American Items (In K-Market): Requests?

[karen]

I've seen Hellman's mayo at CM in Sello.

[sinikala]

Either make it yourself (very very easy) or buy Hellman's from Stockmann. Heino wholesaler has gigantic jars which work out cheaper, but you need the store card to purchase from there.

Haven't noticed Hellman's in stockmann will have to keep an eye out.

BTW breakfast this morning was PB&J on rye ... & I held the mayo. <-- actually made myself laugh there.
PB = Skippy
J = Smuckers Concord Grape
God bless America!

Sorry to get sidetracked on a rant ... but why stick animal fat in a tin with beans? FFS! It pissed me off when I read the ingredients at home of a nice tin of French flageolet beans we'd bought from Stockmann ... one of the ingredients was goose fat!

Nearly all processed foods contain animal fats of some kind ie: by-products of milk such as caseinates etc. It is a nightmare buying food for anyone who has a severe milk allergy. Even most industrial sorbets contain milk fats Not to mention biscuits and other baked goods, many tinned foods, nearly all ready-meals. As for the flageolet beans.... the traditional French recipe would use goose fat (they are eaten with cassoulet). The French food industry uses butter a lot too... it's almost impossible to find processed foods that don't contain animal fats in France.

I don't mind milk so much; though a lot of dairy farming is harsh to the animals - still you can still get milk without killing the animal. Not the case with lard.... The dirty evil French b***ards

[JimmyBang]

And please, no need to be condescending, I think I know what refried beans are

no condensation implied...

Cruel I know, as English obviously isn't Jimmy's mother tongue ... but I laughed out loud at that one.
(a bit late to ask if I can be condescending?)

Like Enk, I've also seen refried beans in quite a few places here, usually made in the USA as opposed to Mejico and always seem to contain lard in the list of ingredients = useless to me.

Sorry to get sidetracked on a rant ... but why stick animal fat in a tin with beans? FFS! It pissed me off when I read the ingredients at home of a nice tin of French flageolet beans we'd bought from Stockmann ... one of the ingredients was goose fat!

My home made vegetarian frijoles refritos recipe is as follows...

fry a some chopped onions, garlic, some chilli flakes, pepper in a drop of olive oil
wash and liquidise (blend for our Merkin friends) a can of kidney beans ... add the kidney beans to the frying pan add a little water
add half a Mexican Oxo cube... Oxo looks like this...


except it says "Oxo Mexican" on it. you'll need to find your own substitute for that (I suppose some Knorr crap would suffice).

Fry - stirring all the time with a wooden spoon - until the water is boiled off and it all clumps together in a ball when you stir it...

Om nom nom.

oh no no no, english IS my mother tongue, that was a JOKE...obviously, sarcasm and humor arent your cup'o tea

and I found my refrieds!!! it aint Taco Bell...but it'll do. THANXS!

[Rosamunda]

off topic....

I don't mind milk so much; though a lot of dairy farming is harsh to the animals - still you can still get milk without killing the animal.

In theory yes, but in practice no. Dairy farmers sell off nearly all the calves for slaughter these days (at least that's what happens in the UK - my folks' house is in the middle of a dairy farm). It's not economically viable to rear the calves. The farmers hate doing it (my mum says she has seen the farmer "very upset" loading them onto trucks to be taken away) but apparently they no longer have the choice.

[sinikala]

In theory yes, but in practice no. Dairy farmers sell off nearly all the calves for slaughter these days (at least that's what happens in the UK - my folks' house is in the middle of a dairy farm). It's not economically viable to rear the calves. The farmers hate doing it (my mum says she has seen the farmer "very upset" loading them onto trucks to be taken away) but apparently they no longer have the choice.

Good point, well made.

The steers have always been used for meat, and the dairy cow itself isn't killed, though the the whole process is cruel.

Now I have to consider cutting down / out on dairy I don't think I could manage being vegan.

[Upphew]

off topic....
In theory yes, but in practice no. Dairy farmers sell off nearly all the calves for slaughter these days (at least that's what happens in the UK - my folks' house is in the middle of a dairy farm). It's not economically viable to rear the calves. The farmers hate doing it (my mum says she has seen the farmer "very upset" loading them onto trucks to be taken away) but apparently they no longer have the choice.

If dairy farmer is going to keep same number of cows, then about 20% of calves should be kept and raised to replace older cows? According to Ruokatieto Finnish cow lives 5-6 years. So maybe even more than 20% of calves should be kept to keep the size of herd constant.

[merenneito]

I'm not really american, but CRYSTAL LITE /LIGHT would be nice, as well as Reese's peanutbutter cups or peanutbutter m&m's, although maybe these can be found from Behnfords?!?

CARMEX lip balm can be bought from Stockmann....FINALLY!!!!!!!

[lionel]

off topic....
In theory yes, but in practice no. Dairy farmers sell off nearly all the calves for slaughter these days (at least that's what happens in the UK - my folks' house is in the middle of a dairy farm). It's not economically viable to rear the calves. The farmers hate doing it (my mum says she has seen the farmer "very upset" loading them onto trucks to be taken away) but apparently they no longer have the choice.

If dairy farmer is going to keep same number of cows, then about 20% of calves should be kept and raised to replace older cows? According to Ruokatieto Finnish cow lives 5-6 years. So maybe even more than 20% of calves should be kept to keep the size of herd constant.

Female calves are not all sold for slaughter although the males usually are in the UK. They are sold on to others who then raise them, and inseminate them at the right age when they get sold back to dairies.

Also cows lives are considerably longer than 5-6 years, even in Finland, but that is usually when their milk production begins to lessen so they are slaughtered. The cows can easily keep producing milk for 15 or 20 years, but nowdays dairy farming is so intensive people dont bother with the animal at all.

[Pursuivant]

The old dairy cow is the only animal changing its age and sex after death into young ox fillet.

[lionel]

The old dairy cow is the only animal changing its age and sex after death into young ox fillet.

Very true

[raamv]

CARMEX lip balm can be bought from Stockmann....FINALLY!!!!!!!

Thanx for this info!! I have storage of a year of carmex but this is good to know!!
and Carmex is pretty much the best that I ve used for sore/dry lip problems!!
I am sure that this could be pretty expensive compared to the $0.75 lip balm that they sell in Walmart!!

[AcidKing]

KD? im from canada and my finnish friend tells me you dont have Krap DInner... Kraft Dinner

a sad realization

[Pursuivant]

why should we, we got saarioisten jauhelihapizza

[AcidKing]

WTF is that

[Upphew]

WTF is that

Wheat flour, tomato, Finnish beef, cheese (edamjuusto, milk, vegetable fat, milk protein, potato starch, leaven, preservative E 252, acidity regulator E 509, flavoring), the Finnish pork, onion, sugar, vegetable oil, salt, yeast, modified corn starch, vinegar, spices (garlic, paprika, white pepper, black pepper), acidity regulator (E 330). The meat content is 19%. The salinity of 1.1%.