Another Newspaper Clipping
This is what happens when the icebreaker ship finds a barren, permanently ice-bound rock wayyyy the heck up north, in an area of ambiguous boundaries. The leaders of Canada and Denmark get in a snit over whose barren ice-bound rock it is, the non-leaders wonder why anyone really cares, and Dan Murphy draws up another zinger.
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Sorry so small, I'm new to this image-posting thing - but if you click on it, lean forward, squint, and concentrate really hard, you'll be able to read the writing...
OMG, I heard about this on NPR Friday morning...I thought it was a joke at first...some chick has an actual blog about it, I wish I could remember the URL!
I was going to e-mail you after I heard about it, once again on NPR, to see what you though about all this. Are you going to war with the Danes? Are you going to be a conscientious objector? Have they arrested your father as a Danish Spy yet?
I think Dad, as a native of Denmark but citizen of Canada for the last 40 years, is riding the fence on this issue. We did giggle a little into our beers over it, though...
The chick on NPR with the blog said that ya'll have to start calling Danishes "Freedom Pastry". Lol.
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Heh. That, or start avoiding hotel-supplied continental breakfasts altogether.
Oh, GAWD. Like the PLAGUE! Indeed.
Yeah! I always thought that calling them danishes was a great disfavour to Danish pastries as a whole. First, because danishes are awful, being inevitably stale, bland, and sticky, and second, because you'll really never find them in any half-decent Danish bakery. There's one pastry that looks a bit like a danish if a danish was shaped like a pretzel, but it's called a kringle and tastes nothing like, thank goodness. The Danes may have funny attachments to frozen bits of rock, but they sure can cook...
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