VLVL Danish

[davemarc]

I recently spoke with a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who spent much of
the 1950s living with an aunt in Queens and working in a Manhattan hospital.
She said that Danish was the kind of thing you bought if you
were having friends over for coffee and you didn't have any cake to serve
them. She noted that the quality of Danish could vary greatly. She recalled
that,
for her, Bauer's was the place to buy it, and that there was more than
one location. There happens to be a Bauer's Bake Shop not far from where she
lived. It has
apparently been around since 1933, but she didn't recognize it:
http://www.junipercivic.com/berry/0703/bauers.html

She also recalled that, while visiting California relatives in the early
1950s, she ate some Danish (snail- or spiral-shaped) in the Lake Tahoe
region.

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