark green = cream diluted with water and starch. Its better to just use the regular orange cream.
American black licorice is very different from Finnish black licorice and salmiakki is a totally different thing from either one. All good though.
Oh, we didn't know this! We will make sure to try it.
@@JetLagWarriors Salmiakki is ammoniumchloride (a salt, white in color), often accompanied by licorice, but can be combined with other things too.
Like meats, alcohol, ice cream and intimate "protection gear".😅
You definitely should try that salted licorice raspberry sour beer. It is my favorite. Strong licorice at start, nice after taste with sour.
The price on the beer not being double is because of the deposit. One can is 0,15€, and the per liter price doesn't include the deposit. You get the deposit back by recycling the empty can at a store. Every can or bottle has a deposit on them :). Additionally, it's illegal in Finland to give discount based on how much alcohol you buy
Edit: We do indeed love coffee, Finland drinks the most coffee per capita in the world.
The discount rule also makes it so that the cheapest beers are in the small 0.33 liter cans, as those are often also sold in six packs or larger cases. 0.5 liter or pint cans can have a much higher per liter price than the same beer in the smaller can, as the rule doesn't apply in reverse.
@@clopec finns cant control themselves if beer is on sale or you would get a discount if you buy a larger pack :D
6:52 people eat that type of cheese with cloudberries in Finland and even warm up the cheese before eating. 9:46 you should definately try the "OG" one, which is in the light blue can and text "Gin & Grapefruit". It was actually made for Helsinki Olympics back in 1952.
When you eventually eat karjalanpiirakka/riisipiirakka (Karelian pie) make sure to eat it warm with eggbutter ontop. If its cold the taste is kind what ever (atleast for me), and so good when warm.
Yes! Recipe for eggbutter: mix hard boiled eggs into some butter. (You can do this easiest with a fork: just smush the peeled eggs through the tines.)
@@kokkolintu3528 Also remember to add some garlic in that recipe.
As someone who's not a big fan of eggbutter, just a bit of butter when it's hot works fine too
You should only buy hand made carelian pasties. The industrial ones are quite lame.
You should try the Hartwall Long drink blue (original grape), or pineapple. Gin and lemon is probably one of the worst ones.
agreed
Yeah Blue
cranberry's also nice 🤤
None of them are bad, I happen to like the lemon one more than the pineapple 😁 Koff long drinks are also worth tasting, mango and twist in particular. They kinda are the budget version of original.
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12:29 You got that right, found this on the internet "Finland is the world's biggest consumer of coffee on a per-person basis. The average Finn drinks nearly four cups a day. Coffee is so popular in Finland that two 10-minute coffee breaks are legally mandated for Finnish workers." I think the reason for big consumption is also the history of coffee in finland. It was considered quite a luxury up until 50's or 60's.
Its called a coffee break but its not mandatory just for the coffees sake. It is just a break to get your mind off work for a few mins and talk shit with coworkers. I think the high coffee consumption statistic is because of one type of Finn: The normal ones usually drink a cup at 9am and 2pm. My coworker: Sips on a BIG 1 Liter thermos full off coffee trough the day + a cup on the coffee break. I fear for his heart
Fun fact, Finland also drinks the most milk in the world. Probably also tied to coffee consumption.
@@ikuma8291 Yeah, originally it was to get a legal right to break like visit a toilet or have a snack or what ever, as back then there could be working places that did not allow toilet in the middle of work. So it's put into law to have a lunch break and two shorter breaks.
Fun fact: Finnish is not related to English. English is an Indo-European language whereas Finnish is an Uralic language. Finnish does have a lot of loan words from English and Swedish though.
True.
It's "breadcheese" because fresh curd is flattened and then baked like a bred. Traditionally with masonry oven, dairy industry just use electric ovens. Normal cheese is cured over time with microbes.
Not all industry use electric, there are also industrial gas ovens and masonry made ovens.
