13 Things We Discovered While Living in Denmark

[@davidpax]

What kind of fancy white remulade was that!? You should show the real yellow stuff you get at the hotdog stands 😊.

[@aniliquorice6601]

Something you get at a 4+ star restaurant where portion sizes are small and you're left to wonder "dang there's too much of this 1 condiment but not enough food on the table why haven't they done something better for such a scenario?"

[@Vizerm]

i’m pretty sure that’s what homemade remoulade looks like, i’d imagine that recipe pictures show up pretty high on google. the yellow stuff that comes out from the big bottles/tubes is real remoulade 😎

[@jepperamskov3807]

That was also mayonnaise

[@TaeKwonDodk]

Agree! It was most likely Aioli

[@thebroomclosetwitch7955]

true

[@Memme14]

The thing with “Open faced sandwiches” is that it was never a sandwich. We didn’t take the top bread off, it was never there. We didn’t take a portable thing and make it unportable (and we do have portable smørrebrød called “klap-sammen-mad”, which implies that you have smooched two smørrebrød together), we just come from the perspective that one slice of bread is the base of topping we would like to consume.

[@RobeTrotting]

It's something we have grown to enjoy - and it's nicer to eat at the table with a fork and knife 😀🇩🇰

[@Memme14]

@@RobeTrotting It’s the funny thing about language - it reveals your way of looking at the world. Like If you had always used tunnels to get across water, you might call the first bridge you saw an “above ground tunnel”.

[@johndododoe1411]

To make normal (not restaurant) smørrebrød portable is to wrap it in paper. Shops sell (or used to sell) boxes of precut sheets of transparent paper sized for one piece of smørrebrød with a basic thin spread of grease and one slice of whatever, and we all carried those wrapped ones to work in a lunchbox or plastic bag.

[@persimonsen8792]

@@johndododoe1411 Madpapir ?

[@Peacefrogg]

Same in the netherlands. At home we have ‘open’ bread and toast, with one, two, three or four toppings, and as a takeaway lunch we ‘clap’ it together, make a ‘dubbele boterham’, a double breadslice (somehow we call a breadslice a butter-ham).

[@theriddler2277]

the flag for celebrations is something i really think the US should adopt. when i was there for a year i made lagkage with US flags and candles for my host family - they loved it and has been doing it ever since

[@RobeTrotting]

That is so cool! we love blending traditions from here and there 🇩🇰🎂

[@charisma-hornum-fries]

Same here. I celebrated my birthday together with my host mom and I made a lagkage with both flags. The entire family has done that afterwards too.

[@brostenen]

I have suggested Americans to use tiny stars and stripes in their cakes as well. Americans usually can see the idea. But dont ever use the shape with the two pointy triangles in the end of Dannebrog. It is the kings flag and only the king are allowed to use it.

[@jheldal]

I'm surprised that you find this a bit too much. I know nobody who uses the flag as much as the Americans. 2 of every 3 houses on the street has a flag outside the house. Cars (especially trucks) are often seen with several flags mounted. I feel the Americans are obsessed with the Stars and Stripes. Can't live without it.

[@wncjan]

My son has a friend in Florida who tasted remoulade on her first visit here. She brought some back home and now both her and her mom is hooked on it, so whenever she visits Denmark or my son visits her, they carry large amounts of remoulade across the Atlantic. 😀

[@RobeTrotting]

That's so cool - I bet there's a large remoulade trail leaving from Denmark to international Danes and their friends who have been converted. We do that with some other foods back and forth too :)

[@andersjjensen]

It's fairly easy to make. The base substance is mayonnaise. Other than that you need pickles, pickled cauliflower, pickled onion, a tiny bit of mustard powder and a tiny bit of yellow curry.

[@wncjan]

@@RobeTrotting There are two things I always bring home from USA, Hot sauces because of the selection 😀, and then bags of Gardetto's Rye Chips that are impossible to find in Denmark.

[@linemeldgaardandersen3370]

@@RobeTrotting that and rugbrød ;) - its normal as i Dane to be asked to bring rugbrød when visiting other countries... as a dane, i´m not really a fan of rugbrød :P

[@ane-louisestampe7939]

We never go to Nicaragua without liters of remoulade. The family down there loves it.

[@carissa6ify]

My husband and I are moving to CPH from the US this Friday!! So excited and I’m binge watching your videos and learning so much. Thank you!!

[@tjaepe1]

Wish you a warm welcome to Denmark 🇩🇰

[@Alpemanden]

Tons of great things to see! Welcome! Ping if you need any advice etc. there's plenty to be learned. Denmark is very different from many countries in the world

[@christinaj.jensen4805]

Hope you will enjoy living here :)

[@kimmogensen4888]

Welcome to Denmark, be careful with the snaps they talk about, it warms a lot.

