Or some Danish drinks:
I'll just have a Danish ham...
Here's a whole website full of Danish specialties:
DANISH SPECIALTIES
Posted on 02/18/2006 6:22:50 AM PST by snowsislander
In the wake of a Danish newspaper’s decision to publish cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad, Danish flags and embassies are beset by violent protesters in heavily Muslim countries. But a chocolate store in the windmill-filled, Danish American tourist village of Solvang has enjoyed a small spike in its mail-order business.
And it’s not just because of Valentine’s Day, though that always helps, said chocolatemaker Bent Pedersen.
“One comment was that they were buying in support of Denmark,” said Pedersen, who owns Ingeborg’s World Famous Danish Chocolates, which does a brisk business online from its Copenhagen Drive store.
Pedersen said that since anti-Danish rioting began, several people have called in long-distance orders and mentioned their desire to “buy Danish.” Consumers in heavily Muslim countries, in contrast, are boycotting Danish products, reportedly costing Danish business up to $1 million a day. In response, European and American free-speech supporters have been advocating a less well-known “Buy Danish” campaign.
Local law enforcement has, in recent days, become more focused on Solvang, which lies about 4 miles west of Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch, in case it should become a target. The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department issued an advisory about the rioting overseas to deputies on patrol.
“We’re on a heightened state of awareness, but we’re not on tactical alert,” said sheriff’s Lt. Phil Willis, Solvang station commander.
The only possible local targeting of Danish interests appears to be online. Before the anti-cartoon protests began, Denmark’s L.A. consulate, along with Danish embassies and consulates worldwide, received thousands of e-mails about the cartoons, overloading the Danish Foreign Ministry’s Internet systems.
“They were of just a magnitude that did create some problems in our e-mails,” said a diplomat at Denmark’s embassy in Washington, D.C. “We got several thousand of them. They were not hostile necessarily. Some of them, the ones that we could identify as being from the U.S., were sort of 50/50.”
A Northridge-based Danish American newspaper has no plans to reprint the cartoons that originally were published last fall. “We don’t need all that controversy,” said Gert Madsen, editor-in-chief of the national weekly Bien.
Pedersen in Solvang appreciated the handful of pro-Danish chocolate orders, which ran about $50 each, but thought it odd to get phone requests all the way from Maryland.
“It still was strange,” Pedersen said of one of the Danish chocolate lovers. “I don’t know how he found us.”
For instance, at the end of this story Muslim boycotts of Danish products costly (and many of the very similiar ones that this AP story spawned), you can find the paragraphs:
The boycott has also spawned a grass-roots Internet campaign by people around the world urging others to "Buy Danish," generally in support of freedom of speech."The Danish government has nothing to do with it and has been very correct that they have nothing to say about what newspapers publish, and we should not let these religious fanatics try to make them," said Tijl Vercaemer, an engineering student in Ghent, Belgium. He started his supportdenmark.com Web site after watching Palestinian gunmen briefly take over an EU office in Gaza on Jan. 30 in anger over the drawings.
Vercaemer said he has received thousands of e-mails in response to his site - one of many that have sprouted up in support of Denmark - including from Muslims expressing their solidarity.
On Wednesday he started selling stickers, at about $1 for 15 to cover his costs, with the slogan "Help the Danes defend our freedom: SUPPORT DENMARK" and said he has already shipped more than 700.
"It's hard to say whether the 'Buy Danish' campaign really works, it was more intended as moral support," the 23-year-old said. "But I was very happy to read ... that some companies say that they really thought the 'Buy Danish' campaign could give them more income than the boycott could cost them."
I have read elsewhere that there is a net gain for Danish products - I'll try to find the reference.
Time to get me some butter cookies, and maybe some Havarti...
Personally, I think the AP is full of hot air. The "Muslim on the street" - you know, the friendly chap who straps bombs onto his kids and sends them to blow up Jews - consumes, I suspect, NO Danish products at all and this $1 million figure is a complete fabrication by a liberal reporter.
Does someone have a list of Danish products available in the US?
For sure, I will buy something this weekend in support of these embattled people.
Yeah, this is a cause that is a real "sweet" one. I like Danish pastries anyway, so now I'm just adding a few more "breakfast pastries" to my grocery cart in support of the Danish!
That's what I bought at BJs. Trader Joe's had nothing.
Why not turn the boycott around and stop buying oil? :^)
We still need to heat our homes, as well as get from where we are to where we need to be, so "stop buying oil" really isn't that viable at the current point in time.
Unless you're suggesting that the oil just be siezed, instead of being paid for.
Or some Danish drinks:
I'll just have a Danish ham...
Here's a whole website full of Danish specialties:
DANISH SPECIALTIES
www.bodum.com
Yes, this weekend will see some more purchases on my part.
“It still was strange,” Pedersen said of one of the Danish chocolate lovers. “I don’t know how he found us.”
BK, wasn't that you that posted the Solvang link on a previous thread? Heehehehe :-D
Picked up some Harvarti cheese. It is delicious!
Joke.
If anyone has access to Arla products (milk and butter etc) buy that. They seem to be suffereing the most from loss of revenues. I have heard, but have not confirmed, that Wal-Marts carry some Arla products.
Lurpak butter is an Arla product, though I don't know if Wal-Mart carries it. Rosenborg blue cheese is also a good Arla product.
(If you like blue cheese, here's a recipe for a "blue cheese pasta" dish. And here's one for a blue cheese and fish dish.)
Thanks for the post.
I've got some O\ZON mints. Didn't know they were Danish until I saw your post!
They're good. Got 'em at the World Market.
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