12:42 Taffel > Lays
Correct, also: Oikia > Taffel
Correct, also: Estrella > Oikia
@@ronny7216nah
Taffel=boikotissa palmuöljy-kusetuksen jälkeen
Mistä kusetuksessa @@Customercf
9:26 ; Magic of math; 2x 2.41 + return fee for the cans (2x), the text ; "Sis Pantin". That why it is not same as bare product price. As Finnish bottle/can recycling is based to fee that you pay when buying drink and after consuming drink you return bottle/can and get that paid fee back. It is a common hobby during summer to collect empty bottles and return to get some change.
Thanks for the video. Finnish veggies, especially tomatoes, are naturally a lot cheaper (and more delicious) in summer than in winter. It is not uncommon to find them at 1-2 €/kg in summer. I rarely buy tomatoes during winter due to the insane price and worse taste. And in general, if one wants to save as much as possible in buying groceries, he/she would go to Prisma or Lidl and buy their own cheap-end brands such as "Xtra", "Kotimaista" or "Rainbow". The premium brands are always clearly more expensive. This was an S-Market which is not the cheapest place but also not as expensive as K-Market or Sale would have been. And as a rule of thumb, everything unhealthy such as candies and especially alcohol is usually quite expensive in Finland due to taxes.
Yeah during season the vegetables are a lot cheaper.
And if one wants to support the farmers, leave all the stores own brands (extra, K-menu, rainbow, kotimaista, pirkka etc.)
These are what they use to get bigger cut to them self.
bread cheese is cheese, you cut it into cubes and eat with cloudberry jam
and usually it is heated before eating
The name Leipäjuusto refers more to the shape than ingredients😊 A traditional way in some parts of Finland is to cut the cheese into small cubes and put them in your coffee, and eat it warm with spoon… Today it’s being used as warm dessert with cream and berries etc, but also as topping in salads
Awesome supermarket tour in Finland. Thanks for sharing 😍
Salmon is quite expensive here in Finland, not an everyday meal.
Just recently in Citymarket 1kg finnish salmon was 13~ euros so you definitely dont always need 30€ for it. Still expensive tho
it's because that was ready filet, so lot of labour removing bones etc.
Hello
It's fun to watch you guys experience Finland! Welcome! 😊
3:35 "caught in the cold water nearby" it literally says Norway 😂
10:13 the blue can is the original Lonkero that was introduced during the Finnish Olympics
1952
Coca-Cola came to Finland also 1952
This particular store is located in an affluent area. That causes the selection and pricing to be sorta upscale-ish. That expensive salmon you were checking out(from Norway btw) usually costs around 12-20€/kg when on sale.
The picture in the breadcheese/squeaky cheese wasnt corn but cloudberry
Finnish language is not related to English in any way, but we have a lot of loan words from other languages, especially English, because most Finns speak it nowadays. And "vegaaninen" is specifically a loan word from English.
I'd say most loan words are from Swedish as the amount of those are c. 4000 in Finnish language.
"Kasviperäinen" is the Finnish version of vegaaninen, which is often has a negative connotation, but is slowly being integrated. Veganism is often thought of as something only "activists" do.
@@joona2000 There are also lots of word of Russian origin in finnish, but you won't regognise the origin anymore.
@@esaedvik That's right, and saying it in english tend to make things 'more sexy' and somehow international, though we have a finnish word for it.
@@mikkorenvall428 True. Around 1000 words they say. Some are more obvious in South-Eastern Finnish dialect (area where I was born) but people probably have no idea of the origin of those words in these days I guess.
Dude, you bought the lemon one. The original OriGINal Long Drink is the grapefruit one. Should try it. But remember to buy the same brand as the lemon one (Hartwall), since the other brand's version pretty much sucks (Koff).
And make sure you pick Original Long Drink which is made from gin, water and grapefruit not that Cool Grape one wich is produced by fermentation process.
that shop is in the heart of Helsinki, everything is more expensive than usual when not in the heart of Helsinki
The Fazer made baked goods are usually super expensive (in my point of view) but there are alternative options, not really sure what company provides them but they are alot cheaper and still has a good taste
Where do you find a cheaper fresh piispanmunkki?
@@osk4r99 No nyt ei kyllä oo osunu silmään kyllähän niitäki joskus on ollu ihan pilkkahinnoilla verrattuna fazerin tekemiin
The thing is Fazer usually makes them at the store, and of course you have to pay premium for freshly baked and also Fazer needs to cover the rent for their spot on the store. And Fazer is a name brand, so there's that as well.
