Breaking Bread with the Vikings

So I figured I should tell you about the Danish food, since food is a major factor in a country’s culture.

Dinner:

A traditional Danish dinner consists of boiled potatoes or rice, and you cover it with some sort of sauce (They love their sauces over here) and have some sort of meat with it. There might be a vegetable, there might not, but for the family I live with, this is 80% of the home cooked meals. It’s rather good, and not to weird. One night they did serve me the intestines of some animal which unfortunately I saw while it was in he pot uncooked. It looked like a hideous giant gray worm that wanted to eat me. It looked better after being cooked and tasted good.

Lunch:

After the language thing, lunch is the hardest thing for me to adjust to. For lunch you pull out a loaf of this dark dark bread, that seems less bread and more whole grains that compressed together. we don’t have it in america but if we did I think it’s mere presence would drop America’s average weight by 2 pounds it’s that healthy. It doesn’t taste bad, but it doesn’t taste good either, you just kinda eat it. And then you bring out a whole array of meats, cheeses, and other random things to put on the bread. You take one piece of bread´, and put one piece of meat on top, then use a knife and for to eat it. I once tried to put a piece of meat and cheese on the same slice of bread and everyone looked at me like I was doing somehing wrong. One of their favorite things to put on the bread is liver-paste which can be kinda nice especially if you get the one with bacon. But then they have this herring stuff that makes me gag everytime someone opens the jar. The lunch isn’t too bad to eat, it just gets old and monotonous quick and you want something more to spice it up, but no, it’s more health bread.

Breakfast:

Breakfast isn’t bad, it’s mainly toast with butter, cream cheese, jam, or chocolate….. They also have a wide selection of American cereals, and another common breakfast is yogurt with granola mixed in. I’m not a big fan of breakfast anyways so whatever.

Junk food:

The Danish people love hotdogs. but it is a much different system. If you are on the street and you order a hotdog, you get the meat next to a almost bun, but the bread is way too small and it doesn’t have a slit in it for the hotdog. You just pick up the hotdog with your hands and eat it, then the bread. And this is practically the only thing Danes don’t use a knife and fork for. They also have a huge array of condiments, we have 10 different kinds at the soldier home. (But only 2 salad dressings i don’t get it). That is unless you order a French hotdog (not actually from France, kinda like french frys) where they take a small baguette and hollow out the middle and shove the hotdog down inside. It is the most amazing system, all the joy of a hotdog, nearly no chance of a spill. I think i needs to be brought to America.

And they have a lot of pizzas here. All their pizza is made my middle easterns, so kebab is always a choice. But they have thin crust pizzas, and all the pizzas come with atleast 4 toppings. You just look through the list and find the combination of toppings that best suits you and order that one. Much different than the 2.50 extra per topping.

They also buy a lot of bagged candy. And they are all different mixes of gummy candies, that everyone has in little bowls in their living rooms.

Well that pretty much covers it for the normal foods. I’ll get into the holiday foods later, that will take a long time to go over since it is quite different, and I’ve already gone on long enough. But seriously potato chips in a glass bowl at Christmas dinner, I don’t get it. I love you all and I hope you get a chance to come over and experience it for yourself.

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