Originally Posted by TrainPreferred
After all it's a commercialized form of something even more Finnish, frying sausages on a campfire on a forest camping trip or after a sauna with a good beer. It just doesn't get more Finnish than that!
Oh, I would thoroughly recommend frying sausages after a sauna with a good beer. But at grill kiosks, 99% of the time the food is nasty and overpriced, and getting it involves long queues in unpleasant weather with unpleasantly drunk people.
If it's "real Finnish food" you want, without any foreign imports or fancy-schmancy affections, there are an increasing number of restaurants catering to it, some already mentioned here: Ravintola VPK and Kahvila Suomi in Helsinki both come to mind. At these you can get a whole meal for the price of one meat pie with the works at a snagari.
If you want to strike a compromise, Finland's markets (eg. Kauppatori in Helsinki) always have stalls selling meat pies, sausages and cold pints of milk. Tampere's Tapolantori, in particular, is famous for its black (=blood) sausage
mustamakkara. The catch is that, like most "real" markets, you have to get there morning-ish before they sell out and close down...