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Danish pastry is not soggy. On the contrary, it's a lot crispier than what the rest of Europe is eating.
Perhaps they're thinking of the pastry called a danish, which is not Danish. We ourselves call it a Berliner, but I think it's actually from Austria.
maybe it's actually swedish but wienerbröd is kinda soggy, isn't it?
The origins are unclear. The Danish bakers stole the recipe for soggy cakes from Vienna, hence the name, but then the Austrian bakers startede calling it a copenhagen plunder. Immigrants brought the cake to America by the name danish.
Technically the whole range of similar cakes are neither cakes, bread or pastry. They're viennoiseries, which is layered dough, just like croissants.
And now guess what Viennoiseries means and its story of origin.
Croissants, also from Vienna.
Wienerbrød, aka bread from Wien was inspired by Austrian bakers (classic "neutral" SCABS!) who came up to work in Denmark during a huge baker's strike in the mid 1800s. But as is the Danish way, we managed to pump it full of dairy, in this case butter.
But yeah, it is possible that it's referring to "remonce", the filling/topping used.