So the asian meat dumpling (soft pastry with meat inside) in Finland slang called "hydrogen atom". Now that's imaginative. I don't even know if Americans have a special name for it.
S/He's quite the polyglot: The profile page includes greetings in English, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, and s/he's posted translations of both Setz's Finnish comics and comics by a Malay artist.
Edit: Just found a poster comment in which Motomachi clarifies s/he translates Setz's comics from the English translations, not the original Finnish. Still an impressive collection of languages.
Never been one for beer myself, but I've read that it's actually a thing in Japan. Supposedly, a guy suffered burns to his throat after he downed like ten bottles, and started blowing fireballs with his burps and a cigarette. Then he got tackled by security just as he was 'casting' another fireball, and it backfired, so he suffered burns to his throat and esophagus.
Never been one for beer myself, but I've read that it's actually a thing in Japan. Supposedly, a guy suffered burns to his throat after he downed like ten bottles, and started blowing fireballs with his burps and a cigarette. Then he got tackled by security just as he was 'casting' another fireball, and it backfired, so he suffered burns to his throat and esophagus.
So the asian meat dumpling (soft pastry with meat inside) in Finland slang called "hydrogen atom". Now that's imaginative. I don't even know if Americans have a special name for it.
It's not exactly the same as the Asian type, but a similar concept.
Setz is being mean I think. He has been recently trying to stump the moon-speakers here when it comes to translating puns. He won this time... but ouch.
I wonder what is the usual type of meat that is used in most dishes in Finland.
Ground beef, ground pork, or a mixture of the two. Most meat dishes have either pork or beef in general. There are a few with lamb or game (rabbit, deer, elk, sometimes boar). Reindeer is a somewhat uncommon delicacy at least in the south. Then there's obviously chicken. Gamebirds like pheasant are eaten but not very often. Horse is used in some sausages and as dried cold cuts, but occasionally as steaks too. Fish is quite popular, most commonly salmon but sometimes perch, pike, vendance, baltic herring, TWO-KILO WHITEFISH etc.
Basically our meat consumption is much like most of western world's. It's mostly on special occasions that we make trad. dishes with special meats.
Oh. Well, I take some comfort in knowing that several high-profile newspapers, who probably have better fact-checking services than I do, also took the bait...
Some of the hydrogen has to be cooked in the core of a star for quite a while. Start preparing your ingredients before you get thirsty, it can be a long wait.
Ground beef, ground pork, or a mixture of the two. Most meat dishes have either pork or beef in general. There are a few with lamb or game (rabbit, deer, elk, sometimes boar). Reindeer is a somewhat uncommon delicacy at least in the south. Then there's obviously chicken. Gamebirds like pheasant are eaten but not very often. Horse is used in some sausages and as dried cold cuts, but occasionally as steaks too. Fish is quite popular, most commonly salmon but sometimes perch, pike, vendance, baltic herring, TWO-KILO WHITEFISH etc.
Basically our meat consumption is much like most of western world's. It's mostly on special occasions that we make trad. dishes with special meats.
Horse meat sounds pretty cool. I am not really sure what "Western world" would mean because the only thing I had in Germany was pork meat and in South America it's generally beef meat. I would believe that Finland would make heavy use of pork and fish, but not beef meat (there's not much suitable space to raise cattle in the open I guess).
Do they sell game meat at public markets or you can only get yourself those by hunting?
Horse meat sounds pretty cool. I am not really sure what "Western world" would mean because the only thing I had in Germany was pork meat and in South America it's generally beef meat. I would believe that Finland would make heavy use of pork and fish, but not beef meat (there's not much suitable space to raise cattle in the open I guess).
Do they sell game meat at public markets or you can only get yourself those by hunting?
A while ago there was this huge scandal about horse meat being found in some Lidl products. The media made a big deal about it but most people I know were rather unfazed. Apparently it was first noticed in the UK, where horse-eating is a taboo or something. Horse tastes slightly sweet and not very fatty. An especially delicious horse food is filet or rump salted, dried and cut into thin slices - turning it slightly tough and gamey - and served on a sandwich. Horse is not that common, though. It's considered a specialty meat and usually not everyday food.