The cheapest bread was actually a few packages to the right of that one. It's the blue bag that says Xtra on it, and it costs 1.06€ (2.12€/kg) in my local grocery store.
Finnish grocery stores tend to have a lot of variety with both quality and pricing. You have to know what brands are cheap, and spotting them can be tricky at times. In S-market, Xtra, Kotimaista, Rainbow and Coop are the cheap brands, for example.
I've been living in Finland for the better part of two decades now, and it seems to me you just didn't recognize the cheapest alternatives out there. Sure, Finland is expensive, but you can still go a long way on a tight budget as well. Most Finns I know tend to look at the price per kilogram way more than the unit prices, and they just buy whatever is cheapest in bulk.
Everything went up by 20% since 2020
Normal 0,33L lager beer is around 1.00€ or 3€ per 1L, you bought wheat beer which is "specialty" beer
#JetFam we are definitely going to need a video of You trying multiple different salmiakkis. Hopefully you've enjoyed Helsinki so far!
7:19 Bread Cheese, Leipäjuusto, is a soft cheese that is most commonly enjoyed with coffee. Some cut it in pieces and put on the coffee mug and put coffee over it. Some just dip it to coffee. For that reason it also called "coffee cheese". Some have it with cloudberry jam.
Correct translation might be "Finnish squeaky cheese" as it squeaks when bitten. ;)
Squeaky cheese for life! I sometimes just cut slab of it and put it ontop of rye bread.
You have to taste rye break (ruisleipä) cause that is really popular in Finland. And the normal long drink is the blue one. And if you guys want taste some Finnish traditional food there is example: mämmi, sausage and Karelian pies
And if you guys want to see great stadium of hockey you have to go in Tampere and see Ilves or Tappara game. Tampere is called the hockey capital of Finland.
most people dislike mämmi, sausages, karelian pies. there are good foods instead of these memes
@@cubertmiso I don't believe it.
@@cubertmiso Mämmi I can understand, but people dislike sausages and Karelian pies? Why? Both are very nice combined with other stuff.
My favourite rye bread is Reissumies Tosi Tumma bread, it's a very dark but still quite sweet rye bread that's also soft and comfortable to eat. Especially lightly toasted it's heavenly
Breadcheese lightly toasted on a pan, so it slightly melts, and cloudberry jam on that, is next to heaven.
Some warm cream on the cheese is delicious. If you want to have a quick exotic snac, chop the cheese and dunk it in hot black coffee.
Juustoleipä aka. leipäjuusto aka. squeaky cheese! The package had cloudberries on it. It's common for you to take cloudberries with it. It's delicious but not for everyone.
It's fun to see you exploring the Finnish grocery store!
12:28
Fun fact: in Finland, coffee is drunk more than in the rest of the world. Finns consume yearly at least 10kg of roasted coffe per person. Most Finns drink 3-5cups of coffee a day.
So that means we really do love coffee
Hello from Ghana
Really nice video, thank you🙂You know, that refreshment, or soft drink, "Long Drink", or "Lonkero" in Finnish is very popular and has many flavors. Originally introduced in the 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympic Games😊
Wish i would had been there in the store with you to point out actually cheap or expensive alternatives and how, why and what products are the way they are. But great video, fun to see foreigners perspective in our grocery store.
8:14 Actually Finnish language is nothing related to english or to other indo-european languages. Finnish belong to the Finno-ugric language family wich includes Estonian, Karelian and other minority languages mostly spoken in russia. Finnish also has very comlex case system with 15 noun cases. Other finno-ugric languages has comlex case systems too. Finno-ugric languages also has very similar features for an example no articles and no grammatical gender. In Finnish "hän" means both he and she and sorry for my bad english :(
Finno-Ugric language family also includes Hungarian ;)
@@aussietomik84 yes, I forgot to mention that...
To add to that there are more newer words that have been heavily loaned from English or Swedish language. That is why a word like vegaani is so close to vegan.
@@juhokaartoaho 💯
Very different grammar from Indo-European languages makes learning Finnish challenging for English speakers. But Finnish language is very logical, pronouncing is logical and consistent, there are no irregular verbs, and very few exceptions in general.
