Yes, isn’t that funny? Maybe they just figure it’s best to rely on the English language serving as the common denominator, or maybe using another language is like putting on a mask acting as a shortcut to snap out of the everyday Danish gloom, enabling them to display their genuine hospitality in a manner swift enough to comply with the three to four day stays of Americans.

If it’s your first time in Denmark, don’t be surprised that they eat a burger or a salad with a fork and a knife. Danish children appear to master dining utensils, not unlike their bicycles, before they can talk without ever having been told about Emily Post, who in 1928 entertainingly claimed that "to 'zigzag' the fork from left hand to right hand at nearly every mouthful is a ridiculous practice of the would-be elegant that is never seen in best society.”