[@danielvail8764]

Enjoy learning Danish.

[@77LCJ]

Many of us see scented candles as polluting the air with allergens and other unwanted stuff. Have you also noticed that airfresheners are also very rare? If there is an unpleasant air, we tend toopen a window or clean the place.

[@RobeTrotting]

Well not all scented candles are made with paraffin wax, but all cigarette smoke is toxic and pollutes the air yet that doesn't seem to bother many people haha.

[@77LCJ]

@@RobeTrotting But most people don't smoke indoors anymore. It's not the paraffin thats the issue it's the scent in it self.

[@zooh8017]

Fragrance sensitivity is the most common type of allergy (1/3 people) and as one of those people I’d greatly appreciate if the us took this approach too. I get headaches and sneeze attacks every time I go to other people’s houses from their soaps diffusers and candles

[@klausolekristiansen2960]

Electric cables in the ground is such a great improvement. After the 1999 hurricane, many areas were without power for days. Nothing like that has happened since the cables were put in the ground.

[@RobeTrotting]

Yeah, we can't believe it's not an investment municipalities are willing to make in the states where they deal with massive hurricanes and tornadoes every year. In Texas people literally froze to death when they had their first major snow storm last year.

[@andersjjensen]

@@RobeTrotting It requires a *shit ton* of paperwork and reporting duties though... and it's not like we don't frequently hear about someone reading a map wrong and digging through a cable (Or water mains. Or internet cable. Or sewage system.) But other than that, yeah! It's absolutely worth it. Both from a resilience perspective... but certainly also from a visual perspective.

[@SimonRaahauge1973]

My local power company was the first to start putting power cables under ground. They started before 1999 with the most vulnerable cables, like in forests or in towns

[@johndododoe1411]

@@andersjjensen For digging through other people's cables there's now a public computer system where all cable and pipe owners are required by law to publish their locations for entrepreneurs to check. The law was recently updated and there was some debate as to which owners would get a 10 year deadline extension for uploading the locations of certain old pipes that they may not even have paper records of. Note that the obligation to upload is upon the cable owner, and the obligation to check is upon anyone digging holes. If something is cut, it's settlement or civil suit, with a tradition to not publish the name of the guilty party while only telling customers "please beware that 1000 homes somewhere in bigtown got disconnected by a one of our cables got dug through, repair expected to be complete by 5 pm tomorrow"

[@johndododoe1411]

Note that hanging street lights is a leftover from the hanging cables. These streetlights generally hung from the utility poles by the very wires powering them. All kinds of street lights are sometimes hung from buildings to avoid taking up space for a pole down at street level, and some buildings even use wall mounted streetlight fixtures for their back yard.

[@sungod86]

We have the week number thing in Sweden too, but honestly nobody uses them in their private lives because nobody remembers them. Remembering that week 1-4 is in January and that the last week in December is 52 is easy, but after that it´s even tricky for us. Planning your vacation at work is the only time week numbers is beneficial, in my experience.

[@Joliie]

Its a mix here in private, you would say when is easter week 15 or when do you have summer vacation, week 25 to 27

[@RobeTrotting]

The only time I really have found it convenient (and sort of bother to figure out the week number) is for summer holiday as you mention and when we have friends that share custody of their kids and they have them even weeks (although I think they say "round weeks").

[@andersjjensen]

School teachers and ex-couples who have shared custody seems to naturally operate on week numbers.... most other people just go "huh?" :P

[@Gwenx]

Week 30 and 31 is where most of my/my moms vacation always is, i do think it is two popular weeks to have a summer vacation in, but i have no idea what month it is haha!

[@Jeppe-Covid1959]

You are quite right, but what are the rules for week 53. Sorry, I am danish.

[@Wishbone1977]

About the week numbers, in my experience it's mostly a work thing. People tend to plan their vacations by week numbers, because many private companies require their employees to schedule 3 weeks of vacation sometime between June 1st and August 31st. Using week numbers instead of date ranges makes the vacation planning easier for the company, so you don't end up having all employees away on vacation at the same time. Other than that, people don't tend to use week numbers much. The only time I know which week number it is is around New Years Eve, and during my summer holiday.

[@2Dracula2]

Its a thing women use in Denmark. Men dont understand it.

[@sofienielsen4608]

Same here

[@sofienielsen4608]

@@2Dracula2 Im a woman i dont use it, though now that you say it, it might be a good way of tracking cycles.

[@Pernilleed]

Growing up as a kid in Denmark, I associated the flag with celebrations (literally thought of it as 'birthday flag' rather than the danish flag until I got older), as it's always used celebratory for birthdays, christmas, on the buses on special holidays etc. So to me, it has never been nationalistic in any way at all :-D Also, I am a terrible dane, cause I hate both snaps, smørrebrød, and remoulade.

