7 SHOCKING THINGS IN FINLAND!

[@Slnkn]

Our cotton towel roll is a scientifically proven hygienic and ecological alternative for drying hands. The color of the towel is white and the material is absorbent 100% cotton. One roll gives approx. 105-115 servings of towels. During its entire life cycle, a cotton towel offers approx. 11,000 drying cycles. The width of the towel roll is approx. 20 cm. The used towel rolls are picked up for washing and clean ones are delivered in their place according to the agreed 1, 2 or 4 week change interval. 

[@OlafsLeftArm]

And indeed every 30-40cm section of the towel is used only by one person. So you won't wipe where someone else already wiped.

[@jattikuukunen]

There's a small window in the front cover of the box that tells how much of the roll is used up. Once it's all used, it's completely red.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That is great to know! Thanks for the information :)

[@mikkorenvall428]

@@OlafsLeftArm And it rolls only oneway... So you won't get towel someone used.

[@londonhodnet4079]

Australia and the U.K. have these as well

[@toniheikkila5607]

I can only recommend visiting at summer, June or July. A completely different country, sun, light, warmth, nature. Swimming in lakes, green forests, going to beach sauna, barbecue. At least I prefer summer over over winter, as Im sure many many other Finns do. And yes, it rotates, and when the roll ends, the towel is taken out to wash and reuse.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

We for sure want to visit in the summer!! It looks amazing 🌞 thanks so much for your comment :)

[@Gittas-tube]

Hi there! Finnish pilots are known for being able to land safely in any kind of weather. Super safe. And of course they are, just look at the kind of weather they're used to.

[@jarisavolainen603]

About that "papertowel" dispencer.. she is right.. Clean towel comes from the front when you pull it and already used goes away from the back.

[@olli8977]

Yes. Thats eco friendly life. No you only use clean part of Tovel.and workers chance them often. I know becose sometimes at work done it

[@disadadi8958]

@@olli8977 Yeah... If they're treated as supposed to. It's not uncommon to see a towel run out and never be swapped when supposed to a school, for example. I get it, the cleaners are busy, but it's not working as inteded.

[@janstenstrom7986]

So strange that eating reindeer is "sad", but eating pigs and cows is not? 🤔

[@edonveil9887]

​@@janstenstrom7986 pig becomes pork, cow becomes beef. Not same stuff.

[@TheRawrnstuff]

@@disadadi8958 It is pretty uncommon, actually. It only becomes "not uncommon" if you entirely ignore everyone who uses them before the roll runs out. I can't agree with your point. It's like saying "food doesn't work as intended, because it's gone after you eat it".

[@JourneywithJenandDrew]

We LOVED visiting Finland last summer, but we definitely need to come again in the winter! 😊

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

We need to do the opposite and go during the summer haha!!🌞

[@JourneywithJenandDrew]

@@JacobandJennyTravel 😂😂

[@hextatik_sound]

Reindeer is domesticated version of tunturipeura (Rangifer tarandus tarandus). There are no wild tunturipeuras anymore in Finland. We have wild metsäpeura (Rangifer tarandus fennicus) here, which is similar looking but bigger.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That is good to know! Thanks for the information :)

[@oh2mp]

Thank you for this Finland series! You were wondering about reindeers if there are wild ones. Those semi domesticated reindeers are bred from mountain reindeer (or mountain caribou) and there are some of them mainly in Norway. In Finland all you see are domestic. And they exist only in the north. You must drive like 700 kilometers north from Helsinki to see them. Here in the south we have a lot of white tailed deers and European roe deers and they are all wild. I can see roe deers on my backyard almost every day.

[@citizenkane4831]

Hey! What about the rein deeers in sweden. They are domestic also.

[@oh2mp]

@@citizenkane4831 Yep!

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That is great to know, we were wondering about that!! Cheers friend!

[@Kersomatic]

there are forest reindeer (metsäpeura), those are 100%wild, They exist near kokkola too

[@oh2mp]

@@Kersomatic yep but they are a different subspecies, although they can breed with reindeers afaik.

[@kyyyni]

The kind of alcohol regulations that you've been witnessing took place after a decade of full prohibition in the 1920s (which, like in the US, didn't go so well). The policy has been relaxing over time. Hard liquor and wine is still only available in the Alko stores, Alko being a state monopoly.

[@tanjanikola9489]

Alko has also become an award winning company with incredible customer service.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That is good to know! Thanks for the information :)

[@Manselikka]

Alko has great wine selections , even in small towns. I live in town of 7000 people and our Alko has great wines all over the world. Never seen such a selection in countries, which sell their liquor in grocery stores👌🏼😊

[@markonikula2611]

