One Facebook commenter — Alex Voss, a Racine resident whose grandfather was a first-generation American after his parents moved here from Denmark — actually knew that answer. “The plural of Kringle is Kringler,” he wrote on our poll, followed by an eyeroll emoji.

He told me via Facebook Messenger that his ancestors, like many other Danish-American parents at the time, “were very keen on making sure their children spoke English. I don’t speak Danish, but a few things stuck.

Kudos sir. You’ve earned yourself a kringle.

As for a “correct” answer, I’m not sure how often “kringler” is going to come up in newsprint. Not many of us speak Danish here, and if Karen Moller’s input means anything, Racine’s kringle doesn’t really resemble Denmark’s traditional kringler any more.

Horton from O&H summed up the debate nicely:

“What does all this mean? For us, it’s just a fun conversation,” he wrote in an email, “… just like eating a kringle, there is no wrong way! Instead it’s more about embracing the beauty of sharing in the Danish idea of hygge (and kringle!). It’s about sitting down with family and friends, pouring the coffee with a little slice happiness that is kringle and debating the big and small things in life, like is there a plural to kringle? For us, it’s not about the end but really the journey of talking and spending time with family and friends: that is where the importance lies.”

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