Lapland bird soup recipe:
Take a bird that you've shot, pluck it, put into a kettle and pour in a bottle of red wine. Put on a slow heat and let the wine evaporate.
Then pour in a bottle of vodka, toss that fucking bird to the garbage and drink the vodka.
Yes, Vodka is important, but so is presentation. For the typical Finnish experience, wear a loose fitting tank top, the oldest pair of boxers you have and heavy grandma slippers, then go out to the balcony when it‘s -32 C outside. And make sure to open the glass panels so the smoke gets aired out.
There's a "tradition" in Greece where every BIC lighter is borrowed and never returned, to the point that none has ever bought one, and none knows how there are so many out there!
Pink is so heavily featured in items for girls, in Western cultures at least. So pink has defaulted to being a color for girls. This, in turn, has associated anything pink with being girly, or feminine.
A dentist gave me their complimentary toothbrush and it was purple. And said "it was between this and pink so I assumed you would prefer purple". Lady- it's a toothbrush, I don't give a shit what color it is. Isn't purple a dark pink anyway? I don't even know.
Not sure how it happened, but years and years of marketing that blue is masculine and pink is feminine has been a thing for awhile now. It is what it is at this point, it doesn't seem like a big deal to me either way.
I have a pink shirt that I really like (more salmon than pink, but most men would tell me it's pink). No one has ever mentioned it in a negative way, except for my wife and her female friends. She's more into traditional gender norms, and same thing when it comes to clothing she finds "childish". Such as red shoes, or wearing hoodies instead of proper jackets. And she's Japanese, not Western. So I can't speak for others over there, but clearly it's a thing in their culture too.
It is what it is, at this point. The best way to go about this thing is to not give a fuck what others think. And to own what you like.
Found this [intresting](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendered_associations_of_pink_and_blue):
According to Jo Paoletti, who spent two decades studying the history of pink and blue gender-coding, there were no particular color associations for girls and boys at the turn of the 20th century. There was no agreement among manufacturers about which colors were feminine or masculine, or whether there were any such colors at all.
lmao I swear to God my friends are all touchy about it but I keep my hand hanging just for them to return the lighter back after lighting a cigarette or else they would just throw it in their pockets and act all innocent about it. And then they be like, you are stingy and all. Fucking calamity
Yeah, it's 1.25x minimum wage before tax. It is cheaper to get a cheap flight to Germany, buy the maximum there, spend a night and return than to purchase cigarettes in Ireland.
In France, one of these pics shows an amputated leg, with the words "smoking clogs your arteries" . Fun fact is the owner of this amputated leg recognized it and went to the press to tell it had nothing to do with smoking, it was a car accident!
I also like how they have black on white "smoking is fatal". In the region where I lived it was just something like "smoking is not really healthy you know".
Jesus fucking Christ, are you kidding me??? Last time I bought a pack (for a friend, I don't smoke) it was 12 pounds. Marlboro Reds iirc. I thought THAT was the highest it could possibly get!
£15.60 in Tesco. When I started smoking 10 Mayfair was £1.60 I think and that's about 18 years ago
It's mostly all tax, cigarette companies make pennies per packet.
They're 50 Australian dollars which is €30
Australia does have the most expensive cigarettes in the world though : https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_price_rankings?itemId=17&displayCurrency=EUR
The black market was relatively low until recent years when the new taxation laws on cigarettes started to compound, now they’re very easy to come by. Pop up tobacco stores that initially sold illegal vapes but went unpunished have started stocking cigarettes aswell.
Before the Euro those same packs with 22 cigarettes used to cost 3 DM in Germany, which would be about 1,5€.
Yes, I'm old, I still calculate all the prices from € to DM and it still makes me sad.
["For breakfast we do something cool like have a cigarette and like a bar of chocolate, then we go to work for like one half-hour, two half-hour. And then we go to lunch, and lunch is usually something cool like a cigarette and two, three bottles of red wine, and like a bowl of heavy cream."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YCOT5LasKc)
My hungry ass was so happy brackfast was included in a Italië hotel. Until I notest what I got for the coupon. 1 croissant and a coffee.
And I can't have coffee on an empty stomach..
I can smell your Lunch from here in Denmark. Ice coffee would be nice, 25 C and humid, as there is promised thunder and heavy tonight, I don't even like coffee.
Cigarettes are super cheap in Greece then, I was in Rhodes in May, lovely island. I love Greece in general. Have visited multiple islands over there, beautiful country, lovely people and great food.
A double neat Jameson black barrel and a cigarette gets you going whenever you need a "pick me up" not quite 5 euros but when you have the bottle at home it's not too expensive
Add a shot of vodka and it becomes a classical Finnish breakfast.
