Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Shakespeare may have known that something was afoot.  I've figured out what it is: The prices!

Holy ham, it's expensive!  It's literally twice the cost of the USA.  Here's the first example we've found, and probably the best:

In Burger King in the USA, the normal size (small? medium?) Whopper value meal costs about $5.75.  That to me is a fair enough price for a fairly large amount of food.  In Burger King in Copenhagen, the exact same meal is 57 Danish Kronor.  Based on the current exchange rates, that's almost twelve dollars.  TWELVE DOLLARS!.  Fast food is still the cheapest food there is here.  Even a packaged sandwich in a convenience store, which usually runs about $3 (the equivalent thereof) is about $7.  That's absolute bank-breaking madness!

Ordinarily, when faced with prices such as this, we'd head straight to a grocery store and pick up pieces of a meal to assemble ourselves- generally pasta, sauce, meat, bread, and fruit.  Not so this time.  Our hostel, "Sleep in Heaven," has no kitchen.  Not even a refrigerator.  It's really more like "Sleep in cement."  This place is clean and friendly enough, but the building was clearly something industrial.  Our room has hugely high ceilings, block walls painted white, and a concrete floor painted gray.  The bunks appear to be military surplus beds, stacked on top of each other and bolted together, with a piece of plywood affixed to the collective headboard to add some stability.  An aluminum ladder bolted to one end completes the ensemble.

We're most likely going to be wandering around Copenhagen, and paying for as little as possible.  It seems to be a wonderful city, and I'm sure it would be if I had $7,000 to spend just here.  Sadly, we're back to our lifestyle of incessant counting- counting the most calories to be purchased for the fewest pennies.  

This final, Scandanavian leg of our trip will certainly help us enjoy the comparatively moderate prices of the USA more once we're back!