5 Shocking Surprises about Danish Things / American in Denmark

[@TheChiefEng]

The "Danish"is called Wienerbrød in Danish or Viennese bread in English as a tribute to the bakers from Vienna who came to Denmark standing in for Danish bakers during a strike in the mid 1800s. The Wienerbrød known in Denmark today slowly developed from the methods shown by the Viennese baker to Danish bakers back then. The type of Wienerbrød in Denmark today is not exactly what you get in Vienna today. The Danish types slowly developed into what they are today due to Danish preferences conveyed to the Danish bakers over time, so in a sense, the Wienerbrød today is probably more synonymous with Denmark than with Vienna, but most foreigners don't know the history behind it.

[@SelvesteSand]

1850 exactly, actually. 🙂 But you can get Danish pastries in Vienna today, except in Austria it's called Copenhagenese bread. The Copenhagenese bakers who invented it after the 1850 strike did so by combining the Austrian layer technique with their own recipes. 🤓

[@luffegasen7711]

The reason it is called "danish", is because of a marketing stunt in the 1950'ies, where "wienerbrød" was promoted as Danish pastries.

[@SelvesteSand]

@@luffegasen7711 No, it's because they literally are Danish pastries, invented in Copenhagen in 1850. While it was named wienerbrød, an homage to the Austrian baking technique that inspired its creation, in order to make it sound exotic, the Austrians called it Copenhagener bread, and the rest of the world simply called it what it is, i.e. patries from Denmark. Read up on the national Danish bakery strike of 1850 if you doubt it. 🙂

[@luffegasen7711]

​@@SelvesteSand, that wasn't what I wrote ... It is called Danish in America because of the marketing stunt in the 1950'ies! I am FULL a wear of the history behind how it came to Denmark and why it is called "Wienerbrød" in Denmark.

[@NoctLightCloud]

strikes even back then, wow! People say Scandinavians are lucky for their priviledged work-life culture, but tbh they've earned it by fighting for centuries for it😅

[@henrikechers9995]

I had no idea that Pandora and Somersby was big outside Denmark...... The Snow Queen is much darker than Frozen. Hans Christian Andersons stories are often dark

[@tobiasvoncappelen7685]

Bluetooth is Danish, named from the Viking king "Harald Blåtand" 😊

[@henrikandersen3728]

And dont forget the logo, they are the Runes of H and B (from his name)...

[@Tom.T]

Bluetooth, was invented by the Swedish mobile phone brand Ericson, the reason why they guarded the name Blutooth, was that Harald Bluetooth a Danish king, there tried to unite the Nordic countries

[@pumpkinoverseer]

He had a blueish teeth i learned that i history class

[@thisaccountisnotinuse]

@@henrikandersen3728 yeah kinda nice

[@ElisaSarah]

@@pumpkinoverseer nope. That is a lie. Blaat tan. Meant pale skin Harald was pale.

[@Maridun50]

Well - did you know, Disneyland is heavily influenced by Tivoli? Walt Disney visited Tivoli several times - taking notes - before he created his own amusementpark in California.

[@MyNewDanishLife]

That is very true!!

[@gittebachmannappel8120]

Walt Disney was also inspired by Efteling in Holland before he created Disney World.

[@MyNewDanishLife]

@@gittebachmannappel8120 I would love to visit there. It looks really nice!

[@Solsortemor]

And I told everyone I could find in Disney World (FL.), that "Frozen" was based on "The Snowqueen" by H.C. Andersen... ha ha (back in 2015)!

[@MyNewDanishLife]

@@Solsortemor That is good! :)

[@ThomasEJensen_TEJ]

Well Google maps, was designed by two Danish brothers Lars and Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen, i Australia. Later Google bought it.

[@MyNewDanishLife]

Very neat.

[@jonasjensen3221]

Just waiting for that donut video! :D

[@larsjonstrup7288]

Dam Trolls is a danish creation from the danish island of Gjøl in Limfjorden, they are called "Gjøltrolde" in danish. DreamWorks made a couple of very successful animated "Trolls" movies recently... BTW love your videos 🙂

[@obelix244]

Creamchease in a "danish" really ? Seriously? If you mess with our "danish, we mess with your donut! - oh wait apparenly we already do lol

[@MyNewDanishLife]

OMG yes. LOL

[@KHValby]

LOL !!

[@KHValby]

LOL !!

[@DonFunk70]

Speakers (Peter L. Jensen, 1915) Insulin (August Krogh, around 1920) Tone Movies (Axel Petersen og Arnold Poulsen, around 1920) Aluminium (H.C. Ørsted in 1824) Storage of sound (dont recall when) Minesweaping plant ( A few years ago) Just to mention a few more ...

[@crustycobs2669]

My current name is 'Peterson', but it was 'Pedersen', my Danish great- grandfather was Marcus Pedersen. Maybe we are related!

[@DonFunk70]

@@crustycobs2669 The only familymember of my closely related family went to Seattle. I believe she maried a dentist. The rest of our family stayed home. Last year there was 151.592 with the name Pedersen here in Denmark.

[@Bjowolf2]

Tape recorder - Valdemar Poulsen. He called it a "telegrafon" (?) and used a steel wire for sound recordings, but the principle was the same. Electromagnetism - discovered by H. C. Ørsted, 1820 First powered flight in Europe - in a height of 2 feet 😂 ( tethered to a pole with a long wire ) - Jakob Ellehammer - 1906.