[@wallet-warrior-1]

Dude Samme here det troret det også da jeg var lille smørrebrød det er glamt

[@anne-zh2kd]

I did too! I thought all countries had danish flags at birthdays.

[@repsak_DK]

Noget smørrebrød er da godt nok

[@tristanreejakobsen6157]

@@anne-zh2kd i thought all countries had theyre own falg as a birthday flag like we use danbrog they would use as an example in usa they would use usa`s flag

[@misfarvet]

Jeg er dårligere jeg hader alt det 😂😅

[@spyro257]

love your guys vids... i told many that if they wanna know more about Denmark from non Danes, they should do to your channel or Travelin' Young, so u might have more ppl ask u questions

[@karsten69]

I tell people on Reddit about this channel

[@RobeTrotting]

Wow, thank you both so much. It's really kind of you and an honor to be thought of in that light 😀🇩🇰😀🇩🇰

[@kristianthim7045]

It's nice to have your own culture explained from an outside perspective. It gives you.. well more perspective. Things you just see as "normal" is actually very culturally specific. Nice

[@anushkasekkingstad1300]

For what it’s worth, I think that you guys really get us and your videos explain us clearly and concisely to those who don’t know us.

[@MrFtoudalk]

There are a few things I must have whenever I visit Denmark, simply because I can't get them here in South Carolina: Solbaer syltytoej, Rugbroed, Leverpostej (med remoulade), Flaeskesteg med roedkaal, and of course Snaps and Danish beer... Things you don't get in Denmark: Grits and biscuits, Green beans and bacon, Ocra (yuck!!), Low country boil. Thanks for making me homesick again!! lol

[@RobeTrotting]

It's so tough having two unique cuisines that are missing some important cross overs! We feel that for a few American and Danish favorites wherever we are too 😂

[@johndododoe1411]

Green beans are usually sold frozen, but with the French words Haricots Verde.

[@lindaoffenberg1218]

We do eat green beans with bacon in Denmark. It's one of our specials at my house 💖

[@christinaj.jensen4805]

Leverpostej with remoulade??? Wow. That's a first I hear of this combination. I love both, but I can't imagine eating them together.

[@MrFtoudalk]

@@christinaj.jensen4805 Stryhn's Grov leverpostej med remoulade var standard frokostmad i mit barndomshjem.

[@Finderup16]

I can't help wondering if maybe you guys were Danes in a former life, because you have adapted so well to our lifestyle, it blows my mind. 🇩🇰

[@avejst]

Great video as always Thanks for sharing your observations with all of us:-)

[@RobeTrotting]

Thanks Asger, and thank you for watching 😀🇩🇰

[@kiffermachon]

Fun fact, we call candles for Levende Lys, meaning living lights

[@kristofferholst6053]

Wow love the energy and pace in this one.

[@RobeTrotting]

Thanks Kristoffer, so glad you enjoy it! This was a fun one to make 😀🇩🇰

[@khloehansen3324]

Hey guys.😊 I've been watching your videos for a while now, and it always makes me happy to see your videos pop up in my subscription box. I just want to take a moment to say thank you for making these lovely videos, and giving me a new found appreciation for our tiny country.🙏

[@RobeTrotting]

Aw, Khloe, thank you for such a sweet and thoughtful comment, you're the best! It really means a lot to read this so thank you again and we'll keep the videos coming 🇩🇰😀❤

[@pcbif]

You guys just nailed it!!

[@MsBlackdeath13]

One thing that a (british)friend of mine once asked me about, when we walked down the gågade, was if the clothes/clothes racks out in front of the stores ever got stolen? Bc he said in Britain the clothes would definitely get stolen. I never really thought of that. I guess danes just trust that we don't do that.

[@Real_MisterSir]

In general many aspects of Danish society is built upon trust. Trust in the government, trust in the police force, trust in the justice system, trust in each other, trust in the fact that people in general don't want to exploit each other for personal gains. And when the majority share that common trust, it works. One can even just look at traffic safety, and general traffic obedience. You could essentially drive half blindfold and not be in any danger because you can trust that people around you drive according to the law and don't put themselves before others.