It started 1860's. Nykyään alkoholia Suomesta saa entiseen verrattuna melko kovin vapaasti. Samalla kun saatavuus on parantunut myös kulutus ja alkoholinhaitat ovat kasvaneet. Aina ei ole ollut näin. Kotipoltosta tehdaspolttoiseen Vuonna 1866 Suomessa tuli voimaan paloviinan kotipolttokielto, jossa "kiellettiin viinaa keittämästä, ilonpäiviä viettämästä", kuten vanhassa arkkiviisussakin veisattiin. Paloviina eli viljasta tai perunasta tislattu vahva alkoholijuoma oli rantautunut Suomeen 1500- ja 1600-luvuilla oluen rinnalle. Mielenkiintoista on, että kiellon taustalla olivat jo silloin veropoliittiset syyt. - Alkoholivero perustui maaomistukseen. Tilan tai kiinteistön koko määräsi kuinka paljon se joutui joka vuosi maksamaan paloviinaveroa. Veron suuruuden mukaan sai paloviinaa polttaa kotitarpeiksi, mutta myös myyntiin. Kotipolton vastustamiseen oli kaksi syytä. Monet säätyläiskartanonomistajat olivat jo rakentaneet moderneja teollisuuslaitoksia, joissa pystyi polttamaan viinaa. Poltto-oikeus oli kuitenkin vain maanomistajilla. Toinen syy oli Krimin sodan takia kärsinyt valtion talous: ajateltiin, että kun siirrytään tehdaspolttoiseen, niin valtion verotulot kasvavat. Maaseutu kuivui 1800-luvun lopussa 1800-luvun propaganda yliarvioi moninkertaisesti kotipoltossa valmistuneen alkoholin kulutuksen. Kulutus pysyi lakimuutoksesta huolimatta suunnilleen samana: alle kolme litraa sataprosenttista alkoholia henkeä kohti. Huonoina satovuosina kulutus oli tätäkin vähäisempää. Kotipolton kielto suututti talonpoikaissäätyä, jonka tahtoa vastaan päätös oli tehty. Kun kunnallislaki säädettiin 1869 ja elinkeinovapauslaki 1879, talonpojat maksoivat kalavelkansa muille säädyille. - Kun uusi laki antoi vallan päättää, kuka maaseudulla saa tuottaa viinaa, niin maanviljelijät ottivat oikeuden pois niiltä jotka olivat ottaneet kotipoltto-oikeuden heiltä pois. Eli käytännössä maaseutu kuivatettiin kokonaan. 1900-luvun alussa Suomessa oli vaan 6 kuntaa, joissa sai anniskella olutta. Tilanne jatkui osittain samana aina keskioluen vapautumiseen saakka. Raittiusliike heräsi 1800-luvun puolivälissä älymystövetoinen raittiusliike Kohtuuden ystävät alkoi nostaa päätään. He olivat kuitenkin silloin nimensä mukaisesti kohtuuden ystäviä: tavoitteena ei ollut täydellinen raittius, vaan "pahan" paloviinan poistaminen.. - Raittiusliike hyökkäsi nimenomaan kotipolttoista alkoholia vastaan, joka suorastaan demonisoitiin. Väitettiin, että sitä juotettiin pikkuvauvoillekin ja kerrottiin, kuinka se vaaransi kodin onnen. - Siinä voi nähdä saman ajatuksen kuin nykyäänkin eli alkoholijuomat asetetaan "pahuusjärjestykseen": kirkkaat juomat ovat brutaaleja ja johtavat sivistymättömään käytökseen, sitten on hienommat - vaikkakin yhtä väkevät - viskit, konjakit, ne ovat vaarattomia ja johtavat hyvään oloon. Viinit ovat suorastaan sivistyksen ehto, ja olut on vähän sellainen, onko se alkoholijuoma ollenkaan. Kohtuudesta kieltolakiin 1880-luvulla Kohtuuden ystävät muutti nimensä Raittiuden ystäviksi. Ihanteeksi tuli absoluuttinen raittius. 1900-luvun alussa yleinen ilmapiiri muutenkin kääntyi kannattamaan alkoholin täyskieltoa. Kieltolaki säädettiin vuonna 1919, mutta sen juuret ovat pidemmällä. Itse asiassa eduskunta laati ensimmäisen kieltolain jo vuonna 1907. - Kieltolaista jouduttiin äänestämään 4 kertaa, koska Venäjän hallitus ei ensin suostunut siihen. Ihmeteltiin miksi Euroopan raittein kansa tarvitsee kieltolakia. Mutta sota-ajan olosuhteissa erityisesti Venäjällä haluttiin hallita julkista tilaa hallita ja sitten Kerenskin hallitus keväällä 1917 hyväksyi suomalaisten kieltolakipyynnön. Laki oli kuitenkin aika takaperoinen. - Ensimmäisen maailmansodan aikainen alkoholikielto oli toiminut hyvin: alkoholinkulutus tippui puoleen litraan. Sota-ajan olosuhteissa ei ollut juuri salakuljetusta ja salapolttokin oli aika vähäistä. Alkoholia sai vain hienoista ravintoloista ja lääkärinreseptillä. Yläluokka oli tyytyväinen ja kansa ei juopotellut. Salakuljetus kukoisti kieltolain aikaan - Kun kieltolaki 1919 tuli voimaan, niin sitä ei noudattanut kukaan. Sitä pystyttiin rauhanoloissa helposti rikkomaan salakuljetetulla viinalla. Toisin kuin usein väitetään, alkoholinkäyttö ei kieltolain aikana kuitenkaan kohonnut huippulukemiin. Alkoholin kulutus oli kieltolain aikana suunnilleen samaa luokaa kuin ennen ensimmäistä maailmansotaa, eli alle kaksi litraa. - Se näyttää hurjalta, koska koko kulutus perustui salakuljetettuun rikolliseen juomaan. Suhtautuminen alkoholiin muistutti nykypäivän suhtautumista huumeisiin. Tilanne oli hankala varsinkin eliitille, jolle alkoholinkäyttö kuului tapakulttuuriin. Kannattavinta oli pirtun salakuljetus. Sitä tuotiin Länsi-Euroopasta isoilla laivoilla kansainvälisille vesille ja sieltä eteenpäin pienemmillä veneillä Suomen rannikolle. Suomen kieltolaki ei ollut ainutlaatuinen. Myös Yhdysvalloissa ja Neuvostoliitossa oli kieltolaki. Naiset kieltolain kumoamisen puolesta Suomessa kieltolaki loppui kuuluisana numerosarjapäivänä eli 5.4.32 klo 10. Kieltolain kumoamista edelsi ns. naisten adressi, johon kerättiin lähes 120 000 allekirjoitusta. Siinä vaadittiin kieltolain kumoamista. - Adressilla oli suuri symboliarvo, koska kieltolakia oli edeltänyt naisten adressi lain puolesta, Peltonen kertoo. -Nyt kun sama ryhmä oli muuttanut mielensä, oli muidenkin helpompi kääntyä kieltolakia vastaan. Kansanäänestyksessä kieltolakia vastusti noin 60 % naisista ja noin 70 % miehistä. -Vastustukseen oli monia syistä, esim rannikon kalastajapiireissä laki nähtiin epäonnistuneeksi. Kieltolain aikana salakuljetus oli kannattavampaa kuin kalastus. Rikollisuus ja muut ongelmat huolestuttivat erityisesti naisväkeä. Viinakortteja ja valvontaa Uudet alkoholiliikkeet eli Alkot eivät olleet nykyisenkaltaisia palveluhenkisiä itsepalvelumyymälöitä, vaan varsin tylyjä paikkoja. Sota-aikana asiakkaita ruvettiin myös tarkkailemaan. Henkilökohtaiset viinakortit olivat osa järjestelmää. Sota-aika voimisti raittiusliikettä ja Alkon johdossa kehitettiin viinakortti, joka toi myyntiin kasvatuksellisen elementin. Viinakortti edellytti rekisteröitymistä ja asiakkuussuhdetta Alkoon. Suomen järjestelmä oli kuitenkin liberaalimpi kuin Ruotsin, jossa ostokiintiö perustui varallisuuteen: mitä enemmän maksoi veroja, sitä enemmän sai ostaa viinaa. Suomessa ei ollut kiintiötä, mutta jos ostot olivat jollain tavalla epäilyttäviä, kortin omistaja joutui puhutteluun. Tarvittaessa kortti otettiin pois. Vain sivistyneistö osasi juoda oikein Alkolla oli myös etsiviä tarkastajia, jotka saattoivat kysella alkoholinkäyttötavoista mm. naapureilta tai talonmieheltä. Järjestelmä purettiin kuitenkin nopeasti. -Silloin ajateltiin, että alkoholiongelmat liittyvät sivistystasoon. Työväestöä ja maalaisia pidettiin hotltittomina juojina, kun taas sivistyneistöä ei alkoholi uhannut, koska he joivat sivistyneitä tuontiviinoja. Ostajantarkkailujärjestelmästä luovuttiin vuonna 1957. Sen jälkeen ostot merkittiin vain väärinkäytöksistä epäiltyjen kortteihin. Lopullisesti viinakortti poistui kuitenkin vasta vuoden 1970 lopussa. - Lopettamiseen oli kaksikin syytä. Tarvittiin valtavasti henkilökuntaa ostoja tarkkailemaan. Lisäksi tutkimus osoitti, että tarkkailusta ei ollut hyötyä, vaan se oli ennemminkin resurssien hukkaamista. Kohti miedompia juomia ja keskiolutta Miedompia alkoholijuomia suosiva linja alkoi vähitellen saada jalansijaa. - Jo 1940-luvun lopussa Alkon sisällä pohdittiin, että olutmyynti pitäisi saada pois Alkosta koska se vaatii liikaa tilaa ja voimavaroja. Oltiin sitä mieltä, että sivistynyt alkoholiholikulttuuri on vain viinien tai korkeintaan snapsien juomista. Mietojen juomien suosiminen oli tavallaan jatkoa tälle elitistiselle politiikalle. Kieltolain kumoamisen jälkeen suurin muutos suomalaisessa alkoholipolitiikassa koettiin vuoden 1969 alussa, kun keskiolut vapautettiin. Vapauttamista edelsi laaja keskustelu. Raittiusliike oli heikentynyt eikä sillä ollut enää voimia vastustaa keskiolutta. Yksi argumentti oli sekin, että maaseutua ei saa sortaa: Alkoja ja ravintoloitahan oli pääasiassa kaupungeissa ja taajamissa.

