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cimoreneA week ago we found surprisingly great store-brand cantuccini at a different K supermarket from our local, but we still hadn't been able to find any here locally in Pargas, a wee town of 18k (at either supermarket, that is*).
But two days ago we were at the local K supermarket and finally found them there, and found out why we haven't been able to find them... they've been shelved with the salty crackers this entire time! Like. There's one side of one aisle dedicated to both cookies and crackers, which in Finnish are called "cookies" and "saltcookies" respectively (kex, suolakex). The left half of the row of shelves is crackers, and the right half is cookies. Most of these are your normal Finnish or familiar crackers and cookies from familiar brands. On the far outer edges, though, the topmost right shelf has ladyfingers and some other imported peculiarities, and the topmost left shelf is dedicated specifically to imported Italian crackers, like those cans of dried breadsticks and... stuff... and right up in there nestled in between a couple of different kinds of herby and cheesy salty crackers were the cantuccini.
Our current theory is that someone at the Pargas supermarket mistakenly thinks that cantuccini are salty crackers.
*There's a K and an S, that is, a representative of each of Finland's big retail conglomerates, Kesko Corporation and S Group, both ubiquitous and both tending to be equally good and mostly equivalent, both in general and here in town. They're also building a Lidl, which in principle I don't support because when Lidl first expanded to Finland they fought back really hard against Finland's requirement that unions be allowed because they try to prevent their employees from having unions in principle, but they did ultimately lose so their employees in Finland are now not worse off than the employees of their competitors... my side-eye continues, but they carry hot big pretzels in their bakery and none of the Finnish chains do that.
But two days ago we were at the local K supermarket and finally found them there, and found out why we haven't been able to find them... they've been shelved with the salty crackers this entire time! Like. There's one side of one aisle dedicated to both cookies and crackers, which in Finnish are called "cookies" and "saltcookies" respectively (kex, suolakex). The left half of the row of shelves is crackers, and the right half is cookies. Most of these are your normal Finnish or familiar crackers and cookies from familiar brands. On the far outer edges, though, the topmost right shelf has ladyfingers and some other imported peculiarities, and the topmost left shelf is dedicated specifically to imported Italian crackers, like those cans of dried breadsticks and... stuff... and right up in there nestled in between a couple of different kinds of herby and cheesy salty crackers were the cantuccini.
Our current theory is that someone at the Pargas supermarket mistakenly thinks that cantuccini are salty crackers.
*There's a K and an S, that is, a representative of each of Finland's big retail conglomerates, Kesko Corporation and S Group, both ubiquitous and both tending to be equally good and mostly equivalent, both in general and here in town. They're also building a Lidl, which in principle I don't support because when Lidl first expanded to Finland they fought back really hard against Finland's requirement that unions be allowed because they try to prevent their employees from having unions in principle, but they did ultimately lose so their employees in Finland are now not worse off than the employees of their competitors... my side-eye continues, but they carry hot big pretzels in their bakery and none of the Finnish chains do that.
