[TheForge] OT Subject change: Finland

[David E. Smucker]

Best meat I have every had in my life was Reindeer Steak.  I made two visit 
to Finland -- enjoyed both.  We where working with ABB on some hot mill 
drives and the two 10,000 HP motors where made there.  These motors each 
weight 125 tons.  Was a very good job and ABB was a good company to work 
with.  (After years of working with GE we decided that GE stands for Go 
Elsewhere.)

Dave
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Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT Subject change: Finland


> To All,
> Finland is a great place.  The running joke when I was last there  about 
> 10
> years ago was that Finland wanted to apply to become the 51st  state. 
> They had
> the highest percentage of "American" speakers of all of  the countries in
> Europe.  Not only would becoming the 51st state piss off  the Russians but 
> the
> Swedes, too.  The sauna was invented in Finland no  matter what the Swedes 
> say.
> They do tend to eat a lot of fish.  The  first time I was there for about 
> a
> week and the only non-fish meal I had was  dinner at a restaurant 
> specializing
> in Reindeer.  When we asked the clerk  at the desk of the hotel where can 
> you
> get some reindeer, he said,  "Lapland."  Not all of them speak American 
> that
> well.  The last night  we were there we did the company sauna house.  It 
> was
> outside of Kotka,  right on the Baltic and it was February.  We were only 
> two
> non-Finns  out of our party of about 10 or so.  I made it through three 
> cycles
> which  impressed the hell out of the Finns.  After the sauna we sat out on 
> the
> deck in robes and scuffs for about a half an hour.  It was about -10*F 
> that
> night.  For dinner we had herring and salmon done every imaginable way as
> long as it was pickled.  We had our own bottles of aqua vita and when they 
> were
> empty, we left for the hotel, I think.
> On the way back I had to stop in the UK for a few days.  I flew from
> Helsinki to Heathrow and drove to Birmingham.  On M-40 just outside of 
> Oxford, there
> was a rest stop with a very familar name, Burger King.  No  Whopper ever
> tasted so good.
>
> Hochewa
>
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