Miscellany

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

[Miisa]

And salmiak chocolate, salmiak ice cream, salmiak booze, salmiak donuts...

I haven't lived here long enough to like salmiak.

[erimir]

And "American" is ham, pineapple and blue cheese... I mean, I guess fair enough on the first two, but, uh...

They also use frutti (fruit) on its own to mean frutti di mare (seafood), which I guess is ok.

ETA: it seems quite possible, likely even, that "salmiakki" pizza is actually topped with "salamiak", which is a salami with little bits of salty licorice in it? Which I suppose makes it slightly more acceptable. But still...

[Miisa]

Probably between a quarter to a third of Finnish pizzas have pineapple in the mix, which is fine by me. Extra bonus is riling up the blood pressure of haters. Blue cheese is actually fine on pizza. Aurajuusto is pretty mild, I think.

It mentions the salmiac is in Turkinpippuri (Turkish pepper) form, which is a salmiakki candy. Which is confusing, as a lot of the pizzerias run by Turks here call chili peppers "turkinpippuri". But this is likely crushed hard candies sprinkled on top.

But don't make the mistake of thinking it is sweet. Don't. It tastes as you would expect ammonium chloride to taste.



Way to ruin some perfectly good chocolate:

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Miisa

Probably between a quarter to a third of Finnish pizzas have pineapple in the mix, which is fine by me.

I seem to remember about 10 out of 12 having ananas on at that one place.

Originally Posted by Miisa

Blue cheese is actually fine on pizza. Aurajuusto is pretty mild, I think.

Both are true.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Miisa

It tastes as you would expect ammonium chloride to taste.

Exactly.

[Miisa]

Originally Posted by JoeP

I seem to remember about 10 out of 12 having ananas on at that one place.

That one place was pretty extreme. A bit like the spam sketch with pineapple.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Originally Posted by Miisa

Extra bonus is riling up the blood pressure of haters.

I'm saving this info about pineapple in Finland for the next time some Yank loses their shit over a Hawaiian pizza in Canada.

[erimir]

Originally Posted by Miisa

Probably between a quarter to a third of Finnish pizzas have pineapple in the mix, which is fine by me. Extra bonus is riling up the blood pressure of haters. Blue cheese is actually fine on pizza. Aurajuusto is pretty mild, I think.

Oh yeah, I like pineapple on pizza sometimes.

And Hawaiian pizza is definitely an American pizza, so I guess I'm ok with calling ham and pineapple "Americano".

It wasn't that I was saying that blue cheese on pizza is horrible, it's just that ham, pineapple and blue cheese is not at all typical. Gorgonzola is pretty common at nicer pizza places, but many pizza places don't offer blue cheese as a topping. But when they do, they don't put it with ham and pineapple.

It was more the labeling being inaccurate to call that Americano when it is definitely a Finnish invention. But it's probably fine?

(Aurajuusto is apparently marketed in the US as "midnight blue" cheese.)

It mentions the salmiac is in Turkinpippuri (Turkish pepper) form, which is a salmiakki candy. Which is confusing, as a lot of the pizzerias run by Turks here call chili peppers "turkinpippuri". But this is likely crushed hard candies sprinkled on top.

Ok, so back to

[Corona688]

There is a thing I require which seems to have vanished from the internet.

It is a comic of a cat staring at a bizarre device of hovering, glowing tubes plugged into a wall socket, a piece of art provoked by the comment 'unplug the internet' or something like that.

Thank you for your consideration. This is important.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

The things we do to win arguments on the internet.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Miisa

That one place was pretty extreme. A bit like the spam sketch with pineapple.

Especially with the bunch of vikings in the corner singing "Ananas ananas! Ananas ananas! Ananananananas!

[Miisa]

Originally Posted by JoeP

Especially with the bunch of vikings in the corner singing "Ananas ananas! Ananas ananas! Ananananananas!

That was weird.

Though I had thought it was just me and that stuff we drank the night before...

[JoeP]

I thought you had to go shopping with the matriarch?

[Miisa]

I did, we shopped quick (they had, like, 5 to choose from, not that time-consuming), I drove back here before them, posted that, they arrived and I installed the matriarch's shiny new laptop, they just left.

[JoeP]

efficiency. Torpedo in a tuxedo.

[vremya]

Originally Posted by Miisa

And salmiak chocolate, salmiak ice cream, salmiak booze, salmiak donuts...

I haven't lived here long enough to like salmiak.

I don't think I can live someplace where the candy is brutal.

The Top 10 most brutal candies you can find in Finland

[Miisa]

Originally Posted by vremya

I don't think I can live someplace where the candy is brutal.



The Top 10 most brutal candies you can find in Finland

Tervaleijona and Sisu are a) not salmiak so therefore not brutal b) absolutely sublime and I am not sure how long I could find the will to live without them.

[lisarea]

Some of those sound like they might be really good.

And my favorite pizza is pineapple and jalapeno.

I probably don't qualify for asylum, but if you guys ever need any extra old people, hit me up.

[Miisa]

I think Americans in general qualify for asylum right now in most of the world.

[BrotherMan]

I think spam would make an excellent pizza topping. With pineapple and or jalapenos.

I've had scrapple on pizza, so I'm prolly amenable to pressed meat scraps as a topping.

[lisarea]

Now I'm wondering about spam and kimchi pizza.

(I eat spam and kimchi more than I should.)

[BrotherMan]

Sounds entirely cromulent to me.

[erimir]

Kimchi quesadillas are fine, so I don't see why it wouldn't work on pizza. I'd guess that it's the sauce that would be more likely to be a problem than the cheese...