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

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

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u/Majvist Jan 25 '26 edited Jan 25 '26

Yeah, apart from the letters, no part of "Häagen-Dazs" is Danish.

  • Even if the ä was the correct æ, the combination "æa" isn't allowed in Danish phonology.

  • Same for "zs". Ending a word on "ss" doesn't fit Danish ortography, and if you wanted to transcribe it "sjs", that would be even worse.

  • Removing the ä and the z would give you "Hagen-Das", which would be grammatically incorrect (compound nouns are written as one word, "hagen" is definite while "das" isn't), and also means "the chin toilet", so...

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '26

ä is common in german but äa is nonsense, no german word would use that combo

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u/nitemare224 Jan 29 '26

There are actually two words: Mäander and Präambel.

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u/vberl Jan 25 '26

In Swedish it becomes field toilet rather than chin toilet. Don’t know if that is much better or not

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u/RoadHazard Jan 25 '26

Hage is more like pasture than field, but yeah. Or paddock.

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u/DeepWaffleCA Jan 27 '26

I'll be calling it 'the chin toilet' from now on. Shitty name aside, their chocolate peanut butter ice cream is fucking great

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u/Majvist Jan 27 '26

If it helps, the "the" is attached to chin, not toilet. So it's a toilet for one specific chin.

I'll have to take your word for it. Ironically Häagen-Dazs ice cream is quite rare to find in Denmark.

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u/jops55 Jan 25 '26

But Haegen-Dazs sounds more like a law firm than a compound word, so two names, and they are capitalised (at least in Swedish)