Reindeers are cattle. Reindeer is not a fairy tale animal.

Hesburger is famous specifically for their own mayonnaises and to even compare them to McDonald's is insult 😄. I like McDonald's for their french fries but Hesburger for their tastier burgers.

Of course it’s made out of real cheese, we’re not animals in here. And the quality of finnish cheese is at par with southern eu cheeses, might even be even better. We do love high quality stuff here.

@oskar6747

9 күн бұрын

I have to disagree. The cheese it's made of (Probably Koskenlaskija) is made out of real cheese, but it's not real anymore. It's chemically melted cheese, like the American ones, but it's made from black label Emmental instead of orange coloured plastic. Our cheeses are still quite industrial and bland, nothing compared to southern EU. We have also a good selection of imported cheeses. I love browsing the cheese isle of Herkku or even the local Citymarket.

Cloudberries grows on swamps, they are delicious and most expensive berries in here.

Smoked reindeer/cheese soup is made of crumbles of smoked reindeer, cream and real Finnish dairy cheese which is superb always.. Very silky and smooth soup. Finland is a big dairy country. Before the nonsense started in Ukraine we sold the Russians apprx.600 million €/annually worth of dairy products.. Now I guess were supposed to eat it all by ourselves since that stuff is not cheap.. :D

@pamelakilponen3682

Ай бұрын

Also most dairy is available in lactose free!!

@mikkorenvall428

29 күн бұрын

That, or sometimes cooked cream gets a little cheesy, can't really make out from the video which one is it. Definitely not synthetic

@oskar6747

9 күн бұрын

It should be made like that, but most recipes I could find used Koskenlaskija. It's closer to real cheese than American, but it's still processed cheese.

How can anyone be surprised about eating reindeer? REINDEER ARE LIVESTOCK, THERE ARE NO WILD REINDEER

These foods are all traditionel finnish dishes. I am 70years old finnish granny and I can cook all that food.

We like cream and all things dairy here in Finland. We have many dairy products that do not even exist in other countries. Dairy product aisles are huge in Finnish supermarkets.

Those fish are one of my top-5 fishes in the world! They are called "muikku" in finnish or vendace in english. Those are the bigger ones, but you can get them really small also which are called "neulamuikku". They are usually battered and fried with butter and salt and pepper, served with garlic-sauce and maybe fried onions and sometimes with mashed potatoes and/or vegetables. You can eat them whole with the head and guts and all, but I prefer to take the guts out of the bigger ones. I make them at home also when you can buy them cheap at the stores at autumn (sometimes 5€ a kilo). Hard to find in the summer because all of it go to street markets, restaurants and festivals. Super delicious and healthy.... Cloudberry is kind of a sour berry which you cannot really compare to any other berries. Also very delicious/healthy and costs a fortune. They are handpicked from the marsh which makes it expensive. They only grow in the northern part of Finland.

@mikkorenvall428

29 күн бұрын

Yep. Vendace is so good. and those small ones are called 'needle vendace' and eaten in whole.

Norway won Gold in World cheese Awards 2023 so yes there is nice cheese in northern Europe

@oskar6747

9 күн бұрын

But Finland isn't Norway. Berlusconi was partly right when he laughed at us wanting the European Food Safety Authority here. But there is a new generation with great cooks. Nordic kitchen is becoming very good. But we don't have great Finnish cheeses. Valio black label Emmental is ok, but the southern European cheeses are on a different level. You have probably better cheeses in Norway. Traditional Finnish taste is just bland.

@Ieatwhale1

9 күн бұрын

I know my parents are from Finland, used to travel to Finland many summers

Karelian stew can have a variety of meats but typically it consists beef and pork cooked in a broth with onion, black pepper(the whole pepper), salt and herbs. Served with boiled potato and perhaps something like honey&butter-cooked carrots etc.

@SorbusAucubaria

Ай бұрын

I've heard that it should have three meats pork, beef and lamb or perhaps some switch it with elk, but I've only ever made Karelian stew with beef. It also need carrots, onion and pepper etc. Usually very basic and simple flavors. Traditional Finnish food is not that complex because of the climate and veg available. Think of ways to get food during winter so, dairy, pickles, jams, meat root vegetables etc.

