🇩🇰 American Couple Reacts to Weird DANISH CHRISTMAS Things to Foreigners Living in Denmark

[@annikamarjatta]

There is no legal drinking age in Denmark, only legal buying age. For alcohol below 16,5%, the legal buying age is 16 and for anything above 16,5% it's 18 years. At restaurants and bars, the buying age is also 18. But there is no legal drinking age. You are basically allowed to drink at home from you're born. The Christmas beer mentioned, Nisseøl, has about 2% alcohol.

[@sifrasmussen2315]

Nisseøl is 0,5%

[@annikamarjatta]

@sifrasmussen2315 Ceres 1,9% KB 1,7% Uglens 1,8% Hancock 1,8% Ørbæk 1,8%

[@KurtFrederiksen]

@@sifrasmussen2315 No, Non-alcohol beer is under 0.5% but Hvidøl AKA Nisseøl is usually around 2.0%.

[@Cookie090489]

Another Christmas dish that even many Danes find disgusting is the old dish Sylte. You take the fine meat from the head of a pig, especially the jaws, and put it in a spicy brine of bay leaves, peppercorns, and salt. The Sylte is pressed into a solid form, with lots of fine small pieces of meat held together by the jelly. The dish dates back to the time when there were large-scale slaughters on the farms, and nothing was allowed to go to waste. One of the Christmas days in my family, we eat Sylte, which according to tradition is served on the Danish National Bread (Rugbrød), which is a very hearty and dark bread. The bread is spread with mustard, pickled beets, and finally the sylte. The dish is really good for my grandmother, who hardly has any teeth left, and the soft sylte is easy for her to chew. And it just tastes amazing.

[@KurtFrederiksen]

Danes don't do blood pudding but blood sausage. Usually it's fried on a frying pan and served on rye bread with a sprinkle of sugar. Mardi Gras is unknown as a feast in Denmark but we did have it under a different name 'Fastelavn'. It didn't really survive the Reformation in 1536 when Denmark became a protestant country. We still have a very watered down version, but it's mostly for the kids. Most likely even that will disappear in a few generations. The candles on the Christmas tree isn't the electric kind but the 'real' candle kind. Nowadays many Danes have a mix of electric candles and real candles on the tree only using the real ones while they dance around the tree and use the electric ones for the rest of the time.

[@omega1231]

Many countries in the world has a dish made primarily with blood, it's very nutritious. In Denmark we have blodpølse, which is treated more like a snack than a meal and also less nutritious because it has quite a bit of sugar in it, but it's honestly pretty good, it doesn't taste like blood, it tastes like cinnamon almost which makes sense since it's a christmas treat.

[@anette7283]

.....😂and remember jul or Christmas was actuall😊y a pagan celebration called yule

[@nataliehansen2231]

The reason the lights on our trees are a fire hazard, is because we use real candles on our trees. We usually have a bucket of water nearby in case of a fire 🎄

[@kmortensen9312]

"we" the only person i ever have ever even known to use live candles on her christmas tree was my grandmother and that was way back in the 80's.. there may still be some that do it but by far the majority of people use electric fake candles.

[@dasjap]

@@kmortensen9312 Personally i dont know anyone who uses electric candles. Its always real candles in my family and pretty much everyone i know.

[@kmortensen9312]

@@dasjap Congratulations.. you and your family are part of the small minority of 18% of danes that use candles on the trees.. doesnt change the fact that most people use electric.. also ill click a huge X for doubt that you dont know anyone who uses electric candles

[@dasjap]

@@kmortensen9312 Keep clicking those x`es😂

[@kokoromind3282]

Juleøl/Hvidtøl (christmas light beer) as a % of less than 2,25 %. And kids also drink it. Also kids younger than 10 years old.

[@conn7125]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I love you two you are so sweet 😍😍 I would love to one day experience Mardi Gras and New Orleans

[@lainightwalker5495]

no not every dane has real trees, candles are not a must anymore and when u have them, they r light on christmas eve and under supervision.

[@sifrasmussen2315]

Blood pudding/sausage is not popular in Denmark. I think it was a thing right after WWII and before that. I have had it, I think, one time as a child in the 80's. Never seen it since. It is much more a thing in the other Nordic countries. Nisse øl is only 0.5%, so it is looked at as safe, in small quantities. This was the case when I was a child, now most know better I think, and the drinking culture has shifted a lot since. It might be legal, but that doesn't mean that it is done a lot. Mardi gras is not a thing in Denmark. We do have a carnival, but it is very small and can not be compared.

[@kmortensen9312]

"Mardi gras is not a thing in Denmark. We do have a carnival, but it is very small and can not be compared." except Aalborg Karneval being the largest carnival in northern europe.. and while 100.000 people might not be much compared to the roughly 2 million that attend carnival in rio i would hardly call it "very small" or "can not be compared" especially when you take the population difference into account

[@sifrasmussen2315]

@@kmortensen9312 I have never been to that one, or seen a lot of "content" from there. I have only been to the one in copenhagen, a long time ago. And that was nothing like what I know about mardi gras.

[@GryLi]

No bloodpudding. If you visit i Will cook you a traditional christmas dinner or make a danish lunch. I promise you will love it

[@Marianne-k4u]

We don'tcelebraite Madi Gras in Danmark, but we have other traditions before the lent. Children dress up in costumes and go our kind of 'trick-or-treats also we hang a wodden barrel and they take turns to try and smash it with a club. There are different prizes during. The bear for kids is sweet and have 2,2% alcohol for a 33cl bottle

[@iamadreamergirl]

A lot of people dislike our food, as it can seem quite bland, tbh. I think most Danes have never used other spices than salt and pepper. I like potatoes though, but as a Danish vegetarian, I am almost excluded from all Danish traditional dishes. The rice pudding is amazing though. I think most people would love it, no matter where you come from, and yes real rice is used in it, but with all the heavy cream and almonds, it does not exactly taste like a rice dish. It is worth it to mention, that it is a heavy and very filling dish and you almost always overestimate how much to fill in your bowl. Danish Christmas traditions are amazing and in the more rural parts of Denmark, I'd say we decorate with more colours and Christmas elfs are everywhere in forms or paper cut outs, figurines and more. Thank you for reacting :D Love watching you guys react to different cultures!

[@missLeneSalver]

wonder where you eat, i use lots and lots of spices in my food. Gløg, a christmas drink is full of spices. All i know, exept older people loves spices. Im 65 and i love chilli, garlec, thyme, rosemary, and so on. So danes know other things than salt and peber

[@ane-louisestampe7939]

Rice boiled in milk, cooled down, then mixed with wipped cream, vanila and chopped almonds. Very simple, but a luxurious way of eating rice. For Christmas dinner we roll small potatoes in thick caramel, weird yes, but it's nice. Apparently poor peole couldn't afford the chestnuts the upperclass enjoyed for Christmas, so they just made the pototoes look like chestnuts. I don't know of any Danes who eat chestnuts for Christmas these days 🙃 Happy New Year 🥰