By "Western world" I mean that if you watch Anglo-American TV, the meats used in the people's food are mostly the same as in Finnish food. A bit of a sweeping generalization, sure. I just mean that we eat Big Macs when lazy and steak when festive, pork chops in BBQ parties and bacon for breakfast.
Finland is not a densely populated country by any means (17.9 people/km^2, 46 people/mi^2) so there's plenty of room for raising cattle. A lot of beef is also imported, mostly from South America.
Game meat is sold in some butcher shops and as a specialty item in supermarkets, at least big ones with a dedicated meat section. Hunting, however, is a popular hobby, which is why Finland is one of the top countries of the world by firearm ownership rate (Wikipedia lists it as #5 but the data varies by source). The most likely situation for having game as meal is after you or a friend of yours has returned from a successful hunt.
Wow, don't actually remember hearing lihapiirakka be called vety before.
budoka_azathoth said:
Reindeer is a somewhat uncommon delicacy at least in the south.
Here in northish Oulu they actually serve reindeer as pizza topping. It's actually a waste, I think because it's often minced so fine that all the other stuff on the pizza hides the taste of the reindeer, and the meat is at least four times more expensive than pork. The best reindeer dish is Poronkäristys (or sautéed reindeer in Eng.) with mashed potatoes and crushed lingonberries.
A while ago there was this huge scandal about horse meat being found in some Lidl products. The media made a big deal about it but most people I know were rather unfazed. Apparently it was first noticed in the UK, where horse-eating is a taboo or something. Horse tastes slightly sweet and not very fatty. An especially delicious horse food is filet or rump salted, dried and cut into thin slices - turning it slightly tough and gamey - and served on a sandwich. Horse is not that common, though. It's considered a specialty meat and usually not everyday food.
If I'm able to visit the Nordic countries this year's summer, I'll definitely check that. Since Warugaki's comic featuring Helepolis I've wanted to try this horse meat at least once.
budoka_azathoth said:
By "Western world" I mean that if you watch Anglo-American TV, the meats used in the people's food are mostly the same as in Finnish food. A bit of a sweeping generalization, sure. I just mean that we eat Big Macs when lazy and steak when festive, pork chops in BBQ parties and bacon for breakfast.
Well, we are in a globalized world anyway...
budoka_azathoth said:
Finland is not a densely populated country by any means (17.9 people/km^2, 46 people/mi^2) so there's plenty of room for raising cattle. A lot of beef is also imported, mostly from South America.
My mental image of Finland is like an icy wasteland in a mountainous terrain, with few grasslands or plains that could sustain livestock, specially on harsh winters (which I'd imagine are common). Even from setz's comics I have this image with Aya buried in the snow and Momiji shieldboarding (post #1310892). I guess setz could teach us some geography in his comics too.
budoka_azathoth said:
Game meat is sold in some butcher shops and as a specialty item in supermarkets, at least big ones with a dedicated meat section. Hunting, however, is a popular hobby, which is why Finland is one of the top countries of the world by firearm ownership rate (Wikipedia lists it as #5 but the data varies by source). The most likely situation for having game as meal is after you or a friend of yours has returned from a successful hunt.
No wonder Finland had the most OP sniper in the world.
Hakuayan_Takaraya said:
Wow, don't actually remember hearing lihapiirakka be called vety before.
Here in northish Oulu they actually serve reindeer as pizza topping. It's actually a waste, I think because it's often minced so fine that all the other stuff on the pizza hides the taste of the reindeer, and the meat is at least four times more expensive than pork. The best reindeer dish is Poronkäristys (or sautéed reindeer in Eng.) with mashed potatoes and crushed lingonberries.
If I ever get to middle/northern Finland I'll be sure to try it. From the images found at G**gle, it seems that it could go well on top of rice.
If I'm able to visit the Nordic countries this year's summer, I'll definitely check that. Since Warugaki's comic featuring Helepolis I've wanted to try this horse meat at least once.
