Transcript of “Poronkusema”
We were talking earlier about picturesque ways to measure distance, and apparently there’s an old Finnish tradition of poronkusima, which is something that translates as reindeer pee.
And it has to do with the fact that reindeer supposedly have to take a bathroom break every six or seven miles or so.
Oh, so that’s the distance between bathroom stops for a reindeer.
Yeah, yeah.
I kind of measured distance that way on road trips myself.
Reindeer known as caribou in North America usually.
That’s right.
Yeah, I lost that.
I play the Learned League trivia, and I actually missed that question, so it’s stuck in my brain.