Finns drink the most amount of coffee in the world per capita, so the market is huge for a country of this size. We also have many domestic roasteries. That is what keeps the prices reasonable, even though they have been going up lately. Actually the state of inflation in Finland is often measured in how much the price of a pack of coffee has risen. 😅
Next time buy the light blue toned long drink, gin&grapefruit. That's the original lonkero.
Hello ❤
You can get beer for like 1,10 euros a can (0,33cl) It not that bad. You just have to look for the piles of 24can packages and you can rip them open and take few cans if there is not singulars nearby.
If you fancy hights like the pipe in the beginning, you can visit the olympic stadium tower. I'm afraid of heights, but was fine. Not the best time to visit as Hki is pretty gloomy atm. When the green season hits, the city is gorgeous. Also the smoked salmon in your vid is cold smoked, which is different to warm smoked. Also significantly more expensive.
The supermarket you visited is a posh, expensive one, though high quality and good selection. Nothing is cheap in the city centre, especially along Bulevardi and south from there. Tourists always find the most expensive shops and cafes.
About beers: you can definitely find cheaper beers, like Keisari lager for 2.07~ € for 0.5 liters. Usually 0.33l cans also go for cheaper, like kotimaista lager for 1.06 €~ or so
You should try the light blue coloured long drink, it is THE original one.
We have almost identical prices here in Sweden, one thing that stood out was how expensive the tomatos were in Finland. In my city theyre more than half the price per kilo. Our coffee here is considered expensive these days for a Swede but its funny you guys seem to think its cheap (Same price as in finland) Great and interesting video!
Those were some ~specialty~ tomatoes. You can get imported cherry tomatoes for around 6 euros per kilo.
@@nildesperandum3 yeah that makes more sense. These tomatoed better makes me see the future or something 😂
Tomatoes and cucumbers are extremely expensive in Sweden. Most of them are imported unlike Finland. Even in the winter I would never buy imported ones, in Sweden domestic ones are often not even available due to the high prices.
tomatoes has seasonal prices and just now is pretty high price but cheapest ones are about 5-6€/kg and some fancy ones can be 25€/kg
@@JulleCS2 To be fair, those NAMS tomatoes are really, really good. I sometimes buy them when I make something where they're served fresh and the flavor really matters.
Nice, Thank you for sharing
Salmiakki is not normal sodium chloride salt. It is ammonium chloride salt instead and tastes different.
If people are interested in different salts and tastes, there's old video of a australian chemist trying like 8 different salts with his friends for what they taste like.
The smokestack and old buildings used to be the Sinebrychoff (Koff) brewery, built on the edge of the city in the early 1800s. It moved out of the city some 30 years ago. The traditional beer horses you saw at the first hockey game are still living in the old stables and the old Sinebrychoff mansion on the same block is an art museum.
Beer cans have deposit, witch you get back when you return them (to the machine, witch gives you a note, witch you give to the register). The price in liters is only for the beer, not the can deposit. The price of can of beer includes the deposit.
indeed bread cheese, the small the picture is actually cloudberry which is a local berry that only grows in swampy lands, they are very delicate and you can probably by them in the store as frozen or fresh
The prices in near city center/center of Helsinki are always higher, most locals shop at either Lidl or Prisma.
The long drink you picked was pretty bad flavor, I'd recommend the original flavor or pineapple flavor.
If you want to drink cheaper beer you can find in finland, then that would be the bulk lager from Lidl or Prisma/S-market, which is around 1 euro per 0,3 liter can.
Your bread cheese guessing gane was funny to watch as a Fin 😂 Leipäjuusto is pretty much a kinda rubbery cheese that acts as a bread when you eat it with toppings, usually cloudberry jam wich is pictured there on the packacing the "corn"
you bought quality sinappi brand, very nice choise, although i dont like the strong one i take medium, but still nice one dude.
You gotta try that bread-cheese, it's phenomenal with some cloudberry-jam
13:35 - That flavour wasn't the most original of Originals! 🤭😅 It's the light blue can, grapefruit flavoured long drink. 😊
Yes to black licorice!!❤
Cheese, try Juustoportti brandy pähkinä, (brandy-nut)
That lemon lonkero is terrible new flavour. You need the blue and white grape version and it needs to be really cold.
