Comments on: Saucy Finnish Finishing Sauces

By: InstructorLizzie

InstructorLizzie — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 13:38:03 +0000

I think this ad is fantastic. I don’t think it really matters in the end whether the accent is austrian, german, finish or anything else. It never ceases to make me laugh.

By: Dr Maasden

Dr Maasden — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:56:27 +0000

FYI:
Both ads were shot in Kangaroo Valley NSW
The “farmhouse” is only about 8 years old, but is built from old recycled shearing sheds.
Otto and his neighbour are Australians
Otto’s “Wife” is Danish
His neighbour’s “wife” is English
The “squeezy” ads were not shown in NZ; apparently because “Barbeques aren’t part of the Kiwi Culture”. That was what I was told, anyway.
A new version of the earlier Finishing Sauce ad has been re-edited using unused footage from last year.
Trivia:
Otto’s neighbour looks sort of average height; actually he’s quite tall, Otto and his “missus” are gigantic:-)
The “sauna” in the Finishing sauce ads is mostly just some old corrugated iron sheets mounted on star posts. The steam is from a steam mop.
The “spa pool” was filled up by the local fire brigade. When all four of the actors got in for an initial shot, the water overflowed and they suddenly realized that there was no was way of re-filling it, so Otto’s “neighbour” had to spend most of the afternoon scrunched down out of shot as “ballast”!
The second day’s shooting was interrupted when a huge red-bellied black snake slithered out of some rocks.

By: Ripa

Ripa — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 01:49:24 +0000

hehe, pretty weird advert for me also. id say the first sentence “Coming from finland…” sounds about swedish.

By: Thunder

Thunder — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:32:40 +0000

… ok.. im finnish.. and those adds are just weird never seen those kinda stuff in here but.. maybe im just blind. and that guy sounded more like german to me

By: Wombat

Wombat — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 10:02:06 +0000

I’m an Australian and have lived in Finland for over 15 years. That ad of course in not shown in Finland but I have viewed the downloads. The accuracy of the the add is waaaaaay off. The mans accent is a gay Austrian with constipation and the landscape is definately not Finnish. Finland is flat as a pancake, only to be outdone by Holland in flatness. Having said that the landscape I suppose is meant to be in Australia if that is where they are living now. but I haven’t seen too many alpine cottages in Australia either. The only accurate thing about the whole add is that there is a beautiful blonde in it.. nothing more.

By: Lotta

Lotta — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:49:51 +0000

No, he isn’t

By: Annie

Annie — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 06:10:52 +0000

I love this ad!!!

I love to do the voices along with the ad (I live on my own lol)..

I wonder if the dude’s really Finnish?

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 27 May 2006 03:03:07 +0000

I love this ad! Here in NZ it’s been changed to “Coming from Finland to… land of funny woolly thing… we hardly see anything Finnish…”

Squeezy ad is great but not currently on-air here. Perhaps too much use of the word ‘Aussie’ to change? Would happily provide the voice if they wanted an overdub!

By: OniTora

OniTora — Fri, 19 May 2006 06:30:39 +0000

Here in Kiwiland, Otto and his Finish sauce ad makes me crack up every time! At work I put on the voice and do the ad in front of my work mates…. I know it will start to wear a bit thin before very long.

By: Julien

Julien — Mon, 15 May 2006 00:45:31 +0000

i like doing the squeezin with the misha