Yule Pork

Pigs seem to be everywhere for the holidays in Finland; pig motifs, cookies shaped like pigs, piggy marzipan cakes, big pork roasts for the traditional meal, etc. It's a bit macabre since, you know, Wilbur is not only cute and pink but he's on the menu. I figured that Finland would be all over the reindeer motif, which is the most common in the US, since they seem to have a lot of them in Lapland but I suppose it would traumatise kids on both continents too much if they thought that santa served up the reindeer after hauling his fat arse around the globe in one night. :)

8 Dec 2003 at 16:23, Helsinki