From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Gary Wiltshire"  wrote in message
news:op.sst5v4mseipai0{at}news.barkto.com...
>> There's a strange hoopla going on in the press here over this - I don't
>> get
>> it, what's the big deal here? Well I do sort of understand that at the
>> higher level there would be some problem with the playboy stuff, but
>> food?
>> Who cares, as long as the beer is good!
>>
>>
> It's more important to those of us who don't drink, I suspect.  Frankly
> northern European food in general is pretty boring, although I will
> confess a fondness for piirakka.

And I was joking a bit. I know how our food compares to for example
Italian, and mostly it's because before modern transportation and other
technology, there really wasn't much here to eat so food in general was
very simple, and it still is in many ways. The question wether it is good
or not is, IMO, pretty uninteresting, as everyone likes whatever they
happen to like and that's about it.


Antti Kurenniemi
(me, I make a mean lasagne myself - I have an Italian friend who has been
teaching me cooking, and even he says it's "not bad" ;-)

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