i have heard of the balkan breakfast, coffee with ciggarette while taking a shit.
This sounds more like typical Russian breakfast.
Head down to some parts of Kallio in Helsinki and I think it’s alive and well.
no, never seen
These descriptions seem to be all jokes rather than serious imitations on what those countries and nations consume.
I often have the morning beer to go with it, I feel thirsty in the morning and coffee is a bit harsh on the stomach.
The coffee is actually optional.
Aaand back to reality. Not true. Although some musician on tour might have a breakfast like that. Or an actor. Or some of our politicians. Or… Damn, maybe that is true after all!
No, almost nobody smokes anymore.
It should be Plörö with P…
Plörö:
A mixture of coffee and vodka, enjoyed according to the following tradition:
1. Place a coin at the bottom of the cup.
2. Pour coffee into the cup until the coin is no longer visible.
3. Pour vodka into the coffee until the coin is visible again.
4. Take and enjoy!
5. Repeat or alternatively, pick the coin for a better use.
It’s an old time classic
The breakfast menu in question is an in-joke for people of all nationalities who travel to Thailand with the main purpose of getting drunk and staying drunk as long as their money is all spent.
It riffs with a real Finnish-in joke for the local subset of the same population – including both dedicated career alcoholics and young people who are ”testing the waters” before deciding whether to become full time alcoholics or actually building an adult life for themselves.
”Blörö” or ”plörö” is supposedly derived from Swedish ”plörr”/”plorr” and has been in use to mean coffe+alcohol-blend since early 19th Century.
Finnish breakfast can also refer to a tall beer
A typical breakfast of a Finnish tourist in Leningrad in the 80s, and a Finnish tourist in Tallinn in the 90s.
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i have heard of the balkan breakfast, coffee with ciggarette while taking a shit.
This sounds more like typical Russian breakfast.
Head down to some parts of Kallio in Helsinki and I think it’s alive and well.
no, never seen
These descriptions seem to be all jokes rather than serious imitations on what those countries and nations consume.
I often have the morning beer to go with it, I feel thirsty in the morning and coffee is a bit harsh on the stomach.
The coffee is actually optional.
Aaand back to reality. Not true. Although some musician on tour might have a breakfast like that. Or an actor. Or some of our politicians. Or… Damn, maybe that is true after all!
No, almost nobody smokes anymore.
It should be Plörö with P…
Plörö:
A mixture of coffee and vodka, enjoyed according to the following tradition:
1. Place a coin at the bottom of the cup.
2. Pour coffee into the cup until the coin is no longer visible.
3. Pour vodka into the coffee until the coin is visible again.
4. Take and enjoy!
5. Repeat or alternatively, pick the coin for a better use.
It’s an old time classic
The breakfast menu in question is an in-joke for people of all nationalities who travel to Thailand with the main purpose of getting drunk and staying drunk as long as their money is all spent.
It riffs with a real Finnish-in joke for the local subset of the same population – including both dedicated career alcoholics and young people who are ”testing the waters” before deciding whether to become full time alcoholics or actually building an adult life for themselves.
”Blörö” or ”plörö” is supposedly derived from Swedish ”plörr”/”plorr” and has been in use to mean coffe+alcohol-blend since early 19th Century.
Finnish breakfast can also refer to a tall beer
A typical breakfast of a Finnish tourist in Leningrad in the 80s, and a Finnish tourist in Tallinn in the 90s.
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