[@Bjowolf2]

@@crustycobs2669 Well, the surname Petersen / Pedersen etc. in Denmark & Norway is like Williams, Jackson or Jones in the US - you are part of mass movement 😉

[@catherinelloyd7602]

Well, to be precise Skype is partially danish at best. Skype was created by the Swede Niklas Zennström and the Dane Janus Friis, in cooperation with Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, Jaan Tallinn, and Toivo Annus, Estonians who developed the peer-to-peer backend that was also used in the music-sharing application Kazaa.

[@MyNewDanishLife]

Lots of cultures...for sure! :)

[@Sjaeff]

Kazaa was much more than music sharing, it was for every file. Napster was for Music-sharing only, but it was based on the same technology.

[@cholohd32]

"Bluetooth" is named after an old danish king "Harald Blåtand (Bluetooth)" but the actual tech was developed by Erricson in Sweden i think. Actually a HUGE number of US/English words origin from scandinavia (old norse aka old man from the north) as the vikings raided England & brought a lot of words with them & mange (many) are still nearly the same, like Kage (Cake), Kalde (Call), Kaste (Cast), Kravle (Crawl), dø (die), give (give), gæst (guest), husbond (Husband), kniv (knife), lav (low), skin (skin), til (till), trold (troll), indtil (untill), vindue (window), vægt (weight). There is the different pronunciation of cause. I wouldnt be surpriced if as much as a third or the words you use today is of viking origin. (at least the cake was not a lie, hehe).

[@permunkholmolesen1079]

Danish is Danish. It was created in bakery situated in Copenhagen. The bakery's nave was the Wiener Bakery, that's why it is called wiener bread in Denmark. In Austria it is called Copenhagener.

[@hguldmann]

I know you mentioned Lego is Danish we also have some "smaller" Danish companies such as Maersk, Nova, Danfoss, Grundfos, Vestas, Velux, which all operate in the US or most of the world .. Maersk has acquired department store company Performance Team, so basically because of that company will also danish .. if there is error in my information then it is 100% my error...I forgot Rockwool and Arla

[@olechristiansen8739]

Recently Rockwool changed their brand name i US and Canada from Roxull to Rockwool.

[@MyNewDanishLife]

Those aren't really known by many people in the USA, though. LEGO is everywhere. LOL ;)

[@renealbrechtsen9743]

Mærsk is one of the biggest shipping companies in the world. 😂

[@ulrikbro-jrgensen1542]

@@renealbrechtsen9743 It is the biggest.

[@MyNewDanishLife]

@@renealbrechtsen9743 That may be true, but I would not say it is a household name.

[@Hun73rdk]

A dane invented the speaker, a dane invented C++ programming language and is from aarhus

[@marmotsongs]

French pastries like croissants, brioches and pain au chocolat are not really from France, but also from Austria, like wienerbrød, In French they are called “viennoiseries” which means “things from Vienna”.

[@MyNewDanishLife]

Very interesting.

[@ThenameisNiels]

is gonna turn out, everything is from Austria:p

[@marmotsongs]

@@ThenameisNiels Apparently Danish bakers went on strike, so foreign scabs (strikebreakers) were brought in as replacements. They were from Vienna and made their Weinerbrød.

[@ThenameisNiels]

@@marmotsongs huh.... Ukui....

[@ThenameisNiels]

Nu kan jeg ikke andet, end at undre mig over, hvad det danske ord for "scabs" er..

[@danfrompc]

Neat video Kelly. In Ontario, Somersby is sold in liquor stores. I agree - it does taste good. :) I learned new information about Pandora, Frozen = Snow Queen, and that Skype was developed in Denmark. Here, most people call Weinerbrød - Danish pastry or simply Danish.

[@MyNewDanishLife]

Glad to help with the info! :)

[@KHValby]

So Kelly! Your also one of the "expats" I share on my "Facebook" ;-) ! Totally love you Videos ;-) ! We can't take full credit for SKYPE! The other half was Swedish :-) ! Yes! A Danish..., is NOT a Danish (LOL). But we've tweaked "Vienna" bread, and made it our own :-D ! Some years ago, my friend from Texas brought his daughter along! SO funny! She wanted a "Cheese" Danish :-) ! She was so disappointed when I had to tell her, there's NO such thing :-) ! If there is, it's American ;-) ! Hmmm ! I could see Cream cheese and pastry work well together :-) ! Take care!

[@MyNewDanishLife]

The second I don't mention it, someone would say, "you forgot SKYPE". I can never win!

[@KHValby]

LOL! Your damned if you do, and damned if you don't :-D :-D ! Did you know they (the same guys ) actually sold Skype twice (totally legal) ! No kidding.

[@Book-Keeper37]

"People are still being lied to!" Love it!! Had no idea about Pandora being Danish! Never noticed the drink here in the U.S. I only learned about Lego's roots in the last few months! Danish not being Danish?? My mom, uncle, and grandparents are lucky to not be around to hear of this sacrilege!!!

[@MyNewDanishLife]

It is just the hard truth! LOL

[@allansrensen5458]

Sorry, but it is not. Danish is in Denmark called Wienerbrød, That has to do with in the early 1800's there was a lack of bakers in (especially) Copenhagen. Some bakers from Vienna moved there and started bakeries. ONE of them made bread that was in 144 layers. It became popular and other bakeries started copying it.

