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5. Ice cream factory & lab

	Fortunately nothing black (lye) was dripping from the ceiling, despite this warning.
	Reels of butter stickers with russian text bring memories of bilateral trade era, which had just ended when the dairy was closed for good.
	This pipe jungle is another acid/lye room. Some stuff was dripping from the pipes, maybe just water but we didn't try to find out.
	Beware the acid.
	Continuing from basement to the staircase. At this point you could hear distant music..
	Ground floor in the staircase provided a surprise. Lit lavatory, and music behind a door. It must have been the plywood retailer operating in former dispatch department who was too lazy to ever turn off the radio.
	Well, who cares, here seems to be the ice cream department..
	Valio ice cream advertising freezer, model 1960's?
	A selection of packages, including Donald Duck special ice cream.
	Ice cream production has taken place in a dark, now-messed room.
	Darkness is caused by brand new plywoods over window holes. It also seems that there is a problem with the roof.
	Ice cream factory's light switches.
	And a few more; "they don't make 'em like this any more"
	I suppose this large piece of machinery could be the ice cream super-cooler. It reserves about a third of the ice cream production hall.
	Vanilla and cherry stamps all around this wall. Also a dark graffiti appears here.
	Ice cream department contains naturally a large cold store. Asbestos tapes kept one door strictly closed.
	At the other side of the totally closed door.
	The slogan "Val¡os's new ice cream winds" sounded particularly ironic, since it was just a few weeks before this trip that Val¡o had sold their remaining ice cream business to a notorious Swiss food company...
	Office of this department, very empty.
	Green Saimaa ringed seal ice cream!
	Another local speciality; Mikkeli ice cream. Now this must be old stuff, like at least 40 years.
	The oldest existing structure of the city, a stone sacristy from 16th century decorates other side of the vintage ice cream package.
	The strawberry flavour came from bottle.
	Sweet advertisement.
	Before it gets too creamy, we continue onward.
	From a big dairy we naturally find a laboratory. It was emptied with the command of this sticky note attached to the doorway, but not quite completely.
	Lab has employed several people, that's obvious. The premises are spacy.
	The ethanol bottle contains another reference to the formerly mentioned Kubrick movie: 23/7 !!
	Ehh... Did something go wrong with the quality control tests? Or is this result of something, that the laboratory worker had always wanted to try and eventually did, on the last working day?
	Emergency dusch reappears.
	Abandoned glassware in some kind of heating cabinet.
	Nice to find this stuff unsmashed, what would be the reason for this?
	More lab glass.