Food on Fridays takes a look at a food Chris and I figured had to try on a recent layover at the airport in Copenhagen: Danish.

I know, it’s goofy. We did realize that getting food at any airport is not really the best way to sample the local cuisine, of course. But hey – when in Rome — er, Denmark — you do what you have to do, when you’ve got a couple of hours to kill between flights.

As we anticipated that was not the best example of a Danish style pastry. We don’t know for sure what they really call the pastry there, of course, but this was at least labelled “danish”, though perhaps only for the tourists.

Well, at least it sort of looked like that. It was kind of like a danish style dough/ squashed cinnamon-roll combination. Fusion pastry, perhaps? Or just a bad example of an authentic Danish danish.  Hard to say. It wasn’t terribly tasty, but it made for a fun thing to do while we wait between flights in Copenhagen (on our way to Iceland back in May).

The most interesting thing about flying through Copenhagen, though, was actually what we saw on the approach into the airport. There was what looked like a really, really, really, really long bridge under construction across a large body of water. As first glance, it seemed to be only half-completed, stretching far out into the water and then abruptly stopping.

Which made the second glance a bit startling: there were cars headed toward where it seemed to end in the water.

Yikes! What?!

No, this was not a major disaster. As we found out when we looked it up later, what we were seeing was the Øresund Bridge. According to Wikipedia, that’s a “double-track railway and dual carriageway bridge-tunnel across the Øresund strait between Scania (southernmost Sweden) and Denmark,” connecting the cities of Copenhagen, the Danish capital city, to the major Swedish city of Malmö. Click here to see a gorgeous photo on somebody else’s blog that shows out the road over the bridge seems to go right into the water.

Now, I really should have known about this bridge already.  After all, Malmö and  Copenhagen were the sites of the last 2 Eurovision Contests, Malmö in 2013, and Copenhagen this past May; from the air we also were able to see the giant Copenhagen venue that was specially built for this year’s Eurovision. The hosts of the shows actually joked on-air about how it was just a short drive from one place to the other. I thought they were kidding, since I knew there was a large body of water between them, but it turns out they were serious.

But I have greatly digressed from the danish. Just for fun, I played today in my digital darkroom, working with a closeup photo I took of our sad little pastry, to try a variety of variations on a theme.

Enjoy. 😉