Dave Berkson
In Racine, Wisconsin there is a great Danish Bakery chain that I wish would spread and be more common outside the greater Kenosha/Racine Wisconsin area. O&H anissh pastry's and bakery is a small company run by Danes and not Indian mass profiteers that we see with Dunkin Donuts and the domination of this neo-liberal run bakery and its race to the bottom in the donut sales and coffee industry. In June of 2010 even Barack Obama had to make a trip enjoying this bakery and wondering why the fuck a place like this only exists in Racine,Wisconsin while his Hyde Park and the rest of Chicanoland is stuck with bad Mexican pastry cheap shops and Indian Dunkin Donuts. As someone who is a quarter Dane, I am proud that this place exists and is competing right down the street in one of its four locations against the Dunkin we here at the Center Bear swill continue to sthe public for supporting independent coffee houses and bakery shops. O& H is both and the place celebrates Danish culture and contributions to America and is cuisine and desert table. This is also a place where you can get a dam good cup of coffee and one Saturday afternoon I spent four hours here drinking Joe and blogging. Most people seemed to be buying in bulk and unquestionably this is a popular spot to get good pastries in bulk where they make the baked goods on spot and not in some central fucking warehouse where they they then waste gas and burn fossil fuels to ship it to three hundred locations. Dunkin Donuts does this because the hardworking Indian franchise business owner doesn't want to deal with mess of having to bake and work the goods in the back. The small bakery business is not an easy family run business to keep going but O&H has found success and a niche in Racine and gives the public an option against the monopolistic corporate baked goods places like Corner bakery, Panera Bread and of course the patel dominated Dunkin Donuts. Best of all the Danish O and H is a small family run franchise providing the people an experience of Scandinavian culture and experience in America where selling out to big bisiness interests and cutting costs is not the goal of the enterprise.
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