- Your phone book only has 19 Smiths, but it has five and a half pages of Jensens.
- Crown Princess Mary shows up on magazine covers even more regularly than in Australia.
- That weird sound? They’re testing the air raid sirens.
- A nice summer afternoon is the same temperature as a Brisbane winter midnight.
- Danish pastries are called Vienna bread.
- Your movie ticket comes with seat assignment.
- The water leaves more crap on your dishes than the food did.
- Most of the shops on your street are shut for six weeks in summer. Even the ‘convenience’ store.
- The first four items on a menu are herring.
- Hills? Oh, yeah, I remember hills.
- Your address doesn’t include a state, and your phone number doesn’t include an area code.
- "Shobnhown" (from Swedes and Norwegians) and "CopenHARgen" (from anyone else) kind of annoys you.
- You sometimes go into the ladies’ at work to find the seat up.
Posted by: ilanasmith | August 8, 2007
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Right – pastries were brought to Denmark by Austrians hired to replace Danish bakers during a strike I think.
Actually in French too such patries are called "Viennoiserie" (and that includes Croissants!).
So confusing :)
By: Dominic on August 15, 2007
at 7:36 am
Here, they say that they were invented in Vienna by a Danish baker.
I’ve given up on the real story. I can’t even say "wienerbrød".
By: Ilana on August 15, 2007
at 12:19 pm