[@tobiasbuhl2037]

fun fact the flag thing comes from the second world war where denmark was occupied by germany and they outlawed the danish flag but only on the flagpoles so alot of danish people just started using tiny flags for everything and then it just stuck. we are very proud of our flag. anyways loved you guys take on denmark in this video. :)

[@IvoB1987]

As a Dutchman living in Denmark, what was very strange for me was the custom of saying "tak for sidst", "tak for mad", "tak for i dag" etc. And also other small formalities like when arriving at parties nobody sits down until everyone is there and being seated at specific spots

[@ComplexConfiguration]

It's funny, how I don't see them as strange, or as strict rules or simple formalities, but more like basic "pleasantries", it somehow helps denote also if a person is sociable, affable or even grateful. Obviously if you show that in other ways, it doesn't really matter. Also, you can sit down but usually people will not sit down at the dinner table to begin with, the idea is to mingle a bit and sit other places than the dinner table.. and when dinner is served and the host says, food is served. We all sit down and eat and don't really leave the table until consumption for all is over. ;)

[@mariatoso2]

I’m Danish, recently returned to Denmark after living 25 years in the US. I’m having so much fun watching your videos ❤

[@RobeTrotting]

Oh that’s so cool, thanks for watching and glad you can relate 😊

[@mariatoso2]

@@RobeTrotting totally, I’ve lived more abroad than here; so my daughter and I find ourselves mystified by the same things; like, let’s get together in week 27, WHEN is that (my phone doesn’t say!) - and what happened to casually stopping by and just hanging out?! Copenhagen’eners are tightly scheduled people.

[@pihlknudsen]

A colleague of mine once objected to the use of week numbers claiming (I quote) “only pregnant women and school teachers cares about week numbers “😊

[@RobeTrotting]

😂 Oh wow that is hilarious! Another line to steal and work into the conversation haha.

[@2Dracula2]

AGREE!!! It's for women only. I hate when my wife says: Remember we're going to the in-laws in week 23 "Week 23 what the hell is that. Only thing I know is week 42, as it's a week where the schools have closed.

[@ElsebethLind-b7g]

I still live 30 min south of Disney. You two are doing the best arbejde of anyone which lives in Denmark as an udlaending. Bliv med at goere det!

[@brittajensen1479]

That is sooooo funny. 😁😁 We make sandwiches in Denmark too, when we need food on the go. But you are not suppose to be running arround, when it is time to eat, so smørebrød is not a problem. Because you sit at the table, have your knife and fork. And at the julefrokost or coming up the påskefrokost, you have your snaps and beer to go with it. Fun fact. I have never had a snaps. I think it smells terrible and will not risk it taste just half as bad as it smells. But I love grappa And it is kind of the same kind. But Grappa doesn't smell. My favorite smørebrød is Dyrelægens Natmad - The Veterinarian's late night food: Rugbrød - hard rye bread Smør - butter Leverpostej - lever pate Saltkød - salted boiled lean pork Sky og sliced rå løg - cold cuts cloud and thinly cut raw onions.

[@RobeTrotting]

We are slowly converting to smørrebrød fans - Mike faster than Derek haha. I like your philosophy on the fact that you should sit and enjoy your lunch, not run with and eat out of your hands. Americans are all about the quick meal, so maybe that's why it was foreign to us the first time we were around smørrebrød 😀🇩🇰

[@socialdining1496]

Thank you for pointing out what is special about my country, thank you very much for that.

[@SHAADOWW7765]

Always fun hearing you guys 😜 I'm from Denmark

[@vbiddle1111]

Thank you for your awesome videos !

[@danakscully82]

I am loving Mike’s t-shirt 😂 basically telling any Dane that you meet, that you are a foreigner (udlænding)

[@RobeTrotting]

Haha, it saves a little time and we liked the look 😂😀🇩🇰

[@tobiasbachfjendsbo9341]

so happy to see my small contry being talked about

[@Quentinersej]

Great to see to more people join my contry

[@TobiasNielsen2112]

great having you too in Denmark

[@gamercraft654]

fun thing here in the northern denmark in a small town called Tornby we have an old merchant farm or gamle købmandsgård in danish when they are open they have the flag up and down when they are closed its nice because u can allways see if they are open or closed without going over there the old merchant farm has alot to offer its got hard candy history old times toys for kids special mustards and so on even an old blacksmith you should think about coming by there are stories about how little tornby looked like and pictures and more

[@ulie1960]

About public transport I still remember this: It was in the 1980s. I wanted to take a bus in Odense city, and when it arrived I stepped into the bus in the front and paid my fare at the driver. Which was just a coin you could buy at a kiosk, and you dropped it into a box at the driver. I then went to the back to find a free seat. Almost all the way in the rear I found one and sat down. I had'nt spoken a word until then, and the lady on the seat beside me asked: "You are not from Odense?" I confirmed her observation and ask how she knew. She told me that you step into the bus in the rear and you pay when you leave the bus at the end of your way in the front....

