From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

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!


Antti Kurenniemi
(it's midsommer (juhannus) tomorrow, so beer is if possible even more
important a topic than usually )

"Adam"  wrote in message
news:42ba9f88$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4122596.stm
>
> "Italy's Silvio Berlusconi has stunned the Finnish government by saying he
> used his "playboy" charms on the country's president, Tarja Halonen.
>
> The Finnish government called in the Italian ambassador over the issue.
>
> Mr Berlusconi's gaffe followed Italy's success in hosting the European
> Food Safety Authority, which opened in Parma on Tuesday, instead of
> Finland.
>
> Adding fuel to the flames, Mr Berlusconi poured scorn on Finnish food,
> saying he had had to "endure" it.
>
> "There is absolutely no comparison between culatello (speciality ham) from
> Parma and smoked reindeer," Mr Berlusconi was quoted as saying. "
>
>
> & as for rotten fish....
>
>
> Adam

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