@teromattila3657

Ай бұрын

No carrots, no onions. Only salt and pepper (kokonaisia mustapippureita). And of course meet.

@jennifer1329

25 күн бұрын

My dad used beef, pork, lamb and veal plus beef liver and kidneys for meats. Deelicious!

hesburger, Finland 272,Lithuenia 60, Estonia 51,Latvia 51, Bulgaria 29, Ukraina 7, Germany 2, Poland 1

@SteamboatW

Ай бұрын

None in Sweden... 😢

@Nollegee

Ай бұрын

There was like 40 in Russia and some in Belarus also but i’m not sure if those are there still probably not.

@sasiuru

Ай бұрын

@@Nollegee Hesburger left from Russia and Belarus, but those restaurants have faced same fate as McDonalds. Taken over with Russians and renamed to something but still using styling from previous owners.

@keikotoivonen4539

29 күн бұрын

@@Nollegee no

We don't have fake cheese in Finland. We have also good quality cheese here.

Key difference is that hesburger uses way more mayonnaise on their burgers, which makes them less dry (mcdonalds' burgers feel so dry after eating lots of hesburger's burgers). Both mcdonalds and hesburger became mainstream during the 80s. Hesburger is imo 10x better than mcdonalds.

@kala1780

Ай бұрын

I think the hesburger mayo is a bit too much in some cases, it makes most of the burgers taste kind of the same no matter what you take. Also the buns and the fries and the nuggets are not as good as McDonalds, however it is just a matter of opinion. I think McDonalds near me are never dry and seem to be made almost to oder, unless you mean they have less mayo. Also the service is 3-4x faster subjectively in McD than in Hesburger, at least where I live, however that is probably due to the fact that it seems like Hesburger understaffs their restraunts and there's visibly like 2-3 young 18yo kids running the whole restraunt at some times. One major thing that hesburger does better are the "grillimauste" or "bbq spice powder"(?) bags that you get for free to spread on fries or ketchup. 😂

@onerva0001

29 күн бұрын

​@@kala1780oh yes, I've eaten at a lot of Hesburgers all around Finland, and it is definitely not _fast_ food. Almost missed my train once waiting for my food.

Finland is one of the few countrys that has more stores for local chain vs McDonalds. By google there are 65 McDonalds locations and 278 Hesburgers. Also comparing Big Mac to Hesburgers version is an insult. Hesburger mayos and sauces are leagues above what McDonalds has to offer. Also can't understand how he came to the conclusion that it tasted like thousand island dressing flavor since it has 2 different mayos, paprika and pickle.

@mikkorenvall428

29 күн бұрын

Finland also has other local Hamburger chains like Rolls, ScanBurger and so on, but HesBurger is the biggest and the only one gone international... (Estonia,Poland, Germany...) None in Britain as far as I know.

If I had to make a broad generalization, I'd say Finland is where Nordic and East European cooking traditions meet.

Hesburger have locations in Finland, Estonia, Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, Bulgaria. Had before in Russia, Belarus and Syria. 2020 Hesburger had 280 restaurants in Finland and 220 (will be much less now after all in Russia are gone) outside of Finland.

Finnish meatballs are basically the same as Swedish meatballs. We were a part of Sweden for many years so I would say that it is SweFin dish nowadays.

Hesburger restaurants are located in these countries: Finland: 272 restaurants Lithuania: 60 restaurants Estonia: 51 restaurants Latvia: 51 restaurants Bulgaria: 29 restaurants Ukraine: 7 restaurants Germany: 2 restaurants Poland: 1 restaurant (From Hesburger webpages) ...so none in UK. Probably won't be soon after you left EU. :)

Hesburger is way more popular than McDonald's in Finland. Their ingredients are fresher, their cheese is real as are their fries, their sauces are so much better there's no point in even comparing, their burgers aren't squished, and most importantly, their sauces, their ice cream and their milkshakes are lactose free. Cloudberries are amazing, the trick is that they only grow in specific kind of swamps so they can't really be farmed - I've been cloudberry picking a few times with my mum, the general rule is you never go alone, because the best ones grow where the ground is most treacherous.

