Smørrebrød

jfk_04Nearly everybody somehow knows the word “Smörrebröd” and I realized that many people think its Swedish (including me, before I came here). But it is actually the Danish word for “Butterbrot” (=bread with butter), what is called “Smörgås” in Swedish. This also explanes why the Swedish dish I was talking aboug earlier,  is called “Smörgåstarta”.

The picture to the left I actually took in Copenhagen last weekend. It’s an advertisement in front of a restaurant.  It reminded me so much on the confusion connected to this word that I decided to take a picture and write a blog about it.

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  1. stefan says:
    18 July 2009 at 6:06

    i always believed this word was invented by otto just because it sounds funny …. now that it finally exists in real life it lost all of it’s magic to me ;-)

  2. Tommy says:
    24 July 2009 at 21:17

    So what? As an SRA you will forget about it in a second. ;-P

  3. stefan says:
    3 August 2009 at 17:09

    forget about what?

  4. Anne says:
    4 August 2009 at 7:55

    LOOOOOOOOL!

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