Wanderlust

Criticizing finnish food is a common fun among finnish tourists, when they are abroad speaking about our national foods. I am totally happy with finnish food, but I’m used to it and I don’t like spicy food. From let’s say italian perspective it’s no wonder why everybody are complaining how we don’t know how to use spices or don’t care about aesthetics of our meals.

Maybe we all have some sort of a perversion including shit look-a-like food. Some of you might’ve heard stories about dessert Mämmi, made out of water, rye flour and powdered rye malt:

A bowl of mämmi. (Wikipedia, CC-BY-SA)

…or you’ve even heard about “mustamakkara”, which is traditional food in the area where I’m living now (Tampere). It’s translated “black sausage” and it’s made out of blood and hulled grains. For me it tastes rather good, but having it on your plate isn’t most aesthetic experience:

Black sausage with lingonberry jam. (Wikipedia, CC-BY-SA)

Newcomer in series is this candy translated “licorice minium”:

Photo by Jokapäiväistä leipää -blog

I’m sure this is going to be a big hit among childrens. Me… I don’t even want to try this.