[@Atomisti]

That would make Alko the first monopoly in world history that is better than privately owned companies.@@Manselikka

[@SuperButcher1976]

The "hand towel" in restroom is about 20 meters long. It's one big towel roll. And when it is used, it stop. Then they washed it and use again. Buy the way, i'm very good examble at all Finn's don't have good english 😂

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That makes sense! Your English seems great to us, it is much better than our Finnish :) thanks so much for watching!

[@hy3756]

Yes, you guys are right. Tap water is the best in the world. There is even research behind that 🤝

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

It is so delicious!! Thanks for watching :)

[@annicaesplund6613]

Like in all Nordic countries! 😊

[@kaljaukko5439]

Drinking tap water is a privilege Finns get to enjoy on a daily basis. Finland’s tap water is among the highest quality in the world and is not only completely safe but a pleasure to drink. In Finland, tap water has been found to be significantly cleaner than bottled water. You can drink tap water everywhere.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

We are always so happy when we get to Finland because the tap water is so delicious! Thanks for watching :)

[@EiraAimo]

Nordic cuisine has been trending for some time, after classic french and spanish cuisines ruling the world. Noma was one the eye openers that hey, we have unique and mouth watering food culture here and superb ingredients thanks to pure nature and short but intense growing season at summer.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

We totally agree! It is so delicious 🤤 one of our favorites in the world. Thanks for watching :)

[@petribarsk4984]

That towel machine on restroom rotate jacob so next time you know 😂😂 and greeting from Finland 🇫🇮🇫🇮 wellcome back

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Hahaha! That is good to know! Thanks so much for your warm greeting :)

[@Wezqu]

After you wash your hands you place both hands to the top visible part of the towel on both sides of it, you pull down until dispenser stops giving you more towel and you wipe your hands to the new towel part you pulled out. It will then after a short while pull the towel tight again but from the opposite side where you pulled it. So now that a new person comes he only needs to touch the towel on the top clean part that you did not use to dry your hands with. Thats why you are not touching any part of the towel that anyone else touched. Not to mention that you are only wiping away water as your hands should be clean after washing them. If they aren't you clearly did something wrong.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That is great to know! Thanks so much for the information :)

[@Nasse83]

The towel in public bathrooms. Your not using the same part of the towel. It does rotate. Once its used they get washed and re-used.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That makes sense! Thanks for the information :)

[@KristinaWes]

Thank you for your fun and nice-to-watch content! 🤗I just love your videos ❤ 4:25 - They're not paper towel rolls, they're cotton fabric towel rolls! 😂 And you don't have to wipe your hands on the same part of the towel than everyone else: it sucks in the part that's been used and releases a new clean part for you. After the roll's been used, it gets changed. The used rolls go to laundry and gets washed super clean. Yes: the're super clean and hygiene after the hot wash and industrial, desinfecive washing detergents. And yes: it's environmentally wiser to use reusable fabric rolls than paper! ☺❤

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

We are so happy you enjoy our videos, that makes us smile♥️ that is great to know!! Thank you friend :)

[@KristinaWes]

❤❤❤@@JacobandJennyTravel

[@tahhah3449]

Im glad at You found Finland! And next time , come to summer , its different then!

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

We love Finland and definitely want to return in the summer!! Thanks for your comment :)

[@kognak6640]

There is a small population of wild forest reindeer in mid Finland, it's different subspecies than domesticated mountain reindeer in Lapland. It almost got extinct but conservation efforts saved it. Being wild and not that numerous it's not easy to see them unless you go to zoo. 3 zoos in Finland have them.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Oh that is so interesting!! Thanks so much for the information :)

[@JaniOllikainen]

Reindeers are only in "Poronhoitoalue", it's just in northern Finland.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That makes sense! Thanks for watching :)

[@TheBobOwner]

Reindeers are not really wild, but they are allowed to roam as a herd in the forest and the roads (at least in many cases, of course there are fenced areas as well for tourists)

[@teropiispala2576]

For my opinion, they are more wild than domestic animals. Human interference is minimal. Owners look after them and arrange feeding when there's not enough food available, but it's far different from keeping cattle or sheeps. The area is vast. Of course some reindeers are kept as domestic animals, mostly for tourists, but majority lives in a wildness for 99% of their life.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That makes sense!! Thanks for the information :)

[@noegatos1895]

Back in the 80s my elementary school here in Arizona had a similar towel system to dry our hands although it was not electronic and the cotton towel roll was blue. You would hand crank it back into the "machine" but kids loved to just pull the towel out as far as it would go so they eventually replaced them with paper towels.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Hahaha oh man!! We are from Arizona, we will have to ask our parents if they ever saw them there!