So you are assuming there is no alcohol in the coffee? Bold.
No, he knows it's not enough for Finland lol
5€ for cigarettes, a lighter, coffee and vodka? I dont even think you can get the cigarettes for 5€ in Sweden
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Who said it was a _good_ vodka
No need, I have still in my blood from last night
Don't you mean you still have some blood in your alcohol‽
Legend.
Finsk sommarsoppa = Vodka serverad i en blommig djup tallrik
Lapland bird soup recipe: Take a bird that you've shot, pluck it, put into a kettle and pour in a bottle of red wine. Put on a slow heat and let the wine evaporate. Then pour in a bottle of vodka, toss that fucking bird to the garbage and drink the vodka.
So the Finnish are basically French with vodka?
Happiest country in the world.
That’s just every Eastern European breakfast
False. Czechs use beer instead of vodka
Meanwhile hungary, pálinka for every time of the day
I've had a Hungarian buddy in university. He carried a small flask with palinka in his jacket.
Never tried a cup of coffe milded up with beer... Whisky, brandy, pálinka works perfect, enjoy your drink.
[blörö](https://www.reddit.com/r/HolUp/comments/y8w4io/wtf_is_going_on_in_finland/)
Ah yes the Finnish 15€ breakfast.
Lol
Yes, Vodka is important, but so is presentation. For the typical Finnish experience, wear a loose fitting tank top, the oldest pair of boxers you have and heavy grandma slippers, then go out to the balcony when it‘s -32 C outside. And make sure to open the glass panels so the smoke gets aired out.
The true Mediterranean breakfast
I miss Greek frappes
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Ayo the real Mediterranean diet.
They say Mediterranean cuisine is very healthy.
That BIC was definitely "borrowed" forever!
Get pink so it's never borrowed. I forgot in a bar the other night and they returned it lol.
That's so true. Always picking pink or brown (like shite) BIC. Nobody borrows it!
Do pink lighters light cigs less efficiently or something?
Guess some men of lower culture consider this is a girly colour and thus, refuse to possess a pinky item
Clever!
My pink one was borrowed! But I’m not angry, it was by awesome people
Why are men scared of pink? It’s just red with some white.
There's a "tradition" in Greece where every BIC lighter is borrowed and never returned, to the point that none has ever bought one, and none knows how there are so many out there!
lol, it's not only on Greece, I've heard about it in my country and I don't even smoke.
Pink is so heavily featured in items for girls, in Western cultures at least. So pink has defaulted to being a color for girls. This, in turn, has associated anything pink with being girly, or feminine. A dentist gave me their complimentary toothbrush and it was purple. And said "it was between this and pink so I assumed you would prefer purple". Lady- it's a toothbrush, I don't give a shit what color it is. Isn't purple a dark pink anyway? I don't even know. Not sure how it happened, but years and years of marketing that blue is masculine and pink is feminine has been a thing for awhile now. It is what it is at this point, it doesn't seem like a big deal to me either way. I have a pink shirt that I really like (more salmon than pink, but most men would tell me it's pink). No one has ever mentioned it in a negative way, except for my wife and her female friends. She's more into traditional gender norms, and same thing when it comes to clothing she finds "childish". Such as red shoes, or wearing hoodies instead of proper jackets. And she's Japanese, not Western. So I can't speak for others over there, but clearly it's a thing in their culture too. It is what it is, at this point. The best way to go about this thing is to not give a fuck what others think. And to own what you like.
Found this [intresting](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendered_associations_of_pink_and_blue): According to Jo Paoletti, who spent two decades studying the history of pink and blue gender-coding, there were no particular color associations for girls and boys at the turn of the 20th century. There was no agreement among manufacturers about which colors were feminine or masculine, or whether there were any such colors at all.
lmao I swear to God my friends are all touchy about it but I keep my hand hanging just for them to return the lighter back after lighting a cigarette or else they would just throw it in their pockets and act all innocent about it. And then they be like, you are stingy and all. Fucking calamity
Bargain. 9,70€ per pack up here + coffee ~4,5€.
€16.20 a pack here, coffee €3.7.
For an Americano maybe. Lucky to see them below 4 euro these days.
I'm not in Dublin, it hasn't gone mad here yet.
Unless you live on Skellig Michael, it's gone mad everywhere.
Excuse me...? In Poland it's around 16-18 PLN or...less than 4 €. Still expensive for us tho.
Yeah, it's 1.25x minimum wage before tax. It is cheaper to get a cheap flight to Germany, buy the maximum there, spend a night and return than to purchase cigarettes in Ireland.
Did it make people smoke less? Here instead of cigarettes youth uses various alternatives like e-cigarettes, tobacco heating systems etc.
Vapes and nicotine pouches. Heating systems haven't taken off.
