Denmark Food Tour - 7 Foods You HAVE To Try in Copenhagen (Americans Try Danish Food) 

So fun and delicious ! I'm sure it was great to see your friend.

Denmark here, regarding food prices and the cost of living. Denmark produces around 3 times as much food as we can possible consume), all prices below are from this and last week (the most popular discount supermarket chain Rema1000) and include 25% VAT sales taxes, notice that eco-organic is really not that much more expensive: Just adding some Rema1000 Christmas prices in Denmark, all prices below include 25% VAT, notice that eco-organic is really not that much more expensive: 500g = 1.1/Ibs Kellog's cornflakes $2.84 1000g = 2.2/Ibs sugar $1.14 1000g salt $0.44 1000g flour $0.64 800g 2/Ibs sandwich bread $1.87 1000g oatmeal, $1.42 to $3.64 (top of the line/best of the best) 1000g Basmati Rice $2.12 to $2.69 (eco-organic) 1000g parboiled Rice $1.97 1000g regular rice $1.97 1000g Spaghetti $1.53 to $2.83 (eco-organic) 1 liter (0.264 gallons) 3.5% fat Milk $0.71(special Christmas discount) 200g Danish Lurpak butter $1.28 (most expensive brand, but special Christmas discount) 10 barn eggs $1.42 (special Christmas discount) 300g Original Danish Tulip Bacon $2.84 (special Christmas discount) 1000g clementine's $0.85 (special Christmas discount) 2000g oranges $1.42 (special Christmas discount) 1000g Potatoes $1.18 to $1.56 (eco-organic) 1000g onions $1.28 to $1.89 (eco-organic) 500g tomatoes $1.56 to $2.84 (eco-organic) 1000g carrots $0.85 or $1.56 (eco-organic) Pepsi Cola 1.5 liter (0.4 gallons) $1.33 500g Christmas sausage $1.7 (special Christmas discount) 1000g Pork roast (pure meat, no bones), $4.11 500g minced pork meat 8-12% fat $2.84 (special Christmas discount) 500g minced beef 4-7% fat, 8-12% fat or 15-18% fat, they do not sell minced meat with 20% fat in Denmark $4.96 (8-12% fat) Food prices make no sense unless you also look at the income after taxes. I have worked part-time in Denmark as a night watch, no degree required and only 3 days of training (at full pay), had some previous experience so wages ranged from $26.5 to $37.5 an hour depending on the day of the week and if it was on a holyday, you are still entitled to 5+1 weeks' fully paid vacation a year + holydays and a pension scheme, as for taxes, then in general the average income taxes are around 40%, but truth of the matter is that there are different brackets and deductions (in fact, union and unemployment insurance payments are automatically deducted) and the first around $6,300 you earn a year is totally tax free. So, working part time I was actually paying less than 30% income taxes, and obviously you need no health insurance because it's paid for through taxes and no need to save up money for an education either, because a higher education is free, including university college, in fact you even get paid to study ( around $885 a month if you do not live at home with your parents, because then you only get up to around $380 a month). Perhaps I should add, that in the UK food prices are around half of that in the USA and Denmark, and they pay no VAT sales taxes on food at all, but on the other hand they also earn around $1,000 less a month on average after taxes in compared to Denmark, and even if you correct this in accordance with the purchasing power parity (PPP), they are still around $850 short after taxes a month, so that would buy you a lot of groceries and plenty of other stuff. Another advantage of earning more an hour on average but then paying a fairly high 25% VAT sales tax is that the government has a "tool in the toolbox" to cut prices by up to 25% from one day to the next, if prices start skyrocketing and spin out of control for some unexpected reason. not that it has been deemed needed so far here in Denmark.

A hotdog is so good because it's the only native food item in Denmark that contains something sweet (the bun and the roasted onions), something sour (the pickles), something bitter (the mustard), something salty (the ketchup), and something umami (the sausage itself), as such you get the full satiety experience from eating one that you'd normally only get from Asian food. This is the reason a hotdog feels so filling as it fills your tastebuds instead of your stomach sack physically.

Fun fact. In danish, danish pastry is called "Viennese bread". some time ago there was a major strike in denmark, where bakers refused to work, so we had viennese bakers come up to fill the spots open in danish bakeries.

if you ever visit Denmark again, try to get outside of Copenhagen, since Copenhagen is much more International than the rest of Denmark, so you mainly get tourist food, or modern twist to Danish things, if you want to see original Danish things, it is a bit harder to find it in Copenhagen. I am happy you found a real hotdog stand, since I have seen many videos with Vegan or Healthy versions, where it have been called a Real Danish Hotdog, a good place for some Old Fashion Danish food would be a Kro (Tavern) since many of them serve more Traditional Food, specially those on the county side, and most of the time they are also above average when it comes to quality.