Here you are, Wallace. Some Finnish milk, butter, and cheese!: "How people in Finland became addicted to MILK!", "Life on a Small Dairy Farm in Finland", "Valio Food Solutions | Valio butter for better baked goods", "Cheese Aisle in K- Market Finland", "How to make Leipäjuusto (Finnish Squeaky Cheese)", "700€ in two days picking wild berries in Finland", "How to make Koskenlaskija cheese at home" and "BALLS! Tasting Finnish crisps / savoury snacks (food from Finland)".

As Sweden and Finland were the same country ~600 years, a lot of dishes people think are Swedish are _also_ Finnish. Meatballs and cinnamon buns are the first that come to mind.

Hesburger is way more popular in Finland than McDonalds. 272 Hesburgers in Finland, 75 McDonalds'.

Squeaky cheese fried on a pan to melt it a little bit + cloudberry 🤤

No wonder you have not heard of cloudberries, they only grow near the Arctic Circle on swamps and are difficult to find. As far as I am aware, they really can't be cultivated or anything, so they're very very expensive. Which is why many Finnish families travel to Lapland specifically so that they can pick them up on their own (as you can do in Finland because of everyman's rights, which is a legal concept pretty much unique to Finland that you should look up if you don't know what it means). As a child, I never really liked cloudberries myself! They have a pretty intensely sweet and flavorful honey-like taste, but it was the texture of them that put me off, it's slightly similar to blackberries (the skin just doesn't break apart as nicely as e.g. blueberries or raspberries do). Also they have pretty big seeds which I didn't like either. Now I like them, especially with "bread cheese" as we call it. But if you ever come to Finland, you should try them for sure!

In Sweden we have that cheese - dessert it’s called kalvdans = calf dance .

We do have McDonald's here in Finland. The first McDonald's in Finland opened up in 1984. Hesburger, McDonald's and Burger King are The Big 3 around here.

@tuomasandfolkmusic

22 күн бұрын

Also we have scan Burger.

We have a similiar dessert in Sweden called Kalvdans (dance of the calf) made from the first milk but that dessert is very creamy and soft. Warm cloudberry jam with vanilla ice cream, yum.

21:50 The best meatballs I have ever tasted have a really simple recipe. 1kg of minced pork-beef, 1dl of sriracha, 1dl of roasted onions, 1dl of breadcrumbs, 1 egg and little salt and pepper. Baked in 200 degrees oven until done.

Hesburger is In 9 countries. 75+ McDonald's In Finland

Those little fishies on mashed potetoes are like the orange fish sticks but the normal organic version of them and they are very good

We Donald have that kind of cheese, we use only natural cheese!

I checked that there are 82 McDonald's in Finland and 272 Hesburger👍👍

Ummm...what? We don't have that fake cheese in Finland. Cheese IS cheese. Meat IS meat. Cream IS Cream... And for The health issues...The real thing is actually not so Bad. Just compare The sugar in real thing and The "light" one. It's The sugar you should worry about.

Those small fishes "vendace" is one of the most famous market snacks too and it's actually from our fresh water lakes not from sea.., addition cloudberry is really a berry what grows only in arctic areas during small time window so they are probably most expensive berries what you can find here.

@thrillyria

29 күн бұрын

Yeah the rye flour dusted and butter fried vendace will be sold in pretty much all outdoor events all over in Finland. And they'll be busy as hell. And if your event doesn't have a vendor, someone will definitely come to ask why not. They're in every market place, fair event, even in sports events, festivals... And we love them!

Sorry to break your hearts, UK and USA but yes. Yes here i Sweden, Finland and Norway we DO eat Rudolph. And it´s edlicious. Reindeermeat is low on fat and rich on flavour. Dried or smoked it is very tasty and also offcourse as a roast made in the owen or a stew in a pot.

Yes, Finland have both McDonalds and Burger King. Before covid, Sweden had the most McDonalds in Europe - but no Hesburger... :-(

I know I'm biased, but I definitely like Hesburger more than McDonald's. ( 12:35 Yes, we do have McDonald's in Finland) 1. Burgers aren't as dry as in McDonald's, as in Hesburger they use more mayonnaise (Mayonnaise is their own and they taste so good). 2. Ketchup is their own brand made too, I love it. 3. They also have their own dips, if I take chicken nuggets, I would choose the paprika dip, it's my favorite. But I think the cucumber one is nice too. (There are many other flavours too.) If you get a chance when visiting in Finland, try Pancho Villa and choose Crispers (fries) with the house's own dip/sauce. 🤌🏻 They're my absolute favourite fries right now. 💚 4. I love cheese bread, but I don't eat it often. I like to pair it with grapes.

