Comments on: Pasty-stealin’ Finns http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/12/pasty-stealin-finns/ Korea... in Blog Format Tue, 2 Dec 2008 18:33:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Robert Koehler http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/12/pasty-stealin-finns/#comment-96185 Robert Koehler Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:14:50 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/12/pasty-stealin-finns/#comment-96185 <blockquote>take a look at this kind of Eastern Finnish piirakka, and you’ll get the idea what the word has come to stand for in addition to a specific dish. Hint: that can be eaten as well.</blockquote> You learn something new everyday...

take a look at this kind of Eastern Finnish piirakka, and you’ll get the idea what the word has come to stand for in addition to a specific dish. Hint: that can be eaten as well.

You learn something new everyday…

]]> By: Antti http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/12/pasty-stealin-finns/#comment-96143 Antti Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:39:06 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/12/pasty-stealin-finns/#comment-96143 Tikkanen is quite a non-entity as far as celebrity status is concerned, unless he ends up marrying a former beauty queen like his one-time team mate Jari Kurri. I also have the impression that people are less keen about taking hockey advice from him than from Kurri, for example. (Kurri has some kind of an official function with the national team.) Now we'll se if Teemu Selänne retires and returns home (which is a humongous seaside villa in my own hometown Kirkkonummi), he is in his own class. Robert, back to the topic of this post, take a look at <a href="http://www.aviisi.fi/media/kuvat/toimitus/piirakka.jpg" rel="nofollow">this kind of Eastern Finnish piirakka</A>, and you'll get the idea what the word has come to stand for in addition to a specific dish. Hint: that can be eaten as well. Tikkanen is quite a non-entity as far as celebrity status is concerned, unless he ends up marrying a former beauty queen like his one-time team mate Jari Kurri. I also have the impression that people are less keen about taking hockey advice from him than from Kurri, for example. (Kurri has some kind of an official function with the national team.) Now we’ll se if Teemu Selänne retires and returns home (which is a humongous seaside villa in my own hometown Kirkkonummi), he is in his own class.

Robert, back to the topic of this post, take a look at this kind of Eastern Finnish piirakka, and you’ll get the idea what the word has come to stand for in addition to a specific dish. Hint: that can be eaten as well.

]]> By: sewing http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/12/pasty-stealin-finns/#comment-96139 sewing Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:36:29 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/12/pasty-stealin-finns/#comment-96139 Re Tikkanen, okay, I wasn't really following hockey at the time when I would have learned the most about him, the one season he played in Vancouver. Fairweather friend I, I'd given up on the Canucks after they blew it in the 1994 Stanley Cup finals against the Rangers. It seems he's a source of controversy wherever he goes, even in his home country. Quoth the ever-so-reliable fount of information, Wikipedia: <blockquote>Tikkanen's number was controversially retired by Jokerit after the end of his career. The controversy stems from the fact that despite Tikkanen's extensive background in Jokerit juniors he only ever spent one season, his last in Finland, playing for Jokerit in the SM-liiga in comparison with two and a half seasons at Jokerit's local rivals HIFK. The number retired was 5, altough Tikkanen used number 10 during the most of his NHL career [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esa_Tikkanen" rel="nofollow">link</a>].</blockquote> Re Tikkanen, okay, I wasn’t really following hockey at the time when I would have learned the most about him, the one season he played in Vancouver. Fairweather friend I, I’d given up on the Canucks after they blew it in the 1994 Stanley Cup finals against the Rangers.

It seems he’s a source of controversy wherever he goes, even in his home country. Quoth the ever-so-reliable fount of information, Wikipedia:

Tikkanen’s number was controversially retired by Jokerit after the end of his career. The controversy stems from the fact that despite Tikkanen’s extensive background in Jokerit juniors he only ever spent one season, his last in Finland, playing for Jokerit in the SM-liiga in comparison with two and a half seasons at Jokerit’s local rivals HIFK. The number retired was 5, altough Tikkanen used number 10 during the most of his NHL career [link].

]]> By: sewing http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/12/pasty-stealin-finns/#comment-96137 sewing Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:31:43 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/12/pasty-stealin-finns/#comment-96137 Dude, Robert was making a joke! You've gotta lighten up sometimes (I mean that as a good-humoured piece of advice). Dude, Robert was making a joke! You’ve gotta lighten up sometimes (I mean that as a good-humoured piece of advice).

]]> By: SomeguyinKorea http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/12/pasty-stealin-finns/#comment-96080 SomeguyinKorea Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:14:37 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/12/pasty-stealin-finns/#comment-96080 In Canada it is. It's Slavic (Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, Hungaria...) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierogi In Canada it is. It’s Slavic (Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, Hungaria…)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierogi

]]> By: Robert Koehler http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/12/pasty-stealin-finns/#comment-96067 Robert Koehler Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:15:01 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/12/pasty-stealin-finns/#comment-96067 Well, I'm not sure about the others, but everyone knows the pierogi comes from Edmonton. Well, I’m not sure about the others, but everyone knows the pierogi comes from Edmonton.

]]> By: SomeguyinKorea http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/12/pasty-stealin-finns/#comment-96064 SomeguyinKorea Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:25:01 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/12/pasty-stealin-finns/#comment-96064 I wonder how they would explain the origin of the 'pâté lorrain', the 'panzerotti', the 'calzone', the 'dimsum', and the 'pierogi'. PS. I use boiled meat, onions, and nutmeg to make the stuffing for my meat pies. I wonder how they would explain the origin of the ‘pâté lorrain’, the ‘panzerotti’, the ‘calzone’, the ‘dimsum’, and the ‘pierogi’.

PS. I use boiled meat, onions, and nutmeg to make the stuffing for my meat pies.

]]> By: Robert Koehler http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/12/pasty-stealin-finns/#comment-96021 Robert Koehler Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:22:28 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/12/pasty-stealin-finns/#comment-96021 How about that he was the single most irritating man to ever tie up skates in the NHL. How about that he was the single most irritating man to ever tie up skates in the NHL.

]]> By: sewing http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/12/pasty-stealin-finns/#comment-96017 sewing Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:01:52 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/12/pasty-stealin-finns/#comment-96017 What's the problem with Tikkanen? That he moved around so much in the NHL, that he left the single Korean professional team after one year, or that he never played for your beloved Whalers? What’s the problem with Tikkanen? That he moved around so much in the NHL, that he left the single Korean professional team after one year, or that he never played for your beloved Whalers?

]]> By: Sperwer http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/12/pasty-stealin-finns/#comment-96000 Sperwer Thu, 12 Jul 2007 03:46:42 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/07/12/pasty-stealin-finns/#comment-96000 I always thought Gypsy Rose Lee did more for the pasty than anyone. I always thought Gypsy Rose Lee did more for the pasty than anyone.

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