"Prosciutto is ham." That was the message of a full-page ad in Finland's largest daily, Helsingin Sanomat, on Wednesday. It came in response to Italy's Prime Minister reportedly saying that Helsinki shouldn't get the new EU food agency because Finns knew nothing about good food. Last week Silvio Berlusconi demanded the future European Union Food Safety Agency, promised to Helsinki, go to the Italian city of Parma -- home of the famous prosciutto cured ham -- instead. "Parma is synonymous with good cuisine. The Finns don't even know what prosciutto is," Berlusconi said during an EU summit, according to diplomats privy to verbatim notes from the meeting. Helsingin Sanomat begs to differ. Page two declares: "Now 1.2 million Finns know this. Is that enough Berlusconi?" Finland has 5.2 million inhabitants.
Ham Bone to Pick
"Prosciutto is ham." That was the message of a full-page ad in Finland's largest daily, on Wednesday. It came in response to Italy's Prime Minister reportedly saying that Helsinki shouldn't get the new EU food agency because Finns knew nothing about good food. Last week Silvio Berlusconi demanded the future European Union Food Safety Agency, promised to Helsinki, go to the Italian city of Parma -- home of the famous prosciutto cured ham -- instead. "Parma is synonymous with good cuisine. The Finns don't even know what prosciutto is," Berlusconi said during an EU summit, according to diplomats privy to verbatim notes from the meeting. begs to differ. Page two declares: "Now 1.2 million Finns know this. Is that enough Berlusconi?" Finland has 5.2 million inhabitants.
