Inside this week | Does anyone eat fish tacos ?

You learn a lot of disturbing stuff working with Americans. Take this week. It was just an innocent question about the Food Blog (see G12). “Does anyone here eat fish tacos?” I asked. They looked stunned. “Would you normally eat it with white sauce?” They looked disgusted. It transpired that fish taco refers to the female genitalia in the US. What!!? And while we’re at it, I really didn’t need to know what tea-bagging or a Dirty Sanchez or a donkey punch is.

What beats me is how these things ever make it into the popular domain. It’s a bit like some of the sports and pastimes that are popular in Denmark, like capoeira, the Brazilian martial art dance – have you ever been to a kiddies event where they’re not beating their drums (a bit like Hare Krishna, I always think) and encouraging four-year-olds to avoid being kicked in the head?

But it’s still got a long way to go to catch Australian rules football, which is so popular here that it has its own league. Sure there might be only five teams, but that still gives it a participation rate of one in 40,000.

And they even play gaelic football, a sport that pretty much spawned Aussie rules, although there’s only one team, which kind of explains why this weekend, Copenhagen GAA is playing host to the Pan-European Gaelic Football Tournament, where 23 sides from all over the continent will gather. It’s a great excuse to get some fresh air and enjoy a uniquely Irish experience, which will mean it will probably rain, so make sure you heed the advice in this week’s Select Shopping, which is dedicated to making men look marvellous in the monsoons.

Talking of clouds, it would appear that every nuclear one has a gold, silver and bronze lining. In anticipation of a whole generation being affected by Chernobyl, Ukraine built brilliant facilities in the late 1980s and finished fourth in the medal table at the Paralympics.

Denmark finished a lowly 50th, 21 places below their position at the Olympics. Still, their Aussie rules set-up is second to none.




  • Chinese wind turbine companies sign pact to end race-to-the-bottom price war

    Chinese wind turbine companies sign pact to end race-to-the-bottom price war

    China’s 12 leading wind turbine makers have signed a pact to end a domestic price war that has seen turbines sold at below cost price in a race to corner the market and which has compromised quality and earnings in the sector.

  • Watch Novo Nordisk’s billion-kroner musical TV ad for Wegovy

    Watch Novo Nordisk’s billion-kroner musical TV ad for Wegovy

    Novo Nordisk’s TV commercial for the slimming drug Wegovy has been shown roughly 32,000 times and reached 8.8 billion US viewers since June.

  • Retention is the new attraction

    Retention is the new attraction

    Many people every year choose to move to Denmark and Denmark in turn spends a lot of money to attract and retain this international talent. Are they staying though? If they leave, do they go home or elsewhere? Looking at raw figures, we can see that Denmark is gradually becoming more international but not everyone is staying. 

  • Defence Minister: Great international interest in Danish military technology

    Defence Minister: Great international interest in Danish military technology

    Denmark’s Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen attended the Association of the Unites States Army’s annual expo in Washington DC from 14 to 16 October, together with some 20 Danish leading defence companies, where he says Danish drone technology attracted significant attention.

  • Doctors request opioids in smaller packs as over-prescription wakes abuse concerns

    Doctors request opioids in smaller packs as over-prescription wakes abuse concerns

    Doctors, pharmacies and politicians have voiced concern that the pharmaceutical industry’s inability to supply opioid prescriptions in smaller packets, and the resulting over-prescription of addictive morphine pills, could spur levels of opioid abuse in Denmark.

  • Housing in Copenhagen – it runs in the family

    Housing in Copenhagen – it runs in the family

    Residents of cooperative housing associations in Copenhagen and in Frederiksberg distribute vacant housing to their own family members to a large extent. More than one in six residents have either parents, siblings, adult children or other close family living in the same cooperative housing association.


  • Come and join us at Citizens Days!

    Come and join us at Citizens Days!

    On Friday 27 and Saturday 28 of September, The Copenhagen Post will be at International Citizen Days in Øksnehallen on Vesterbro, Copenhagen. Admission is free and thousands of internationals are expected to attend

  • Diversifying the Nordics: How a Nigerian economist became a beacon for inclusivity in Scandinavia

    Diversifying the Nordics: How a Nigerian economist became a beacon for inclusivity in Scandinavia

    Chisom Udeze, the founder of Diversify – a global organization that works at the intersection of inclusion, democracy, freedom, climate sustainability, justice, and belonging – shares how struggling to find a community in Norway motivated her to build a Nordic-wide professional network. We also hear from Dr. Poornima Luthra, Associate Professor at CBS, about how to address bias in the workplace.

  • Lolland Municipality launches support package for accompanying spouses

    Lolland Municipality launches support package for accompanying spouses

    Lolland Municipality, home to Denmark’s largest infrastructure project – the Fehmarnbelt tunnel connection to Germany – has launched a new jobseeker support package for the accompanying partners of international employees in the area. The job-to-partner package offers free tailored sessions on finding a job and starting a personal business.