[@cloudwatcher608]

I grew up in a small town in Oregon and the old high school built in the 50's had this type of cotton towel. They rebuilt the high school a couple years before my freshman year but I remember it when I would go to sporting and music/theater events.

[@ausflyer]

The soups are amazing, especially the Salmon Soup, but another you need to try on your next visit is Beetroot Soup... it just works...

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Oh interesting! We will for sure have to give it a try :) thanks for the recommendation!

[@jariwilenius6537]

At cruise altitude aircraft confront temperatures below -40 C/ -40 F routinely, so they are built to handle those low temperatures, nothing extra is needed. Deicing is done to aircraft before takeoff if there are freezing weather conditions at the airport, or aircraft have to climb through freezing weather after the takeoff. It's a common practice on all airports that experience cold weather. Deicing is done by spraying specific deicing solution on aircraft to melt snow and ice, and to prevent forming of ice during takeoff and climb. I guess the solution spray can look like a fire when the spotlight of the operator illuminates it in the dark, but there is no flame, it is a spray of a water based solution.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Ah that makes sense!! Thanks so much for the information :)

[@Beautygir13]

Hello! Just wanted to say I have watch so many of yalls videos now and I love your channel! I am from Finland so the Finland series if the first thing I watched! Huge fan 🎉❤😊

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

You are so sweet!! We are so happy you enjoy our videos! Thank you so much friend♥️ We are obsessed with Finland!

[@mikoske]

Yeah the alcohol thing is weird, restrictions to grocery stores came during my lifetime, there you can't buy alcohol between 9pm-9am. Sometimes I accidentally see a cool long drink flavor and forget the time and cashier just can't sell it. As far as I know, deicing is the only thing they do to the places for cold weather. Airports here are almost never closed due heavy snowfall. I hate it when I can't drink tap water when I travel. Places with similar quality water: Norway and Iceland, Scotland pretty close as well. Reindeer run wild in summer too, they like to block roads sometimes. You're not going to see reindeer South of Oulu. Happy travels!

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Oh wow that is all so interesting! It is so fun to learn about each countries unique things. Thanks so much for your comment and we hope to see more from you in the future :) cheers friend!

[@mikoske]

@@JacobandJennyTravel I'll be chatting here in some videos! Cheers!

[@Kukka82]

The handtowel isn´t used over and over again by everyone :) It rotates. Inside the handtowel box there´s a big roll of it, so when it sucks in the wet towel, the new part of the towel that comes after it to use, is 100% clean, hygienic and dry. So no worries :D. Ps. Your videos are nice to watch! Enjoy your travels

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

We are so happy you enjoy our videos! And that makes sense about the towels! Thanks for the information :)

[@anttikoskela418]

i'm so happy right now 😊 that you love our country

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

It’s such an amazing country!! 🇫🇮 thanks for watching!

[@Rothe8]

The tower roll system is called "Käsipyyherullajärjestelmä". It is a combo of 4 different words (direct translation would be hand towel roll system). It only passes a clean and dry towel section once to you, and at the end the whole roll goes to laundry.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

So interesting! Thanks for sharing :)

[@ValleyPooch]

I'm enjoying your vids and just subscribed. The practice of deicing planes is common in the US and certainly in Canada, where I live. The airport at Dallas has them but obviously not used as often as in Minneapolis, e.g. The hand towel gizmo that you found shocking, used to be common in North America. I suspect that it required more labour to service these cloth towels, thus more $$$. Seeing those gizmos in your video was like a blast from the past for me (I'm a bit older than you guys). :)

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

We are so happy to hear you are enjoying our videos :) we are from Arizona, so we had never seen the deicer before haha!! That is so interesting they use to have those hand driers! Thanks so much for subscribing and we look forward to your next comment :)

[@finnishculturalchannel]

To your question about alcohol: "Kieltolaki - Prohibition in Finland", "r0909 Finland & drinking" and "Red Hot Chili Peppers talks about Finnish fans". To planes landing during winter: "360 Turn with school bus what you see only in finland". Continuous hand towel dispenser actually makes sure you don't use the same towel (or part of it) as the rest. You can only pull out the clean part of the towel and the used part gets sucked in to never appear again.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Ah that all makes sense!! Thanks so much for the information :)

[@Aquelll]

The Finnish alcohol laws perplex a lot of Finns too. Finland used to have a very powerful temperance movement in the early 1900's and even had a prohibition from 1919 to 1932. It was a ridiculous thing because the law was approved in 1917, when Finland was still part of Russian Empire. Still it became into effect in 1919 and the end result was the same as it was in the US. Huge spike in violent crime, smuggling and people drinking more than ever before. There is still a lot of reminders from that time in the current laws and Finns relationship with alcohol never normalised after the prohibition. Still today the relation with alcohol is a huge back and forth in Finnish politics and culture. The laws have relaxed constantly over time after the prohibition to the point where we are today. At least we are in a point Where alcohol is pretty freely available as long as you remember the complex set of rules and timetables. 😅

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Wow thanks so much for sharing all that information with us! It is so interesting to learn about different countries!

[@hijack1453]

Nice to hear you had fun here for the third time! I'd definitely recommend coming here in summer, both lapland and southern Finland, although experiencing all that would take a lot time. For summer activities I'd recommend sightseeing Helsinki and Turku but also old towns like Porvoo and Rauma. But what summer in Finland offers the best is the lakeland, Saimaa and its neighboring lakes offer a lot of cool places to just hang a bit and not get bothered by the mosquitos. But also Lapland is amazing in summer. Either go right before midsummer or after that. The mosquitos will kill you nonetheless, but at least it is not as painful.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

We definitely want to visit all those places in the summer! I am sure it is so different than the winter! Thank you so much for your recommendations :)

[@WITYTRAVELS]

You forgot about the blueberry juice! Yeah we found the paper towel rolls in the restrooms to be quite interesting too!

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Ah yes! The best juice ever!🫐

[@cayenigma]

I am a Finn. Yes the alcohol thing is about preventing alcoholism, but it is ALSO to give patronage to bars. It was lobbied by bars decades ago, when some alcohol came available in grocery shops, that they will go under if people can buy alcohol freely. So they made a law, no buying alcohol after 9PM from other placed but bars .

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That is so interesting! Thanks for the information :)

[@laakeri84]

I've always wondered if it really prevents alcoholism or just makes it worse. Because buying the alcohol after 21:00 is prohibited, many alcoholics buy a plenty of it before that time to make sure they have at least enough of it. And then they have more than they would have bought if there were no limitations. But they'll drink it all anyway. Strange rules we've got in here.

