Tall food is good food
Ah yes. Smørrebrød. Apparently the most famous part of the Danish kitchen.
For those who don’t know what that is, American’s usually translate it to “open sandwich” even though the direct translation would be “buttered bread”. Basically you take a thin slice of bread (can be white or dark, though smørrebrød with white bread is seen as children’s food) and put thin slices of...whatever you want really on top of it. It is then eaten with knife and fork, because the whole thing can get so tall that it would fall apart if you tried to lift it off the plate. Often the topping completely hides the bread underneath.
This is what it looks like http://www.sst.dk/publ/publ1999/spisbedre/SUSBOP/Dokument/smorrebr.gif
We eat it all the freaking time. At home, work and even parties.
A popular version in my family is dark bread with curry-herring (which as the name suggest, is herring dipped in curry) with shrimps on top, and on top of that slices of egg, finally sprinkled with raw onion, chive, salt and pepper. It may sound awful, but don’t diss it till you’ve tried it.
But the American would no doubt win the eating contest anyway. I once went to a restaurant that served noting but American food, and my friend and I quickly agreed that we would have to share a meal that was supposed to be for one person. My god you people can eat a lot of food.
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6th September 2009
8 years ago #9559908
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it is why the majority of us are ether vary athletic (need a lot of food to fuel that) or vary fat.
8 years ago #9531120
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We like our servings big but don't expect you to finish the plate off the idea at restaurant is you should never leave hungry, but no one is offended if you do finish it off. When I go to a non buffet place i expect to have some to take home and have for lunch. At one place they do a have one take one where you order food for there and one to be delivered at the end of the meal to take for later and it comes with unlimited soups and you can switch your soups around when I go there I get that and fill up on soup and free bread sticks and about a quarter of the meal then ask for another bowl eat about a 1/4 of that and ask for a carry out for my soup and plate so i leave with 2 meals and a soup making it a total of 3 meals. (the take home meal is about half the size of the in restaurant meal). BTW how do you cook the fish i am always up to trying new things.
8 years ago #9481257
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In the US, such a thing is called smorgasbord.
It has also become a term for a large, messy collection of things, such as (he has a smorgasbord of different video games)
It has also become a term for a large, messy collection of things, such as (he has a smorgasbord of different video games)
4 years ago #9844402
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Who, I’m Canadien (From Quebec) and I have no problem eating American food. Even sometimes I’m still hungry for desert. Btw I thin.
6 years ago #9777949
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That "smørrebrød" don't look that delicious, eating crab AND fish at the same time? No thank you xD
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