[@RobeTrotting]

Oh wow, that is so different - really cool how not that long ago things were still different from region to region 😀🇩🇰

[@bazzakrak]

That is true@@RobeTrotting I can cooperate that, been living in Odense since birth in '75 There was a time, when we also had the option to get a "skyldnerpose" if we didnt have the money for the fare, we could get a small paperbag/envelope from the driver, put in your name and adress and then you could ride the bus. What you then had to do was put in the coins and put it in a mailbox and the post service you take your payment to them, so you could pay later, what happened a lot was that people used it and wrote names of people they didnt like, because they would actually try and collect it and put it through debt collection if you had amassed a certain amount. Also the busses were high and had 3-steps up, so it was a normal thing for the people standing in the back to help lift up babycarriages if they needed to get on. Also in the 80s you were allowed to smoke in the busses, now that was just nasty and so happy they removed that option. Just a few small extra info about the bus service in Odense. It has never been that good in all the years I have lived here, even it being the 3rd largest city, we have 15-20 mins between busses on many routes, imagine having that waiting time in Copenhagen 😋

[@persimonsen8792]

@@bazzakrak Bare irriterende at der altid er udsolgt af pølser, sodavand og cigaretter.

[@SommerOgSol]

I enjoy this video so much that i need to see another video from your list 🥳

[@RobeTrotting]

Awesome! Thank you Kent, we hope you enjoyed what you saw! 😀

[@SommerOgSol]

@@RobeTrotting it definitely was, good and interresting :D

[@Zandain]

🇩🇰🥳 Spot on, guys!! 🎉🇩🇰 Surprised that outside drinking and beach/the Gardens nudity didn't make it on the list, too 😂 hello from Hundested 🌸🌱

[@RobeTrotting]

Aw, thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it, and we probably could have added the freedom to drink wherever you want and wear as little as you want. Those were definitely surprises for us too. I think we'll do a drinking video this summer and cover some of the big differences 😀🇩🇰

[@muller-petersenfamily8499]

Omgthe week thing, you’re so on point. Cracks me up ! Put your partner in the bike, please do that and post. Love you guys ! Ták!

[@lisaniemannmadsen5167]

So true about remoulade - but what was that in the picture…? Looked like a sour cream dressing - definately not remoulade! 😂 A lot of my international friends, particularly americans, think that remoulade looks gross! That’s ok, it kinda does. But it’s just so good!

[@andreass1060]

This is so true, especially the cake thing, my office is drowning in cake on a daily basis

[@RobeTrotting]

SOOOOO much cake - but sometimes it's nice. I never thought I would say this, but there is a thing as too much cake LOL

[@lailasegermannayal2310]

Wellcom back, I really miss you 👍👍👍👍👍❤️

[@ankra12]

Very convinient with week numbers when you are scheduling holiday.

[@douglasmilford3145]

As a Brit, albeit with Danish heritage, I LOVE Remoulade and can't understand why it has not found favour here, bearing in mind how ubiquitous Mayonnaise has become. The only sandwich filler you could get a few years ago was pickles or salad cream! I also like an occasional drop of snapps especially straight from the freezer. Oh, and the cakes, lagkage and my Mormors sandkage with evening kaffe. Going all sentimental for the old days, keep up the good work Derek and Mike, I look forward to Thursday evening.

[@namenloss]

Remoulade is pretty close to tartare sauce and you can easily make it yourself with mayo and picalilly pickles

[@jacobmylsted]

I love how the sign in the background says like for remoulade

[@deadjessie]

Great video guys!

[@RobeTrotting]

Thank you Tobias, super glad you enjoyed it!

[@jsmith1746]

Fellow American transplanted to Denmark here. I have been here in the Copenhagen area for ten years now. So fun to see that your impressions are so similar to mine! I so agree with EVERYTHING you have said on here. Do you guys plan to stay, or is this a temporary move for you? I plan to stay here.

[@ElsebethLind-b7g]

If they move to the US now they will have an awaking as we have phedofiles .thieves .drunk driving murders insane people no respect for the police.

[@Simpopcorn]

Lol “Half of Ikea”... made my day 😂

[@cam-e-ron3167]

In my friend group, we say that you bring your own cake on your birthday as payment to the others for having to look at you for a whole year, but in a joking manner of course :)

[@RobeTrotting]

HAHAHA, I love that - definitely going to steal it! You all seem like our kind of friends!

[@srenh.jrgensen1798]

Very amusing musings on those Danish oddities! 😅🥳

[@JeppeBeier]

As a dane, I always have to double check the calendar when people use week numbers.

