Listen now | This week, we kick off the episode with a big long discussion about weird stuff European people do. The Brits are obsessed with a random restaurant near Coventry. The Swedes are feeding people who stay over for dinner. And the Finnish appear to have constructed an elaborate years-long joke about their love of buckets. But our main topic for the week is Instagram Reels. It’s Zuckerberg’s last chance at creating a genuinely exciting content ecosystem. After an hour of scrolling through it, we’re not sure it’s going to work.
Finnish person here. I'm not paying Garbage Day subscriber, so I comment on here.
Bucket shortage isn't real (rest of the history on that TikTok video is true I think), but lining for free buckets is definitely a real thing (I have seen this with my own eyes on our marketplace).
Even we finnish people aren't exactly sure why free buckets are popular what I have read.
My theory is that finnish people in general just really love free stuff almost any kind, because this country is kinda expensive. For free stuff that's cheap to create, buckets are useful kind of stuff. And it's really common household item here.
It has become a joke too, at least in modern times. But even if it's a joke, the bucket fever is still real.
Here's finnish article about this phenomenon from trustworthy source: https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10742389 (Google Translate works okay-ish for finnish language).
P.S. My town's marketplace is in that TikTok video for first 15 seconds.
Finnish person here. I'm not paying Garbage Day subscriber, so I comment on here.
Bucket shortage isn't real (rest of the history on that TikTok video is true I think), but lining for free buckets is definitely a real thing (I have seen this with my own eyes on our marketplace).
Even we finnish people aren't exactly sure why free buckets are popular what I have read.
My theory is that finnish people in general just really love free stuff almost any kind, because this country is kinda expensive. For free stuff that's cheap to create, buckets are useful kind of stuff. And it's really common household item here.
It has become a joke too, at least in modern times. But even if it's a joke, the bucket fever is still real.
Here's finnish article about this phenomenon from trustworthy source: https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10742389 (Google Translate works okay-ish for finnish language).
P.S. My town's marketplace is in that TikTok video for first 15 seconds.