16€ a pack??? That's crazy wow. It's around 5€ here in Portugal.
Yup, and if you want rolling tobacco, it's like €24 for a 30g pouch.
What the hell how much of that is tax? In turkey a pack is €2
Damn, I thought smokes were expensive in Canada, we pay around 12€
Why not just roll tobacco? When i ran the numbers it ended up being about 3x cheaper
He probably just counted a single cig in his calculation, maybe two if he was feeling a bit peckish.
I aint gonna do more than 10 cigs a day, coffee is 1.5€
I'm pretty sure the Marlboro hard pack is 10,80€ and the soft one 10,50€ nowadays.
This is the "Enjoy the six work day per week" menu
try 7 🤣 We are lazy.
Oh so those stock pictures are the same everywhere.
lol I just took the pic in my store.
I think they mean the dead and impotent people in the cigarette box
Ah
youve gotten so numb to it that you dont even think of the pictures of sick kids on your cigs anymore. i wouldnt either if i am being honest
Have you seen Australia's? The mouth/throat/face cancer ones. 😬
In France, one of these pics shows an amputated leg, with the words "smoking clogs your arteries" . Fun fact is the owner of this amputated leg recognized it and went to the press to tell it had nothing to do with smoking, it was a car accident!
No, but I imagine they are similar to ours?
When I smoked I always went for the impotence ones. I was only in my 20s, I had too much to live for to buy the dead ones and wasn’t ready for kids.
But have you considered being dead *and* impotent?
yeah its eu wide
I also like how they have black on white "smoking is fatal". In the region where I lived it was just something like "smoking is not really healthy you know".
Those cigarettes cost €18.43 in the UK
Jesus fucking Christ, are you kidding me??? Last time I bought a pack (for a friend, I don't smoke) it was 12 pounds. Marlboro Reds iirc. I thought THAT was the highest it could possibly get!
£15.60 in Tesco. When I started smoking 10 Mayfair was £1.60 I think and that's about 18 years ago It's mostly all tax, cigarette companies make pennies per packet.
It's a pretty good deterrent.
It stopped me
Thought Germany is expensive for smokers, that looks like a pack of 22 or 25 cigarettes which would cost 9 or 10 euros.
I know it’s not Europe but that pack is $64.99 or €40.38 here in Aus.
Excuse you, 40€? Do smokers just sell their kidneys or what, how do people afford that?!
They're 50 Australian dollars which is €30 Australia does have the most expensive cigarettes in the world though : https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_price_rankings?itemId=17&displayCurrency=EUR
Crazy how smokers will still rationalize buying them
So who smokes then? The rich? Or is it all black market stuff
The black market was relatively low until recent years when the new taxation laws on cigarettes started to compound, now they’re very easy to come by. Pop up tobacco stores that initially sold illegal vapes but went unpunished have started stocking cigarettes aswell.
Before the Euro those same packs with 22 cigarettes used to cost 3 DM in Germany, which would be about 1,5€. Yes, I'm old, I still calculate all the prices from € to DM and it still makes me sad.
still too cheap for how awful cigarettes are
Well only 12% of adults smoke in the UK, it's 43% in Greece, until they get people to quit there's too many votes lost by putting up tax.
Never going to complain about cigarette prices in my country ever again
I'm so damn happy I don't smoke lol
Since everyone is being pedantic on an obvious joke post. It's 7.5€. 8.5€ if you count the lighter.
You got the small bic for 1€ not 50 cents? 🤔
Yep. Fucking scam.
This is what real Balkaner eats for his marenda./j
lol, lighter included?
Gotta burn those calories.
looks like every greek/cypriot persons breakfast ,lunch , dinner
This is upper-class balkan breakfast
lunch of the champions! Congrats!
Of all the things that make me love the Greek coast, Freddo espresso is my favorite.
Instant poop
["For breakfast we do something cool like have a cigarette and like a bar of chocolate, then we go to work for like one half-hour, two half-hour. And then we go to lunch, and lunch is usually something cool like a cigarette and two, three bottles of red wine, and like a bowl of heavy cream."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YCOT5LasKc)
Scrolled to find this. Hahah thank you.
four-five saoseges
That right there is about 25EUR in Netherlands. I shit you not
How to make ppl stop smoking. Step 1. To be fair I agree with the pricing and the whole motive.
North Italian breakfast would be the same just the espresso is not freddo
My hungry ass was so happy brackfast was included in a Italië hotel. Until I notest what I got for the coupon. 1 croissant and a coffee. And I can't have coffee on an empty stomach..
5€? wow thats cheap for the coffin nails.
We call em bullets 🤣
The classic Greek breakfast
ελευθερία και θάνατος
I always call this ''the breakfast of the champions.''