[@RobeTrotting]

So glad we aren't the only ones and it's a relief that we may never get them down haha

[@JeppeBeier]

@@RobeTrotting Haha yeah I should probably be better at it. Especially since my mother always uses week numbers when she calls me about plans xD

[@musvit80]

Love your Remoulade sign in the background 😂👍🏼♥️

[@RobeTrotting]

😁

[@snorpenbass4196]

Snaps is such a staple of Denmark, Sweden and I think Norway (the Finns...are Finns, they have their own traditions). Many different ways to spice them, varying from region to region and household to household. My dad always makes his own before Midsummer, though he's phased it out somewhat because he can't drink alcohol anymore.

[@ViggaMax]

I am danish myself🇩🇰and it was actually quite interesting to see to how different it is to live In the usa and Denmark! You guys did a really good job explaning What the different things was😊And just to learn a little danish- Farvel! (Goodbye)

[@anneuldahl]

Like for remoulade :) (don't know what you showed in the picture, but didn't look like remoulade at all! 😆 Regarding to the flags, I have had several talks with friends trying to explain that the use of flags is very unlikely sign of patriotic or nationalism, and just celebrations. Great video as always ☺️

[@RobeTrotting]

Yeah, the flags can be tricky for new arrivals, but we all figure it out sooner or later 😀 Thanks for watching, so glad you enjoyed it 🇩🇰

[@onlyoldsso4155]

I love watching these videos because i am from Denmark🇩🇰😅Love your videoes❤️

[@RobeTrotting]

Thank you so much 😊 🇩🇰

[@Insert_Bland_Name_Here]

Pro-tip: If you need to travel within one region, I recommend NOT using the IC or IC-Lyn trains. Use the Regional Trains instead. They cost the same (since you pay for the distance, not the actual ride itself), take essentially the same time (although if there's only one track available, IC and IC-Lyn have the right of passage over Regional Trains which can slow them down a bit, and the Regional Trains stop at every station along the way, which also add a few minutes), and are generally just more comfortable to ride and less crowded. Seriously. It's actually come to a point where, when I travel between Aalborg and Fredericia some weekends, I'll buy a ticket for the entire ride but only a seat until I get to Aarhus, because I'll get off at Aarhus just to switch to a Regional Train instead. So what if it takes me another 15-20 minutes to arrive because the Regional Train departs a bit later? The comfort is far greater and that's what matters most...

[@unfoldingspace8]

Okay, just started the video, and have paused after the first point, and OH MY GOD! I might be a Dane, but I gotta be honest, I kinda hate that we do that, because the only one I know I know for sure is week 42, because that’s the autumn break/vacation, and my birthday almost always is in week 42. Otherwise if people start bringing up weeks, I have and will automatically ask about an actual date because that’s so much easier to keep track of in the immediate moment than “oh what about Tuesday in week 22”. I literally just picked a random week, I don’t even know what month or date it is, and neither would I if I didn’t then ask about the actual date... Anyway, back to watching the rest of the video

[@RobeTrotting]

Haha, we match your feelings 100% - we know the weeks where our colleagues always take holiday because their kids are on school break... and then week 52 is Christmas/New Years - otherwise we are LOST 😂

[@kirseitis]

I think people with children in school think a lot more in weeks, than us without it :-)

[@Tripperchris]

Great Prayer Day (Store Bededag) is a Danish public holiday, falling on the fourth Friday after Easter. Unfortunately the present government of Denmark has just abolished "Great Prayer Day", which has resulted in great anger in most of the population. First and foremost due to the fact that this used to be a day off and from 2024 this public holiday is no more. I believe however that we will still eat our 'varme hveder' - heated wheat buns, even though the holiday - after 338 years in existence - is no more. Before the Reformation there were minor prayer days in Denmark where people fasted and the minister prayed for peace. In the countryside, this was the case every Wednesday. Furthermore, there were prayer days on special occasions. All these prayer days were abolished with the Reformation, but in the following centuries they were re-introduced one by one. Great Prayer Day as Danes know it today was introduced by the bishop of Zealand (1673-1693) Hans Bagger, who in his diocese introduced three fasting holidays. The second of these fasting days was on March the 27th 1686 made into an "extraordinary, common prayer day" for the entire kingdom. From sunset the night before and thoughout the whole day nobody was allowed to work. Therefore, the bakers made wheat buns (hvedeknopper), which customers could buy and heat the following day - on The Great Prayer Day. This tradition has gradually changed and today many people eat the heated wheat buns on the night before Great Prayer Day.

[@Nina1966dk]

Love this 🥰

[@RobeTrotting]

Thank you Nina :)

[@Nina1966dk]

By the way, what do you think about our fællessang? And our music in general? Maybe for a future video from you, I would love that 🙂 You are so hyggelige and I enjoy following you 🥰

[@ieet]

The best thing about the video was the "Udlænding" (foregin person) t-shirt! That was amazingly funny :) The rest of the video was great too - like always :)

[@meagain9987]

Oh dear! I love you guys. Spelling Smørrebrød as Smørrebørd is so cute

[@gilbertdybdal3355]

this may sound weird but your "hej hej" outro sounded on point!

