“Still not over the American woman who was super surprised to see so many men walking around with strollers and generally looking after their children alone during her travels through the Nordic countries.”
Bolognese sauce: https://satwcomic.com/the-implication-of-that
SATW always portrays Finland with a knife, so it’s more of an inside joke and not related to this specific comic strip.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puukko
All scandinavians has those (fjällkniv, morakniv,…) but the finnish are portrayed, in Scandinavia, as the most isolated/laconic people,the most “manly” ones, hence the knife. Swedes were portrayed as the gayest in the nineties at least (very “woke”), and so on. It’s just cultural stereotypes.
There is also a Swedish stereotype that Finnish people always have knives and that they take them out when they’re drunk.
“Inte skära, bara rispa!”
Yeah totally. They are the badasses of Scandinavia no doubt.
Thanks for these insights, TIL.
…I want a Scandinavian boyfriend now, these knives are really nice!
In sweden you’ll get a viking who do the dishes, and has a knife 😁
🤔 hm… I guess that works too
When you go into the outdoors don’t you have knives too? I don’t know how to do anything without one
I’m not much of an outdoors person myself however I do own two foldable knives. Indoors I tend to use kitchen knives and the retractable blades sorts which is actually stationery but yes we agree blades are incredibly useful
However having said that easily half the people I know don’t own any blades that cut, not even in their kitchens.
I know! The trick is to sharpen and never use the dishwasher
Also because the way their version of the “Scandinavian language” is very flamboyant
And norwegian is like happy people joking friendly. Can’t imagine one of them actually being angry 😁
Except on their anchovies.