Amazing Gastronomic Experience!

So the mission to try one of these "amazing" open sandwiches is now on.

We passed a bar which looked way to funky for such a sandwich but just had to step inside and take a look as we will need to come back after dark for a drink. Being mid summer 24th June that will mean after midnight!. Anyway I do digress and before I had really open my mouth the man from behind the bar want's to know what part of Australia we were from.

Really, I do try to blend and not stand out in the crowd but apparently that's not been working too well for me over here.

 

So being assured by our new Aussie friend Joe that this smorrebrod (spelt a 100 different ways) is a national food traditional and treasure!! and that anyone who comes to Denmark just has to try it before they leave!!

We are sent across town to a historical restaurant from 1791.

Seeing the blackboard we figure we are in the right place.

Armed with our trusty map which looks more like a game of monopoly we have arrived.

2 traditional Carlsberg half drunk as it is hot here mid summer its a stinking 18 deg (god how do the Danish cope with this heat) so now we can ponder over the selection of smorrebrod.

We study and make our selection, getting the English menu is a help as my Danish is bad, real bad.

All the time saying to Sandy that it reads like a sandwich and I can't quite see where any skill or gastronomic food experience will be. 

 

We decide on the Sausage of rolled pork with jelly and red onion and at 75 of their money divide roughly by 5 gives $15.00 so I'm thinking let's share, cut this sucker in 1/2 and we won't be needing dinner either! Bit optometric Pete!!!

wrong wrong wrong ... cost has nothing to do with amount that is served on the plate remembering that with our exchange rate and that Denmark is even dearer than Venice in peak season! it's about twice to three times as expensive to simular things back home.

We are paying $60 for a very cheep house wine, $50 for a few meatballs on a plate well being fair!! they did come with mustard, beetroot relish and some pickled cucumbers.

 

 

So it looks like we will have a few wine free days as a even 1/2 average bottle is about $150.00 ouch.

Solution!!! 

We will just have to drink our duty free gins before we go out for dinner, knock the edge off and then the house wine will taste better.

 

 OK Pete back on topic, the gastronomic food experience know as a  smorrebrod has arrived and well I'm not totally overjoyed at this example of a national food traditional let alone, treasure!!

 

In fairness the jelly tasted amazing, a meat jelly from a very well flavoured Sunday roast but for me that where the gastronomic experience stoped.

Below I removed the "sausage of rolled pork" to reveal the one only piece of rye bread with the freshest of mustard green in their micro form overall cold cuts on rye!!!! 

But the Danish just love them and as there are 100's of combinations and we still have a few days we may just fined ourselves in another café trying a different variety.