Moni kakku päältä kaunis.
This saying comes from the Finnish national epic Kalevala, where one of the main characters Lemminkäinen describes a piece of bread by saying “Many cakes are pretty from the outside…”.
He then continued by describing the insides of the bread as being like “silkko”. Silkko is a nasty bread that was eaten in Finland during the years of the famine (hunger years). It has no flour in it; it is made out of sour milk and parts of pine tree.
Today the saying is used mainly of people that seem nice but turn out not to be. It can also be used in describing a matter that turns out to be something completely different than thought.
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