[@ninaalbrechtsen3814]

It is kind of funny that you called it “birthday-flag” because that was what I thought it was when I was young 😅😁

[@RobeTrotting]

It's a cute name for it when used on your birthday :)

[@Simpopcorn]

Me too!! Always thought it was called that. But i Can se now that is just flags.. just like the one in the pole in the backyard😂

[@johndododoe1411]

It's a hard earned freedom! In the last decades of royal dictatorship, citizens were banned from flying the flag, and only the top layers of society could use it for celebrations. So when that ban was ended, civilians took to using the freedom to celebrate their birthday like royalty.

[@cjthemimic4411]

Theres a turnstyle at every station ive been to for the DSB train going to Roskilde, Holbæk, København and others. You have rejsekort(travel card) and you use it at the station before walking into the platforms(check in og check ud) and usually just to stay going, my partner and I only used check ud when we arrived at the final destination

[@hanshenrikjakobsen]

LOL - What a great video! :D

[@RobeTrotting]

Thank you Hans, so glad you enjoyed it! 😀🇩🇰

[@TheTobiasandersen95]

Well, I'm danish and tbh, the only time I ever use the week numbers is when discussing holiday... And I always have to google a week calender when that time comes... Remoulade is crazy... I grew up with it, so it's nothing spectacular for me, but I once worked a job on a trip with some german people and they were excited to get remu and slap it on everything. Someone even ate sliced cheese with remu - YUCK! Also, you're not a man untill you learn to drink a good snaps. Great with fish btw Hehe, yea smørrebrød is crazy expensive :D

[@RobeTrotting]

I will always be down for snaps and remoulade (but not on sliced cheese). I think Americans and peanut butter are probably similar to Danes and remu 😂🇩🇰

[@TheAndesteg]

You two are so wonderful 🇩🇰 This is so funny and correct.

[@trinebrinks5479]

now that you mention that denmark burns weeds when my dad is gardening he sometimes pulls out a mini flamethrower and starts turning all the weeds to overcooked bacon

[@RobeTrotting]

😂 So funny! If only it was REAL bacon 🥓

[@hyv87]

Tak!

[@RobeTrotting]

Thank you so much!!! 😃😃😃

[@EFJoKeR]

Cake ? CAKE ?? SOMEONE SAY CAKE ? PaaaaaRTaaaaY time !!! :D

[@RobeTrotting]

Haha, that's a good theory Jesper! And you are so right, there is more cake in Denmark that I have ever experienced - for all occasions, and so many varieties.

[@Menhtrol]

Quick note on the Snaps Snaps is mostly used as a palate cleanser fx. after eating fish to get rid of the fishy taste so in doesn't interfere whatever you'll eat next

[@perbjrnhansen9939]

Hahaha love that remoulade sign in the background🤣

[@hurtigejler3264]

I had my birthday some weeks ago, and the livingroom was completely covered in Dannebrogen

[@RobeTrotting]

That’s so perfect haha - we really have grown to love it now 🇩🇰😊

[@camillathobo-carlsen4587]

I love this video

[@RobeTrotting]

So happy to hear that and thank you for watching 😊🇩🇰

[@faxekondifan3851]

Great that you like Denmark😊

[@Helle-Mia]

Week numbers are confusing to a lot of danish people to. I’ve lived in Denmark my entire life and I still find them annoying and confusing.

[@emmalierosenvingen2642]

since its nearly may, are you guys going to make a video about konfirmations?

[@RobeTrotting]

We would love to, as well as graduation - it would be neat to talk to a family planning both celebrations since they're so different from what we are used to in the States

[@Lorentari]

For clarity. The fine for taking the train without a ticket in denmark is 750 DKK (~€100), which is about 20x the price of a ticket for a commuter

[@exploitertrollge6872]

Being a dane and watching these videos about Denmark is interesting and some what funny

[@williamdegrey]

Calendar weeks are the best! Cheers from Sweden. 😃

[@kirseitis]

That´s some very fancy remoulade you guys found :-D Looks nicer than the screaming-yellow kind that is what ppl would ususally associate with the word "remoulade" :D

[@RobeTrotting]

Have to admit it was a stock video an nicer looking that what we're used to haha, although we had something similar colored at Palægade in KBH.

[@kirseitis]

@@RobeTrotting yeah, it can also be found over here in the rough Jutland 😄😂 It usually tastes better than the artifical-colored cheap kind too.

[@johnhan8909]

i come from Denmark and some of the things your were surprised about were completely normal for me and i also learnt somthings that you dont have capels under ground in the us

[@Plysdyret1]

I like remoulade! 😄 Especially to French Fries.