Living vicariously with you guys, the pastries, the fresh salmon and, of course, I love elephants.

Great video guys! 😊 Fun fact about Frederiksberg Garden: When cold enough in winter time, the frozen streams will be full of people ice skating. Also, as a kid I remember sledding with my toboggan, form the top of the hill at the castle (6:25). Which unfortunately is not allowed today. But there is another hill on the other side of the castle, in at the adjacent park, Søndermarken. Guaranteed fun times. 🤩

Loved the video, though as a Dane I will say... that was not Smørrebrød, that was just bread with salmon on hahaha still delicious, but very far from the traditional smørrebrød Also dipping Tebirkes in coffee!? I have never in my life seen or heard of this, definitely not a traditional danish thing, but I do have to try it now! we usually cut it open and put butter on, and perhaps also cheese or chocolate depending on what you like :)

You guys missed out on the best healthy option: Rye bread with condiments. Never eat rye bread without.

Hey guys! Thank you for your great clips from your stay in our capital. I'm so glad you enjoyed the yourselves, as well as the local cuisine... Your pronunciation isn't bad - I've certainly heard far worse! 😉 The _Tebirkes_ is one of my favourites for breakfast (usually during the weekend), but I don't think I would class it as a pastry...but I could very well be wrong... I'm 56 yrs old, and I've never heard of people (Danes) dipping them in their coffee! Who knew!?!? 😙😙👍👍 Goes to show, ya'll never to old to learn something new! Wishing you a very Merry Christmas 🎄🧑‍🎄☃️🎁 and a very Happy New Year! 🎉🎊🍾 And of course also very happy and safe travels around the world! 🇩🇰🇺🇸🇩🇰🇺🇸

I loved the intro and having your local friend!! 😁

At Torvehallerne you have to try the Danish traditionelle Flæskestegssandwich at Slagter Lund.

Nice food tour !

i'm glad, that u had a good time, in our humble little country...

The ‘julebolle’ at Lagkagehuset is not the official ‘danish julebolle’. The traditional one is more layered like typical pastry and has raisins, remonce and sometimes candied Lemon peel (sukat) inside, and No chocolate on top

Great video. It is very nice to see that you are having fun and enjoying the Danish food :D I just wanted to say, that the inside of a flødebolle is not marshmallow but actually meringue. :)

Tebirkers are defintely my fave when I visit Danmark! I also love the hindbær flødebolle (raspberry) :) Back to my 2nd home in a few days! Had to give a little giggle at the pronounciations but Danish is very hard to pronounce!

Soo beautiful and nice sharing 👌😊

Thank you for sharing this. Your friend has the most gorgeous eyes.

Lagkagehuset have good products but VERY expensive

Your pronunciation of flødeboller wasn't half bad. Glad you guys enjoyed yourself.

The yellow Castle in "Frederiksberg Gardens", is the Danish Military academy, where the officers for the Danish Army is being educated. And a little side fact is that the Castle has a church inside, and my wife and I was married there and had a party on the Castle.

Since those are Indian elephants, I wouldn’t necessarily book a flight to Africa to find them in the wild 😉

Julebolle is made with something called '' orange cubes '' ( orange tern) its candis orange cubes, thats dried. then its made with sukat ( a form of sugar) cardemom, hasselnuts and cinemon. Tebirkes also called tea puppyseed ( if translated ) is an item eaten with youre afternoone tea, often cut in half and aten with butter. its breadlike as youre breakfast bread, but a little more flaky like a cake, the bread is savery and the remonce is sweet, like a cake. the '' caramel '' insite is called remonce and is a creeme made with soft butter, cinemon, brown sugar and some oil and a bit of flour to thicken it up, the honney heart is only here and made with honey instead of sugar because, when the time the cake came around sugar havent hitted europe yet :)

The thing with most Danish pastries (especially the flaky ones) is that excess sweetness is very rarely baked into the dough itself - instead if the pastry requires a sweeter experience, then the sweetness will come from baked-in creams and toppings instead, usually with cinnamon and jam etc, so the dough isn't "compromised". The dough itself is a mix of salt and sweet, which is also a common theme in many Danish sweets like some of our liquorice, salted caramel, etc. The key in making the Danish dough is to keep it crisp and very light, but with a sweet&salt flavor unlike traditional French croissant which is more buttery and plain.

