Ölåbröe - Danish beer'n'bread

I have just been to a surprisingly fun Christmas dinner at the mansion of our Danish heritage. It was traditional Danish food on the menu - Beer'n'bread (Öl'å'bröe). It is easy to pronounce, you just take an average sized potatoe, shove it in your mouth, and then say something, anything, with three syllables. Works brilliant. That was how the danish language was invented by the way - by a potatoe-loving swedish guy, later sent abroad (to what these days is now known as Denmark) due to his non-existing table manners*.


The main ingredients of the dish are just what you'd expect from the name: beer and bread. It is hvidöl (apparently translated into "small-beer" in english, "svagdricka" in swedish), and dark bread. It looked like something you might expect to find in that bend under your sink, that is a brownish mud with lumps. On top you put some whipped cream, and then just served with some regular beer to drink.

It was miles more tasteful than what it sounds like. You might argue that what I just said means nothing, since a comparison taste-wise with sewer-filth. But who cares what you say. It actually was quite tasteful. And the whole event was hilariously fun.

My dad, and mum (to the left), my dad's sister, and danish father in Beer'n'bread action!

*this is what in source-critic context often is referred to as pure bollocks.