[@SelvesteSand]

Danish patries really *are* Danish. 😊 They were invented by Danish bakers in Copenhagen 170 years ago. In 1850, there was a nation-wide strike among Danish bakers, and bakers from all over Europe went to Denmark to take advantage of the market with all demand and no supply. Copenhagen had particularly many Austrian bakers, and one of their Austrian pastries became a huge succes. When the strike ended and the foreign bakers went back home, Copenhagenese bakers got some of the Austrian bakers to teach them the techniques behind the Austrian pastry before leaving, i.e. the many layers of dough with butter between. They then combined this technique with their own recipes, inventing all-new pastries, which they named wienerbrød (Viennan bread) as an homage to the Austrians and as a way to make it sound exotic. The Austrians, in return, took the newly invented Danish pastries home with them, where they named them Copenhagenese bread, as they are still called in Austria today. 🤓 Beware, however, of the "onsdagssnegl" (Wednesday snail), which, while both Danish and a pastry, is a new thing and not a Danish pastry in the original sense. I've seen foreigners come to Denmark excited to try out "the real thing" and then go to the bakery famous for inventing the Wednesday snail, but that is by no means a real "Danish pastry" kind of Danish pastry. 😄

[@ietm1806]

Just like french fries are not french

[@Bjowolf2]

@@MyNewDanishLife Dont forget poor Danish folks having to suffer all the silly "Danish" jokes for many years when visiting the US. We really should sue them there Yanks for compensation in the multi-million $ class for all their "offensive" remarks 😂💵

[@citizenkane4831]

Love your Vlog. It deserves a thumbs up

[@MyNewDanishLife]

Thank you! :)

[@quizzina-50]

Trollbeads / Troldekugler is also danish, and have shops around the world. I guess you can say, that Pandora is a cheaper copy of Trollbeads.

[@MyNewDanishLife]

I don't know about the Trollbeads. Sounds neat.

[@anjajacobsen9739]

I love Trollbeads... Like Pandora - U can design a necklace or bracelace as U wish. There are lot of colours, themes: Trolls, sport, books etc. But there is also some who describe who U are.... I have one called: wisdom or knowlodge - is because I love to learn and red books. Then there is the seasons: winter, summer, fall and spring + christmas, Halloween, easter etc.

[@vanyabenedict9713]

These are all so great, thanks for the info :D gotta say I knew about HCA stories, especially when Frozen came out, people were talking all about it.. but just gotta say I laughed so hard when you said 'finally they came up with an original story!' That was fantastic, thanks for the laugh XD Anyways, most shocking to me was Skype! I had no idea about that either :0 my mom would use it alot to talk with people she was seeing in relationships overseas or in other states at times so I geuss I just assumed that it was from the US, as we're from the states XD I have a boyfriend myself who lives over there & we've talked about the Danish pastry thing so that wasn't too shocking as we already knew that by now XD but I'm like you, grew up calling them Danishes & figured they must've come from there so it was odd to find out they weren't when we talked about it XD kinda reminds me of the thing that's called Dutch Babies or German Pancakes too, my step-mom would make those when I'd be at my dad's house but it wasn't until I was talking to my bf that we found out those aren't really Dutch/German either! XD thank you for your insightful videos & enlightening topics, these help so much as me & my man may be in a similar situation in the coming years :) ^^)

[@Ettibridget]

You should check out the video Danish inventions here on KZbin.

[@larsboantonsen6319]

Kender man til Cocio i Amerika? (også dansk) Og så er operahuset i Sydney tegnet af Danske Jørn Utzon.

[@MyNewDanishLife]

Nej, Jeg har ikke hørt om Cocio i USA

[@lesliewhereflowersgo9864]

Nice video Kelly - Thanx!

[@martinpedersen1469]

you should read the Dryad by HC Andersen. and how many sommersby did you have?

[@Bjowolf2]

😂

[@coffyboy]

Loving thoughts to your family, and love your videos!

[@MyNewDanishLife]

Thank you so much!

[@klausjespersen]

The story behind the Vienna Bread is that there was a strike in the bakers guild many years ago. The bakery owners brought in Austrian bakers who off course had their baking traditions. And when the strike was customers requested some products they had liked. But the Danish bakers over time changed the recipe enough so that it became a new product. In Austria it's called Kopenhagener gebäck. So Denmark and Austria share blame on this one.

[@MyNewDanishLife]

Funny!

[@masterdimsen]

We have half a claim on the burger as well with Louis Lassen, a Dane who migrated to the US - his restaurant is still open, Louis' Lunch in New Haven CT

[@adamviettraunle1305]

8:36 i won't say it is the snow queen because the Frozen is very different. It's more like inspired by the snow queen.

[@MyNewDanishLife]

Ok. I will have to read the Snow Queen! :)

[@arty_527]

I’m danish but sometimes I don’t understand people that’s talking danish bc in Denmark you can talk Københavnsk, jysk osv and Its funny cuz In bigger country’s they don’t have that thing

[@MrChilidogdk]

Windows is actually a Danish invention back from the viking area. Many Thousand years later the Danish windows company has invented a roof windows and are well known all over the world as the Velux window.

[@EmilFoghVids]

Well, why aren't Bill Gates paying us for copyright then?

[@JacobMoen]

@@EmilFoghVids hehe :) The word window is from Norse "wind eye" and is the covered opening in a wall.

[@janhjorth965]

Somersby only pronounced in English..although a Carlsberg product, it never had a Danish pronunciation

[@MyNewDanishLife]

That is very interesting.

[@sine-nomine]

@@MyNewDanishLife The cider is named after a fictional "Lord Somersby", who was used in the commercials. We generally don't translate names of people.