[@cayenigma]

The point is they then stay away from the bars causing havoc and the regular people get to patron bars in peace @@laakeri84

[@Atomisti]

Meanwhile in the rest of the world there are much more bars and restaurants even though there are no or few restrictions on selling alcohol.

[@cayenigma]

Yes this is because Finland has so few people per city @@Atomisti

[@jidu44]

Glad to hear you had fun in here! :) You should visit Lapland in midsummer, when the sun doesn't go down at all in one night!

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

We love it!! And we definitely want to visit in the summer someday 🌞 thanks for watching!

[@juholaitakari1305]

It blows my mind you haven’t figured out that the roll is cotton and that you don’t use a used part of it ever.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Haha I kind of assumed that! Thanks for watching :)

[@juholaitakari1305]

Great content you guys!@@JacobandJennyTravel

[@janivoutilainen2610]

Thank you for loving Finland

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

It is a wonderful place!! Thank you for watching :)

[@PetriApell]

I have been following your trips to Finland and liked the videos a lot

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

We are so happy to hear that!! Thank you so much for watching :)

[@tihk89]

There are some wild reindeer but they live in very remote areas so you will most likely never see them :D unless you go to the Helsinki Zoo where they have few of them :)

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Ahh that makes sense! Thanks for the information :)

[@teresalehtonen8499]

The towel is not paper. You do NOT use the same area as someone else. Its always clean area as it rolls. Its 20 meters long and changed and washed by cleaning personel.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

I thought so! Thanks for the information :)

[@zekevarg3043]

If you think Finland is restrictive about alcohol, try Sweden or Norway! 😁 Pull down the towel until it "locks" and don't roll back. 🙂There are wild reindeers in Finland, Rangifer tarandus fennicus, a subspicies of the domesticated reindeer, Rangifer tarandus.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

You are so right! When we were in Norway it was very strict! That is all great to know, thank you friend :)

[@akiriisio8558]

Next time you visit, make sure to book a table from a restaurant "Skörd". The concept is that everything (even spices, except salt) is local. The menu varies based on the season and it is delicious. It's fine dining and maybe a bit pricey but even the wines are Finnish. It is truly next level Finnish food. Usually in fine dining there is at least one dish that is "mehh" but I've been here twice and I've had no disappointments

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That is great to know! We will do that. Thanks for the recommendation :)

[@jku0624]

The bathroom towel thing made me feel old…that’s what bathrooms always used to have at least in WI. 😂

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Hahaha!! That is so funny, we have never come across them in the States! But we have gotten a few comments saying the same thing! Thanks for sharing :)

[@mikeprevost8650]

Ivalo is actually quite a bit north of the Arctic Circle.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Yes we went there in hopes to see the northern lights since it is so far up there!! Thanks for your comment :)

[@Sammalkives]

Hello again guys! :) watched the vid again and found some questions so let me clarify. First of all yes our school system requires us to speak English way better than most americans, I'm sorry but it must be true since I hear this very often :D 2. Our water cleaning facilities are super high tech here and drinking out of a river in Lapland is 100% fine, nature is clean as hell up there. 3. You could have seen a regular deer at Helsinki, I think like 98% of reindeers are owned and all of them are in Lapland. There foxes, bears, wolves and lynxes too in the wild.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

This is so great to know! Thank you for all that great information :)

[@Atomisti]

"drinking out of a river in Lapland is 100% fine," unless there happens to be a dead animal carcass upriver. Whether there is or not, that you can only know by drinking and waiting for you potential death.

[@RiasSenpaiTheWallet]

No, the reindeers are pretty much always just free, only during late fall to early winter the reindeer owners start to gather the reindeer for the purpose of reindeer round-up. Any unmarked calves get marked. Usually they are free'd after that, but where I'm from, people tend to free them a bit later, due to the arctic rally that is hosted every January. There are 54 different so said "cooperatives" and each one is responsible for the herding of reindeer in their region, the cooperative is a community formed by the reindeer herders. The reindeer that are from a differend reindeer cooperative are taken back to where they belong. Although the reindeer are free during most of the winter, they do get fed by the reindeer herders and therefore many of the reindeer tend to stay near their owners place. During summer the reindeer are pretty much free to do whatever they want and where ever they want. (All of the reindeer have owners, so you won't be able to find any "wild" ones, they're semi domesticated)

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Ooo that is so interesting!! Thank you so much for all the great information :)

[@CiprianMoisa-ij4pv]

The Bran Castle was built in the 14th century by the Grandfather of Vlad Țepeș, the Old Bride Dragon, the Corvinor Castle was built in the 15th century, and is the largest Castle in Europe.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Thanks so much for all the great information :)

[@Esa673]

Kiitos!

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Thank you so much friend!!! We truly appreciate you :)

[@kallekonttinen1738]

Reindeers are herded only in Lapland and couple northern municipalities. South from Oulu all are wild and hunted..

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That is good to know! Thanks for the information :)

[@WhereAreYouJ]

i love your videos but next time you should come to Finland in summertime 😊

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

We really want to!! I am sure it is totally different in the summer 🌞

[@rengasbaari]

Hello! I really enjoy your videos, and as a Finn, they are very interesting to watch. I notice how much you appreciate our country, and, in fact, you even look like Finns. Have you ever thought about moving to Finland to live, even for a year, so you could get to know the culture and life here better?

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

We are so happy to hear you are enjoying our videos! We do love Finland so much and hope maybe one day we could be there for quite awhile! Until then we will just keep visiting :) thanks so much for your kind words!

[@pekkajarvinen69]

All the reindeers are semi-wild, they roam around free everywhere around lapland during summertime and return "home" late fall.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That is great to know, we were wondering! Thanks for sharing :)

[@jarirautiainen9587]

This is how the towel dispencer works and how the dirty roll is changed to clean one. Dirty one goes to laundry. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4K6oK2Fe7ydiq8

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Thanks so much for the information friend :)

[@heatherj9029]

I live in the USA and I'm 40. When I was a kid these were all over the place. gas stations, schools, etc.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That is so interesting!! We had no idea! Thanks for your comment :)

[@mikkorenvall428]

Well reindeers are semi-tamed. During winter they are fed at 'home' and the some very tame one are used for sledge running. But during summer they are let free, and are shepherded like sheeps in New Zealand or cattle in Texas.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Ah that makes sense!! Thanks so much for the information :)

[@dktha]

I'd recommend trying Finland sometime in the summer if you get the chance. I am sure you'd enjoy the security, freedom and silence, as you can drive around one hour from Helsinki and enjoy almost complete silence in the nature. Then again if you drive to Lapland through the country, it's amazing to see the change in scenery when you approach the north, it's like you switched countries. If you go to the north in the summer, however, remember some lakes can be frozen still in June and try to avoid the "räkkäaika" in the north when the air is black of mosquitos and can be quite unbearable. Oh, and in Lapland, you could actually get lost quite badly in the wilderness, as there may not be anyone else and your mobile phone doesn't work in some areas.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That sounds so amazing! We for sure want to come back in the summer and experience it all in a new season. Thanks so much for all your recommendations :)

[@operatori]

Back in the day when international tourism started rolling into Lapland the air traffic controllers had to sometimes force planes to land in a blizzard. The pilots were apprehensive, but the ATC told them to either let them guide them or to fly back to wherever they came from.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Wow that is so interesting! Thanks for the information :)

[@moonliteX]

under 5,5% alcohol can be bought every day from 9-21. EVERY day. NO exceptions. alko is open weekdsys 9-21. sat 9-18 and sunday closed (also some holidays) bars/restaurants/etc can sell alcohol every day even also for take-away 9-4(am) if i remember correctly.

