Moar mustard!!
Oct. 10th, 2008 05:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyrasantae
Compared to the European imports shop in Calgary, the local one around here totally sucks except that this one has more fresh German-style sausages.
It doesn't have as much Finnish stuff, but it does cost a bit less. Uh, the mustard does, at least. I don't remember the prices for the other stuff in Calgary off-hand. They didn't have any Finnish coffee, or chocolate :(
But at least now I know where to get my mustard when I need more of it :)
Here are some notes:
* Turun sinappia (125g): $3.69
* Tyrkisk peber (180g): $5.09
* Salmiakki (Halva brand, 250g): $5.39
Of course they have Panda liquorice and Finn Crisp and Fazer crispbread but aside from the Fazer crispbread the other two are readily available at other shops. (Note: The Fazer company that makes crispbread is different from the Fazer company that makes chocolates and candy.)
I may or may not have mentioned back in April that I came across a second-hand book store that had a couple of old Finnish books lying around. One was a book about some sort of Finnish history and the other was a book with scenic photos. The latter book has text in Finnish, Swedish, German, and English, so although I couldn't bring myself to buy it in April, I felt like I could now, and maybe learn something (linguistically) from the texts :)
It's pretty old, © 1977. It appears to have been a gift from a Finnish family visit: on the inside, it says, "Family Ross W. Wein / with many thanks for the beatiful[sic] memories / Merry Christmas 1983 / Kimmo + family".
In other news, the Nobel Peace Prize went to a Finn this year :)
It doesn't have as much Finnish stuff, but it does cost a bit less. Uh, the mustard does, at least. I don't remember the prices for the other stuff in Calgary off-hand. They didn't have any Finnish coffee, or chocolate :(
But at least now I know where to get my mustard when I need more of it :)
Here are some notes:
* Turun sinappia (125g): $3.69
* Tyrkisk peber (180g): $5.09
* Salmiakki (Halva brand, 250g): $5.39
Of course they have Panda liquorice and Finn Crisp and Fazer crispbread but aside from the Fazer crispbread the other two are readily available at other shops. (Note: The Fazer company that makes crispbread is different from the Fazer company that makes chocolates and candy.)
I may or may not have mentioned back in April that I came across a second-hand book store that had a couple of old Finnish books lying around. One was a book about some sort of Finnish history and the other was a book with scenic photos. The latter book has text in Finnish, Swedish, German, and English, so although I couldn't bring myself to buy it in April, I felt like I could now, and maybe learn something (linguistically) from the texts :)
It's pretty old, © 1977. It appears to have been a gift from a Finnish family visit: on the inside, it says, "Family Ross W. Wein / with many thanks for the beatiful[sic] memories / Merry Christmas 1983 / Kimmo + family".
In other news, the Nobel Peace Prize went to a Finn this year :)