[@MyNewDanishLife]

@@sine-nomine I had no idea. I never saw those commercials! :)

[@Bjowolf2]

@@MyNewDanishLife I had no idea either about Somersby being a Danish product, because the TV commercials were / are always in English - so I was fully convinced it was / is an English / British product.

[@benedicterauff8770]

Could you make a video about wired/shocking/hardest things about the danish language ?

[@MyNewDanishLife]

That would be a long video! :)

[@ElisaSarah]

Æ, Ø, Å. There, done.

[@benedicterauff8770]

@@MyNewDanishLife you could split the video to pieces😊

[@djmouglie]

About the Sommersby .. if anyone ever tries them in Poland be aware that their version is a special different kind with half beer half cider even though they look like the normal label but they do NOT taste normal. But i think in any other country its the normal cider version.

[@mele2814]

You are absolutely adorable and make me laugh! We are also Americans living in Denmark. I haven't tried Somersby yet and now I need to go buy some from the store today! Wow - Skype and Pandora - did not know that. However, the "Danish" pastry, I was aware of. Look forward to checking out your website blog. I've been enjoying your other videos as well. Please keep posting. :-) Tusind tak!

[@MyNewDanishLife]

Thanks so much! :)

[@tedwebber8241]

im suprise your telling all this stuff and i subscribe to ur channel love it❤️

[@thisaccountisnotinuse]

im pretty sure somersby is pronounced the same way in danish and american

[@kasperjensen363]

Hi Kelly, love your channel 👍 off topic here but do you make rice-crispies-snacks? I remember them from my trip to the US years ago. Marshmellow and rice-puff serial. Yum.. All so... Pop tarts.. Only in America I think... Is it because of the vertical toasters..? Just curious of your thoughts.

[@MyNewDanishLife]

I love rice krispies, but I don't make them that often. The marshmallows here don't taste the same for some reason. I never liked Pop Tarts, so I can't really say much about them, but I loved toasting my bagels in a toaster! :)

[@tobimobiv1]

Aldi and Netto has had poptarts this last week.

[@ane-louisestampe7939]

My son understands you! It was a chock of dimensions to him, that he couldn't get a French hotdog in France. Years after, when France was mentions, he just shook his head and said: They don't have any hotdogs!

[@dennissanfilippo8836]

They do have and that’s why we call them French hotdogs.

[@tobimobiv1]

@@dennissanfilippo8836 We call them French because of the baguette. There's also the hapsdog version. It's called that because it's not in a baguette but the disgusting softer one whith the sesame seeds on one side. Hopefully that version died with the DSB shops at train stations though.

[@dennissanfilippo8836]

@@tobimobiv1 We call them Fransk Hotdog because they invented it. This is common knowledge. You can Google it or just watch Olsen Banden where they eat one in Paris.

[@jameskavanagh4315]

Jeg har spiste en franske hotdog i Frankrig.

[@ane-louisestampe7939]

@@jameskavanagh4315 I understandnow they do indeed excist and we didn't look in the right places. Please don't tell my son ;-)

[@_sofie]

Sommerspy is danish?? :o what I had no idea the commercials really makes it seem like it’s an American product.

[@davg.2589]

Somersby was marketed as English cider in Denmark

[@dumvivimus]

Actually, in colonial America they drank alcoholic cider-it’s an old old tradition. I live 10 minutes from Angry Orchard, America’s cider producer. I do love the Scandinavian ciders though! The Danes are incredibly innovative! That’s what you get when you highly educate your entire population.

[@Nubianette]

Hehe! Fun video!

[@jackieolsen7707]

Did you know that Valdemar Poulsen and Peter L Jensen invented the loudspeaker and that the yeast that Carlsberg invented, is used by almost all breweries in the world. And that 700 english words originates in old Danish. Due to the Danish vikings conquering and settling in England.

[@MyNewDanishLife]

Very cool!

[@vinterm4]

Put JUST EAT on your list too

[@kellyasims]

I really thought you were going to say a skagen watch instead of Pandora. I don't get the hype about it but agreed, I too never realized that was Danish until recently.

[@MyNewDanishLife]

I never really saw Skagen that much in the USA. There was a store at the outlet mall, but that was the only one I ever saw. I actually have a Bering watch! ;)

[@danditto6145]

@@MyNewDanishLife Skagen is owned by the Fossil company headquartered in Texas. About as Danish as Hagen Daz; American company with a made up name.

[@finnjensendk9199]

I may add that Carmen Curlers was invented by a Dane named Niels Chr. Jørgensen and put into production in 1963 by Arne Bybjerg in Kalundborg (west sealand)

[@PalleRasmussen]

You need to visit the Normandy and try real cider. I say that as a Dane.

[@jandamskier6510]

you cannot compare these two at all.

[@PalleRasmussen]

@@jandamskier6510 Somersby claims to be cider, so it should be measured as such. With Kelly's sweet tooth pear cider would probably be the best for her, or Cidre bouche.

[@MyNewDanishLife]

Pear cider sounds great!

