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First of all I would encourage you to scroll back in this thread from here and meet my infrequent summaries of visitors to the Forum. You may find your name and a comment or a suggestion. Take Synapp.IO for instance: I have nothing but praise for your Forum Profile, and each time I meet you I ask you to consider joining team The Survivors.
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Not all that long ago, adriverhoef posted something about *Mermaid Bakery* - it was a Japanese thing.
I have looked for his post in my own helpless Speurneus way.
I have no idea in which thread it is, and Speurneus and I litter this many threads with oceans of posts
Decided to post it here because it tended to spin out of control, whirl up some geography, and end up in Spandau, only to return to Denmark in Japan.

Anyway here goes:
Mermaid Bakery has a ’Mermaid Day’ on the 15th of every month, and I had made a note in my Google Calender that governs my life when adriverhoef posted his item and pushed it until today. So this morning I decided to dig a little deeper in this enterprise running around with my name:

Little Mermaid Bakery is a conglomerate
If you dig deep enough on their website you'll find it has these branches:
Andersen Institute of Bread & Life
Andersen Hiroshima
Andersen simply Andersen
Mermaid Bakery Partners
Takaki Bakery
Takaki Foodservice Partners
- and you’ll find much more

Andersen alluding to fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen
Mermaid alluding to his fairy tale 'The Little Mermaid'
Takaki being the name of the baker behind all these enterprises
Takaki being the Danish consul general in Hiroshima who planted the cherry tree blossom avenue near my home
Hiroshima being the first city ever to feel the power, fury and horror of a nuclear bomb

Takaki knows about *hygge* and writes about *hygge* in his website and he is hopelessly in love with Denmark

I have to visit his cherry blossom tree park at Langelinie in Copenhagen which I didn't know of, and buy some Japanese Danish at one of his three Andersen Bakeries in Copenhagen, which I also did not know of, come spring ...

Takaki makes very authentic looking spandauere (the name of that particular model of Danish - Spandau being the name of a suburb to Berlin, where the Nazi VIPs who were not sentenced to death but to various long prison sentences some to life spent years and years - Albert Speer living to be released, Rudolf Hess never to taste freedom again (if ever; the man was an enigma). Spandau Castle where they were held prisoners was demolished when the punishments were over in order not to create any occasions for myths. There are groups of people who celebrate Rudolf Hess's birthday. Those must be the educated ones; I just read that "half of all fifteen- and sixteen-year-olds in German high schools don't even know that Hitler was a dictator, while a third believe that he protected human rights." ['After Europe' by Ivan Krastev]

Back to Takiki and his infatuation with Denmark and Danish …

Spandauere comes in two variants: this cream one
and a preserve one.
The preserve one usually has raspberry preserve,
but Takiki fused some Japan into it and used cherry preserve

bahorn is one of our most recent members and he was kind enough to promptly fill in his
business card (Forum Profile) when asked
- and he did it so it's right up there in the TonyEllis class
If only life was this easy some more of the time
Have you checked your Forum Profile? today?

I'm sorry that you lose all these jazz musicians
He's really good. I think Bjarke Falgren is good, but his style is much different.
Oh, do you really come from Martinique, alged?
I once had a pen friend there - it couldn't be you, could it?
And now you live in France. For how long have you done that?
I take it you live in Paris because of your knowledge of 'Maison Danois' right there at Champs Elysées
How can we afford such an address?

Good to hear, alged.
Martinique must be a world apart from Paris - even from 40 km south of Paris - literally and virtually.

FAHE, congratulations on your 5 years of Mapping Cancer Markers.
I would like to congratulate each and every cruncher with each and every milestone and badge in all disciplines, SNURK sign globes included.
That would make for very cluttered threads, and I don’t think that is management’s intention
- it’s bad enough as it it with me I know.
Sometimes, though, I cannot help it. This time I had this nifty chance of doing it in this thread that needs some CPR anyway.
FAHE, your Forum Profile business card is in that TonyEllis class
but then again: You and he are almost neighbors by Australian standards.
Is it something in the water that make you create such informative profiles?

I learned something already at 0830 UTC+1 which leaves plenty of time to learn more this very day:
You state an ACT, which I didn't know about. Looked it up:
Australian Capitol Territory.
There you go. Almost like Washington, D. C.
So now I know where I’ll go if my friend decides to visit her sister in Canberra next February and I’ll tag along.
Not just New South Wales, but ACT specifically …

Uhm, a bit difficult to answer here as this is not the language thread, but I would like to say this:
The plurals of Dutch nouns are mostly ending in -en or -s.
Most of the time it is -en (hond → honden); -s is used when a noun ends in a vowel or when its last syllable contains a shwa: (speurder → speurders).
http://www.dutchgrammar.com/en/?n=NounsAndArticles.08
If a singular noun ends in a hard (unvoiced) f or s, we will generally write a soft (voiced) v and z in the plural: neus → neuzen.
http://www.dutchgrammar.com/en/?n=NounsAndArticles.09