Editing Tampere (section)

=== Food ===

[[File:Mustamakkara2019.jpg|alt=|thumb|''[[Mustamakkara]]'' ("black sausage"), a speciality food from Tampere, is typically consumed with lingonberry jam.]]

[[File:Chicken wings meal at Siipiweikot.jpg|thumb|right|Tampere claims to be the "wings capital of Finland", consuming almost half of the [[hot wings]] in Finland. The restaurant chain [[Siipiweikot]] originates from Tampere. Almost half of the chicken wings sold in Finland are eaten exclusively in Pirkanmaa.<ref name=yle_2012-08-10/>]]

A local food speciality is ''[[mustamakkara]]'', which resembles the [[black pudding]] of northern England and blood sausages around Europe. It is a black sausage made by mixing pork, pig's blood and crushed rye and flour and is stuffed into the intestines of an animal. It is commonly eaten with [[lingonberry]] sauce. Especially [[Tammelantori]] square in the district of [[Tammela, Tampere|Tammela]] is known for its ''mustamakkara'' [[kiosk]]s, as well as [[Laukontori]] in center.<ref name=helsinkitimes_2012_11_08/>

A newer Tampere tradition are ''munkki'', fresh sugary doughnuts that are sold in several cafés around Tampere, but most traditionally in [[Pyynikki observation tower]].<ref name=visittampere_munkki/>

One of the specialties of Tampere's local [[barbecue]] dishes include the [[peremech]] (pärämäts in Finnish), based on traditional [[Tatars|Tatar]] food. It is a pie reminiscent of [[Karelian pasty]] with seasoned [[ground meat]] inside.<ref name=linkosuon_kahvilat/><ref name=vuosara/>

In the 1980s, in addition to ''mustamakkara'' and barley bread, the old parish dish of Tampere was also called a potato soup, home-made [[small beer]] (''kotikalja''), a sweetened lingonberry porridge and a [[sweetened potato casserole]] (''Imelletty perunalaatikko'').<ref name=kolmonen/>

Since 1991, the two-day [[fish market]] event (''Tampereen kalamarkkinat'') in [[Laukontori]] attracts as many as 80,000–100,000 visitors in year, and is held both in the spring on ''[[vappu]]'' and in the autumn on Tampere Day.<ref name=kalatalo/><ref name=visittampere_kalamarkkinat/>