Fun video... want a second take two on eating a flødebolle on camera? :P .. usually I bite from the top down.. not from the side.. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on our capital here in Denmark.

The salmon you ate was imported from Norway - and it's good! 🙂

The te-birkes should be eaten with saltet butter traditionally, or I love it with Nutella!

That was a big gingerbread commitment for non-gingerbread lovers lol. So happy to see excited Jenny! Glad you got to visit the elephant castle. Looks like the baby elephant was breakdancing. That fish is massive! What a classy looking salmon! Chocolate with marshmallow sounds amazing!

I am from copenhagen🎉 i love the food too

thebirkes you can put butter in the middel where you cut one side and "open it up to put butter on one of the layers. or on the backside which is plain.. that makes it taste alot better if you ask me. comming from a 43 year old dane, that's how i've eaten em my whole life.

The chrismas bun could be apricot or perhaps a small amount of marcipan

with smorrebrod usually you drink schnapps, or aqauavit. Did you try that. The danes are very good at making schnapps. So is the swedes

When eating a Hotdog it’s important to keep the pointing finger at the back of the sausage while biting. If not you risc pushing the sausage out of the bread.

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Tebirkes is enjoyed with butter

God video 😊

Hi how are you ? Nice video

You should have gotten spandauer

wtf? We have SO much MORE to offer!!!!!! plz try all we have!!!

I have eaten a lot of thebirkes and seen my mates eat thebirkes, I have never ever heard of people in Denmark do this, some people might, but it is not a cultural thing at all

12:35 white bread, that’s kind of cheating. :P

Is it possible to discribe the difference between american hotdog and danish? - specially the hotdog itself?

I have never ever seen anyone put the Tebirkes in the coffee, sorry. Not in the last 60 years in Copenhagen, but it might be a thing for younger people.. Tebirkes are usually sweet and a lot of Dane’s put butter in it.

3:14 No you cut it open and put a layer of butter inside !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A small suggestion, please add the restaurant names and place details in description,easy to Google and explore it…

The honey-heart was not original , normally it has a thin layer of dark chocolate.. Also some like them fresh and soft while others like them the day after, when there's a little more bite in them

So no one told you to get flæskesteg med rødkål? On behalf of my country - I must apologize for the sub-par advice you were given. Flæskesteg med rødkål (pork roast with crackling + sweet pickled red cabbage) is THE undisputed GOAT of the Danish kitchen. It's literally the perfect "sweet, salty, sour, savory" combination. VERY few Danes would turn you down if you offered it to them - and they would get a "What the heeeeeellllllllll" look from most other Danes when they do. 😀 Different uses of it: It can be served with potatoes, a brown sauce made from the pork roast + different kinds of pickled cucumber (including "Asier") as a family dinner. + Taffel chips or Menu chips... or both! In a sandwich. On smørrebrød. In a burger. And the leftovers are great for "Biksemad" All 5 versions are insanely good - and the first thing that comes to mind for most Danes when mentioning "Danish food".

dip tebirkes in coffe????? i put butter on it

Kanelsnegl = cinnamon roll. The danish name translated is “cinnamon snail”

How are you couple 😍. You have created an amazing content. Wish you will succeed in RU-vid ✌️. I am from Bangladesh, take love and whishes. If i mistake any wrong word plz forgive me. Thank you couple 😍🇧🇩🇧🇩.

Well in the USA one can eat hot dogs not just because you are short of money, hot dogs there can also be awesome, just to name one: Coney Island Famous. Danish ones are also deliciously yummy

as a dane, oh lord the prices :D i totally forgot how stupid expensive everything is :D

Honningkage er fra Cristensfeld

And Frederiksberg caste was a summer resedince for the royals not permanent Living quarters jezz

Not being in tivoli???

The tebirkes is amazing with cheese og butter, or both. If you ever come back come and see me at my hotdog stand and I'll treat you to a really good hotdog. I'm located at the geffion fountain

iam so sorry that your danish friend tog you in to a fast food bakery, Lagkagehuset is a concept bakery like mc donald or bugerking in Denmark ther are 4 factorys that make all the cake and bread and drive it premade out to the shops at night , some cake can be upto 4 days old

Hi Jacob & Jenny if you would like to know more about what it is like to live in Denmark from an American point of view, I can recommend the RU-vid channel Travelin' Young which is an American family that moved to Denmark, in 2018

It’s mildly annoying that you didn’t get to visit Tivoli…

Very very beautiful friend 🥀🌺💗💐🎁💗☺️

Did ya’ll call Lagkagehuset a bakery? That’s an indsult to actual bakery’s.