Leipäjuusto - Bread cheese, also known as squeeky cheese. Most people eat it with whipped cream and cloudberries, maybe add caramel sauce too. It works best if you heat it up a bit.
I use it cold in salads. For example rucola, cucumber, smoked reindeer (or cheaper version smoked horse), grapes, squeeky cheese and top with mustard sauce.
I think coffee is a product many shops use as lure-in. People come to buy cheap coffee, but they also end up buying other stuff too. So even the shops don't make much profit of the coffee, they will make profit of the other products people buy.
Remember when trying "Leipäjuusto" you definetly need some Jam.
Recommendation is cloudberry jam or "Lakkahillo".
You can buy it separetly or if you get lucky there can be "Leipäjuusto" on stock that includes a little box of cloudberry jam.
If no cloudberry jam, then basic strawberry jam does the trick also.
Just cut some pieces of "leipäjuusto" and dip it in the jam a little bit by your own taste.
It is goes cold as it is or you can slightly try to warm it, but carefully.
Yeah salmon is expensive, but vendace fish (muikku) is cheap. In my nearby big grocery store it's only 7 euros a kilo, when it's not on sale. And you don't have to remove the fishbones, just fry and eat the whole thing. I only buy salmon when it's on sale.
@3:35 that Salmon is from Norway, it says the country it came from "Norja". Before the sixties and seventies we didn't have that much salmon in our tables, it's after Norwegian salmon came to our stores that everyone could buy it, after the freezing techniques and the processes otherwise made it so that it could be brought here with good quality.
The illustration on that Leipäjuusto (Bread cheese) package had pictures of cloudberry berries. Put cloudberrys and cloudberry juice on the bread cheese eat with a coffee spoon or dessert with a fork. Bread cheese is traditionally served with coffee. you can find frozen cloudberry (Hilla, Lakka, Suomuurain same berry many names in finnish language) in the store's frozen section and jam made from cloudberry on the canned goods or jam shelf. if you buy frozen cloudberry, before you put the thawed berries on the bread cheese, remember to put a little fine sugar on the berries.
Hello from Ghana
The "bread cheese" is a non-stored cheese (Think Mozzarella) which is quickly grilled in a hot owen. It is used as a dessert slightly heated, with jam of your choise. With a strong coffee it´s great!
Hello, cool video! S-market and K-Market tend to be above the average price, I suggest to use Citymarket or Prisma. Lidl is also very cheap here. Also we have R-kioski which is like 7-Eleven, you get 5 dl (0,5l) coffee just around 3€, I buy that usually, and it's also very good coffee, I suggest to pick coffee that way in somepoint! In Finland was just some days ago sunny, I hope you see here also sunny days! Spring is also just behind the corner
The sausage you showd wasnt sausage it was liverpaté
Smoked salmon and blueberry juice is great
You Guys should really visit Porvoo it's 50km from Helsinki. Porvoo is the second oldest city in Finland and oldtown in Porvoo is beautiful. Higly recommended!
Pretty cool video 👍
Great video,
That might be a big change coming from Georgia to Finland prices.
Fish is expensive in Finland and they are locally fished as well...
I wonder what's the purchasing power of Finland compared to Canada
Cheers
You can find some local fish in Finnish grocery stores, but most of the salmon comes from Norway. In the video you can see the word "Norja" on the price tags, thats Norway in Finnish. According to my own experience, purchasing power in Finland and Canada is quite similar, I live in Finland and have some family in western Canada. The differences within Canada are greater than within Finland.
Everytime my dad comes to finland the first thing is grocerystore! Leipäjuusto + ruisleipä and jam!
i highly recommend you try out that coolhead's salmiakki rasberry sour! really good. also the other flavours. and if you have time go and visit their brewery in viikki!
There's different sizes of grocery stores within the same company chain, that Supermarket is a lot smaller than the same company's hypermarket called Prisma, which is a "Walmart" style of store (but you would need a car in most cities) and generally the bigger the store the cheaper the prices (which also means that the corner shop sized store is again more expensive than Supermarket).
