Roskilde, food, and eighties rockers...

When we stepped off the train in Roskilde, we were very surprised to see this pub dedicated to Buddy Holly. We didn't get a chance to go in, but Jared snapped this photo...

As an aside (not really related to Buddy Holly!!) I have been noticing how much Europeans seem to enjoy the music groups that we as Americans have cast aside. Boy bands are still hot here, as are many rockers from the eighties and nineties that the US has turned its collective nose up to. Kind of funny to see ads for bands that we were rockin' to in elementary school!

Along the line of restaurants, there seems to be one (and only one) type of fast food in our area--"pizza & grill" kiosks. The really strange/funny thing about them is that they are all run by Middle-Eastern men and they are all... well... pretty gross. I guess that the pizza is Italian style (thin tasteless crust) and the toppings are just plain weird. This Viking Pizza & Grill actually had "deep-dish" pizza, though it was what we would call normal. I guess I'm just thankful that there is somewhere that we can eat out cheaply when we're sight-seeing. And really the food isn't bad if you don't expect it to taste like our idea of pizza!


Ruby and I finally got to try Soft Ice this weekend as well. Jared remembered soft ice as something quite spectacular from his exchange student days... I'd have to say it pretty much just tastes like soft serve, though the vanilla flavor is somewhat different than at home.

We saw a blurb on TV a few weeks ago that Danes eat the third most amount of candy of any nation in the world (per capita, I suppose). I would guess that nearly half of that candy is some variety of black licorice--they're wild about the stuff! Of course there are lots of other yummy things too like jelly rolls and cream filled chocolate bombs, etc. Apparently there will be many more varieties of treats coming out soon as Christmas approaches. Ruby and I are going to have to step up our activities if we want to keep off the Christmas pounds!