[@thomasborgsmidt9801]

Hmmm.... the story about Danish pastry is more complicated than that. The origin of the popularity is due to the danish diaries. Because the diaries could collect milk daily it meant that the quality of the butter could be higher and more consistent - that meant it could command a higher price on the export market. That gave a problem to the poorer people that could not obtain the low quality butter they could afford. The next step was to take natural oils and harden them (technically it is making a plant oil rank - which is again equivalent to making paint dry (harden)), for a frying substance or bread spread. I.e. margerine! The trick with respect to Danish Pastry is now that margerine has a different melting point from butter. If you try to make Danish Pastry from butter - well it can be done; but the result will not be up to expectation of that crisp and fluffy layered texture the bakers Danish Pastry has. But it kept the bakers employed. The next convolution was then the European Union that subsidised butter production, so the farmers all over Europe got some other cows that produce a lot of milk - and by a lot, I mean a LOT. This milk was converted into butter and sold to the intervention storage. The EU now had a problem about what to do with all the butter, which was sold off for exports outside the EU at a discount price. Gave a lot of rail transport back and forth. The alternative was to process the butter into butter-oil. Sort of claified butter. That is the fat that goes into Danish Butter cookies. A bit of marketing and a nice tin box profiled it as a luxury product on the export market. As the ingredients are just sugar, flour and butter-oil the raw materials are dirt cheap. What you pay for is the pakageging. You can make these cookies at home, but it will not be same - just as good, but not the same. Especially in the southern parts of Denmark: When you are invited for a cup of coffee. Well, it is an opportunity for the hostess to show off her baking skills, so there is generally about a dozen different types of cookies. Decorum now dictates you eat politely of the first one or two types and then say "well, I really shouldn't". The host then starts to prod you: "Just try one more type!" Which you reluctantly do. One thing you DON'T do is going hog-wild and gorge yourself in the beginning. The end result will be (as everybody expects) that you have tried all the types and are stuffed like a Thanksgiving Turkey. It is impolite not to, as it will provoke the comment, that you obviously don't like what is being served.

[@MyNewDanishLife]

That is a lot of info about a pastry! :) Thanks for that!

[@Cta2006]

I first heard of wine cooler when I was in the US in the late 80's .... Thought it was just an 80's thing and not something that still was a thing in the US.

[@geoffpriestley7001]

A wine cooler in the uk is a fridge to cool the wine . Or an ice bucket but not been a wine drinker its not something I come across

[@susilauridsen7779]

Jacob A Riis is danish to. More Americans know him than danish people do. He was the guy who took pictures of poor people in new York with flash photography. He did this at the start of the century. And America made big social changes. I'm from the same town as Jacob that's why I know him. It took me meeting an American to know how important he was. Mind blown🤣

[@MyNewDanishLife]

Yes...I've been to Ribe too! ;) LOL That is the only way I know who he is, but then again, I don't know much about NYC.

[@susilauridsen7779]

@@MyNewDanishLife. I thought everyone in America leaned about him in school. New thing leaned.

[@janharald1714]

Bluetoot is a Danish creation too

[@sismofytter]

Intel

[@janhjorth965]

No...but named after a Danish Viking king..Harold Blåtand. The Bluetooth logo is the Viking rune alfabet letters for H and B pulled together.

[@steenbronkegmail1]

@@janhjorth965 Because "Harald Blåtand" brought the people together. That's why they called it Bluetooth because it brings people closer together.

[@olechristiansen8739]

Bluetooth was developed by the swedish company Ericsson.

[@Gert-DK]

@@olechristiansen8739 I am not sure about Ericsson, but I am sure BT is Swedish

[@karenschafer2827]

My Danish father always said that “Danish” is called French pastry or Vienna pastry in Denmark. Of course he was talking about “old Denmark” because he was born in 1905 and came to the US in 1930.

[@MyNewDanishLife]

Very neat.

[@AshtonishingJelly]

It's true, as you say in the video too, that we call it "vieana bread".. BUT, it's not total lie, that they are called "danishes", In the US. At least as fare as I recall, it's WAS danish bakers, that brought it to the US. And I think, that maybe the danish bakers had their own take on the vieanna tequnique of making bread/cake. So I kind of think, that it's actually not such a lie at all.. But it IS ironic that we call it vieanna bread, and you call it danish.. Also hey, how interesting would "danish bread" be in DK? 😆 that would just sound like normal bread. When you have some new bread or cake, you have to make it sound special or ecxotic, so people buy it! 😆 So funny as it is! I wouldn't call it a direct lie 😉😄

[@SelvesteSand]

@@AshtonishingJelly You're pretty much spot on. Copy-paste of my other comment: They were invented by Danish bakers in Copenhagen 170 years ago. In 1850, there was a nation-wide strike among Danish bakers, and bakers from all over Europe went to Denmark to take advantage of the market with all demand and no supply. Copenhagen had particularly many Austrian bakers, and one of their Austrian pastries became a huge succes. When the strike ended and the foreign bakers went back home, Copenhagenese bakers got some of the Austrian bakers to teach them the techniques behind the Austrian pastry before leaving, i.e. the many layers of dough with butter between. They then combined this technique with their own recipes, inventing all-new pastries, which they named wienerbrød (Viennan bread) as an homage to the Austrians and as a way to make it sound exotic. The Austrians, in return, took the newly invented Danish pastries home with them, where they named them Copenhagenese bread, as they are still called in Austria today. 🤓 Beware, however, of the "onsdagssnegl" (Wednesday snail), which, while both Danish and a pastry, is a new thing and not a Danish pastry in the original sense. I've seen foreigners come to Denmark excited to try out "the real thing" and then go to the bakery famous for inventing the Wednesday snail, but that is by no means a real "Danish pastry" kind of Danish pastry. 😄

[@thomaskroyer3468]

I have not seen ARLA on the west coast here, but we do see HARIBO candy EVERYWHERE!

