A moped to the wall and 500 donuts to the trash

It’s time again to dig out May Day sprays, balloons and student caps from the closets, because May Day Eve will be celebrated again on April 30 and May Day on May 1.

We asked From Maija-Liisa Peuhufrom Sointu Borg, from Saija Tuupase, from Toivo Sukar, from Jone Nikula, Aake from Kalliala and Timo Lavikainen, what kind of memories they have of Vapu.

Chord Borg

Media personality and Deal-winner Sointu Borgi thinks that the best days of his life are around the age of 18.

– I’ve been wearing a pink stetson and drinking Breezer somewhere, Borg laughs.

In spite of everything, May Day 2022 has been especially etched in his mind. Last May, the Tappara ice hockey team had just won the Finnish ice hockey championship, and Sointu was part of the festive fun, hosting Tappara’s golden celebration.

– I was walking around with that trophy somewhere to keep going. Last May Day was wonderful!

Borg still had to use walking sticks at that time, as his knee had to be operated on in April 2022.

– It didn’t hinder the going much! Borg laughs.

This year, Borg plans to take May Day more calmly, as he plans to celebrate his book on the Thursday before May Day Brazenly bold – this is how you smell real shit publication and Tappara’s recent Finnish championship.

– If I pulled twice a week these days, I’d probably be in the intensive care unit! Borg laughs.

Saija Tupanen

Singer Saija Tuupanen reminisces for Iltalehti about May Day from years ago. Tuupanen once attended a cooking school, where 800 donuts were baked during May Day.

– It was a tough day and I was sweating hard, Tuupanen says.

Tuupanen’s friend came over to the ready-made donuts to have a taste. Tuupanen forbade him to take a donut, because the donuts were intended for customers.

– He took one of it a little stealthily and said: “Eat horrible tasting doughnuts”.

Tuupanen didn’t think there was anything wrong with the donuts and chased his friend away. Soon the truth about the monks dawned.

– Someone had made a mistake and changed the big sugar bowls to salt bowls. We had 500 donuts wrapped in salt. I can tell you that it was a bit sad then.

The students of the cooking school tried to save the monks, but nothing could be done, because the monks had been in the salt for too long. Donuts had to be thrown away.

– Afterwards it was laughed at, but after that I have always tasted whether it was salt or sugar. It was such a lesson.

This year, Tuupanen is celebrating an exceptional May Day holiday, as he does not have work on May Day or May Day this year. On Sunday, Tuupanen bakes donuts and plans to grill, weather permitting. For May Day, Tuupanen is thinking about going to brunch.

Toivo Sukari

Businessman Toivo Sukari says that his May holidays have traditionally been spent at Kustav’s cottage, raking and preparing the cottage for the summer.

– Preparing for the summer has been my most traditional holiday, Sukari says.

Last May Day there was an exception to May Day traditions when Sukari spent May Day in Marbella, Spain with his wife Nadja.

– We have a standard place in Marbella where we go for carrot juice. Of course, we go other than on May Day.

– There is such good carrot juice. I’m hooked on it. I changed the juice to carrot juice.

This year, the May Day holiday of a couple living in Spain will be exceptionally spent in Turku. The two plan to eat well, walk around town and drive a car.

– It’s nice to watch when the youth are on the move and having fun! Sukari tells.

Jon Nikula

Over the years, Jone Nikula, known from radio and television, has often sat at the lathe on May Day Eve.

– From 1988, my days off were strictly for work, when I started my extensive and significant media career at that time on day off, Nikula says.

– Then I worked almost like every May Day until the end of the 1990s

It wasn’t until the 2000s that Nikula started celebrating May Day in a more traditional way. The holidays of youth spent at work have had their price.

– And that’s probably why I don’t have a story to tell about waking up from under a boat somewhere with a student cap on my head and not knowing how I got there.

– But amateurs celebrate on holidays like that! The real man, on the other hand, makes his future clear on a normal Tuesday, Nikula has a twinkle in his eye.

Maija-Liisa Peuhu

An actor known for “Salkars”. Maija-Liisa Peuhu says that he has accumulated so many holidays in the meter that he cannot say one specific holiday. He likes the atmosphere of May Day – walking in the woods and the May Day breeze.

This year, Maija-Liisa celebrates May Day in traditional ways. She plans to drink mead, buy herself some bread rolls and donuts for her husband. Maija-Liisa doesn’t care for donuts herself, but drip breads are her great delicacy.

– I could always eat drop bread. Although all year round. They are so good.

Aake Kalliala

Actor Aake Kalliala recalls to Iltalehte the holiday of his youth. During the evening, Kalliala switched from one May Day party to another in Anttola and on the way accidentally drove the moped against the wall of the house. Nothing happened to Kalliala, the house or the moped in the collision, but the mead bottle in the pocket flew onto the road to the uninitiated.

– I never found it.

Kalliala does not reveal whether he had already had time to enjoy the evening in question.

– This is not what the story tells! Kalliala laughs.

This year, Kalliala will celebrate May Day with a dog, just like last year. He doesn’t have any special plans. Kalliala chooses a donut instead of a drip bread.

Timo Lavikainen

May Day has always been an important holiday for actor Timo Lavikainen. The reason for this is that it is allowed to detach from familiar saints on May Day.

– Vappu is the only carnival moment for Finns, Lavikainen states.

In the past, there was even a celebration, but this year May Day is going peacefully in the family with children.

– Nowadays, these days are spent eating donuts and drinking mead, so that there is no need to go anywhere on the holidays.

From her childhood, Lavikainen has a memory of the beginning of the 1980s in connection with May Day.

– As a child, you always had to go to the May Day march, so I remember that you always went to the May Day march. I can’t say whether it was a good or bad memory, Lavikainen laughs.