Denmark

Today we travel to Scandinavia, more specifically, Denmark. They are at the end of a peninsula north of Germany, and they also have a group of islands stretching toward Sweden. When I went back to college in my mid twenties, there was a student in my program who was from Denmark. He studied abroad in this area when he was in high school, and fell in love with a girl he wanted to marry. So, he did all the paperwork to come back to this area to go to college, and they did indeed get married. I don't remember him talking about Denmark, and some people made fun of his accent, or made fun of him for asking questions in class. Sigh, people.
Looking at the healthcare and social welfare system of Denmark really makes me wonder if he feels like moving to the states was such a good idea after all. Honestly, when we were in school I wondered why he would leave that wonderful system behind. In further reading, marriage has lost some social status (yay for all us single people), and domestic partnerships for same sex couples were legalized in 1989. As I was scrolling though the page on Denmark, I came across the little mermaid statue (that sits in Copenhagen harbor) modeled from one of Hans Christian Anderson's stories. Believe it or not, there is a sculpture garden about 3 hours drive from where I live that has a replica of this sculpture in it. According to the web page, there are 8 other statues in the park that represent his fairy tales. It's out in the middle of nowhere, but maybe someday I'll take a road trip out there to see them.
As for tea, it was a little more difficult to find information. On YouTube, I found a video about making tea that really reminded me of the "Drunk History" show we have here. Apparently alcohol is very popular in Denmark, and they use it for comedy similar to this country. Another video gave a brief glimpse of tea that may have been black tea. I couldn't really tell if it had milk or not, so it wasn't really a good resource either. On to Google. Google was more helpful. They listed things like quince flavored green or black tea, along with blueberry green tea, white temple tea, and rooibos cream tea. I know that I've heard of quinces before, but I don't know that I ever tried them. I'm not sure if rooibos cream tea is rooibos tea with cream (Google was not helpful), and I wasn't able to find out anything about the white temple tea either. Since my resources were lacking, I decided to go with a combination tea that I did have. Blueberry rooibos.

I don't know that this is anything like what the Danes would drink, but it was the best I could do. This was also one of the purchases from my recent tea haul. It was the featured herbal flavor of the month, and 20% off, so I got some to try.

Here's the brewing shot. You can't really see the blue bits floating around in it though (I think those are pieces of cornflowers, not blueberries). As it turns out, I really like this tea. It has the sweet base of rooibos, and a nice, fruity, blueberry flavor.