Karelia is area that is currently partly in Russia and partly in Finland.

You must, must try cloudberries! 🤤 Warm cloudberries on top of vanilla ice cream! Not to common in southern Sweden, north however! 👌🏼 And while you're at it! Swedish strawberries are delicious! Nothing like the imported ones from Spain etc..

5:30 I use lots of heavy cream, full fat milk, butter, olive oil and chocolate, but I'm still thin and in perfect health at 38. I also like all kinds of fresh vegetables, but not cooked. And I refuse to buy anything labeled as light, low fat or sugar free.

I cannot speak for Finland, but Swedish meatballs should NOT be dense, it's one of the reasons for them being small - if you cut them they will fall apart, so they should be bite size. Cloudberries are a big thing in Sweden, particularly up north, but can be found at least as far south as the Gothenburg area.

@HC-Alfred

29 күн бұрын

As a Fin, i like my meatballs also NOT so dense. When i make meatballs, i use minced beef, onions, breadcrumbs mixed with eggs and fry them using cast iron pan to get that a bit "burnt" crust to them. Sometimes i also mix some bluecheese into them

@matshjalmarsson3008

29 күн бұрын

@@HC-Alfred I use a 50/50 mix of beef and pork, onions, eggs, breadcrumbs, and milk/cream. Potatoes can also be used. Then I sometimes make them more "exciting" by adding rice, tomato puree, or even fish (though that's usually for pattys, not meatballs). Cheese is a good idea, I have to try that, though I think I'll go with feta.

Leipäjuusto ja lakkahillo is Finnish names for that cheese and cloudberry jam, not everyones' fav, but you have seen Dave Cad tried this! It's a squueky cheese and when iwas a kid, i only ate with that jam lol, otherwise bleh :D and about meatballs, there's so many different kind of styles ppl make them, for example, i don't use eggs, i use oat flakes :) and sometimes put cheese in there too, i don't roll them too long cos dense meatball isn't tasty, but mashpotatoes are best here too! some brown sauce on it and yum! also those fishes she eats are called voissa paistettuja muikkuja :) my def fav summer outside market treat! i love especially small ones thann those cos of the bones and those are so delicious

...but they don't put salt on the fries!

Meat gelly or aladob is like pulled pork or beef in a gelatine-like substance which tastes just like meat soup or broth.. Very low fat, typically around 4-6%, and very high proteine.. if you put some on your toast and a bit vinegar on top it melts lovely.. Typically completely artificial ingredient free, sort of a rustic product. Love it :)

@jennifer1329

25 күн бұрын

I agree, it's delicious. Americans call it head cheese (the only two places I've found that carry it are a Polish deli and a Hungarian butcher's shop).

@StPaul76

23 күн бұрын

@@jennifer1329 Head cheese.? Where does the name come from.? We are talking about the exact same product for sure. Poles, Hungarians, Balts, Tscheks and us Finns love our meat.. Germans are into saugases and they have their "eisbein mit sauerkraut" which just melts in your mouth.. It's actually a very meaty Europe I'd say.. :D ps: I used that aladobe/meat jelly/head cheese to train my hounds.. They were like marines when they got a whiff of that stuff.. :D

@jennifer1329

23 күн бұрын

@@StPaul76 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese explains it.

One thing I gotta recommend you try if you get the chance is spruce sprout jam/jelly. It has quite an different taste to other jams, but it is a quite rare food of finnish cuisine.