[@nikovarinowski8807]

Viinit kauppoihin!! 🎉😅

[@moonliteX]

oh and the shops are prolly going to get 8% drinks in the near future, so the wines they sell become way more tolerable etc.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That is all great information to have, thank you very much!

[@moonliteX]

@@JacobandJennyTravel also you can get 2,8% drinks "ykköskalja" 24/7

[@moonliteX]

anywhere anytime

[@teropiispala2576]

Finland has government own alcohol store called Alko. That's the only one allowed to sell real alcohol like vodka or whiskey. Not so long ago, also vine was in that list, and beer was practically only alcohol drink you could buy from the store. That's the reason why stores are separate. The reason for this arrangement is to prevent competition and advertising with alcohol. There's also heavy taxes for alcohol. It's necessary for average Finn to keep consumption in reasonable level. Finnish tourists have certain reputation in countries with cheap alcohol. You have to drink as much as possible because it's cheap.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That is so interesting!! Thanks so much for the information :)

[@jounilojander8821]

In Finland we have lot of good things and pure water is one of them! I hope also our people learns respect pure nature! Last time scientist mesured from raining water micro plastic and good news our raining water was pure! But it doesn't help if people through any plastic to nature!

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Finnish water is so delicious, it is one of our favorite things about visiting! Thanks so much for watching :)

[@jussihonkkila6177]

ALKO (finnish alcoholic company) has monopoly on selling stronger spirits to regular people (bars etc have more options). Our goverment is nanny state when it comes to alcohol, that's why there are time limits still going on, few decades ago it was even more controlled. The papertowel machine you are talking about has 2 rolls, one is clean other collects used parts and it will be used just once, when the clean roll ends, they replace it with new one, some similar machines use cloth rolls.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Ah that makes sense!! Thanks so much for the information :)

[@pluggedfinn-bj3hn]

All big passanger airliners are designed to be able to fly in such conditions, and have deicing systems installed. The snow clearing and deicing logistics on ground are the bigger differences, although most airports have some capability to do those. Here its just a priority. Low visibility operations are in place on most big airports across the world too,for fog/rain etc. As to alcohol stores, Alko is state owned and that's why its separate from the other stores.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That makes sense!! Thanks so much for the information :)

[@tapiokeihanen]

A Finn here .. Beer & cider under 5.5% (will likely increase to 8% soonish with new legislation) is sold in stores, kiosks etc from 9am to 9pm. Stronger alcohol time limits are the same but that stuff is available only in government owned Alko liquor stores - which are closed on Sundays and close at 6pm on Saturdays. It is the same thing in all the Nordic countries - in Sweden it is Systembolaget instead of Alko, in Norway it is Vinmonopolet and in Iceland .. something I can't spell. And of course, the bars are allowed to sell alcohol also after 9pm until their closing time. The hand towel rolls also aren't Finland specific thing at all. I've seen similar ones all over Europe already in the 1990s, as well as in some restrooms in the USA as well. There are both cloth and paper versions of those and yes, they're hygienic. The dispenser stores the used one in separate compartment than the clean part. The cloth version produces no waste (the washing process excluded) while in the paper version the paper just goes to recycling. The reindeer are usually free to wander around in Lapland although they're not wild as such. They're collected together usually in the middle of summer and divided by the owners based on the ear marks. Baby reindeer born during the spring will get their ears marked in this process.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That is all great to know. Thanks so much for all the helpful information :)

[@CiprianMoisa-ij4pv]

The Neamț Fortress, built in the 14th century, is one of the most interesting Medieval fortresses in ROMANIA, it has a superb history, but also an area between Moldova and Transylvania.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Thanks for the information! We love Romania :)

[@CiprianMoisa-ij4pv]

@@JacobandJennyTravel I apologize for bothering you, but even though I'm Romanian and I'm writing to you once more, I want you to search on the Internet about Stephen the Great and about his fight from Codrii Cosminului with the Kingdom of Poland, King Albert, Stephen the Great arrived with his army until Liiv and Pocutia, in the year 1499, and the Polish army retreated to Kraków for fear of fortifications and defense, the Ruler was in the city of Roman, when the Polish King said he wanted to help the Ruler of Moldavia, and attacked the fortress from Suceava.

[@patrickuotinen]

Finland had prohibition 1919-1932, and ever since the restrictions have been lifted little by little, veeeeeeery slowly. Alcohol was much more difficult to buy still twenty, thirty years ago.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Oh that is so interesting and makes a lot more sense now! Thanks for the information :)

[@knikanderrr]

What state are you guys from? I just returned from Orlando FL and I was quite shocked at restaurant prices. Smallish beer was commonly 10 usd plus taxes, possible service charge and of course 20% tip... granted FL might be one of the most expensive states. Pro tip while in Finland: lunch offers on week days are great value. And yes, I so looked forward to the Finnish tap water again. Orlando tap water was mostly luke warm and had a taste combination of chlorine and swamp, thus we named it Gatorade 😊. On the upside the friendly outgoing demeanor is fun. Finland must have been a culture shock to you 😂 Anyway great to explore and welcome to Finland

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

We are from Arizona, $10 is a bit expensive for a beer, we would pay around $5-7! Having tap water in Florida definitely doesn't sound good 😂 We love Finland! Thanks so much for watching :)

[@paivimarinela2695]

Of course they wash the used cloth rolls before they are used again.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

I thought so haha! Thanks for watching :)

[@Diivukka]

It's interesting to hear things like this as a Finn. I didn't quite understand everything because I don't know English, but if I understood correctly, did you find it strange that there was an egological hand drying towel in the toilet? Something is pulled and there is a new clean towel to dry your hands on. Glad to hear you liked the drinking water. 💧

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Yes that is it! And the drinking water is so delicious!! Thanks so much for watching :)

[@irynaklein5503]

In the Netherlands the same towels all over the place 😄

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That is so interesting!! We will see when we get there 🙌🏼

[@Diivukka]

In Spain it was a new thing for me and I got into a bit of a difficult situation like there was no paper in the toilet stall. It should have been realized to take it from outside 😱

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Hahaha that has definitely happened to me before too!!

