The lady behind the booth began to raise the screen, and along comes a couple...and they just saunter up to the counter like everyone else is invisible. No eye contact, no nothing. So passive aggressively Danish.
However, I won't rant any more on what I expect Danes to do. Instead I'll note that I'm pleasantly surprised by the fact that the second Danish woman, the one that arrived after me, asked me if I'd like to go ahead of her. I said "Nej, Tak* of course. Courtesy like that should be rewarded.
How about food? I managed to fit four cans of tomatillos in our baggage. Last night I decided to make Sopes with a verde sauce. The sopes are basically very thick masa pancakes. The sauce was ground beef, tomatillos, onion, carrots, yellow and green peppers, and garlic along with *salsa* seasoning. We topped them with cheddar cheese, slightly marinated yet still crunchy cabbage (olive oil, salt, and crushed pepper), and taco sauce.
The night before I was able to use one of my Christmas presents - a veggie steamer. (This is better because even though the food from the bamboo one tastes ok, the house got an odd smell from the steaming of the bamboo itself.)
With the cauliflower I decided to try out a recipe that a friend of mine uses on her kids. I steamed the cauliflower, and then mashed it with my food masher, and then mixed that with cheese, butter, and noodles - to make a sort of fake mac-n-cheese. It wasn't Peter's favorite, but he ate it.
The one thing I really want to continue when we move back to the US is our healthy diet. Lots of fruit and veggies, smaller portion sizes, eating non-processed foods, and easy on the junk...No more regular purchases of pop, pop tarts, Cheetos, or *fruit* snacks.
And although I still crave some conveniences from the US (like canned soup), the easy to make meals at the grocery didn't entice me this trip, and I was very aware of where the food was coming from. Like, did you know lots of regular apple juice comes from China??? No thanks, I'll pass on that.
