Tillilima, the traditional dish used to torture schoolkids. Luckily, no need to ever touch that stuff again.
The dish on the video doesn’t look similar, it used to be grey and slimy, with plenty of gristle.
Never heard of this before.
I honestly don’t remember ever eating this particular dish. I guess it just wasn’t really a thing around here.
I grew up with Mediterrean and Swiss-German cuisines, so a lot of pasta with sauces and potatoes with sausages. My Swiss-German side thinks this looks perfectly serviceable as a weekday meal; my Mediterrean side appreciates the dill herbs, but is bored at the general lack of something popping; I miss a few reds among the greens and whites 😄
I’ve never seen nor eaten it here!
I like it
I used to like dill sauce on meat, but it’s been ten years since I last had it. As I recall, it was a silky and thick cream sauce with dill and maybe I should learn to make that dill sauce myself and try if it goes well with black beans. I also remember when I was on the student union board when the board of parents’ association decided to ban dill sauce on meat in our school because they were traumatized by it when they were children and therefore the students of our school approached the student union board to ask for the dill sauce meat back. Unfortunately, we in the student union board could not overturn the decision of the board of parents’ association because we were only students and they were association of some parents of the school’s students who cooperate with the school’s staff.
I’ve never had the Finnish kind, but the Swedish equivalent (dillkött) is amazing. My grandmother used to make it often.
Reading this whole thread made me think about lots of food I personally and what others didn’t like as kid and how long it’s been since I or we ate them. Meaning maybe it after all these many years it would be time to start again and give those foods a change, just this time make sure it’s made with quality using quality products.
10/10
I grew up in Finland. I hated this at school and still do. No-one I know eats this anymore.
Maybe I was incredibly lucky as a child, but I never experienced this as slimly, rubbery or meat full of gristles in school. I thought it was kind of nice be it though not a favourite.
When I told my dad that we had this in school, his face turned green, he was obviously traumatised..
This was a regular meal in late 80s. Our school back then cooked the meals themselves, instead of just heating some centrally produced food and even tilliliha was pretty okay, if somewhat plain. Certainly not a favorite among us kids, but not something vilified either.
I think much of the hatred towards this particular dish has happened later, when meals started to be reheated and the sauce was probably “gloopier” as a result.
I only saw the question pop in my phone and immediately felt meat pieces stuck in my teeth.
That is disgusting.
Old geezer here. Hated it in the 70s and 80s. Thought it hasn’t existed any more for decades today.
ooh, haven’t had it in ages. I actually miss it.
I’ve only had the school version but it was great!
I’ve lived in Finland my whole life and have never heard of this
“Syö ennen kun turpaansa ottaa” It’s okay did not hate it like some of the older people but it was not a culinary experience.
I don’t eat anything tainted with dill.
Native finn here who never tasted it, never even seen it.
Who eats this and where?
Never heard of it
I’ve never had it and only seen it in canned form
Properly made with veal, awesome! The stuff called that in the schools: mystery meat in wallpaper glue.
If its homemade, love it 🙂
Canadian here, that looks delicious. Dill is such a great flavour.
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Looks really tasty! Why do some people hate it?
Tillilima, the traditional dish used to torture schoolkids. Luckily, no need to ever touch that stuff again.
The dish on the video doesn’t look similar, it used to be grey and slimy, with plenty of gristle.
Never heard of this before.
I honestly don’t remember ever eating this particular dish. I guess it just wasn’t really a thing around here.
I grew up with Mediterrean and Swiss-German cuisines, so a lot of pasta with sauces and potatoes with sausages. My Swiss-German side thinks this looks perfectly serviceable as a weekday meal; my Mediterrean side appreciates the dill herbs, but is bored at the general lack of something popping; I miss a few reds among the greens and whites 😄
I’ve never seen nor eaten it here!
I like it
I used to like dill sauce on meat, but it’s been ten years since I last had it. As I recall, it was a silky and thick cream sauce with dill and maybe I should learn to make that dill sauce myself and try if it goes well with black beans. I also remember when I was on the student union board when the board of parents’ association decided to ban dill sauce on meat in our school because they were traumatized by it when they were children and therefore the students of our school approached the student union board to ask for the dill sauce meat back. Unfortunately, we in the student union board could not overturn the decision of the board of parents’ association because we were only students and they were association of some parents of the school’s students who cooperate with the school’s staff.
I’ve never had the Finnish kind, but the Swedish equivalent (dillkött) is amazing. My grandmother used to make it often.
Reading this whole thread made me think about lots of food I personally and what others didn’t like as kid and how long it’s been since I or we ate them. Meaning maybe it after all these many years it would be time to start again and give those foods a change, just this time make sure it’s made with quality using quality products.
10/10
I grew up in Finland. I hated this at school and still do. No-one I know eats this anymore.
Maybe I was incredibly lucky as a child, but I never experienced this as slimly, rubbery or meat full of gristles in school. I thought it was kind of nice be it though not a favourite.
When I told my dad that we had this in school, his face turned green, he was obviously traumatised..
This was a regular meal in late 80s. Our school back then cooked the meals themselves, instead of just heating some centrally produced food and even tilliliha was pretty okay, if somewhat plain. Certainly not a favorite among us kids, but not something vilified either.
I think much of the hatred towards this particular dish has happened later, when meals started to be reheated and the sauce was probably “gloopier” as a result.
I only saw the question pop in my phone and immediately felt meat pieces stuck in my teeth.
That is disgusting.
Old geezer here. Hated it in the 70s and 80s. Thought it hasn’t existed any more for decades today.
ooh, haven’t had it in ages. I actually miss it.
I’ve only had the school version but it was great!
I’ve lived in Finland my whole life and have never heard of this
“Syö ennen kun turpaansa ottaa” It’s okay did not hate it like some of the older people but it was not a culinary experience.
I don’t eat anything tainted with dill.
Native finn here who never tasted it, never even seen it.
Who eats this and where?
Never heard of it
I’ve never had it and only seen it in canned form
Properly made with veal, awesome! The stuff called that in the schools: mystery meat in wallpaper glue.
If its homemade, love it 🙂
Canadian here, that looks delicious. Dill is such a great flavour.
Excellent