DHH · 2026-08-26 · source ↗ · whole document (17)
Eternal recurrence and future of human civization
`5:06:43`
No, I've legitimately considered hiring an investigative journalist to get to the bottom of this, because the number of theories I've heard have been all over the place. It's the water. It's the butter. It's the skill. It's the this, it's the that, it's the other thing. I'm like, none of it adds up to me. If it's the butter, can't you just import it? I thought I saw Danish butter in some supermarkets over here like Lurpak. So that can't be it. Can it be the skill? No, it can't be the skill. There are plenty of French people and Belgian people, the best croissant makers in the world, who live in the US. Like, what is the reason? And then I get the second thing, which is-... "No, no, you just haven't gone to the right place." I've literally gone to 15 of quote unquote-... "the right place," and all the croissants were shit. So before I leave the planet, I have to get to the bottom of why the United States cannot make a proper croissant. And I don't, I'm not even asking about peak French croissants, peak Belgian croissants-... which are the best croissants in the world. I'm just asking about the 7-Eleven croissant from Copenhagen. Is that too much to ask for?
`5:08:02`
It all depends whether it's lunch or it's dinner. If it's lunch, it-
`5:08:11`
Well, depends on what time of day you're getting murdered.
`5:08:14`
If it's an afternoon execution, I only get lunch.
`5:08:19`
And if I get lunch, it's at Louisiana, the museum in north of Copenhagen. I was just there with Jamie two days ago, and we go there all the time. The museum is lovely. We don't go for the museum. We go for the cafeteria. That in itself sounds crazy. Like-
`5:08:40`
... you're gonna, you're gonna drive half an hour to go to a cafeteria. Well, it just so happens to be, it is the best lunch I've probably ever had in my life. The chef there is just unbelievably good, and not only is the food amazing, what's even more amazing to my system thinking brain is that at any one time when we were up there, I think there were probably 200 people waiting for their food. And our food was delivered in five minutes. They have a small menu, and clearly they make it in bulk, and it's unbelievably delicious.
`5:09:17`
It's a cafeteria at a museum that happens to have the best lunch I've ever had anywhere in my life.
`5:09:23`
It's, like, Nordic cuisine, so it's, it's... A funny thing is the menu, when I look at it, I was like, "Do you know what? If I saw this menu- As a kid, I'd go like, "I'm not eating here." It's like, I don't know-