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Does anybody know the German word for the pastry that we call a Danish, but that the Danes call wienerbrød-"bread from Vienna"? You see, I want to chase it down and know what they call it in Vienna. Somebody once told me it was das Plundergebäck, but somebody else is challenging that, saying "No, you don't say that."

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 15 July 2005 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Kopenhagener Gebäck

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 15 July 2005 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently all of Scandinavia attributes these to Vienna, as Google tells me that Finns call them "Tanskalainen wiener," is that right, Tuomas?

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 15 July 2005 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

or Dänischer Plunder

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 15 July 2005 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

what does Plunder mean in that context? I remember reading that Plunder came into English as what we call plunder during the English Civil War... did it have a different meaning originally in German?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 15 July 2005 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not very good at German, but according to my dictionary Plunder means "junk, rubbish" in modern German.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 16 July 2005 06:56 (twenty-one years ago)

das Plundergebäck

― helpful, Saturday, 16 July 2005 07:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Vielen Dank für die Auskunft, helpful und gygax!

― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 16 July 2005 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

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