Two Interesting Danish Traditions you need to know about!
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- čas přidán 7. 01. 2021
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It’s Margaux, I’m French 🇫🇷 and I live in Denmark 🇩🇰
Here are 2 interesting danish traditions i wanted to share with you 😉✨ maybe you already know about them? 🌟😊
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Another interesting thing: We danish people see the danish flag as the 'birthday flag'', because we grow up associating it with birthdays. I was 12 or 13 years old when I realised that other cultures and countries don't use our flag when they celebrate their birthdays :')
Bringing cake is not only for your b-day. At a lot of work places there is also tradition for bringer cake when you go on vacation, Friday cake ect. Any chance you have😀
"kvajekage"
becouse cake is gooood ..... mmmm cake
You should have mentioned the traditional birthday cake served at almost all kids' birthday parties: Kagemanden!
It's a cake resembling a man or a woman, usually with candy & glaze on it. When the cake is served, the first cut is at the throat of the kagemand, and all the kids will scream so loud you will lose your hearing. Your kid MUST experience this at least a few times during their childhood or they're missing out!
I love that ! 😍❤️😃
Yes, and don't listen to the Zealanders - It must be "brunsviger"-cake.
@@Donnah1979 - and of course, that is totally wrong! 😁😁😁
Never knew about the cinnamon thing. I have heard about the pepper one.
A friend of mine turned 30 and we made an ice cube 1*1*1 meter with a bottle of snaps in the middle, it was in the middle of winter, so it toke some time before he could get it.
BTW Welcome to our beautiful country.
😂 danish people amaze me !
When small children have a birthday, they get a kagemand or kagekone with sweets on. And some kind of goodies to their classmaids 😊
I believe the cinnamon tradition is mostly common in Jylland and that is probaly why some danes don't know of it. It is indeed a real thing, haha. I am unmarried and turning 25 this Tuesday, wish me luck! Haha
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I discovered this so-called danish tradition while I was learning french. Same as here, they said it is a danish tradition. I was born in this country 25 years ago and always lived here but I never heard of this.
On the reverse, I wonder how many french "traditions" are known only by 2 french people. I didn't discover any local tradition during all the years I spent in France. Maybe they have none.
I wasn’t tied to a chair but my colleagues had my entire locker covered in cinnamon. It stank like Christmas for a long timer afterwards.
The cinnamon tradition is rarely taken to the extreme. I think most people doing a little bit of research on Danish traditions will have seen the viral video where a guy is strapped to a lamp post before being blasted with a cinnamon-filled fire extinguisher, or people having dumped buckets of cinnamon spice on their heads, but in my experience, usually people just receive cinnamon buns, cinnamon tea, cinnamon spice or other products containing cinnamon as presents either at work or by their friends or family. The same usually applies for the pepper tradition.
Of course, there will always be people with "wild" friends, but I'd say those are more the exception than the rule.
So for your sake, I hope you made friends with the more down-to-earth types, or you might be doing a lot of sneezing soon : P
But it is true that Danes love their flags. It is very often used during family celebrations, from birthdays to Christmas, marriage and baptism/christening.
😄 thanks for your comment! 😊😊😊
My son just got 30 at January 9 and his friends placed a big 'Broken Water boiler' in our garden, painted with slogans. That is the tradition in Nordsjælland. I have never heard about the cinnamon.
Ahahah bha j'ai de la chance ! Cannelle et poivre c'était pour moi ! C'est pas si mal la France après tout ! Ahahah 😁🤣😁
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when you turn 30 and unmarried, your friends tend to leave a big metal sculpture at your house/ in front of your house, made out of old oil barrels
And the sculptures round, shaped like a pepper mill, often with a turn handle on top to make it look more like a pepper mill.
The pepper represent strength of will so it's not a weakness though people these days use it to redicule..
Never heard of the cinnamon tradition😳
It’s interesting 🤔 it seems to be really 50/50, some are like “yes of course the cinnamon tradition!” And some like yourself haven’t heard of it 😊
@@AFrenchWomanLivingInDenmark It’s because they’re kids.
@@dennissanfilippo8836 I've never heard of it and I'm not a kid. Trust me.
Me neither. And for your 30'th birthday, if you're unmarried, you'll get a pepper grinder - not pepper thrown all over you.
This is so true - but also incredibly dangerous 😂 some people have gone up in flames because cinnamon is highly flammable and that’s not good when you’re taped to a pole and someone smokes a cigaret 😂
Dear Margaux; At 2:14-2:15 you have an interesting and (I would say) very french expression in response to french people not using their flag.
What is the feeling behind that expression? Is that an expression of pride? or regret? or nonchalance? or are you feeling non-plussed?
The Danish obsession with our flag may or may not come from the occupation during ww2. Because it was made illegal to fly the Dannebrog, the flag started to become used in somewhat untraditional ways. It is sometimes also used as a decoration on christmas trees, though I think that tradition is slowly losing ground. It's basically associated with celebration.
It was not illegal to fly the Dannebrog during WW2. The heavy use of the flag was after our defeat in 1864.
@@renek3824 Huh, that fits, actually. I stand corrected.
Being a Dane, I've never heard of the 1st tradition. Anyone, where in DK is that used?