Burger King, Hesburger and McDonalds - That's the order

14:13 Copyright doesn't work like that... xD McDonald's doesn't have some kind of monopoly on hamburgers, so they cannot own any rights to hamburgers because hamburger is a dish. However, they can brand their hamburgers, which they have done i.e. BigMac, McFeast etc. etc. So they would definitely sue if I was to make a burger to the public and market them under their brands w/o proper license. :P But I could legally steal their recipes and market them under another name and they would not be able to do anything about it. Also, I had that crispy fish as a snack when I was in Jyväskylä, years back. There was this food and drink festival which coincidentally took place in the harbour just at the moment when I was visiting there. :P Was great with some local beers they had there. :)

Clouberry nan nam pancake with vanilja iceream and cludberry jam or wispcream and fresh cloudberrys

We have 75 McDonalds restaurants and 272 heburgers in Finland. And in my opinion, I like heburger more. ^_^

@dwaynesview well one of the favourite crisp flavour is sourCREAM & onions so yeah i guess we do like creaminess :D ps: salmon soup is superb dish and oh so so good. It as been one of my favourite foods ever since childhood. Too bad salmon itself is rather expensive so can't make the soup so often.

30:27 I think the "first" people would have just propably folloved the example of animals.(bears eat tons of lingonberry and cloudberry, maybe they are good for us too.)

Five Guys is sooooo good! I wish we had it here 😭 Friends & Brgrs is almost as good as Five Guys and that's Finnish. It's a little more expensive when compared to McDonald's and Hesburger, though.

there's around 270 hesburgers around Finland

Creamy soups are the best! Added butter is never bad either.

What is Mäk Donals?

1th Burger King, 2th Hesburger and 3th McDolands - That's my order of preference. The grilled taste of Burger King hamburgers wins.. Hesburger has better hamburgers than McDonalds. It's their own mayonnaise that pulls it off.

Of course salmon soup is nice! All the ingrediences are tasty! :) And cloudberries are just sweeeeet and tasty! ;P

Cloudberry liquir or wine you hahve to try vanilja i e cream coffey and cludberry liquir

We don't have synthetic cheese either.

Cramy and cheecy (maybe some mushroom) And reindeer of w ever good meat❤️

I've never made Karjalan paisti (Carelian stew) with pork. Always with beef.

usa is one country, so it's not strange that it has the same food

30:39 I’ve always wondered how many people died when they were tasting mushrooms for the first time. Like there is a mushroom that grows in the spring, Brain mushroom (Gyromitra esculenta), and you have to boil it several times to get it poison free and then you can cook it for food. Like how many relatives in one family tested the boiling and died to test how many times was enough??!!! SMH.

This is actually not Finnish food. It is food served in some Finnish restaurant. It's really hard to find "Finnish" food from restaurants in Finland. Salmon soup and maybe meatballs being the exceptions. And fried muikkus off course. (Small fish) So actually it seems like quite a lot of the food presented was "Finnish" after all.

Pretty much everything from the sea/ocean/lake is like superfood.. All the fats are non-saturated(is that a word.?)and everything is solid flesh.. And all the proteins are fast absorbing and a healthy grown man can easily eat an entire big fish.. All goes into your muscles and bones and it's tasty.

You don't like Cheez Whiz in englad, but marmite is lovely.

Cheese burger is much better in Hesburger. I like that double hamburger too, but Big Mac is just such a legend that it wins. Fries in McD is much better too. But Mega hamburger is very good in Hesburger. I use lot of fresh cheese in soups. You propably know Philadelphia cheese. That and our other brands like Creme Bonjour, Valio and some others have more of variety for the cheese flavors. Also Koskenlaskija is little bit similar cheese and is really good in soups and gravies. I also got once fishbone into my throat as i were in kindegarden. Onse i were eating big round and hard candy, and i accidently swallowed it as i were about 9 ears old and that stucked in to my throat too. I had to drink alot so that candy melted and it got to my stomach. That were way more worst than fishbone. In Finland we do eat alot of fish. We have large coastline by the sea. Also we have thousands of lakes so fish is very common food here. I have eated fish as long i can remember. I personaly lowe seafood. Cloudberries are quite bitter and tastes swampy. Those grows only in swamps just like cranberries, but cranberries taste more like lingonberry with a litle bitter twist of swampiness in it. Cloudberries are very healthy and has alot of vitamines. And yes, those are really traditional foods. We sure love potatoes and mashed potatoes are propably the best potatoe food. I rather eat mashed potatoes than french fries and i hate say that i make the best mashed potatoes ever. Normaly mothers makes the best foods, but i have to say that i haven´t got better mashed potatoes anywhere if i compaire it to self made. Even my mom and my ex mother in law always complemented my mashed potatoes. And ofcourse my kids love it too. The best review ever were from my doughter as she asked me how does every food taste so much better here as you´ve made it 😁...

