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In Denmark we have a long standing tradition about late November and December weekends. What we do is meeting with our friends, work colleagues, school bodies, neighbours etc., and we eat a big dinner (not all together but over the mentioned weekends). The traditional dinner starts with fish and move over to meat. Everything is served on rue bread, which is called an open sandwich - a Danish speciality. With every course (and there are a lot) we drink snaps.
Basically everybody gets really, really drunk and fool around. Many Danes have been unfaithful during one of these dinners (I haven’t of course &#61514😉, and it’s a normal to hear people comment that it happened during a Christmas dinner, so it doesn’t matter.
If you come to Denmark during these weekends be prepared to see funny and sometimes freaky things when in town.

Do other countries have the same tradition?

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Originally posted by Lundos
In Denmark we have a long standing tradition about late November and December weekends. What we do is meeting with our friends, work colleagues, school bodies, neighbours etc., and we eat a big dinner (not all together but over the mentioned weekends). The traditional dinner starts with fish and move over to meat. Everything is served on rue bread, which is c ...[text shortened]... funny and sometimes freaky things when in town.

Do other countries have the same tradition?
In America we get drunk, and then spend more money than what we actually have. 😕

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Originally posted by Ice Cold
In America we get drunk, and then spend more money than what we actually have. 😕
This explains American foreign policy very succinctly 😕 The World As One Big Office Christmas Party

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Originally posted by widget
This explains American foreign policy very succinctly 😕 The World As One Big Office Christmas Party
I'll drink to that, cheers. 🙂

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Originally posted by Lundos
In Denmark we have a long standing tradition about late November and December weekends. What we do is meeting with our friends, work colleagues, school bodies, neighbours etc., and we eat a big dinner (not all together but over the mentioned weekends). The traditional dinner starts with fish and move over to meat. Everything is served on rue bread, which is c ...[text shortened]... funny and sometimes freaky things when in town.

Do other countries have the same tradition?
Something like that in the U.S. would be grounds for DIVORCE.

I understand it is much more LOOSE in Denmark. (I have distant family in Copenhagen).

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Originally posted by mlprior
Something like that in the U.S. would be grounds for DIVORCE.

I understand it is much more LOOSE in Denmark. (I have distant family in Copenhagen).
Copenhagen is much better than Skoal.

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Originally posted by Ice Cold
In America we get drunk, and then spend more money than what we actually have. 😕
Why?

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Originally posted by drdon
Why?
It's a tradition, that's why.

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Originally posted by Lundos
In Denmark we have a long standing tradition about late November and December weekends. What we do is meeting with our friends, work colleagues, school bodies, neighbours etc., and we eat a big dinner (not all together but over the mentioned weekends). The traditional dinner starts with fish and move over to meat. Everything is served on rue bread, which is c ...[text shortened]... funny and sometimes freaky things when in town.

Do other countries have the same tradition?
Typical Scottish day 🙂

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Originally posted by Lundos
In Denmark we have a long standing tradition about late November and December weekends. What we do is meeting with our friends, work colleagues, school bodies, neighbours etc., and we eat a big dinner (not all together but over the mentioned weekends). The traditional dinner starts with fish and move over to meat. Everything is served on rue bread, which is c ...[text shortened]... funny and sometimes freaky things when in town.

Do other countries have the same tradition?
We always have an Indian on Crimmey day, ordered the night before as a take-away....let it go cold and pop it in the fridge overnight.
Wake up....give the missus one, open a few pressies then it's big eats time. Smoked salmon and wholemeal bread with a couple of bottles of Shampoo whilst the curry is in the slow cooker....2 x Hot chicken Tikka Massala with pilau rice, bombay potato, naan bread reheated under the grill with 2/3 popadoms and onion/corriander garnish, lashings of Cobra beer and then fall asleep in front of the TV......Sorted.

Have got 24 people round for xmas eve so falling asleep in front of the TV is allowed. 😵