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why "lots of" is incorrect but "a lot of" is right oO? technically you can count them so here it means the same, doesn't it?
I see what you mean. The sentences have the same meaning, but the style is different, which is why they won't accept that. I would translate "He eats lots of Danish pastries" to "Han spiser masser af wienerbrød." It sounds slightly more colloquial to me. Hopefully a native speaker can chime in here though :)
Yes Danish pastries or just pastries is fine but definitely not Danishes.
actually wienerbrød is a "bread" or a sort of pastry made with puff pastry. The austrians have introduced it in Europe. Marie-Antoinette brought it in France in the 18th century as she married Louis XVI before the revolution. What is typically French now the socalled "Croissant" is actually Austrian originally. Wienerbrød i Denmark smager rigtigt godt
Additionally, the dough itself is called the "mille feuille": a thousand layers in French <3 The croissant (meaning crescent in French )has an interesting myth around it too: It is said to have been created by the bakers of Vienna to celebrate the victory against the Ottoman Empire (whose flag has the crescent symbol). After the Ottoman army retreated from the gates of Vienna emptyhanded, the city celebrated with a party including this new pastry. I think history is sometimes hilarious and delicious.
- 848
Is there a difference between "lots of Danish pastries" and "a lot of Danish pastries". The first was not accepted by duo yet the phrase came naturally to me.
- 1763
In English "a lot of" and "lots of" have the same meaning: they both mean a large amount or number of people or things. They are both used before countable nouns and uncountable nouns. Both should be accepted here.
- 855
I think the main problem is that English is a very weird langauge. "Lots of" should be fine. :)
- 146
Does wienerbrød mean Danish pastries in general, or just the specific pastry that's referred to as a Danish in the US?
- 855
Well, it doesn't mean any kind of pastry that comes from Denmark. Being named "Vienna bread" would be quite far off in that case.
It refers to any kind of fluffy doughy goodness that I think you collectively call "Danish" or "Danish pastry" in the US. Just do a google image search for wienerbrød to see what it refers to. Hold a napkin ready.
- 146
Great. What would you call the kind of pastries that do come from Denmark. I grew up with them and absolutely love them, but as a kid I was too interested in eating them to worry about what they were called.
- 855
"Dansk wienerbrød", I guess? :)
There is no "one specific pastry" that comes from Denmark, so I'm not sure what you refer to.
- 855
Not wienerbrød, though. Usually you can take brød as either countable (in form of loaves) or uncountable (like 'bread' in English), but as it looks, the pastry only exists in the uncountable form. You can, however, say "et stykke wienerbrød" to quantify it.
This is a very specific type of pastry, I think labeling it as all pastries is wrong and just calling it wienerbrod in english translation still makes sense.
