I finally completed Evas tag. I am to write about 7 Danish foods I love and hate, but I don’t have 7 on either list. If you have read my earlier post, you will be surprised that my love list is longer.
THE YUMMY! YUMMY! HAPPY IN MY TUMMY LIST.
Danish foods I could move countries for.
1. Danish hot dogs! If only all men had this sausage in their pants. Err…Okay I wont go there, a clean blog and all. I could right Polse 7 times and get done with this list. I like it SO much.
Sausages with just the right tautness of skin, pickled gherkins, fried onions, a dash of mustard..mmm…food orgasm. My plan was to have a hotdog stand for my wedding reception. But ‘wannabe classy June’ won over ‘hotdog slave June’. Scratch the glittery surface of my acrylic nails and my champagne breath- you will find someone who likes nothing better than hotdogs and a chilled beer.
2. Pork roast with cracklings.
This is the reason our little family will eat together and stay together. The lovely relationship that I share with the boys mum and his father’s wife is based on a crispy and moist foundation of pork roast. Both ladies know how much I love it and always make it for me when I am visiting.
4. Pork tenderloin stuffed with parsley and cooked on a skillet. I am not sure if its Danish, but the boy cooks it for me. I love it. No pictures. But it looks like sushi, tender pink roll of meat with a green heart. It makes me wanna hide my boy in my pocket so no other girl can steal him and his culinary skills. You will notice that pork is a running theme here. Yes I eat like a construction worker. And yes, I make sweeping generalizations about construction workers and their food habits.
3. Risalamande: Rice pudding with crushed almonds, topped with cherry sauce. A dessert served for Christmas, it reminds me of Indian ‘kheer’. It is milky, nutty, gooey rice with a slight trace of vanilla. What’s there not to love? I love it even more for this game they play. A whole almond is sneaked into the pudding and the one who finds it gets a present. To eat and to win is like having your pudding and eating it too!
5. Danish Pastries- especially the ones with a sweet gooey heart and sprinkled with I dunno what seeds. I could eat them for breakfast and as a snack everyday.
6. Leverpostej- Pigs liver pate. What can I say, I am gross. Spread it on toast, sprinkle some lime juice, add some raw onions and its good to eat. But if you promise me foie gras I will happily skip it.
THE ME NO LIKEY LIST.
1. Rødkål, Some red cabbage crap. Dear Danes- it is a CABBAGE, no amount of adding sugar will make it more palatable. And adding vinegar to it simply makes its smell and taste like toxic waste. That its red or rather purple in colour does not make it fancy.
2. Rye effing bread: The worst thing since sliced bread. Good health is not worth eating bread that feels like sandpaper. Please give me today my white sliced bread. I will get fatter, die earlier but happier. See how ugly it looks.
3. Curry * BRB- I am taking some time out for a ROFL attack*. This Karry/ Curry is an affront to any nation that eats curry. A friend once made me meatballs in curry with green apples. GREEN APPLES! APPLES! Apples in CURRY! Someone cure them of this curry madness. They use some weird Indian curry powder which no one uses in India. It looks like sawdust, smells of Haldi- Turmeric and Dhania- Coriander and its colour looks like diarrhea after too much Daal/ lentil. They even have something called a curry sauce and use it like ketchup.
Yeh lo ji, khao Danish curry kacche gajar ke saath ha! ha!
4. If there is a red herring in food…it is the pickled herring. A red herring is an idiom referring to a device which intends to divert the audience from the truth or an item of significance. And that is exactly what pickled herring does. Rye bread sucks, so lets make it seem better by topping it with some herring. Silvery pieces of herring put on sand-papery rye bread, topped with CURRY SAUCE. Recipe for vomit.
Below is a pictorial representation of GROSS. Rye bread+ Curry Sauce + Herring. You cant see the herring.
I tag-
Mad Indian Mum in Norway to write on Norwegian food.
Australian housewife in India to write on Indian food.
Lithuanian girl In Bombay to write on Indian food.
Dane in Bombay to write on Indian food.
Seems to me that your love for pork will see you through the hard times in Denmark. My problem is I really hate pork- so that rules out pork and crackling, frikadella and leverpostej for me. I have slowly learnt to appreciate rye bread (start off with kartoffelrye bread, that makes it easier because its less dense) and I actually really like pickled herring. Meatballs in curry is almost insulting to serve to any Indian; I act like it doesnt exist. If you love them hotdogs so much, then cheap takeout is not a problem. I crave noodle soup on a daily basis.
I love pork. Its the only red meat I eat. I can’t swallow beef, lamb and ewww mutton. I find that beef always smells of a cow and mutton of a goat. I can SMELL the animals. It is so hard to get pork in Bombay, most supermarkets dont stock beef or pork. And going to a real butcher is something I will need a lot of courage for.
Hey June, here’s my list of Indian foods: http://www.whiteindianhousewife.com/2009/06/5-indian-foods-i-hate-and-love/
Ha ha. I just read how much you hated pickled herring, while I was coincidentally EATING it for lunch, he. No curry sauce though. Just rye bread (again, HA!), herring, mayo, loads of red onion and capers. DE-LISH!
LOl Jennie. Please eat more herring. I hope more people eat herring so there is none left for me. I hope all the worlds pickeld herring is eaten up soon and the world runs out of herring
OMG. I didn’t think of that before LOL of course the Indians would think meatballs in curry is an insult to the definition of curry itself LOL but anyway I find that it’s one of the not-so-many Danish food that actually taste of something LOL
@paula: Me too. If only there are bunch of noodle takeouts like in Southeast Asia (preferably roadside – they’re yummier LOL), I swear I wouldn’t complain about DK anymore
Ok, I gotta ask…you will eat levepostej but you do not like rugbrød?!?! That is crazy!
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I eat leverpostej on white bread. I find organs gross, but I like leverpostej though it makes me sick. Rye bread I think is an acquired taste. Having been brought up on bad white bread for so long, it is difficult to go back to a healthy bread.
I love Danish hot dogs and liverpaste too and can’t eat them now that I’m pregnant
It makes it hard to walk by the hot dog stands!
What? I am never getting pregnant.
I tried to make #2 but it wasn’t a success and I really like #6 too on your like list
And I also like #1 and #3 of your dislike list :p Something appealing about red cabbage.
Great pictures and based on the descriptions, I felt like I could taste them. Unfortunately this held true for the foods you don’t like. Very entertaining indeed!
WHAT !?!?!?!?!?!? You dont like our rye bread? Clearly there is something wrong with you.
Hi June, love love love your blog!! Cracks me up. Have been reading through the archives and stumbled upon this one. I live in the US, visit my Danish boyfriend every few months.
1. The first time I visited him, he served me leverpostej. When I asked what it was, because it tasted great, he said he didn’t know the English word for it. I ate it daily. Finally on the last day I said “you must look this up, I have to know what this is”. LIVER! EWWWWW!! BUT I HATE LIVER!!! Guess not…
2. I wasn’t a big fan of the rugbrød at first, also having been raised on delicate fluffy white bread. Now I can’t get enough of it, to an embarassing extent. Meaning, everytime the bf isn’t looking, I snarf down a few more pieces. Not that he’d care, he’d just make fun of me even more than he already does for my insane bread consumption. I have perfected my innocent face when he says “Hmmm…we’re out of bread already?”.
And now I’m tortured by my craving for rugbrød, all the way over here…damn.