I just realized that in all of the many writings of Bill Bryson, he’s never been to Finland or at least never written about it.
How very odd..*
*sorry for interrupting you
Terry Pratchett had a bad experience in Ropecon I hear.
Edit: with a hot dog I mean. Not sure about the rest.
Torille?
Wait, I don’t even remember reading this bit. But this seems to come from experience, for such specific (and accurate) tidbit
This warmed my heart when I listened to an audiobook of it!
It’s also a very 90’s / 2000’s thing. I’ve never visited one of those fabled hotdog stands as a millenial.
Dribbler’s name is one of those rare occasions, where the translation is better the original.
Persnettoa-tulee-mutta-tulkoon Dibbler vs. Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler.
Everywhere I have worked in Finland, whenever a British person has joined the company, one of the first things they ask is “where can I get decent sausages?”
idk about hot dogs, but near the main rail in helsinki is a black van that sells various foods.
usually after clubbing i just go home… but in the timeframe 2015-2018 my ex would want to eat before we took the bus home…
one time i ordered a burger at that black van. i don’t normally eat burgers (even though i’m from USA so one could be forgiven from thinking that i eat nothing but burgers 😛 ), but that night? well, i suffer from low iron, so.. yeah, craving.
and y’know? they could serve bad burgers cos 95% of the customers have drank a lot. (i usually just drink juice and water… how else can someone my age dance all night? 😛 )… anyway… quality doesn’t matter to most of the people buying. But this burger? best of Finland. seriously.
nowadays i live in small city and only go to helsinki quite rarely. money is bad. i collect bottles to pay groceries. but if i could? yes, i’d like to see if that van is still there, and if their burgers are as good as my memories of the good old days would make me imagine…
The interesting thing is that in all the Diskworld novels – which of course constantly provide commentary of *our* world by means of talking about something completely different in a brilliant way – this is the only time that TP breaks role and actually references something in the real world…
(Yeah, I know, the “Science of Diskworld” series doesn’t count, of course, because the “roundworld” therein is just an absurd experiment of some detached magicians. Nobody would want to live in a “roundworld”!)
Sorry the “she was quite attractive in a skinny way” is much more confusing/awkward sounding to me. The note deff checks out for American mystery meat hot dogs, though… XD
I have read the translated version and always tought that translator tried to localize the joke, but apparently the hot dogs in Helsinki are simply that bad.
I just knew this was pratchett by the structure of the footnote and the writing style. And then Cut-me-own-throat Dibbler is mentioned!
Any finns living in finland here, what do you pay for a terry pratchett book or just a new book in general? Im canadian, and it would probably be about 18$ CAD with taxes.
It will eternally make me cringe to know the fact that they actually took Anthony Bourdain to one of those grills in midnight Helsinki…
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I just realized that in all of the many writings of Bill Bryson, he’s never been to Finland or at least never written about it.
How very odd..*
*sorry for interrupting you
Terry Pratchett had a bad experience in Ropecon I hear.
Edit: with a hot dog I mean. Not sure about the rest.
Torille?
Wait, I don’t even remember reading this bit. But this seems to come from experience, for such specific (and accurate) tidbit
This warmed my heart when I listened to an audiobook of it!
It’s also a very 90’s / 2000’s thing. I’ve never visited one of those fabled hotdog stands as a millenial.
Dribbler’s name is one of those rare occasions, where the translation is better the original.
Persnettoa-tulee-mutta-tulkoon Dibbler vs. Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler.
Everywhere I have worked in Finland, whenever a British person has joined the company, one of the first things they ask is “where can I get decent sausages?”
idk about hot dogs, but near the main rail in helsinki is a black van that sells various foods.
usually after clubbing i just go home… but in the timeframe 2015-2018 my ex would want to eat before we took the bus home…
one time i ordered a burger at that black van. i don’t normally eat burgers (even though i’m from USA so one could be forgiven from thinking that i eat nothing but burgers 😛 ), but that night? well, i suffer from low iron, so.. yeah, craving.
and y’know? they could serve bad burgers cos 95% of the customers have drank a lot. (i usually just drink juice and water… how else can someone my age dance all night? 😛 )… anyway… quality doesn’t matter to most of the people buying. But this burger? best of Finland. seriously.
nowadays i live in small city and only go to helsinki quite rarely. money is bad. i collect bottles to pay groceries. but if i could? yes, i’d like to see if that van is still there, and if their burgers are as good as my memories of the good old days would make me imagine…
The interesting thing is that in all the Diskworld novels – which of course constantly provide commentary of *our* world by means of talking about something completely different in a brilliant way – this is the only time that TP breaks role and actually references something in the real world…
(Yeah, I know, the “Science of Diskworld” series doesn’t count, of course, because the “roundworld” therein is just an absurd experiment of some detached magicians. Nobody would want to live in a “roundworld”!)
Sorry the “she was quite attractive in a skinny way” is much more confusing/awkward sounding to me. The note deff checks out for American mystery meat hot dogs, though… XD
I have read the translated version and always tought that translator tried to localize the joke, but apparently the hot dogs in Helsinki are simply that bad.
I just knew this was pratchett by the structure of the footnote and the writing style. And then Cut-me-own-throat Dibbler is mentioned!
Any finns living in finland here, what do you pay for a terry pratchett book or just a new book in general? Im canadian, and it would probably be about 18$ CAD with taxes.
It will eternally make me cringe to know the fact that they actually took Anthony Bourdain to one of those grills in midnight Helsinki…