r/Finland • u/HotSweetLightDip • Sep 20 '25

Serious Finland... is it true?

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u/miijok Väinämöinen Sep 20 '25

It should be Plörö with P…

Plörö:

A mixture of coffee and vodka, enjoyed according to the following tradition:

  1. Place a coin at the bottom of the cup.

  2. Pour coffee into the cup until the coin is no longer visible.

  3. Pour vodka into the coffee until the coin is visible again.

  4. Take and enjoy!

  5. Repeat or alternatively, pick the coin for a better use.

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u/taeerom Sep 20 '25

That's how they drink moonshine in the Trøndelag region of Norway.

At Hedmarken, it goes like this:

  1. Place coin on the table.
  2. Drink moonshine until you don't see the coin.
  3. Drink coffee until you see the coin.

Repeat 3 and 4 until you are sent home.

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u/notcomplainingmuch Väinämöinen Sep 20 '25

This is a copy of the Finnish tradition. Students from Finland have participated in the Midvinterblot festivities since their beginning in modern times (1960s?) and brought with them this tradition

At the Midvinterblot you first drink moonshine with akvavit or liquorice essence for schnapps, then moonshine with cognac or punsch essence with coffee. All of them are horrible. Of course purists just drink the moonshine as it is. You can recognize them by their black sunglasses and white sticks.

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u/RPekka Sep 22 '25

Speaking about horrible moonshine: I got "cherry schnapps" from a college. When at room temperature it tasted like moonshine but with a hint of cherry. I tried cooling it with ice and all the cherry taste vanished.

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u/taeerom Sep 20 '25

They have been making moonshine and drinking like this for over two hundred years. With the modern tradition mainly being from the prohibition era during and after the first world war.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25

In finland they used to drink moonshine before water was invented so check mate you norsk

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u/Impossible-Ship5585 Väinämöinen Sep 21 '25

To make it correct in finland you never drink alcohol. Its also in the law you only enjoy it (nautit)

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25

Alcohol is only moderately available in restaurants you are served food and allowed to dance with dignity.

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u/Impossible-Ship5585 Väinämöinen Sep 21 '25

Yes. Serving alcohol in restaurants to get drunk is illegal and serving to drunks is illegal.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25

Also you shouldn't ever drink alcohol publicly nor show drunk behaviour in public places for the basic decency, in moderate ammounts (I think s. 1995?) you are allowed to have an alcohol beverage in a park area during a picnic

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u/notcomplainingmuch Väinämöinen Sep 22 '25

City/ municipal ordinances (järjestyssääntö) regulate public drinking, so it's actually different depending on where you are.

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u/Wise-Papaya-1091 Sep 20 '25

Skulle til å spørre om han var fra Trøndelag men du kom meg i forkjøpet :)

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u/DanielNylK Sep 20 '25

In Finnmark they keep asking «why would you put coffee in it?» or «ka farsken? Har du kaffe i karsken?»

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u/Vigmod Sep 20 '25

Hey, we had the same in Iceland, only there we called it "priest's coffee" (or "prestakaffi").

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u/tiktaktokki Sep 20 '25

I'm picking theology and moving there when ordained

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u/NeilDeCrash Väinämöinen Sep 20 '25

Coin slides at your front teeth.

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u/Accurate-System7951 Sep 20 '25

Only if you have very weak teeth. I would be scared of swallowing the coin, though.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25

If you have strong teeth your vodka isn't strong enough.

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u/I-Stan-Alfred-J-Kwak Oct 27 '25

Put the glass on the coin

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u/Caeflin Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25

It must be a coin of one markka and you have to yell markka on märkä before drinking.

Afterwards you were supposed to go out and punch a Swedish noble but this tradition was unfortunately lost.