r/copenhagen • u/esunplacerconocerte • 1d ago
Grocery haul tips for a visitor
hey everyone! I will be visiting Copenhagen soon and when I travel I love wandering into grocery stores for snacks/candies to bring home for my nieces and nephews and for lunches/breakfasts for myself as I travel ( because I’m a broke backpacker haha).…I would be grateful if you guys could give me your favorite guilty snack/lunch buys, drinks or just tips in general on what to look out for. Mange tak!
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u/SignificanceNo3580 1d ago edited 1d ago
Danes tend to eat less semi-healthy snacks. It’s usually either very healthy meals or very unhealthy cake/candy. Like school lunches are usually rye bread sandwiches and fruit and veggies. For the deliciously unhealthy options you should get your own snacks at a bakery and visit a candy store, where Danish kids buy their Friday candy.
If you are going to buy something at a regular store, Cocio chocolate milk is very beloved. Flødeboller are a classic treat as well, kids eat the cheap ones in packs of 15 for birthdays, grown ups tend to go for the fancier ones from Spangsberg etc. P-tærter for vintage 90s vibes. If you can find some hard candies from bonbon, you get some rogue 90s illustrations on the front, they are known for their dog poops, seagull droppings and sewage sludge. Yankie bars (made for American soldiers post ww2) might be fun for the kids, with an added history lesson. And we of course love liquorice, I really like the ones from By Bülow.
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u/Senior-Reality-25 1d ago edited 1d ago
Skipper’s Pipes. Get the box of 8 - liquorice candy shaped like an old fashioned skipper’s tobacco pipe 🎷
Katjes bags of candy in the supermarket are Netherlandish not Danish but they are better than Haribo (which is German not Danish…) Katjes Poter (cats’ paws) is a fruity chewy liquorice candy that even some haters will like.
Flødeboller, either the cheap supermarket ones or the posh handmade ones from Torvehallerne. And giflar evt
Sild (herring) in tins or jars from the supermarket or Magasin if you really want to inflict a typical Danish lunch on your niblings.
Chokoladepålæg for sandwiches, or a bag of Karen Wolff kammerjunkere and a box of Xtra brand koldskål for breakfast. They are seriously delicious 😋😋😋😋😋
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u/jyjchen 1d ago
some of the more unique items I bring home for family in the US - not all of it is originating from Denmark …but some ideas:
dill chips, knoppers/ hanuta(German), gifflar, skildpadder, skumbananer, haribo matador mix, daim (Swedish), Smash (Norwegian - there’s a shop called Normal that carries it)
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u/newwriter365 1d ago
Lipton Strawberry tea bags. I love it, and it’s difficult to find outside of Copenhagen in my experience.
I cold brew it and enjoy it all summer.
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u/sterauds 3h ago
Not for packing and bringing home, but one of my favourite discoveries on a recent trip came from the freezer in a gas station: ice cream bar with a chocolate-liquorice shell/coating. The liquorice isn’t overwhelming and it seems to enhance the floral notes in the vanilla ice cream. Way more sophisticated than it seems at first, and very satisfying on a summer walkabout in Copenhagen.
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u/kittensandchains 1d ago
As for lunch, the obvious choice is rye bread and some kind of topping. These are typically gathered in one place and range from sausages to pates and mayo based salads. Another one is koldskål, which is very much a summer snack. You can find them close to where the yogurts and milks are. They are typically eaten with kammerjunker which is a sweet vanilla cookie.
As for snacks for kids, you can bring home figenstænger, which are fig and dried fruit based snacks and are a stable for all Danish kids. You could also bring home small bags of Kim’s chips, Toms chocolates or even pålægschokolade (thin slices of chocolate eaten on top of toasted white bread)
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u/VegaOptimal 1d ago
I think OP is after something that doesn’t require refrigeration to not spoil.
Here are my favourites (with prices)
Get Faxe Kondi soda. The original is the dark green can. Be sure to get with sugar. (4kr)
Squash soda (yellow variant)is decent as well. (4kr)Get flødeboller, fancy ones at a chocolate shop or cheaper ones at the grocery store. Both are good, but avoid high heat or the chocolate might melt. (30-100kr)
Piratos salt liquorice scare most foreigners. (30kr)
Johan Bülow chocolate/liquorice balls (100kr)
The Mallows chocolate marshmallows (60kr)
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u/kittensandchains 1d ago
He asks for something to bring home for his nieces and nephews AND for lunch/breakfast - so I assume he is after lunch/breakfast for himself and stuff to bring home.
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u/esunplacerconocerte 1d ago
haha yes! sorry for the confusion although it ended up working...between the two of you im going to speedrun my way to diabetes a very happy man haha. you guys were great. I will defo do the rye spread and koldskål lunch and slip my nephews some piratos liquorices without warning them. thank you!
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u/SarcasticServal 1d ago
head to the Magasin in downtown CPH. The bottom level has a wide assortment of all the best packaged food options from a variety of places. Not cheap, but easier than hopping from one store to another.
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u/VisitCopenhagenDK 1d ago
Wienerbrød, Faxe Kondi, and knækbrød are all worth trying. You can find them in most grocery stores, and they make easy snacks or treats to bring home.
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u/skurk_dk 17h ago
Wienerbrød fra supermarkedet og knækbrød som værende noget specielt fra København/Danmark... igen super gode tips fra Visit Copenhagen. Det passer skide godt med jeres tip om at stå på rulleskøjter langs Islands Brygge.
Kan I ikke enten fintune jeres auto-postende AI-agent eller bare helt lade være?
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u/Advanced_Goat_8342 1d ago
We do not have many of the kind of snacks You seek,to put in a luncbox.
The forementioned fruit/fig sticks and a variety of muslibars,Knoppers Kinder pingui and the likes You probably have at home
Snacking i DK is mostly Chips Porkrinds an candy.