Posted on 10/19/2026 7:22:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Copenhagen is famed for its innovative gastronomy and elaborate dishes. But these days its hottest food is its most basic: just bread, butter and hard cheese. And Copenhagen’s top bakeries are in a dead heat to make the best one around.
It’s called a bolle med ost (bun with cheese), shortened by many to BMO, an abbreviation that was entered into the biggest Danish dictionary this year.
Often served open-faced, this sort-of-sandwich is all about the fundamentals — sparer than smorrebrod and a test of how sublime the simple can be. That’s a 180 from the best-known Danish cuisine, which has been foraged, fermented and tweezered into submission over the last two decades.
The BMO has become a calling card for Copenhagen's best bakers. Batch after batch, they experiment with the bread, the cheese and, yes, even the butter as they strive to stand out in a city obsessed with understated excellence. The BMO is hard to mess up, but almost impossible to perfect.
“You can’t pretend with BMOs,” said Anne-Sophie Lahme, a Danish trend researcher who focuses on food. “You can’t fake it. It has to be really, really good.”
Danes grab BMOs almost anytime — after run club, before dates, between meetings. They’re a filling snack and not all that expensive. At many of the top bakeries, they sell for about 45 Danish kroner (roughly $7), in line with other baked goods.
Now, thanks to a phalanx of influencers, tourists have it on their must-try list, along with a cardamom bun and a cinnamon bun.
And where there’s hype, there’s optimization.
Two brothers have written a BMO cookbook with 25 recipes. In June, Burger King released its own “Gourmet BMO,” although this...
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Now grill it.
Amazing innovation, a wonder.
The only thing missing is bacon.
NOOOOOOOOOO!
Now grill it.
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And call it a grilled cheese sandwich. It’s the latest thing. 😊
Denmark just discovered cheese toast
They should have called
Give it a couple of lashings of Worcestershire sauce.
They had me at “butter.”
If this so called ‘trend’ hits the US, I very much doubt they will be using the same signature initials (BMO) to describe the product.
“B M O, you say? Thanks for reminding me of Body Odor & Bowel Movements all at once. I can’t wait to eat something with those very same initials!!
Hmmm, Hmmm GOOD!!
They will probably make triumphant memorials of the dude who adds onions. Not that I’m knocking a really good pure bread butter and cheese combo.
Freegards
George Foreman could introduce them to the future.
Velveeta?
Oh, for crying out loud! It’s a cheese sandwich, and a really plain one at that. What’ll they come up with next -— toast and jam?
‘Delicious cheese sandwiches’ were a Tom Green skit on Last One Laughing to get other comedians to crack a laugh. That these Euroweenies are taking them so serious is an even a larger laugh!
Exactly. You would think they have invented the wheel!
I’m into smoked Gouda...I make toasted cheese with fresh tomatoes between slices of cheese. Think I’ll add bacon on the next one...
Open faced fish, cheese and butter on hard bread is the only way to go.
A buttered McCheese sandwich?
Good Mustard would be a plus,
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