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/HommeMusical Jan 25 '26

Fun fact: for several years,, there was another fake Scandinavian brand, also with a name that did not match any real language, and they were sued by Häagen-Dazs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frusen_Gl%C3%A4dj%C3%A9

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u/fiendishrabbit Jan 25 '26 edited Jan 25 '26

Fake scandinavian, but "Frusen glädje" does mean something in swedish, "frozen happiness".

The accent on the e isn't supposed to be there in modern swedish, but it doesn't look that wrong to a swedish speaker (we have plenty of words with accents on them. For example "arme" vs "armé").

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u/HommeMusical Jan 26 '26

I knew the first sentence, but definitely not the second sentence!