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[CW: cheese] It’s sliced cheese on bread & it’s rocking Copenhagen’s world. The Danish capital is obsessed with this stripped-down snack & the city’s top bakeries won’t stop until they’ve perfected it (archive.ph)
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[–] 2 points 8 hours ago

"bolle" means bread roll? i thought it was a slightly naughty verb

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    [–] 14 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

    The Danish capital is not obsessing over this. Some bougie bakeries have turned a simple snack sold at gas stations and bakeries for generations into an overpriced tourist trap.

    Most people in Denmark thinks everything about it, including the "BMO" abbreviation, is fucking stupid.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 hours ago

    My boss is obsessed with the bougie bakeries. (Not Denmark but I assume the situation is sort of similar across central European cities).

    It's sad how over the last decade or so a bunch of relatively affordable independent bakeries closed down and got replaced by bakeries where a loaf of bread or a sandwich costs almost as much as a full meal. And the bakery chains hiked up their prices too.

    Idk I guess knowing which farm the heritage grain came from is sort of nice but really not worth it to me.

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  • [–] 6 points 14 hours ago

    I concur. Everything about the "discussion" about the BMO is fucking stupid. Including the actual abbreviation. This just seems like a way for the weird bakeries to advertise themselves to a bunch of tourists that don't know anything.

    Also, I've tried a bunch of those bakeries at this point, and they all fucking suck. There's no good reason why a pastry that tastes like lawn-clippings should cost 50 DKK.

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    • [–] 16 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

    Why is the Danish capital not obsessed with puff pastry and jam?

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 16 hours ago

    If I knew that - I'd write a children's book.

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    Ninja edit. Maybe I don't need inspiration.

    "Professor Froggybottom - why is the Danish capital not obsessed with puff pastry and jam?"

    "Well, Dakota, they love cheese sandwiches..."

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    • [–] 26 points 20 hours ago

    articles from 1490

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    [–] 12 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

    $7 for a cheese sandwich.

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    • [–] 15 points 19 hours ago (9 children)

    "Don't be silly you disgusting poors, you're not actually struggling to get by, a slice of cheese on a piece of bread is practically a luxury!"

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 19 hours ago (7 children)

    And it's only ~$7!

    Danes grab BMOs almost anytime — after run club, before dates, between meetings. They’re a filling snack and not all that expensive. At many of the top bakeries, they sell for about 45 Danish kroner (roughly $7), in line with other baked goods.

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  • [–] 8 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

    Danes grab BMOs almost anytime

    No we don't. It's mostly a breakfast food. Some kind of hotdog, döner kebab or McDonald's slop is more likely on these occasions.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

    But the big dummy NYT reporter surely knows Danish culture in great detail like how to say "I'd like a hamburger." in passable Danish.

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  • [–] 6 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

    NYT reporter who spent three days at a bougie hotel in the most touristy part of central Copenhagen: I am now an expert on Denmark and Danish culture!

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    • [–] 10 points 18 hours ago

    Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Wait, my bad; some Scandinavian scalawag has put Limburger cheese on a piece of Wonderbread. False alarm.

    Also, explaining a Danish "delicacy" to an American: imagine you have a Limburger...

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    [–] [S] 21 points 22 hours ago

    “It is literally just a bun with butter and a slice of cheese,” said Nina Bauer, a Danish food historian.

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    [–] 12 points 20 hours ago (1 child)

    The Danes just now discovered Cheese on Bread???

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    • [–] 9 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

    Euro breakfast sux

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  • [–] 9 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    Café au lait, a croissant, a cigarette and silence is the most civilised breakfast known to man. And I haven't even smoked for like a decade.

    CW: Meat

    Although the best breakfast I've ever had was in a small rural hotel in Germany where we were seated under a stuffed boar's head and served bread with about a billion different types of sausage and cold cuts.

    CW: Meat, the British

    And the full English, full Irish, fry up style breakfast sounds really awesome

    I would love to have Asian and middle eastern breakfasts that are more substantial and have spices and vegetables and everything but I haven't tried it yet and the logistics of me being an absolute zombie for the first hour and a half after getting up prevents me from trying it.

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