Finnish Food Adventure

"Atria Japan Tonkatsu -Maustekastikkeella". It’s claiming to be pork with “Japan Tonkatsu seasoning sauce”. So how is it? Interesting Package Pushing Gimmick I cooked it following the direction on the package. The folded two-part package (meat part and sauce part is separated) was interesting. You have to unfold the package and push the sauce part hard, so that fresh meat will meet with the sauce. Then you leave it in the fridge for 30 minutes to marinate. Then fry the meat for 8 minutes. (photograph taken after the "push") I'm not sure if it is a gimmick to just get people’s attention, or if it would be beneficial for the company as in it required less facility space or equipment than making a product that is in the package already marinated, or if this way of packaging actually benefits the taste of the cooked food compared to those marinated-and-packed ones. (-30% for a reason?) Either way, it was fun to press the sauce, it was a bit like pressing a huuuge bu

Hartwall Original Long Drink Gin & Ginger. 4.5 %. "Less Sugar - White Label". I don't think it's worth the money. I was actually excited to see the can said "less sugar", I thought it would mean that it's "less sweet". Instead, there is an artificial sweetener, Aspartame used in it. Just like a dog cannot replace a human being although both have a brain and four limbs, replacing sugar (well not completely, it contains sugar as well. but "replacing sugar partially") with a sweetener doesn't work. Both are sweet, yes. But the quality of sweetness is different. And, I think, by adding sweetener they somehow ruined the Lonkero-ness of the drink. Its taste surely resembles Lonkero and it's fun to have a ginger taste in it. But this sweetness which you can only feel with front and sides of your tongue... It feels as if there's a big chunk of vital taste information missing, that you would feel in the back of the tongue. In o