That’s Finnish for “Valentines’s Day cheese”. Also, it’s not really “Valentine’s Day” in Finland – ystävänpäivä is more like friends’ day.

Here’s a piece from Finland’s public broadcasting company, Yle, looking at Valentine’s Day rituals around the world. To the Finns, it’s all very romantic, and thus weird. :)

They use helium balloons for WHAT?!

But why cheese? Because it was my inspiration for Yle’s Valentine’s Day Pixel Festival organized by Dan Farrimond a. k. a. illarterate. My thought process went like this:

• Valentine’s Day, what do I draw…
• Hearts, roses, smooching – it’s all a bit cheesy
• Hah!

Yle’s V-day-around-the-world article ends with a teaser for their own Teletext event, featuring these two lovely pieces:

Humppa! If that isn’t my cheese! :)

Pass the cheese: source code

Take a bite of all the other entries as well. There’s even a raccoon not made by RaccoonViolet!

PS: Any resemblance with the I choo- choo- choose you intro I made a year ago is purely coincidental…