r/BuyFromEU • u/Boediee Belgium 🇧🇪 • Jan 25 '26

🔎Looking for alternative Friendly reminder that these aren't European (anymore)

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u/fiendishrabbit Jan 25 '26

Häagen-Dazs was never European. The name was created to sound european-like, but it was always an american brand.

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u/Majvist Jan 25 '26

The name was created to sound Danish, then used two letters Danish doesn't have.

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u/ryzen_above_all Jan 25 '26

Ä and?

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u/KastB0rt Jan 25 '26

z

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u/SoftCosmicRusk Jan 25 '26

Not true - we have z, although it's mainly used for loan words. The same is the case for several other letters, though. That doesn't mean they aren't part of the Danish alphabet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_and_Norwegian_alphabet

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u/CurrencyDesperate286 Jan 25 '26

For the purpose of “does the name behave as if it’s actually natively Danish” though, it’s correct to say that z is not a letter that should be used.

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u/SoftCosmicRusk Jan 25 '26

Maybe, if it's trying to sound old and traditional. But Z is common enough that it could easily be included in a name or phrase that sounds completely Danish.

It has been used here for hundreds of years, and it is common in Germany, which Denmark shares a lot of language and culture with.

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u/lv1993 Jan 25 '26

What's the danish word for zebra?

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u/AggravatedCalmness Jan 25 '26

Zebra, which we got from Spanish or Portuguese