We use only natural ingredients!

You often use koskenlaskija in reindeer soup which is a type of processed cheese

@petergriffin6126

Ай бұрын

Sure, but koskenlaskija is made from real cheese, not like nachocheese

Hesburger just drowns everything in the mayo. If you hate your burgers to only taste like mayo, Hesburger is NOT for you. The hamburgers generally taste better than McDonalds BUT you have to hope (or ask) that they are sparing with the sauce. The best Hesburger burgers are those that have McDonalds-level of sauce - as in: just enough to taste it and not a drop more! Compare McD cheeseburger: You know what it tastes like. Now imagine if it only tastes like cucumber mayo and nothing else.. that's Hesburger.

cheese wiz to my understanding tastes like American Cheese but in runny format and American Cheese is those orange slices covered in plastic that in my opinion is the only way to go when making hamburgers whuld be supprised if you dont have that in England. Maybe you have somthing akin to cheese dip for nachos in England wich i think is very similar correct me if i am wrong. Hesburger is way better than Mcdonalds most finnish peaople whould agree not just becouse we are patriotic (yes we have mcdonalds) it might be too the fact that most of Mcdonalds ingredients are inported compared to Hesburger where most ingredients are produced locally, i bet Mcdonalds tastes better than here somewhere where it is produced localy. Salmon soup is very basic and hardy not exploding with flavour which is very common with traditional finnish food which i would say is close to English cuisine so i bet you will enjoy it. Those orange berries are cloudberries the most elusive barry in the world hand also they are very perishable so its allmost allways made into jam, super delicious tastes a bit like a mix of raspberry and a red currant they honestly explained it pretty well but its subtle in taste compared to most jams, put it on that cheese and maan is it good highly recommend bet you get them in the UK also. Amsome video keep it up. :)

When you say seafood the fish is from the sea but if the fish comes from a Lake is it lakefood then?????

@ummpi394

Ай бұрын

😂 good one

@jennifer1329

25 күн бұрын

Seafood refers to anything other than fish that lives in water - shrimp, scallops, crayfish, lobster etc.

Cream butter snd dalt 3 things you need to goid foid

13:20 Neither have I. There is nothing in a Big Mac I would find appetizing. I hate pickles and the sauce in a Big Mac and even the fresh stuff looks bland and tasteless. I would have to change so many ingredients and add new ones that you couldn't call the end result a Big Mac anymore. ElMaco is the best ever, if you don't count the premium ones that change every so often.

I can say that reindeer soup certainly doesn't have Cheese Whiz in it. But real cheese. These are some basic American's that compare everything to their food in States

couldnt the view of europe as the coninent with most variety be cause u are european? i think everyone would say the same about their own continent cloudberry is the most amazing stuff you can imagine, something you HAVE to try its pretty popular in both norway, sweden and finland

@SteamboatW

Ай бұрын

Well, it's not the most varied continent, that is Africa followed by Asia, but Europe is very, very varied. More than any single country at least. Maybe with the exception of India... India is almost a continent in itself and varies wildly.

Hesburger is better than mcdonald ..of cource we have madonalds hesburger burger king taco bell subway all those

Kerroshampurilainen does not include thousand islandish sauce, it has cucumber mayonnaise and maybe bell pepper mayonnaise. These sauces are not comparable with MacDonald's sauces, Hesburger food is much better. I hate MacDonald's food :D

I am a very good Cook, but if we buy fastfood, it is always Hesburgers. Doble cheeseburger is Best and hei, all Burgers are almost same! The rescriptions are same, yuo do not imitate someone else!

Yes here is good real cheese not like that can shit no no no

hesburger have less fat. if yuo are into sportylife, take hesburger.

Hese > mcd any day

Meatballs are NOT Swedish! Come on! Meatballs originate from Italy!

@SteamboatW

Ай бұрын

No, meatballs are much older than italy and almost every culture around the world have invented something meatbally independently. They definitely not originate in Italy... ... and Swedish meatballs of course originates in Sweden, although meatballs in general is one of the oldest human inventions.

Hesburgers sucks! It's horrible!

@tehontuoksuinenpulla9504

Ай бұрын

Beats the clumps of McSalt&Fat any day😁