[@hellegosch9006]

Haribo is from Germany

[@SelvesteSand]

@@hellegosch9006 Well, yes, but actually no. The mother company is German, but they have a Danish branch formed from buying an old Danish candy company in Fakse. Most of their candies sold in Denmark are Danish originals pre-dating Haribo ownership, such as Pesetos, Piratos, Labre Larver, Lakridsæg, Pepito (formerly Pinocchio-kugler), Eucalyptus, etc., while the most well-known mixed bags, like Matador-mix, Stjerne-mix, and Top Star Mix, albeit post-Haribo, are Danish-branch originals. Even the few Haribo candies in Denmark that are originally German, such as Ferskner (Peaches) are produced in Denmark for the Scandinavian market in a different version, as are Danish originals produced by the German mother company in a different version for the international market. The German versions are softer and sweeter. Other Danish originals now owned and produced by foreign companies include e.g. Skolekridt, Tyrkisk Peber, and Skipper's Pibes (aka lakridspiber).

[@Gissedk]

The bluetooth technology is also a Danish invention - named after Harald Blåtand (Bluetooth)

[@MrFlyveskalle]

No , it's actually Swedish , it was invented by Ericsson...😊

[@thoso1973]

A lot of Disney fairytales are actually based on pre-existing litterature, not least dark themed European fairytales. And I mean dark! Some of these have no happy endings, as found in their Disney counterparts. :)

[@postmads1974]

Bluetooth is danish named after a former king Harald Blåtand. Blåtand translated is blue tooth. Harold Bluetooth excelled in diplomatic negotiations and therefore the link is communication.

[@MyNewDanishLife]

Very cool.

[@MrFlyveskalle]

It's true that Bluetooth is named after the danish viking , but it was invented by Ericsson so it's actually swedish...😊

[@Simpopcorn]

Your danish pronounsment (????) is how we danes say it. It taste great and is a really teenager drink for parties or graduation ☺️

[@extract]

OTA Solgryn (oat grits), the most Danish breakfast you can imagine, was owned by Quaker Oates, USA.

[@jakobraahauge7299]

They used to be made in the local town, Nakskov, when I was a kid! There was a ryebread factory too - it smelled just wonderful when you came to town in morning!

[@MyNewDanishLife]

Quaker Oats is very big in the USA. I miss their granola bars. :)

[@MyNewDanishLife]

@@jakobraahauge7299 That would be a nice smell. :)

[@miametz7912]

Sorry but in Danish.: Havregryn ( oat grtfts) har været en del af danskernes kost siden vikingetiden, hvor havre, rug og var en del af grundkosten. Byg blev også høstet dog primært til ølbrygning og fodder til husdyr...man kan finde havre allerede i jernalderen....så selvom Solgryn nu ejes af Quaker Oates i USA. er det ikke en Amerikansk opfindelse...

[@jakobraahauge7299]

@@MyNewDanishLife Mouthwateringly nice! Even if you'd just had breakfast, you got in mood for something baked! 😍

[@8bitbender495]

you seem interested in H.C. Andersen, his hometown is in Odense ;-) they have museum with H.C. Andersen, and the center of Odense has traffic lights with him on

[@MissG85]

Cocio is Danish, many think it’s American, but nope. Developed and produced in Denmark originally, then sold to a US company, where it was heavily advertised for years, and then bought back to Denmark by Arla, which now owns the recipe and produces it in Denmark. But, many still thinks it is American. 🤷‍♀️

[@MyNewDanishLife]

I haven't ever seen it in the USA. We have our own brands of chocolate milk (or things that are like chocolate milk).

[@MissG85]

@@MyNewDanishLife it is no longer on the shelves in US. I don’t remember the timing for when it was pulled from the US market, but 10+ years I’m sure.

[@Maridun50]

"Danish" is Danish,. Copenhagen bakers learned the technique on how to make it inabout 1843 - however all the varieties of different kinds - snails, spandauers with raspberry jam or remonce ( "The baker's sick eye), combs, cuts, rosebread, mayor's stick, and so on are Danish. In Austria, Danish pastry is lovingly called Danish Plunder ........

[@MyNewDanishLife]

But what about the kinds we have in the USA? I don't really see those here.

[@Maridun50]

@@MyNewDanishLife I don't know the kinds you have in the US. I found that when I had "Danish" there, it wasn't at all like the wienerbrød, I knew.

[@zakstargaser5644]

Hi Kelly. Do you know that the two very American things, Mount Rushmore and the Burger is infact creaded/invented by Danes ? 🙂 Gutzon Borglum creaded Mount Rushmore from 1927-1941 and Louis Lassen invented the Burger in 1895 in New Haven.

[@anettebrugge4098]

Now most Americans know about Danmark, they all seen VIKINGS on HBO 😂😂🇩🇰💪🏿😂

[@thoso1973]

... which ironically mostly takes place in Norway and England. :)

[@SelvesteSand]

@@thoso1973 No, it takes place mostly in Denmark. That area just isn't part of Denmark anymore, but was back then. The protagonists are Danes. However, it is odd that they apparently also had mountains in Jutland...

[@ankra12]

@@SelvesteSand 😂😂😂

[@noobgamerbo2773]

well theres dicussions if french fries are from belgium germany or france

[@anyway00001]

If you got drunk in Somersby, you will always be reminded of the taste, when you have one another day

[@emilandersen2195]

Somersby was all the hype back in the late 00's up til maybe 2012. Has since dwindled considerably.

[@sorensanderskov]

I'm sure a lot of comments will tell you that 1) yes, Disney credited HC Andersen for Frozen but 2) there's absolutely nothing from his story in the movie :-)

[@dennissanfilippo8836]

That’s 99% of Disney movies.

