{"id":1519,"date":"2017-03-31T23:55:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T23:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2017-04-01T01:28:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T01:28:31","slug":"enter-the-danish-ice-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/2017\/03\/31\/enter-the-danish-ice-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Enter the Danish Ice Age"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mmm! \ud83d\ude42 (Photo courtesy of Thomas Angermann at Flickr<\/a>, CC License.)<\/p><\/div>\n

Sommeren er p\u00e5 vej, og det betyder is!<\/b> (Summer is coming, and that means ice cream!) Even though it\u2019s only for\u00e5r<\/b> (Spring, literally \u201dfore-year\u201d), Danes love<\/i> ice cream, and the combination of temperatures around fjorten grader<\/b> (fourteen degrees of Celsius) or so and a bit of sol<\/b> (sun) is an excellent excuse to buy yourself a cold treat!<\/p>\n

Every marts<\/b> (March) when the ice season really starts, you\u2019ll see a lang k\u00f8<\/b> (long line) of people outside an ice cream shop somewhere, patiently waiting to get en gratis is<\/b> (a free ice cream)! Many specialised shops are giving away is<\/b> for free on their opening day, and as Danes love free stuff even more than their ice cream, you have to show up early if you want to have a chance before fryseren<\/b> (the freezer) is tom <\/b>(empty)! For example, on March 21st<\/sup><\/span> the company Frisko gave away 100,000 gratis is <\/b>all over the country.<\/p>\n

Vil du have en ispind eller en isvaffel?<\/b> (Would you like an ice cream on a lolly stick or in a cone?) Er du til fl\u00f8deis eller sodavandsis? <\/b>(Do you prefer [creamy] ice cream or [watery] ice lolly?) You could try a k\u00f8benhavnerstang<\/b><\/a> \u2013 a uniquely Danish ice cream that combines the two kinds of ice (cream at the core and frozen lemonade around it).<\/p>\n

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This ispind<\/strong> looks a bit like a k\u00f8benhavnerstang<\/strong> (without the white inner core of cream). (Image from Open Clipart<\/a>.)<\/p><\/div>\n

L\u00e6kkersultne danskere<\/b> (Danes fancying something delicious to eat) often go for the creamy Magnum-is <\/b>[MAOOnum-eece] that have a thick cover of very tasty chokolade<\/b>. Another favourite, especially when the sun is scorching, is a big softice <\/b>[SOFTeyes] <\/b>(soft ice \u2013 for some reason, there doesn\u2019t exist a proper Danish word for this; only the spelling has been changed a bit). Some places you can get your softice<\/b> with guf <\/b>[gawf], which I haven\u2019t seen in any other countries. It\u2019s a kind of pink, sweet, thick sauce \u2013 you should try it out. \ud83d\ude42 Be careful, though, as a softice <\/b>tends to melt away really quickly!<\/p>\n

Danes sometimes discuss ice cream names (yes, really!) For example, some people think the name K\u00e6mpe Eskimo<\/b> (Huge Eskimo) is racist and should be changed. Other people think there should be more Danish ice cream names instead of English ones, which are invading the iskiosker<\/b> (ice cream kiosks) everywhere\u2026<\/p>\n

For those Danes who just can\u2019t wait for the spring to fill the streets, there even is a home-delivery ice-cream service! The company Hjem-is<\/b> [yem-eece] famously criss-crosses Denmark in their bright blue vans loaded with everything ice-cream related. When one of the cars is entering a villakvarter<\/b> (residential neigbourhood), the driver ringer med klokken<\/b> (rings a bell), and parents get busy to secure some is<\/b> to their eager b\u00f8rn <\/b>(children). In fact, the sound of the company\u2019s bell is so common that I heard a child at a funeral thought the tolling of the church\u2019s bells meant that Hjem-is-bilen<\/b> (the Hjem-is car) was coming!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Sommeren er p\u00e5 vej, og det betyder is! (Summer is coming, and that means ice cream!) Even though it\u2019s only for\u00e5r (Spring, literally \u201dfore-year\u201d), Danes love ice cream, and the combination of temperatures around fjorten grader (fourteen degrees of Celsius) or so and a bit of sol (sun) is an excellent excuse to buy yourself…<\/p>\n

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