Finnish food , my experiences

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Food
My beloved place for shopping is Kauppahalli, nice people, lot of fresh vegetables, meat and fish.
Oh I really love that in Finland people eat so much of salmon and other fish. I can always get there some great piece of delicious fishy. Also the fish market, you can say paradise for polish herrings lovers.
You can find in every shop hundreds kind of herrings, and surprise, surprise..
All of them are sweet! How it is possible that I can not find any of them with salt?

Lunches and dinners are pretty the same in Finland and Poland. We are all potatoes lovers, meat, souses, Salads, just this strange habit in Finland to drink milk with lunch. "Maito ja lihapullat..., kitos" so popular in Finland, Try to do it in Poland :)

Although both our nations eat mostly similar food (we all love potatoes in every almost every forms), there are meals that are not acceptable for each other.
We have experienced Easter here, with mostly Finnish and polish food, It was great, but we have to watch our Finnish friends to really try polish bread soup or the most know polish "bigos"
(sour cabbage with meat and mushrooms and prunes, the best after few days :)).
Both dishes seems to be very challenging for them.

Christmas here are more challenging for polish people, so many greasy and sweet souses, and ham, but ham is very good.
Sometimes problems with "porkkanalaatikko". It is just so different from polish Christmas food.
We usually eat fish and mushrooms, no meet at all. I do not know if Finnish people eat reindeer for Christmas.
Do Finnish parents say to their little child when they feed him with reindeer:
"Haluatko syödä Petteri Punakuonoa, Heiki? "
"Do you wanna a bit of Rudolf Heiki?"