On the Town in The Palm Beaches with Frank Licari
A Taste of Finland | On The Town in the Palm Beaches
Clip: Season 6 | 2m 8sVideo has Closed Captions
Frank explores some of the eye-raising customs celebrated in the Finnish Community.
Frank explores some of the eye-raising customs celebrated in the Finnish Community at the annual “Midnight Sun Festival.”
On the Town in The Palm Beaches with Frank Licari is a local public television program presented by WPBT
Palm Beach County Tourist Development Council
On the Town in The Palm Beaches with Frank Licari
A Taste of Finland | On The Town in the Palm Beaches
Clip: Season 6 | 2m 8sVideo has Closed Captions
Frank explores some of the eye-raising customs celebrated in the Finnish Community at the annual “Midnight Sun Festival.”
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipWhat if I told you there's a spot in Lake Worth where you can get a taste of Finland, super strong coffee, and the most delicate sweetbreads ever.
But more importantly, you can get an update on the latest wife-carrying competition?
I had no idea that there was such a Finnish culture here in the area.
Most of Finns who are in Florida, they are staying right here in Palm Beach County.
You can get every business basically in Finnish, if you want to.
That's incredible to me.
I'm a president for the festival.
That is the Finnish festival that happens once a year.
We need to talk about this.
I need to ask you a question, okay?
I don't know much about the Finnish culture, but there's a contest where you carry your wife?
Yes.
What, explain this to me.
[Tiina] So, it's a competition called wife carrying, we call it.
They went right for it.
They didn't try to get creative with the name.
They're like, wife carrying.
So, in Finnish, it's .
Okay.
So, it's been a competition.
They have the world championship in Finland.
We do little weird things sometimes.
That is, I mean, that's on the border.
I like that.
And the funny part, the wife is upside down.
[Tiina] So, there is an obstacle course that you have to run and go over the obstacles.
And there is a water.
What!
The pools.
Water!
The water.
What happens if I drop my wife?
They have a helmet usually.
Oh, well that's okay then, I guess, all right, yeah.
This is so great.
It's fun.
And you've done this how many years here?
[Tiina] The wife carrying has been part of the festival last five years, so.
This is incredible.
To be honest, most of the competitors that we have here are Americans.
Well of course, they're like, "What a great excuse "to carry my wife around."
This is incredible.
We're at this bakery here.
Yeah.
[Frank] Is there something I need to try that would be signature Finnish?
We have really famous about the donuts.
And this is called .
That's the really old-fashioned Finnish coffee cake.
Okay.
So, Finns drink a lot of coffee.
Yes.
We use a lot of cardamom in our pulla, it's a little weird for a lot of people.
Well, I hate to tell you, but a lot of the stuff I've heard today is a little weird.
Little weird.
Yeah, a little weird.
That's okay though, I like weird.
This is good.
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Frank visits the Delray Beach Children’s Garden! (2m 19s)
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Frank explores some of the eye-raising customs celebrated in the Finnish Community. (2m 8s)
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Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival
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On the Town in The Palm Beaches with Frank Licari is a local public television program presented by WPBT
Palm Beach County Tourist Development Council