[@jameskavanagh4315]

@@dennissanfilippo8836 that’s 99% of Hollywood’s “true stories”! 😂

[@MyNewDanishLife]

Then, can you really say that it is HC's story? I will have to read the original to learn what it is all about.

[@HPMICHAEL]

I have to write some very important comments. I AM Danish myself. You have to say in The video, that Danish, like Danish pastry, is from Danmark! Because. You have to explaine more about it. If you ever one Day go to Austria with your family, there in The Capital of Vienna/Wien they call it: Kopenhagener Brot, bread of Copenhagen. Okay! Look at the video from SAS, SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES, they will show you that like everything from the north in Europe is NOT from there! But we got things from abroad, like People came to the North and went south after some mouth or you can say, the Vikings traveled a lot and got many things the liked and brung back home to the north. But some of Them just stayed in The south like Turkey, the Middle east, Great Britain, Iceland! Spain, Portugal, Hungary! Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia, etc. thats why there even they still have few People Who have slighty blond hair with blue eyes,

[@hoxoh123]

How about Blue-tooth?

[@MrMartinSchou]

I don't know how popular they are in the US, but remember the bags you use to make ice cubes? These things: www.bagglove.com/ice-cube-bag/ Danish invention.

[@jakobraahauge7299]

Really? I love those - the ones that make hearts in particular! 💙

[@MyNewDanishLife]

I'm not sure I know about those.

[@hamborg2]

I was like 30 years old when i tastet Peanut Butter. I was totally freaked out😳😳💥🤬. A great shok it was salty, I think it was some very sveet stuf😂😂💥

[@MyNewDanishLife]

Very funny! :)

[@larshalskovalbrechtsen7455]

HeY: "Bluetooth" is Danish to.

[@jetteramsey9292]

The Danish started when the bakers were on strike,so a lot of bakers from Austria came to work in Denmark!

[@machdk]

Can you elaborate on the donut thing? Im a sucker for DD myself... Is DD the real Donut..?

[@MyNewDanishLife]

DD is not a real donut. LOL There are so many different types, shapes and flavors in a real donut shop. Man, I miss that!

[@machdk]

@@MyNewDanishLife a real donut shop.... interesting...

[@MyNewDanishLife]

@@machdk Try this video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2GcqWyjjKaYY7s

[@machdk]

@@MyNewDanishLife Hell Yeah! :-)

[@janharald1714]

An gogle maps too

[@MyNewDanishLife]

I didn't know about that either! :)

[@lhpl]

I was just going to say that - the two guys who made it are brothers, and they enrolled in computer science at the university at the same time I did, in 1987. Nice chaps, with very sharp brains.

[@Glaaki13]

Congrats on the 14 years and hopeful many more

[@MyNewDanishLife]

Thanks! :)

[@mangelpaaideer]

We are not the ones, who called them danish'es, as you said: we call them wienerbrød.

[@Glaaki13]

I Know Bluethooth is named after a danish viking king Harald Blåtand and use the nordic runes

[@MyNewDanishLife]

I just heard about that too. Very interesting!

[@kellyasims]

You crack me up "we are still being lied too!" Yeah my husband set me straight on that not long after I moved.. I'll still take a cream cheese danish. :)

[@MyNewDanishLife]

Pineapple were and still are my favorite! :)

[@thomasroedgaard117]

When I was 14 in 1986 I was told by an American that WWF wrestling was real :-D

[@MyNewDanishLife]

That is hilarious.

[@BONKSHLOB]

We do have mokai in denmark

[@persimonsen8792]

When i was a kid, growing up, my father (faroese), heard The Beatles all the time. And i thought that they were faroese. Boy ! was i wrong.

[@MyNewDanishLife]

That is funny! :)

[@clavillesen]

The danes invented the game Handball. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handball And Jacob Gade, the composer of Tango jalousie was a dane kzbin.info/www/bejne/e32ni2ltoNCMnK8

[@Drescher1984]

I agree, the Danish donut game is poor. You can get some okay mini donuts from something that looks like a old school hot dog wagon/stand. So there might be a way to rent one for your birthday or July 4th :-D

[@MyNewDanishLife]

Interesting idea!

[@stellaoware4528]

LOL!!!! The only thing I didn't know about is Skype, but then again, I'm a Danish (multiple) repat, so I'm kinda self-trained eagle-eyed for Danish items outside of Denmark. And also, the descendants of HC Andersen really should be getting a TONNE of roralties from Disney (and so many other companies) for their movies and merch :D ok just kidding, but really, there are sooooo many Disney movies that are based on his art.

[@janhjorth965]

There were no descendants to HCA. He is believed to have remained single throughout his life.

[@stellaoware4528]

Not direct, no. I I do believe they have a system in place for those who have no known children, much in the same way as with an inheritance case.

[@jameskavanagh4315]

Welcome to life outside the US kelly😄

[@MyNewDanishLife]

I have been traveling outside the US for over 25 years. But Denmark is something else. LOL Seriously, Denmark is like another planet! :)

[@jameskavanagh4315]

@@MyNewDanishLife I wouldn’t say another planet, but the culture and way of thinking takes a little time to adapt to😊.

[@Cta2006]

Frozen is a HCA story, but did you know that the story takes place in Norway ?

[@maarteen89]

What about bluetooth :) the name is from an danish viking called Harald Blåtand(Harald Bluetooth)

[@lainightwalker5495]

lol im loving it. i dident know the skype thing. pretty cool

[@MyNewDanishLife]

Thanks.