That "Sausage" you showed at 4:52 was actually liver patee. A spread meant for bread.
Thank you for the nice clip 👍 I noticed that you were looking at the half liter cans of beer and for some reason the price per liter is always way more expensive if you buy half liter cans. For example blue Pirkka beer is 3,6€/L if you buy 3x0,33 cans and you will get 0,45 deposit back so it´s actually 3,15€/L for a nice enough beer.
#JetFam Finnish is notorious for being one of the most difficult languages in the world. Can you give us some examples of basic words/phrases you've learned since you arrived?
No its not ! You just have to know what to say - otherwise - there is no meaning to say anything ! Like Good Morning IS Huomenta / Thank You IS Kiitos / Pullo juomaa IS a Drink in a Bottle / Kahvi IS Coffee / Jäätelö IS Ice Cream - not to mix with jääkiekko - that IS Ice hockey ! Almost everybody speaks suomi - at 4 years old !
@@holoholopainen1627Finland has 15 grammatical cases and some words have over 100 inflected forms. Finnish words are quite easy to learn, but to use them in the correct context with the right inflected form is a challenge for example English speakers who have only 8 inflected suffixes.
An example:
Talo - House
Talossa - in (the) house
Talolla - at (the) house
Talolle - to (the) house
Taloni - my house
Talosi - your house
Talossasi - in your house
Talossasiko - in your house?
and etc
@@niklas4813You said it quite right. Even Finnish people have a hard time getting all the forms right. There’s also forms for when and other stuff that I can’t explain. I’ll just use an example. (If I’m incorrect please correct me. Mother tongue or Finnish is not my best subject)
So there’s things called “aikamuoto” which basically is time forms.
So there
Preesens = The thing is happening right now.
(Example: Minä teen astioita = I’m doing the dishes)
Imperfekti = It happened in the past
(Example: Minä tein astioita = I did the dishes)
And also two more forms I’m too lazy to explain. But if you learn Finnish I suggest learning the basic words first.
You should go to Estonia for a day trip and try lays chips there. Bacon flavor and other one is green onion. The best. As a Estonian living in Finland I really miss my chips.
Reason for the drinks liter price being different is because there is "pantti" (pledge, or whatever), what you get back when you return the empty package to the store. You get 0,15€ for cans, 0,10€ for glass bottles, for plastic ones you get 0,10€ under 0,35L, 0,20€ under 1L and 0,40€ over 1L
Thanks for nice video. In Finland is basicly three shops: S, K and german Lidl. Some how S has most expensive fish. I buy fish from K, its usually sooo much cheaper, same quality. K makes profit by everything else, basic food is cheap. (But not too cheap.)
Cheapest beer is in the small 0.33liter cans. Salmiakki-icecream is the best is icecream in the world. Long drink which you took is not the original, blue one is.
That Xtra coffee isn't really coffee... its something else :D
Mix xtra coffee with juhla mokka 50/50 and you have better coffee than juhla mokka. Give it a try 😉
What is really that Xtra coffee?
Taste something like soil and sawdust, shouldn't be allowed to be called "coffee" especially in EU@@RaduRadonys
Hi! You should go to vitsit lapland during your time in finland. Other places that are interesting: cafe regatta, Suomenlinna, sompasauna, kallio area, Oodi library, Turku aurajoki and restaurants: cafe Engel, way bakery, bas bas, and foods to try: salmiakki, rye bread, salmon dishes, bread cheese, finnish alcohol drinks (you can ask recomendations from any bar or alko store) 😊
Thanks for enabling me to look at all of this with 'new eyes'! I love these observations, so many things we take for granted. Finns drink the most coffee in the world...And yes, we love mexican food. =) Please try the candy: Pantteri. Oh, and you should try the breadcheese fried with cloudberry jam, fresh cloudberries and a toffee sauce.
of course the words are going to sound familiar when they're loan words... finnish is not related to english or any other Indo-European language
Leipäjuusto literally translates to "bread cheese". It's a kind of cheese you get on your plate or on top of a slice of bread, warm up very briefly on the microwave so it melts a bit, and traditionally top with cloudberries (the ones you also see on the package there). Some people prefer it cold, you can eat it that way too.
