4w ago

Friday's papers: Ruined Moomins, Finland unprepared for future warfare, and where's the beef?

I'm interested on others' thoughts on this. I got into Moomin after Finnish family started gifting me mugs, and I now have a sizable collection. To me as a foreigner, the mugs were my gateway to the actual books. Is your experience that the children around you are getting burnt out on Moomin before they're old enough for the books?

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Huh, that must be a Finnish thing. In North America, I don't think I've ever seen a Moomin-branded product in the wild.
- Yeah, we have Moomin mugs, Moomin towels, Moomin bags, basically Moomins on everything you can put a Moomin on. I think that most households have at least one Moomin item. Sometimes mozzarella is called Moomin meat.
  
  Sometimes mozzarella is called Moomin meat
  This is unsettling.
  
  To unsettle you a bit further, cottage cheese is called Moomin mince.
  
  I'm not sure what to do with this information. Maybe I should buy cottage cheese.
  
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- Moomin mugs is a wildly collectable item in whole of North Europe lol. It's kinda crazy how popular they are. People sell old limited edition mugs for top dollar on the marketplace
- I'm in the US, and they opened a US based online shop this year. They were also doing a big Barnes and Noble push around summer, but when I visited most recently all the moomin stuff had been moved out of a prime location and been heavily discounted.

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