The Danish?

Question

What are people from Denmark best known for? Any historical events? Recipes? Funny anecdotes?

Answer 1

Actually, bacon isn't far off - there are more pigs in Denmark than there are people.  The restaurant chain Chili's in the US only uses Danish pork for their ribs.

I think the most 'famous' Dane is Hamlet, personally ;)

Answer 2

Bacon. Definitely bacon :)

Answer 3

H.C. Andersen

Answer 4

Denmark is the happiest country in the world! People are friendly and most everyone speaks english.

Answer 5

Denmark is known as the happiest nation on earth and having been there I belive it.

They are well known for Hans Christian Anderson (Little Mermaid, ugly duckling)

Niels Bohr is also a famous Dane as he came up with the Bohr model of the atom (which everybody learns in school at some point.)

They have the longest reigning monarchy ( in that the same family has been in power for longer then any other fuling family).  But they are a democracy with a parliament.

Lego was invented in Denmark

Viggo Mortensen is half Danish

All of the danish princes/kings are named either Christian or Frederick.

Here is a great website for recipes

http://www.mindspring.com/~cborgnaes/

If you are going to visit Denamrk you absolutely have to try a Fransk Hotdog, it will change your life.

Answer 6

Historically, there's the whole viking age and the Danish evacuation of jews during WWII.

Famous people: H.C. Andersen, Tycho Brahe, Niels Bohr, Vitus Bering, Søren Kierkegaard to name a few.

Living famous Danes that you might be familiar with: Lars Ulrich, Helena Christensen, Mads Mikkelsen, Lars von Trier, Michael Laudrup

Food: Danish bacon, Danish pastry, Danish hotdogs, Danish smørrebrød. Danish cuisine doesn't really have a reputation for being good or any reputation really for that matter, but apart from a few items, which are apparently extremely disgusting to foreigners (liquorice, liverpaste), most are very pleasantly surpriced by Danish food. :)

Other: The Danish flag is to oldest in the world and according to legend it fell from the sky during a battle in Estonia in 1219.

Fun stuff: The Danish word for speed is "f**t". Now, I'm Danish, so don't think it's THAT funny, but my foreign husband, family and friends who are learning Danish find our road signs amusing to no end: "mind your f**t", "f**t-bump", "f**t-police" etc.