[@poulmadsen7969]

I have never heard of Somersby, he he

[@MyNewDanishLife]

Now, you will probably see if every time you go to the grocery store. LOL :)

[@jakobraahauge7299]

I love Frozen - but my all time favourite Disney movie is The Emperor's New Groove! Also based on an Andersen story! 😄🎉 Having moved back to the countryside from Copenhagen I could totally relate to being one of those obnoxious city type people, with spinach horns and oozing with vanity! I think anyone in Kelly's situation can relate to having energetic kids 😂 My family absolutely loved making fun of me, somewhat on the brink of a fit needing to do the dishes! 🤣 And only one song! Besides "Let it go" my least favourite part of the Disney traditions!

[@MyNewDanishLife]

I loved the Little Mermaid. Fantastic songs in that one if you ask me! :)

[@jakobraahauge7299]

@@MyNewDanishLife The Little Mermaid, I must admit, has wonderful songs 😙👌🏼 "Under The Sea" is an absolute classic! Under all circumstances I think it's fair to say that Disney is the Andersen of our says - globally loved children's stories told, that will be wonderful even in a hundred years! Snow White and Pinocchio are still amazing movies and I think they'll be a 100 years old soon 🤗

[@tobimobiv1]

@@jakobraahauge7299 Not trying to nit not pick. But that would make Disney the Brothers Grimm of our days. As they simply collected talea and compiled them. Whereas HC. Andersen wrote his own.

[@jakobraahauge7299]

@@tobimobiv1 What a clever observation! I'd still argue the celeb status of Disney is more similar to that of Andersen than The Grimms, but it is a very interesting idea, tho. Really looking forward to the upcoming "Raya and the last Dragon" I am not sure what it is parafrase, I think it's modern reinterpretation more than a 1:1 reiteration of any particular tale. As could be said about the other Disney versions - it isn't for nothing that some talk about disneyfication, as Disney does have a very distinct way of building narratives so they make a nice movie. But that could be soon as very Grimm too, I guess! Andersen did ude a plethora of narrative formats - but like Disney his body of work does span more than one literary period and the whole experimentation with transition in between. Looking forward to hear what others would have of perspectives when it comes to, well, comparing comparisons! Thanks for sharing your very keen observation - I find it as interesting as insightful! What a lovely topic! I hope you'll share if you have more input that could broaden the discussion!

[@juliamorales6620]

I guess Danes don't like the extra publicity associated with their inventions. Hopefully they have their trademarks registered.

[@j.p.ricard9479]

I am pretty sure that the companies have there trade marks registration, but I think the philosophy of not playing on it being Danish might have something to do with the fact that you might sell a lot better and easier when the local consumer likes the Produkt and not the origin And I am sure that for example Summersby is made locally in the Us under license to Carlsberg.

[@emilsmadvlogs5879]

The thing about sommersby cider It's probably because they own the rights to produce it in Denmark, just as they own the rights to produce coca Cola I might be wrong tho Edit: I guess I was wrong

[@PalleRasmussen]

You are wrong, it is invented and produced by Carlsberg. That took only typing "Somersby wiki" in Google to learn, so about a fifth of the time it took me (and presumably you) to comment.

[@lhpl]

@@PalleRasmussen And when they started selling it, they had the most annoying TV commercials, inventing a fictional back-story for it. In my opinion it is a terrible pseudo-hard-cider. I recommend proper English hard cider. Westons or Strongbow are widely available and nice and dry.

[@PalleRasmussen]

@@lhpl I prefer Norman cidre bouche, but English is good as well. I have not watched TV since before Somersby, so I cannot say.

[@lhpl]

@@PalleRasmussen you haven't missed too much. :-)

[@jameskavanagh4315]

Nope, completely danish by Carlsberg

[@wncjan]

I always try to taste local hard cider when visiting USA

[@MyNewDanishLife]

That isn't very popular in the US. I only first tried it in Denmark. We have so many other drinks we are known for. LOL :)

[@wncjan]

@@MyNewDanishLife Your'e probably right, but I see it a lot in the towns neat Brushy Mountains in North Carolina, so maybe it's a NC speciality?

[@johnphillipstevensen3490]

My biggest shock would be the crime, gangs, narcotics, meth labs, and lack of police intervention. I live in Fredericia where we have a methamphetamine lab, owned by a criminal gang, boldly operating out of public housing on Dronnigensgade. Meanwhile, Fredericia politicians, police and housing authorities do nothing, despite repeated written notifications. It's jungle law here in Fredericia, and in many Danish cities.

[@MyNewDanishLife]

That is just sad when law enforcement doesn't know what enforcement means. It is only going to hurt the communities. :(

[@SteffenMC]

On Danish Wienerbrød In Vienna if you go to a bakery to order a Danish you ask for a Kopenhagener so more austrian is it not

[@Charming1322]

The snow queen in the first Narnia movie is based on H.C Andersens story called Snedronningen (The Snow Queen)

[@claesmansson9070]

Think person means Snedronningen!

[@MyNewDanishLife]

Ok. I haven't seen that movie. I did read the book a long time ago, though.

[@Charming1322]

@@MyNewDanishLife I haven't read the book either, but I'm guessing she's the same villain in the book as the movie

[@crosscastle100]

French pastry is a gift from the Austrians

[@MyNewDanishLife]

Funny! :)

[@karsten27027]

I'm Danish. I did not know Sommersby was Danish. I thought it was German.