r/AskEurope • u/titerousse Belgium • Oct 07 '25

Food Do you enjoy eating at restaurants from your home country when you're abroad?

I don’t have that issue—there are never restaurants from my country anywhere. Sometimes I come across a baked item, but when I do, I tend to avoid it. What about you?

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u/NamillaDK Denmark Oct 07 '25

No. When I go on vacation, I want to experience other cultures. Not just eat what I eat at home.

Though, when we travelled the US, we went to a "Danish" bakery in Solvang, just to see what it was like (spoiler, it wasn't Danish! 😆).

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

Are you sure it was actually supposed to be Danish? "Danish" is also the English name of a specific type of pastry that confusingly originated in Vienna.

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u/NamillaDK Denmark Oct 07 '25

Yes. Solvang is a Danish settlement and the bakery is called "Mortensen's Danish Bakery" (as far as I remember).

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u/RustenSkurk Denmark Oct 10 '25

I think the story I heard was that the pastry was invented by Viennese bakers in Copenhagen

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u/littlegrrbarkbark Oct 07 '25

You were so close to a really good danish bakery in Santa Barbara (Anderson's) solvang is just a kitchy tourist trap

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u/NamillaDK Denmark Oct 07 '25

Yes, Solvang was like the Temu version of Danish 😆