American Danish can be doughy, heavy, sticky, tasting of prunes and is usually wrapped in cellophane. Danish Danish is light, crisp, buttery and often tastes of marzipan or raisins; it is seldom wrapped in anything but loving care.
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Aspects of life here - civility, courtesy, coziness - have always bound Britons to their country... They are part of the British myth, along with lovely countryside, dogs and horses, rose gardens, the Armada, the Battle of Britain.
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Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.
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The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
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The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.
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