I came to Helsinki thinking fish was going to be cheap. So far I have gotten lucky once at an S-Market in the city center, and got some "manager's special" Salmon steaks for super cheap (like 2 euros for a big boneless steak - I bought so many that the girl at the cash register laughed).
Needless to say, I haven't gotten so lucky on other occasions. Where is the best place in Helsinki to buy cheap fish?
cheapest place to buy fish in Helsinki
Hanksalation : where you can find a Flying pig..there you can find "Cheap"..
your options are : try the frozen section in prisma and K, kk citymarkets..
Another is that every day, they mark down the price of meat (generally in the evenings) for foods that have best-before-date that day.
Apart from that we buy our prepared fish from
http://www.fsfish.fi/
your options are : try the frozen section in prisma and K, kk citymarkets..
Another is that every day, they mark down the price of meat (generally in the evenings) for foods that have best-before-date that day.
Apart from that we buy our prepared fish from
http://www.fsfish.fi/
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Spot on!penelope wrote: Good fish isn't cheap, anywhere.
The demand for "cheap fish" has driven a huge growth in the factory farming of salmon. This intensive farming has lead to a product which is often contaminated with a cocktail of chemicals and other contaminants that really aren't very good for you (statistically speaking, cheap food=short life). This was the first link google came up with, I think it will give an outline at least, although I suggest the OP search deeper:
http://www.robedwards.com/2002/07/study_proves_ca.html
To put in perspective, I'm not a tree-hugging, new age anti-capitalist campaigner who thinks everyone should be growing vegetables in the back yard, I'm a normal guy who happens to know more than average about the food we eat. I also feel angry when people shout about wanting cheap food, it's people like these who have forced down the quality of the food we see on the supermarket shelves today.
Political correctness is the belief that it's possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
"To put in perspective, I'm not a tree-hugging, new age anti-capitalist campaigner who thinks everyone should be growing vegetables in the back yard, I'm a normal guy who happens to know more than average about the food we eat. I also feel angry when people shout about wanting cheap food, it's people like these who have forced down the quality of the food we see on the supermarket shelves today."
Every time I try to apply macro-economic theory to my personal life, my skin burns..... but I do see your point - I'm from America after all, where the chicken is half steroids and half giraffe. I agree that cheap food = !"#¤% food, and I usually live my life by this equation. But I was under the impression that because Helsinki is by the ocean that fresh, non-chemically enhanced fish would cost less.
But I can see that the people here are bound by higher taxes, higher cost of living, and must therefore charge more for anything that gets them out of bed in the morning and into a boat. I can certainly understand this.
But hey, at least the fish is DAMNED good.
And it looks like I'll be going to the harbor to buy fish from now on. Speaking of which, I think that Baltic Herring festival is going on right now, I hope they haven't sold out of all the best recipes yet.
Every time I try to apply macro-economic theory to my personal life, my skin burns..... but I do see your point - I'm from America after all, where the chicken is half steroids and half giraffe. I agree that cheap food = !"#¤% food, and I usually live my life by this equation. But I was under the impression that because Helsinki is by the ocean that fresh, non-chemically enhanced fish would cost less.
But I can see that the people here are bound by higher taxes, higher cost of living, and must therefore charge more for anything that gets them out of bed in the morning and into a boat. I can certainly understand this.
But hey, at least the fish is DAMNED good.
And it looks like I'll be going to the harbor to buy fish from now on. Speaking of which, I think that Baltic Herring festival is going on right now, I hope they haven't sold out of all the best recipes yet.
Baltic herring is indeed cheap because Finland is not allowed to export it (against EU regulations).
The Baltic is one of the most polluted seas in the world. Look at a map... it isn't difficult to work out why.
The choice of fish here is paltry compared to almost every other country I have lived in (except Hungary which is land locked and also polluted, Romanian mines dump cyanide in the Danube). If you want fish go to France, Spain, Portugal....
The Baltic is one of the most polluted seas in the world. Look at a map... it isn't difficult to work out why.
The choice of fish here is paltry compared to almost every other country I have lived in (except Hungary which is land locked and also polluted, Romanian mines dump cyanide in the Danube). If you want fish go to France, Spain, Portugal....
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The problem is when you look at the map; Helsinki is by St.Petersburg dumping all their "chemical enhancements" in the puddle with no treatment. Apart from which the Baltic is more or less an inland breakwater sea with a localized ecosystem - say like the Great Lakes...Seano wrote:because Helsinki is by the ocean that fresh, non-chemically enhanced fish would cost less.
Cheers, Hank W.
sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.
sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.
Yeah they are clean cept for the occasional oil spills around that region...But that happens only twice in a year so they are also ok..penelope wrote:The choice of fish here is paltry compared to almost every other country I have lived in (except Hungary which is land locked and also polluted, Romanian mines dump cyanide in the Danube). If you want fish go to France, Spain, Portugal....
