"...but I live like I'm Finnish."

[kyrasantae]

This statement confused some players in my Guild Wars guild, but I didn't see the point in explaining further to what amounted to a group of total strangers.

And now, a children's story or something.

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I still get a lot of questions about this photo, in this order:

1. "What is that you're eating?" Ice cream.
2. "What flavour is it?" Nougat.
3. "Was it any good?" Of course.*


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*It was Finnish.

  This is that brick of ice cream.

  The brick contains 1L.
  I don't think they come standard in any other size.

  The chunk I'm eating in the photo is about a 4cm chunk off of it.








Here in North America, bricks of ice cream come in supersize.
(Just as most things do in America, compared to Europe.)

This brick contains 1.89L. It's our only ice cream brick size,
as far as I know.
If the above was a regular brick, this is a retaining wall brick.

Growing up I've always wondered:
"What's the point of that cardboard lip across the front?
It looks a lot like a cake box from the bakery,
but with the lip glued down."

We'd stand the brick up on end.
We'd undo the flaps on one side
and spoon out the ice cream.

  But I've learned my lesson.
  This is how Johanna showed me to open
  the box of nougat ice cream in Finland. (As you saw above.)

  It's more practical with the smaller box though,
  because the cross-section is smaller and a spoon fits less well.

  Now you too can cut out large slabs of ice cream!
  (I recommend storing the open box in a bag in the freezer.)

  It's been a long time since I've eaten supermarket ice cream.
  I've kind of forgotten how terrible it is...
  especially when it hasn't chilled until it's as hard as a brick.


The End ;-)