[@145Nudel]

One of your best videos 🙌👏👏👏👏🇩🇰❤️🇺🇸

[@RobeTrotting]

Wow, thanks Anne 🇩🇰😀 so glad you enjoyed this one. It was fun to think back of all the new things we experienced (even as many are commonplace now).

[@visello6277]

Everyone learns the hard way with snaps and when you do it turns into making your own snaps and bring

[@RobeTrotting]

We only really drink it around Christmas and the first few times we have some it takes a little getting used to again haha. But then "it's like riding a bike" you don't really forget it once you learn.

[@katiekehoe5252]

I married a Dane in Denmark and our wedding cake had multiple Danish flags on it.

[@RobeTrotting]

WOW, even on the wedding cake! So different for us to think about, but also so appropriate when you know Danish culture haha.

[@mortenbrogaard2176]

You should have talked about J-dag aswell. 1 day a year where the Christmas beer fra Tuborg is coming out at a specific time in the bars. And people are dressed out and just going madness. I think thats the most busy nights in all the bars in Denmark. Besides new years Eve ofcourse. ;)

[@tommyvictorbuch6960]

We don't actually pray on Store Bededag (Prayer Day) We mostly eat and drink, and spend time with family and friends.

[@kille-4B]

You guys need to go to Skagen, Cold Hawaii and the Paris of the north Aalborg + tons of history. 🤗

[@saihtamdk4788]

you know i am from denmark and it is funny too see it from a person outside of denmark talk about it. i like sthat you tried to say the dansosk letters æøå which is some hard letters for non danish people to learn. and beacuse denmark is such a small contry. means whenever we are mentioned im a movie or a english youtube video just is such a happy feelig

[@Salkinmusic]

Remoulade is really good on salami with fried onions 😉 And we do still have lightpoles 👌

[@rohankrishnapillai8054]

God video its was a really fun video

[@SeattleSoulFan]

Years ago in my grade school or middle school geography book I read that in Denmark they have dedicated smørrebrød containers so you can put your smørrebrød in your briefcase and not have it damaged in transit. Is this true?

[@SimonRaahauge1973]

yup. they are called madkasser or food boxes i english. some of them come with special racks, so the individual pieces don't get flattened. That mean that you can put some nice garnish on the bread.

[@muller-petersenfamily8499]

If you’re in Jutland go to Blokhus Lys ! The best candles 🕯

[@Soren_Ld]

The hanging street lights are only in the fancy towns. Where i live we just have poles.

[@helleeckert2522]

I love you Guys. And in danish, jeg elsker jer.

[@RobeTrotting]

Thank you Helle, love right back to you :)

[@gamereliter2859]

Love watching this when i always lived i Danmark and bor her stadig and I love how you Guys use ø you know one of the 3 bogstaver der kun er i Danmark

[@michaelschalck]

Awsome video guys... I remember first time i went to a McDonalds in Denmark and a was so disappointed that i could not get Remoulade to my french fries. 😝

[@henleinkosh2613]

About the flags everywhere... While I love the Dannebrog, our use of it can give off a very wrong vibe. I have talked with several refugees and immigrants that have come here and had an oh-no reaction because they have seen that Dannebrog is everywhere and assumed that they had gotten to a very nationalistic country that would not do anything to make a foreigner feel welcome. Of course most found out quickly that we have a somewhat different relationship with our flag than they were used to.

[@RobeTrotting]

Yes, 100% we have had the same thought even though Americans fly the flag a lot more often than other nationalities too. Seeing it in so many "new" places and occasions was a bit of a culture shock. We talk about it in another culture clash video of things that Danes say or do to foreigners that could seem rude but are totally innocent kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqKtd4xrr7WVi5o

[@PerXX82]

While I totally can understand why people might misunderstand it that way, I think anyone who've spent a bit of time in Denmark is well aware that the Dannebrog is rarely a nationalistic symbol, as much as it's just a thing for celebrations.

[@hansemannluchter643]

We Danes are patriots. Frankly, if foreigners don't like the smoke in the kitchen, they are welcome to move somewhere else, nobody forces them to live here.

[@Sigart]

If I remember right, Denmark was not allowed to fly our flag during the German occupation (or part of it) so we started putting it everywhere but the flagpole (christmas trees, anyone?) to show national pride and as a sort of protest. Since Denmark surrendered quite easily, we had managed to negotiate some very favourable circumstances for ourselves, so...

[@element4element4]

I was myself a stateless kurdish refugee and grew up in Denmark since the age of 10. Personally I love the fact that the flag doesn't have the racist nationalist vibe as it does in other countries. In my family we love using the flag for any celebration. It makes us feel part of the country.