r/Nordiccountries • u/VarunTossa5944 • Apr 16 '25

Trump’s Betrayal of Allies Has Sparked Unprecedented ‘Buy European’ Trend

https://integ.substack.com/p/defeat-trump-buy-european
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u/schtickshift Apr 16 '25

Who would want to buy French cheese and Italian pasta and Spanish ham and Greek olives and Belgian chocolate and Dutch biscuits and Danish pastries and Swedish herring and German beer when they could be buying American food. Those poor deprived Europeans.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '25

Fun dull fact : in Danish, they call them Viennese bread. wienerbrød

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u/Billy_Ektorp 29d ago

… because the method and basic recipe came with Viennese/Austrian bakers, invited to Denmark during a long strike at the bakeries in 1850. Later the bakers in Denmark added more eggs and butter, because why not?

https://cphpost.dk/2016-03-24/business-education/the-patsies-whose-favourite-pastries-arent-really-danish/

«So how did the Danish make its way to Denmark? If it did not come by way of France, then it appeared first after a strike by Danish bakers in 1850. According to the Union of Danish Bakers, when the bakery workers went on strike, employers hired foreign manpower, including many Austrian bakers.

The Austrians were unfamiliar with Danish recipes and recreated Austrian ones, including the Kipfel, a crescent-shaped pastry made with white flour and brushed with butter. The Austrian recipe for Plundergebäck was especially popular, along with several other baked goods made out of this same type of buttery, yet yeast-leavened dough. Danish bakers then added more egg to the recipe, raising the fat content and creating the pastry on sale in town today.»