Why the name? Heres why: everything we Finns fancy are black or atleast dark colored. Just for example: salty liquorice, Salmiakki Kossu (Salmiac vodka), Rye bread, coffee and Heavy Metal. Even our sky is dark most of the time! But hey, no worries. We are not just dark colored people who walks under dark sky listening Nightwish.
First of all, we Finnish may sometimes seem distant, and mistrustful of others but I ensure you, we are not. We love our personal space till we learn to know you better. Hugging is considered okay by many of us , thou kissing your school buddy is err… Not cool.
Under the black sky we play with snow bears in our igloos…. Sorry to dissapoint you, we don’t have either of them. Instead we live in rental apartments near woods, drink water straight from the tap and eat berries we’ve found outside and gaze colorful lights (Aurora Borelius). When winter comes we make snow castles.
To ease the pain not having snow bears as pets, we go to Sauna (steamy hot room) and play Angry Birds. Watch Moomins and eat Karelian pie with eggbutter. At the afternoons we have coffee and Fazers chocolate.
So welcome to the dark side, we have the best chocolate in the world!
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