[@akiro4506]

Finland used to have prohibition like the US for a while (in the 1920s?). To get the more "conservative" people to vote for ending the prohibition some compromises where made regrading the selling of alcohol. Many of these have been removed over time but some still remain. These include the "only under 5% alcohol sold in grocery stores from 9-21, hard liquor sold only in state controlled Alko Stores which close early, bars have "anniskelalue" (cant take alcohol sold in bars outside designated area)).

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That is good to know! Thanks so much for the information :)

[@vilpuler13]

Did you try the ”no-tipping” in a Finnish restaurant? 😅

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Haha I am not sure, I think we read to not tip there right??

[@knikanderrr]

It's absolutely ok to pay the sum on the bill, extras are exactly that. If having dinner and the service is good I might add a € or two. I commonly add a small tip to uber drivers bc the prices are often cheaper than they should be.

[@AK-jm1sc]

Essentially all Nordic countries have stricter alcohol laws (except Denmark) when you compare to the rest of Europe. Also the legal age of drinking for stronger alcohol is 20 years, while for alcohol under like 20% it's 18. Very different from some other European countries where you can sometimes drink at 16. You can only buy alcohol from 9am to 9pm from grocery stores, as long as it's max 5.5% alcohol percentage. I personally find this rule a bit dumb, but I heard it's been shown to reduce spontaneous drinking which might reduce healthcare costs for the public, and prevent people pointlessly taking sick days for hangovers. Drinking in bars/clubs is quite expensive, so it's generally not worth it to do regularly if you haven't bought any drinks by 9pm. It doesn't prevent alcoholics from drinking of course, because they'll buy more in bulk just in case. Wine (above the limit) and hard liquor can only be bought from a state-owned monopoly store called Alko, in some places these stores are very far, so you might have to drive or travel some time to find one, and it isn't open on Sundays, and has restricted opening hours on weekdays, usually till 8-9pm on weekdays and 6pm on Saturdays. It seems the point is to make drinking alcohol inconvenient so you don't bother to do it. That said, alcohol laws have been relaxing slowly over the years, and now there's been talk of maybe bringing wines to grocery stores. So it is possible that these laws change with time.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

You are right, when we went to Norway the alcohol restrictions were very intense there. That is interesting they are thinking about bringing wine into grocery stores. Thanks so much for the information :)

[@auvomesilampi6325]

The reindeer are all half-domesticated. The caribou in Alaska etc. are wild. They’re the same animal in practice, though.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Ahh that makes sense! Thanks friend :)

[@CiprianMoisa-ij4pv]

Most of the buildings in Romania are from the 16th-17th-18th-19th-20th centuries.

[@pelimies74]

The consumption of alcohol in Finland is the highest in the Nordic countries. Since the early 1960s, the total consumption of alcohol has quadrupled and negative effects of alcohol have increased. In Finnish culture, the state of alcohol intoxication has not been seen as shameful.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Thank you for sharing that information :)

[@rikutaskinen5432]

Salmon soup is tasty indeed....

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

It so delicious 🤤

[@dennislindqvist1265]

The alcohol restrictions are there to reduce alcoholism. I don't know if it works or not, but consumption has decreased drastically in recent years. But it certainly has other reasons as well.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That is great it has been decreasing!! Thanks for the information :)

[@TheRawrnstuff]

6:40 "I wouldn't say 100% of people speak English..." That would be quite a feat, considering every baby would have to be born already having learned to speak English. I'm confident in saying that doesn't happen even in countries where English is the majority language.

[@sampohonkala4195]

True - however, education of the first foreign language starts on grade 1 and it is almost always English. By the time kids are 10 years old they know some English already. And that is practically 100% of the kids, the language education is compulsory.

[@TheRawrnstuff]

@@sampohonkala4195 Even if the population pyramid is a perfect pillar from 0-80, kids aged 0-6 make up about 8% of the population. In Finland's case it's quite pillar-esque, and kids under 7 make up about 5% of the population. As such, exceeding 95% would be challenging. Google tells me about 70% of Finns speak English "fluently" (not sure what level of fluency is the minimum to get included - probably not "native level" though). Granted, since a tourist or an immigrant is probably not interacting with kids a whole lot, and the average customer-facing staff is probably more fluent than, say, an elderly farmer in central Finland, the people one actually interacts with is way more than 70% chance likely to speak English relatively well, despite that being the statistic. The chances are one _cannot_ find an establishment where _no-one_ would speak English, unless they make it their mission to find one.

[@sampohonkala4195]

@@TheRawrnstuff Must admit that the 'fluent' English is far from fluent in Finland. I spent a year in the USA during my high school years, just like my two daughters, and I need English at work every day, but still I am far from fluent. But the younger generations get a better education. Getting good, but not fluent. Languages are actually hard.

[@TheRawrnstuff]

@@sampohonkala4195 Fair enough. But also, according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Department of Education, 54% of adults in the United States have English prose literacy below the 6th-grade level. I don't know where the "average Finn" would fall on that scale with their level of fluency in English. Never mind a Finnish hotel receptionist or another customer-facing staff. The experience of _others'_ fluency might be different to those who enjoy a higher level of literacy compared to those who lack in that department. While you claim to be far from fluent, your co-workers might have had an entirely different opinion about your level. It's possible you're being too harsh on yourself - and the average Finn, too.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

You are so right! That would be wild haha!! Thanks for your comments :)

[@moonliteX]

i prefer to drink from a glass instead of the sink 😝😝😝😝😝😝

[@joniniiranen2741]

Also mugs and cups seem More sanitary.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Hahahaha 😂

[@DaysRefrain]

Reindeer herders gather the reindeer in spring/summer for round ups

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Thanks so much for your comment :)

[@АндрейВитальевич-ч1ю]

ЖЖОШ,Альона!👍👍👍

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Thanks for watching :)

[@auvomesilampi6325]

The hot air dryers spread bacteria in moist air.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Interesting! Thanks for the information!