øhh mener du kanel ,det bruges da alle steder når man er 25 og ugift .
@@tyrsting
Er det ikke peber, som i pebersvend?
Aldrig hørt om kanel ifm et bryllup.
Hvor kommer du fra?
@@Finnec123 peber er når du runder 30 ,25 er kanel .kommer fra øst Jylland
@@Finnec123 og en dansk opfindelse fra nordjylland ,det opstod i 60erne .
The reason the flag is used so often stems from the patrotic ferver of the 1840s- it became the symbol of the new democratic, constitutional monarchy. Before then, only the king and the navy had used it, but after the wars in Slesvig, where it was carried before an army of the people it became a peoples symbol- free for anyone to use. We hang it on the christmas tree, fly it for birthdays, graduations, weddings, anniversaries, to greet people coming home from a trip, and plastrer it over products we want to sell to each other. And every danish garden worth its salt has a flag pole. Perhaps that is why danes are not all that offended if some yahoo in some other part of the world, angry at Denmark for some reason, burns or desecrates the danish flag. It is an everyday item, not a sacred one. (woe to the conscript in the life guards who lets the flag touch the ground, though)
Thanks for your feedback! Interesting 😃🇩🇰👍🏻
Well if the wether is bad on your bithday, there are 6 million people in Denmark. Then it's proberly one of the other birthday "children" who have been bad 😉😁
Weather* 😉
Don't forget the christmas tree flag bunting !
Possibly a unique scandinavian tradition. 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
Too bad most other countries use their flag as a power symbol only....
Yes i agree ! 😊👍🏻
true: if it is bad weather on your birthday, you get mocked about it, saying that you havent behaved well the last year, and then you reply that it is not your fault, but somebody else who have also birthday the same day (perhabs a famous person(perhabs Donald Trump)) he he but if the weather is nice, it is ( of course) because you have been behaving really good. And we do send messages like: oohh you have been a bad guy/girl this year if it rains or storms, which it normally does as you probably know. it is a funny "tradition" dont any one else do this ?
And this is why only very few Danes behave well. Most Danes don't behave very well if the old tradition is anything to go by hahahaha.
That is a very good point ..... or something ...... 😂😂😂
While the pepper and cinnamon thing do exist, they're rarely used in Denmark these days.
Oh dear Lord, you should have seen my son on his 25th birthday, cinnamon all over the place! Good his friends dragged him outside first :-) And for his older brother we did indeed have the oil barrels at his 30st birthday. It`s maybe because we live in a place where there is a lot of space. I can inmagine that it`s not so easy to do these tings in the bigger city´s. But it´s fun.
Rarely used?? In Jutland it is very common
@@renek3824 I saw or heard about it ONCE during the 5 years I lived there. If it were VERY common, I would have seen/heard about it way more than once every 5th year. Especially since I was 22-27 years old at the time, and most of my friends and colleagues were at a similar age.
@@sine-nomine I have lived here for 40 years - so guess I win ;-) You must have lived in Copenhagen to miss out on the tradition.
Cinnemon is only in jutland, and it is a New "tradition".
My friend in Hillerød, Zealand had it done , and it's an old tradition but the amount used is larger
Which means it's fake, i'm a Jut and has never heard about it but will now also ignore it!!!
I would call it a "prank/punishment" thing. It is not only a prank :) But unless you are a little girl, you will take your punishment with a smile.
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Please do not confuse the Danish flag thing with the Americans who have the flag everywhere like they'd forget where they are :P
The cinnamon/pepper thing isn't very common anymore. I don't know anyone it has happened to and I'm unmarried in my 30's, with none of my friends being married either.
Depends on the location, here in Northern Denmark it is VERY common. Especially during the summer time, cause normally you drench the "victim" with water first, then cinnamon. You can't go for a small walk without smelling cinnamon from the day before on the ground here in Aalborg.
I have never seen it were i come from "nordsjælland"
@@GarmrsBarking Well, like I said, location :)
Ok, that’s interesting ! 🤔😃 my boyfriend and his sister got pepper, he’s from Søborg, Sjælland 🤷🏼♀️😄
@@TomaszDK
I think it is a tradition in nordsjælland that you get a pepper grinder when you turn 30 and are unmarried ... I got a smart one that was electric with light
why are u not married .. u are one hot woman
30 .. not 25 😉
Sorry the 25 years are NOT a tradition! Only the 30 years
Da jeg var 25 år fik kardemomme. Som 30 årig fik jeg peber
Er 46 år
@@michaeliversen6408 Det må være noget jysk hehe Har aldrig hørt om det.
Jeg er fra Københavnsområdet. Så nej det er ikke jysk
It's not 25 it's 30, the cinnamon tradition is not danish
It is 25 for cinnamon. 30 is pepper, but I've heard of anyone getting drenched in pepper. Usually they just get like something pepper related or if they're out in the countryside they'll get a giant peppermill made of stacked steel drums.
Oh noooo! Dear Margaux, please don't bring out these hillbilly traditions to the world. Well, mayby the flag-story has some truth to it, but please move back to Copenhagen to experience some more refined ways to celebrate 25 years anniversaries. This video reveals you are from the contryside.