food

Locally, both Pepsi and Coke have both gone bananas with seemingly endless new sugar-free flavours recently and all of them are terrible

They're not named like perfumes though, just Pepsi Max Ginger or whatever

These are from Lidl so it's more like 1,65€ to 2,30€. Protip: stay away from big name brands, that shit will cost you an arm and a leg. Stuff like Pepsi, Coke, Mountain Dew and Sprite is expensive as hell, the same with anything Hartwall, the big Finnish soft drink manufacturer.

Lidl is your friend- their Freeway Cola is legit excellent and on par with Coke and Pepsi. Actually, it's probably just straight-up better than Pepsi now that they have included aspartame even in their non-sugar-free drinks. It's the worst of both worlds!

When it comes to store brand soda, lemon lime is usually a safe bet. Lidl's is good and so is Rainbow's, which is one of the store brands of S-Market and Prisma. I also recommend Rainbow's Festival soda which is a knock-off of Hartwall's Pommac, an apple-y/fruity soda that's marketed as a slightly more upmarket/adult beverage.

Also, remember that you can return most bottles and cans to stores for cash so hold on to those babies! A 1,5 liter bottle is usually worth 40 cents

We gotta import avocados from wherever which probably explains why they're not perfectly ripened. As for authentic Mexican food, we've had Taco Bell for a few years now so I think that's all covered

Also, the one good thing in this succdem hellhole is that non-sugar soda will be cheaper.

Still haven’t found good Mexican/Latin American food in Finland

Yeah, let's be honest, you probably never will outside of some South American expat's niche pop-up restaurant in Helsinki.