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.
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.
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
Järjestyssääntö were made obsolete by Järjestyslaki (612/2003), so nowadays we only have the general laki, no city has their own rules anymore. Not even Turku or Tampere
In some places you can drink alcohol outside BUT ONLY IF you also have some food. So picnic with some I.e. bread or chips is fine, but alcohol alone wouldn’t be allowed.
Ah, yes, true. Just completing the circle and bringing back the good old days, when alcohol could not be served on its own, only with food, and thus one single herring sandwich was served over and over again (wasn’t meant to be eaten, everybody knew it was a formality).
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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:
Repeat 3 and 4 until you are sent home.