You also have to account in the fact that Helsinki is much like Toronto in how it exists in its own higher living cost bubble. So the prices for the exact same items you bought are lower across the entire rest of Finland, Helsinki has its own higher Helsinki-tier prices.
Let me tell you something, we Finns really love the Mexican food. That's why you see Tex-Mex aisles in almost every store. Tortillas are relatively cheap, easy to make and goddamn delicious.
Weekend with tortillas and Karhu 5,3 Beer is unbeatable combo!
At 4:54 where you show the sausage price, those are not regular sausages they are liver pâté in sausage form, very popular thing to spread on bread.
You picked the best mustard!
Good video, strange to see one of my local grocery stores in a video like this. But you should also be aware that this store is in one of the most expensive areas in Finland (at the end of Bulevardi by Hietalahti Market Square), and that is seen in the prices as well. Out of the three major grocery store chains in Finland S-Market belongs to the middle tier one, but this store still has pretty hefty prices, especially for the butcher, baker and other fresh wares.
I'm in Quebec and the grocery stores here all have the price per 100g advertised on the price tags. It's small but it's there.
The Salmon is actually from Norway. It says it there below Norja = Norway. Allthought the K stores have many times good sales on Salmon like 15e/kg.
Also at 7:10 "LeipäJuusto" is actually "BreadCheese" so the transaltion was correct. That is a own thing and might be a finnish thing then idk (don't really eat it)
The vegan beef from "MUU" you looked at 8:30 is actually a finnish company and I think they are really good (atleast some of their stuff) doesn't taste like meat per se but still good.
The beer does not have a discount for buying more (I believe it is illegal here in Finland) but the Litre price does not include the pantti but the normal price does. So basically you don't need to calculate the pantti yourself. Pantti is explained here by many people already.
Finland actually drinks the most coffee per person in the world I think
I went quite deep with the info here but hopefully something helps :D Glad you guys liked your stay! :)
Oh man, so many things to unpack here. Finland produces a lot of milk and cheese, and specialty cheeses cost more. Finns do like bread, and the sliced breads are typically the "easier" to consume. Meat is pretty expensive these days. Beer is not that expensive, though more expensive than a few years ago. It's nowadays illegal to offer discounts when buying more alcohol.
Finnish is quite a unique language, the only major languages related to it are Estonian and weirdly Hungarian. They are all in the Finno-Ugric language family.
There are many long drinks nowadays, the original (grapefruit and gin) was invented for the Helsinki Olympics to give something for the tourists to drink, from then on out it became an absolute classic. Nowadays you have tons of different flavoured long drinks. You bought the worst one at least in my opinion. Cranberry and pineapple are my favourites.
Finland consumes the most coffee per capita in the world, so yeah, we love coffee.
That drink at the end is called "Long drink". it's its own type of drink. Quote from the original manufacturer: "Hartwall Original Long Drink was born during the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. It is still produced according to its original recipe mixing premium gin and grapefruit. The gin is a Finnish artisan product, hand crafted and made with juniper berries, bitter orange, coriander and angelica root."
Bread cheese is baked cream cheese, usually eat a little warm with cloudberrys, which are expensive berry, compare other berrys in Finland. I also like add some warm caramel sauce on bread cheese. Delicious.
this video gave me a good feeling
6:49 In Finnish language if something is written together it means one thing and if it is separately it means separate thing from the other word.
"Juustoleipä" would mean one thing and would indicate a "bread made of cheese".
"Juusto leipä" would mean a "bread of cheese":
It is bit annoying when they do not add the - after the word if it continues on next line just like the package you are holding.
PS. The orange thing is a cloudberry since it is often/traditionally eaten with cloudberry jam spread over the cheese bread.
4:10 That is actually cold smoked salmon filet which is the most expensive variety.
For salmon or lohi the keywords to look for - in a most often increasing order of price - are
graavi- = cooked without heat with salt or acid (from swe. tomb or entombed)
loimu- = cooked on a wooden flame, slightly smoky
savu- = smoked
kylmäsavu = cold smoked, smoke is cooled to room temp or below before it cooks the fish
Otherwise expect your salmon to be fried or baked.