[@evasaari838]

You have to eat some reindeers every year. There are approximately 200 000 thousand reindeer and 100 000 is born every year so if you don’ t want to get covered with reindeers and reindeer accidents it better to take advanrage what you can.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That makes sense! Thanks for sharing :)

[@lindahuffman6329]

Anerican in florida here...the hand towel system has been in the USA since 1950s. You just weren't born yet.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That is interesting! Thanks for sharing :)

[@hayatofury8580]

Finlands Alcohol store (ALKO) is Goverment owned monopoly, thats why theres all those weird rules. Ps that towel thing is long roll! You wont dry your hand on same part.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Oh so interesting!! Thanks for sharing :)

[@MikhailTravels]

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[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Thank you very much 🫶🏼✈️

[@MikhailTravels]

@@JacobandJennyTravel ✌🏻🙋🏼‍♂️🤝🏻

[@Boulders72]

Alcohol restriction is going to go up from 5,5% to 8% this year. So soon you can buy alcohol under 8% from normal store. Im sure in few years we have wine in stores also.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Oh that is good to know!! Thanks so much for the information :)

[@KasperiVonSchrowe]

About the things you mentioned: Alcohol - Finnish health officials and government thinks that Finnish people will drink until dead if alcohol is available at all times. Therefore stronger liquors are available only in Alko -stores that are not open very late and not open at all during weekends. Food stores can sell drinks with alcohol contents ABV 5,5%, if I remember right and even those not later than 9pm. That is sickening me as I know Finnish people have just similar relationship to alcohol than any western industrial country. About towel dispensers - there is some 100ft of clean towel inside them and when it's all used the dirty part won't come out again. Thanks for the great content. So many KZbinrs out there, but you guys are really the ones I'd love to meet some day.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Thank you for all of that information!! And we truly appreciate your kind words, they mean so much to us and help keep us motivated to make videos. We hope to have a meet up one day in Finland 🇫🇮 we look forward to your next comment friend!

[@braindisorder5043]

Very shocking. 😢

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Thanks for watching :)

[@nellitheretrogamer8666]

There are many reasons why it is better to sell hard liquor only in Alko: -They have better security measures than grocery stores. Beer is one of the most stolen items in grocery stores, in Alko shoplifters are much more likely to be caught. -They are better able to control that hard liquor doesn't end up to underage people. People who work in Alko soon learn to recognise the signs that someone is buying booze for someone other than themselves. -According to the law, alcohol shouldn't be sold to people who are already drunk. This is also something that people who work in Alko are better at dealing with. Often, they are able to turn away drunk people already when they are trying to get into the store. Grocery stores can't do that, because people are allowed to buy groceries also when they are drunk. On the whole, the selling of alcohol is strictly controlled in Finland because most people here drink to get wasted. That shows up in crime statistics then. For example in case of homicides, in about 70% of the cases both the killer and the victim are drunk. It also shows up in emergency rooms: I remember an article where a reporter spent a Friday night at a hospital emergency room and during that time there was only one patient who wasn't drunk. Alcohol causes huge expenses to taxpayers all the time.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That all definitely makes sense! Thank you for typing all of that up for us to understand :)

[@ristovirtanen6396]

These ALKO stores were originally called ALKOHOLILIIKE(=alcohol business) but during the 1952 Helsinki Olympic foreign visitors noted that it’s no wonder there are so many drunks on the streets when even the shops advertise ALKOHOL I LIKE.😲 And the Finnish tap water is the best in the world.🤔✌️That is my main drink and I’ve never bought bottled water.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Finnish tap water is so delicious!! We wish we could bring it with us whenever you go! Thanks for watching :)

[@Linkeri-72]

I am 52 yeard old Finn, and I have never eaten reindeer. Tourists in Helsinki and the people of Lapland (and tourists) eat it. Real Finland is in between those places.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

We will have to go somewhere else next time! Although, we do really enjoy Lapland and Helsinki too :)

[@heatherj9029]

If anyone in Finland is reading this. Please explain the impact on the nationwide pending strike Jan 31-Feb 3. My understanding it all flights, trains, most hotels and markets will be closed. Is this accurate?

[@eerotabell1952]

I haven't heard anything about that. Hope is there's someone wiser.

[@heatherj9029]

@@eerotabell1952 it’s horrible. Been on the phone with Finnair most of the day.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

I am sorry, I wish we had any information for you. Best of luck!

[@eerotabell1952]

Now i know, there is 24 hours widen strike in 1.- 2. Februari. Best luck!

[@heatherj9029]

@@eerotabell1952 yes but it impacts Jan 31-feb3. I just read the rails want to strike right after. It will be an interesting trip.

[@NjoyMoney]

Alcohol is a drug, specially hard liquor etc, it makes sense that its not sold in food stores. But its also a government monopoly, the government is the only ones who are allowed to sell hard liquor the store "alko" is a finnish government owned. Same with Casinos btw in Finland, only the government can have casino's

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That is so interesting! Thanks for the information :)

[@ShashankD137]

I’d like to give it a try but it was all finish 😢

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

You should be able to watch it in English :)

[@ShashankD137]

@@JacobandJennyTravel haha sorry that was an attempt at a lame joke . I meant I wanted to try their food but it was finished 🙈

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

@@ShashankD137 Hahahaha 😂😉

[@kennethainetdin3401]

The reindeers are running free in the summer, not in the winter.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

Good to know! Thanks for the information :)

[@mil-fpv4931]

Cultural differences are so true. Ive been to murica once. Our car windows were shot during the night. I almost got my ass kicked in a bar. We were told not to stop our car in certain areas. Its different yes. Toilet paper was the same though.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

I am sorry that was your experience. What city were you in? That sounds pretty intense and we have never had an experience like that when we are back home 🙌🏼

[@mil-fpv4931]

@@JacobandJennyTravel Zephyrhills, Florida. Skydiving there, and the locals were not welcoming I must say.

[@pekkaollila8505]

There was prohibition back in 1920's and 1930's much like in US. Eversince the goverment has more or less used means to rein finnish alcohol consumption which historically has been high. Not so much anymore because people, ecspecially youngsters, are increasingly health and gym orientated. *Alko* is the state owned chain of liquour stores and until 1970's one could not even buy beer from grocery shops. Alko is open Mon-Sat 9am-6pm, in some locations until 8 or 9pm. Sundays always closed. Major and much fought change came this summer when beers and wines max 8% proof were allowed into supermarkets.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

We noticed this year when we were in Finland that alcohol in the store was up to 8%. So good to know, thank you for sharing!

[@katjayli6259]

klo a.m 9.00 -pm9.00 alkohol only.We drink too lot otherwise and die

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That makes sense! Thanks for watching :)

[@Nasse83]

The alcohol the goverment has a monopoly on it. Its just a method to try and control drinking, its basically a remnant of the past.

[@JacobandJennyTravel]

That makes sense. Thanks for the information :)