I am in a funk - feeling I kill threads!

[DrZombie]

What is funny is to look at how much they have been changed over the years, becoming kid tells where there were adult spook stories.

And they've been really tuned down from the medieval stories, boy. I mean, you name it, snowwhite : a girl living with seven miners? Do I need to draw a picture here?

 

[AGGEMAM]

I've been by your house before.

Copenhagen was one of my favorite places in Europe. You're a lucky man.

You have? why didn't you mail me then?

Off course I pressume it was before you knew anyone on the internet here. But you're right, it's not just a tourist gimmick that they call it Wonderful Copenhagen. We have almost everything, and still has a sort of 'small town'-feel to it.

My swedish friends envy me because we are much more open and outgoing than in Stockholm, my Spanish friends say it's all that is good about scandinavia but with a continental feel, and my Australian friends just say it reminds them of home.

 

[MerakSpielman]

Yes, but how's the food there?

 

[AGGEMAM]

What is funny is to look at how much they have been changed over the years, becoming kid tells where there were adult spook stories.

If you take Hans Christian Andersen's stories they were all meant to educate children in a very subtle way, every story teaches a lesson, and sure it could be grim and gritty at times and didn't always end with '..and they lived happily ever after.', but that's a lesson in it self. Basically he wrote them as an educational tool, and that IMO has been lost since, especially in the Disney versions of his stories.

When I watch eg Cartoon Network, I find amazing what load of crap they serve up for the kids these days. Idle shows devoid of any deeper meaning.

 

[MerakSpielman]

I found that most of today's cartoons have a moral or lesson, but it's generally just tacked-on to the the end. They don't spend much time exploring it.

 

[AGGEMAM]

Yes, but how's the food there?

Well, we have it all as in most places these days. But tradional danish food is also very varied in it self. Seafood, pork, beef, and lamb interchange frequently in danish recipies, as well as loads of fresh vegetables. Actually it's funny that we live so close to England, Germany, Sweden, and Norway yet our food is so different. Sometimes it's only details, but as you know details make the whole difference.

If one should name the quintessential danish food it would anything on rye bread (which is a danish invention), but especially pickled herring with onion rings, kapers (don't know what it is in english) lettuce, tomato slice, boiled egg slice, and finally a quite hot curry sauce on top of a piece of rye bread.

That and danish off course, which we eat for mid-morning coffee.

 

[AGGEMAM]

I found that most of today's cartoons have a moral or lesson, but it's generally just tacked-on to the the end. They don't spend much time exploring it.

You have? I must have been unlucky or too impatient then.

Anyways, I think it's better to read to your children instead. I know I have learned a lot from all these stories I was read as a kid.

 

[MerakSpielman]

If one should name the quintessential danish food it would anything on rye bread (which is a danish invention), but especially pickled herring with onion rings, kapers (don't know what it is in english) lettuce, tomato slice, boiled egg slice, and finally a quite hot curry sauce on top of a piece of rye bread.

That and danish off course, which we eat for mid-morning coffee.

Ok, I like rye bread. Never had pickled herring, but I like sardines, so I think they'd go down well. Onion rings - a favorite of mine. Kapers are still kapers in English, as far as I know, except maybe they're spelled "capers." I've had 'em, but don't remember if I like 'em. Veggies and egg, ok, that sounds good... Curry? I thought curry was a traditional Indian spice? How on earth did it get to be a part of a traditional Danish recipe? That sandwich sounds good, all in all, though. Maybe I'll make one if I can find the right curry sauce. I know there are pickled herring in the supermarkets here.

Wow, they actually eat danishes in Holland? I thought danishes were like French Fries, French Toast, fortune cookies, and Belgian waffles - invented by americans who want to pretend they're eating foreign food. Actually, I'm not sure about Belgian waffles. Any Belgians here?

 

[MerakSpielman]

Anyways, I think it's better to read to your children instead. I know I have learned a lot from all these stories I was read as a kid.

Total agreement.

 

[ASH]

I hate barny... I really do! My son loves him, the songs the lessons the whole thing. But I just hate him. Id rather watch the teletubbies...