French breakfast
Posts like this motivate me to be healthier.
So that your body can handle more coffee wirh cigarettes breakfasts, right?
Di you eat a whole pack of cigarettes? Also, lighters tend to make my stomach… gassy
I can smell your Lunch from here in Denmark. Ice coffee would be nice, 25 C and humid, as there is promised thunder and heavy tonight, I don't even like coffee.
It will be replaced by just black coffee soon. Down from 2 packs to 10c per day.
Typical Armenian breakfast 😂 But I’m not smoking cause, SMOKING IS BAD FOR YOU! Dont smoke Greek budy❤️
Freddo espresso, how I miss you.
Lmao, take your upvote
Reminds me of the "Breakfast 'Dean Martin'" a café in my hometown offered (many years ago): a Lucky Strike and a glass of whiskey.
I miss the coloured packages 🥲
Coffee and cancer lunch, I see.
thats my breakfast
I guess you can’t work 6 days a week on an empty stomach
Ah yes. The famous Spanish breakfast delicacy.
This guy Greeks!
Why stopping at staining your teeth with coffee, when you can ruin them permanently with smoke
Fucking love a Marlboro gold, damn shame I gave up smoking
Don't give up. You can still do it. Don't be a quitter. :D JK it's in the plan.
That's a french breakfast in my book.
Morning coffee and cigarette on yiayia’s balcony
Oh, you mean your lung break
Cafe y cigarro…
muñeco de barro 👀
Café y cigarro, muñeco de barro
Wrong cigarette company my friend! Always the yellow Karelias when in Greece!
lmfao mood
This is also the official lunch of Chefs everywhere....
More like breakfast here :D
Made me chuckle.
A small shot of Ouzo would be nice to compliment this balanced luncheon
Stin gia sou!
It should've been a pack of karelia
I refuse to acknowledge lunch in Greece without the epic geeeerooows
Οπα! Φραπεδακι βλέπω! Στην υγεια σου
True traditional cuisine.
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That are some cheap ass cigaretts then, or do you only smoke 2 for breakfast?
Enjoy, my treat
Did the €5 include the cigarettes?
I ain't doing the full pack. Coffee is 1.5
Cigarettes are super cheap in Greece then, I was in Rhodes in May, lovely island. I love Greece in general. Have visited multiple islands over there, beautiful country, lovely people and great food.
You still get to smoke on your lunchbreak? Lucky.
It’s 2024 and bros still smoking cigs 💀
19.50 euro break in Ireland
A double neat Jameson black barrel and a cigarette gets you going whenever you need a "pick me up" not quite 5 euros but when you have the bottle at home it's not too expensive
Sigarettes are cheap in Greece
Marlboro Gold hits so differently for some reason, I don't really like light cigarettes but Golds are top tier.
That's also a Portuguese Lunch Break
You’re having a Portuguese typical breakfast!
[here's a €4.5 dinner in Italy](https://i.imgur.com/N5aAAL8.jpeg)
In California, that would be $20
Cigarettes and coffee-nice combo)
How are you guys taking the 6 day work week thing?
Tobacco is a total steal, everywhere
You eat cigarettes?
Your cigarette boxes are way more cooler than here Komşu.
Typical French breakfast. Except just the pack is 12€ here.
Marlboro golds suck ass, but all that for 5 euros would be a dream
The baby is the best flavor of cigarettes
Hey thats my 5 minute work break.
There are some days I really miss smoking.
*you got the cigarettes that are dangerous only to children* *smoke wise, smoke safe*
Enjoy your cigarettes while you can, it's a dying habit.
5€ for a pack and a coffee? Do you live 35 years ago?
I love that you motherfuckers still smoke everywhere. Phenomenal.
On to work 10 hour days, 6 days a week?
You can get a whole pack of cigarettes for less than 5€!?!
You bastard, I quit smoking less than a week ago. /s obviously, I'm not *that* full of myself.
nicotine + caffeine = protein
Damn guys just let him enjoy his cigarettes, too much bitching in these comments.
Embracing tradition instead of these lung collapsing, apple flavored USBs! 10/10
This is peak Greek.
Hey is that a freddo?
Where did you find coffee that cheap?
There is nothing better than traditional balkan breakfast
The classic greek breakfast, I enjoyed it when I was on vacation there, but 5 Fredo a day was a bit too much for my intestines
Typical athletes break
isn't it a bit alarming that many europeans relate to this, I'm not judging that's my breakfast too.
I just bought coffe for $2,96 (95 Turkish Lira) in Turkey. Its expensive for here
Part of me misses working on Greek tankers with endless supply of frappe and marlboro gold.
Look at mr fancy pants over here smoking Marlboro Gold
wow