The Tuborg Revolution
We spent the afternoon at the anti-Bush rally in Copenhagen, which was held outside the American Embassy. I don't know exactly what I was expecting, but I was a little anxious about the idea of protesting outside the US Embassy in a foreign country. Backlash of footage from my childhood of angry mobs burning American flags in Middle Eastern countries, most likely. At any rate, nothing to worry about. The protest was very Danish. Which means that everybody brought their bicycles and a case of Tuborg. Toward the back, people were actually having picnics. We stayed for about an hour, then went for a pizza and ate it by the lake.
I'm of two minds about protests. On the one hand, I doubt that Bush will change his mind, lose any sleep, or even think about this protest for a nanosecond. This is all the more likely given that the major protest began a full half-hour after he left the country. Way to go, organizers! On the other hand, I suppose this is a useful way to let other people know that resistance continues to grow. What they do with that information, of course, is completely uncontrollable. One good point I saw in all of this was the awareness that while what Danes think about Bush doesn't amount to a hill of beans as far as the Bush administration is concerned, there was a clear link between his presence and Anders Fogh Rasmussen's support of his policies. As one speaker put it, you can't vote in the US, but you can vote in Denmark. It will be interesting to see whether this visit will help or hurt Rasmussen.
I'm of two minds about protests. On the one hand, I doubt that Bush will change his mind, lose any sleep, or even think about this protest for a nanosecond. This is all the more likely given that the major protest began a full half-hour after he left the country. Way to go, organizers! On the other hand, I suppose this is a useful way to let other people know that resistance continues to grow. What they do with that information, of course, is completely uncontrollable. One good point I saw in all of this was the awareness that while what Danes think about Bush doesn't amount to a hill of beans as far as the Bush administration is concerned, there was a clear link between his presence and Anders Fogh Rasmussen's support of his policies. As one speaker put it, you can't vote in the US, but you can vote in Denmark. It will be interesting to see whether this visit will help or hurt Rasmussen.
posted by L&D at
12:22 PM
2 Comments:
Man, am I shallow. After reading this post the only thing I want more info on is the quality of the pizza you can get in Denmark.
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Anonymous, at 5:24 PM
Pretty decent, usually. They haven't really tuned into Chicago style or deep dish, so it tends to be more like the kind of pizza you get in Italy: thin, crisp crust cooked in a wood or coal fired oven. The cheese can be hit or miss, although mozarella seems to have finally found a place in the Danish cuisine. This is a significant culinary breakthrough only realized in the last few years. Let's hope the same thing happens for cheddar soon.
The funny thing is that pizza making has been taken over in large part by Turkish and Middle Eastern immigrants and lumped together with most other ethnic cuisines, so that it's very common to see a kebab shop offering shawarma, stuffed grape leaves, pizza, lasagna, and an approximation of burritos, sometimes all on one plate. It reminds me of that restaurant in Seinfeld.
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L&D, at 11:26 PM
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