Have a nice trip!
My mental image of Finland is like an icy wasteland in a mountainous terrain, with few grasslands or plains that could sustain livestock, specially on harsh winters (which I'd imagine are common). Even from setz's comics I have this image with Aya buried in the snow and Momiji shieldboarding (post #1310892). I guess setz could teach us some geography in his comics too.
The summers are usually warm and pleasant, if short. The weather reaches ~30°C/~90°F (see? I'm being nice and using both units) at warmest, with occasional peaks slightly above that. Winters are long, cold, and dark, but there are some grasslands, too. Livestock tends to live inside byres in the winter. The darkness reaches its peak at winter solstice and around that time above the Arctic Circle the sun doesn't even bother rising at all for up to 51 days in the most northern part. In the summer, the midnight sun phenomenon can be observed and the late june to mid-july summer nights are among the best things ever, especially if one has the luck to be spending that time in one's summer cottage by a lake (read: a lot of Finns). At this time the temperature goes above 24°C/75°F, the treshold for helle.
Lapland is somewhat mountainous with rounded and quite low fells. This is because those fells are one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world and ground down by millenia of erosion and ice ages. Ostrobothnia is flatter than Suika and the rest is generally hilly and rounded without many high spots. The central and eastern parts are dotted with thousands of lakes. The southern and southwestern parts, facing the sea, have beautiful archipelagoes, such as the rather imaginatively named Archipelago sea between mainland SW Finland and Åland.
In case somebody is wondering why "hydrogen" is "vety" in finnish, apparently it is "VEden synTY" kind of translation to "hydro gene" "birth of water" in greek that gave the name to element originally. Naturally referring to the fact that when hydrogen burns it produces water.
Setz' Finnish Touhou comics always have the most interesting comments!
On Bornholm, where I live, there's a very old tradition, now basically extinct, for baking flat rye breads with salted pork in them. I have never tried it, but I have a recipe. I should probably try it one day.
My mental image of Finland is like an icy wasteland in a mountainous terrain, (...).
Ha ha ha! In my childhood I used to be extremely envious of the Norwegians, because they have real exotic mountains and Finland only has woody hills and some fells.
With the exception of some fell tops and highlands in the farthest north, Finland is nothing like wasteland. Most of the country's nature is similar to the Russian taiga zone, and Budoka Azathoth has given a nice sum-up of our temperatures and stuff. Finland has a rather boring climate, actually, if one wants to go for extremes of any kind.
Raising moderate amounts of cattle has never been a problem in the country; traditionally the biggest setbacks to Finnish agriculture have been short summers and occasional frosty summer nights, which can devastate grain crops (while domestic weeds take little or no damage). Frosty nights used to cause famine in the past centuries when importing large amounts of food from abroad was not an option.
One of the consequences is that rye bread is far more popular in Finland than in most western countries. Rye is significantly easier to grow in large parts of Finland than wheat.
I do want to add that this was based on my idea which I gave to setz on Apokalauta and I would have commented on this earlier but I was indulcing myself into one of the Finnish pastimes; cruising on Baltic Sea and buying overpriced drinks at the ship's bar.
I do have to say I've never heard of them being called "vety" or "atomi" myself; only ones I know are "lihis", roughly "meatie", and "lihalämäri", "meat slap shot", as in ice hockey shot. I've never understood the last one. I guess they kinda look like a puck, if you use your imagination, but...
So the asian meat dumpling (soft pastry with meat inside) in Finland slang called "hydrogen atom". Now that's imaginative. I don't even know if Americans have a special name for it.
You might have known it, but we have many meat dumplings in Asia (or to be specific, China, since that's where I am). Also - I know it was two years ago but can't help post this.
I'm... huff... home.I meant the meat pie, but I can't bring myself to tell her...
A pastry with ground meat inside a deep-fried soft dough shell. Two variations from Lappeenranta are called "hydrogen" and "atom".Mmhm. Milk, butter, chicken, hydrogen...Hydrogen...?