You really need to go to Jylland denmark and not copenhagen. Jylland is more old denmark. Copenhagen is much more international mixed. And also the Honey heart is original with dark chocolate and a little paper pictures on top.

Next time... some of the most important food in Denmark and the other Nordic countries at Jule time are our many varieties of pork, Liver patej with bacon, fried pork and pork roast -- the Nordic countries are proud of their heritage going back to the early Iron Age, eating pork at Christmas time is in honor of the Nordic gods, Odin and Frej as well as our ancestors, and our famous Jule lunch is in honor of Odin.

How dare you disrespekt my honningkage like that

Awe, get a knife to share the pastries with the Danish person

Lagkagehuset is not the best choice for traditional Danish pastries…. Bodenhoff bakery is far better in this regard… Lagkagehuset is more of a modernized version of it, and just popular because it became a marketing success

YOU EAT SMØRREBRØD WITH A KNIFE AND FORK!

That was the least traditionell least smørebrøds things i've ever seen... you don't even get everything at once

The salmon has the fishy taste it's supposed to. The fish for sale in the US just have a lot of additives and stuff that creates that taste. Fish in Denmark has a varied range of tastes and they're all unique since the fish is raw, so to speak, instead of loaded up with additives that all give them the same artificial taste. Also, fresh fish never, ever smell of anything save seawater mixed with meat. If you ever get a fish that smells of anything else t then it's past the date of its last sale and should just be tossed no matter how fresh it looks. The food you ate in Europe compared to the US is how food is supposed to taste. Instead of our food being exceptional it's US food that's horrible, and that's a general thing as several of the additives in US food are illegal for consumption in Europe. I think the additives used in US bread to keep it fresh and bouncy are derived from rubber or used in rubber itself and should never be consumed by humans or any living beings for that matter. European bread will often start molding in four days unless refrigerated, this includes factory-produced bread, though most of it will last around a week so it can be sold. US bread can easily last four weeks outside of one. Spangsbjerg Flødeboller are high-quality items, practically the highest level of gourmet flødebolle for commercial sale that you can find. They have stringent quality control where if their flødeboller has even the slightest production flaw, even if the stuffing is perfect is rated as second-grade and sold via outlets instead of stores.

Kanelsnegle translates to cinnamon rolls in English and it definitely ain't Danish.

Im just gonna tell you. The way you ate the flødebolle should be illegal. All the danish people, including me eat it from the top and get to the bottom with the wafer last. Sometimes the well rounded bite isnt the correct bite.

Couldn’t finish the video…

I'm sure our new king will pardon you for eating smorrebrod with your hands 🤣

I`m sorry, but making you pay 16 USD (112,00 DKR) is stealing. That is so overprized for that "smoerrebroed". Everywhere else in DK that would probably cost half, and that is still expensive. Next time find another place in DK to visit... :)

Danish foods is really expensive. Not fantastic either

Hello girls of Copenhagen and Denmark, I am over twenty-five and have not been married yet. Is anyone interested?

Geez, who makes that kind of face eating a gingerbread cake. It is not poison!

Nobody likes the Honny Heart :p

wow your danish guide is not that good ;) HAHAH

Who id this person you have with you talking food . Jesus she has no idea about what she is talking about or how to present it or how it is consummed

Thank you for the nice video. I am sorry, that you fell into the turist trap "Torvehallerne", inspite of you having a danish guide. It is SO expensive! Next time please try some of the cheaper traditionelle Danish restaurants. Like: "Restaurant Vita. Storekongesgade 25. 1264 København K". Or "Restaurant Klubben. Enghavevej 4. 1674 København V"" Or "Det lille apotek. Store Kannikestræde 15. 1264 København K". And you simply have to try: Roasted pork with crackling salthy skin and "brown potatoes" (fried in sugar and butter) + white potatoes, gravy and red cabbage. So Yummy. Most Americans loves it. Btw.. The danish version of "Gravad salmon, is usually served with asparagus and a cold mustard gravy (named Fox souce", no foxes in it though) . And please also try real Smørrebrød on rye bread, difrent versions, sitting down eating with knife and fork. Like Fish Filet with lemon and "Remulade". Do feel free to contact me, if you need more informaion. Thank you again😋