The most Finnish thing?

I saw a new flavor of yogurt in the store last week: Glögi. Is that the most Finnish thing, glögi-flavored (lactose-free!) yogurt? Finns are huge on dairy products. I swear every 8am class I teach in a building where food is allowed in the classrooms is full of Finnish youth eating yogurt, viili (stretchy yogurt?), rahka (quark), cottage cheese, piimä (cultured buttermilk), or Skyr (Icelandic cultured stuff) for breakfast. So: yogurt.

Then: lactose-free. Finns are genetically prone to lactose intolerance, so lactose-free products are very common here.

Then: glögi. This is a spiced fruit cider drink thing that is sold around the holiday season in Finland. It is tasty stuff.

Therefore, is glögi lactose-free yogurt the most Finnish thing? Hard to say. Because the same brand also has a lemon-licorice flavor! Perhaps that is even more Finnish? I saw it advertised on a billboard a few weeks ago and sought it out that same day. I am a big fan of lemon-licorice ice cream, so I thought yogurt would be a nice snacky twist on the same.

And here's where this post gets sad, because the thing about this range of awesomely flavored lactose-free yogurts is that they are absolutely packed with sugar. Fourteen grams per 100g of yogurt, to be exact, and 150g of yogurt per pot. There are a lot of things I would be willing to spend 21g of sugar on, but yogurt is not high on the list. (All of the things on the list are candy.)

So I might try glögi yogurt once or twice for the novelty factor, but due to high sugar content, it won't be a regular snack. It's still super Finnish, though.