In Finland, convenience foods have quite a long history. The first such foods may have been blood pancakes. They were manufactured by Lihakunta's Iisalmi convenience food kitchen in the 1930s.Things began to look up for Lihakunta and Itikka towards the end of the 1930s. Meat processing was stepped up. Sausages were highly valued products – they were more expensive than unprocessed meat. With the technology available at the time, making sausages involved a lot of work.
The entire nation was affected by the war. Meat was still available during the Winter War. Refugees from Karelia were forced to slaughter their livestock, which resulted in a temporary increase in the supply of meat. Animals had to be slaughtered in field conditions right on the new border. The carcasses were then transported onwards to organisations such as Lihakunta and Itikka for the next stages.Motorisation promoted the flourishing industrial operations of Lihakunta and Itikka.
When the sausage factory is completed in Itikanmäki in 1937, it is stated with pride that the factory meets the most exacting requirements. After the mid-1930s, the factory area actually begins to look like a factory.The first Sibylla hot-dogs were made in the sausage factory of Oskar Lithells in 1932. During the next decades the "royal taste" of Sibylla aroused everybody in Sweden to queue for Sibylla, as you can see in this photo from 1960's.