Hi everyone, I'm new to this subreddit. I work at a small shop in the province of Buenos Aires, and I received a shipment of Finlandia (La Serenisima Product). While I was restocking it, I realized… right! There's a whole country like that, and that's why I came here, lol.

I'm still not sure what kind of Finnish cheese is the "Queso Finlandia" for us, Argentinians, but it seemed like a very tender topic between both nations. Now that I realize it, in Argentina, Finland is known for its cheese, "Finland cheese."

Sorry if this is a grammatical mess, hehe. Greetings and much peace to the people of Finland. I wish you a thousand years of happiness.

by tang0gun

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  2. Interesting! I knew that Valio (a finnish dairy company) exported ‘Finlandia’ branded cheese and butter to the United States but I had no idea about this cheese. It seems to be a completely different thing.

    Edit: It looks like a cream cheese similar to Philadelphia. Funnily enough the most classic cheese in Finland is “cream cheese”. But it’s not really cream cheese like Philadelphia, we just call it that in Finnish.

  3. I don’t think this cheese has anything to do with Finland.

  4. It’s funny because in Finland, 95% of the cheese in the grocery store is edam and Gouda. And it’s okay, but supremely boring.

  5. As a Dutchie living in Finland this has me flabbergasted. I am really suffering with the bland cheese here.

  6. Finland is well known in Argentina because of the ex singer of Nightwish

  7. It’s funny because in Finland, that is not a Finnish product..

  8. If you wanted a cheese that is actually very specifically Finnish, it would have to be something like this https://finlandfoodmenu.fi/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Leipajuusto.jpg or very salty and somewhat hard blue cheese.

    Cream cheese, or what we call “fresh” or “unripened” cheese (because direct translation of cream cheese means the category where you have cheeses edam or gouda in Finnish), is also relatively common, but these are usually quite available in most of Europe and USA, so I don’t know why it would be associated with Finland.

  9. It looks yummy and I would eat it.
    Never seen it on Finnish shelves 🤣

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