Today I went into a small thriftstore and found this VERY danish plate, wich is, according to what I’ve heard, somewhat the essence of bad taste here in Denmark (correct me if I’m wrong!) I Imagine that a lot of danes grew up with these type of plates as a decoration in their grandparents kitchen and because of that, could never bear with having anything similar in their own homes. I am, as a forigner in this country, totally clueless sometimes when it comes to culturally dependent opinions on good and bad taste, wich is liberating in one way. I know that I’m completely the same with some of the things I grew up with in Sweden, but I somehow feel a little bit priveliged not knowing anything about this in Denmark.
Another example is when I bought some really nice flowerpots made out of birchtree (they looked like a treelog in fact, very nice!) from my local NETTO store. A Danish friend of mine came by my house and she couldn’t stop laughing, and at first I thought that I, by accident, had bought something that had some kind of special purpose, only I didn’t know about it. Like if the flowerpots were especially made and traditionally used for funerals or something similar! Imagine the akwardness of that!
Luckily my friend told me that she had never seen that type of pots before, and that she was laughing because she found them truly ugly.
When I paid the nice lady in the thriftstore the 10 kroners the plate costed she said to me smiling: “You are now more Danish than Swedish”
/ Spotted by Emma Margareta
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