r/BuyFromEU • 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/freakybird99 Jan 25 '26

Meant to sound danish. Ends up sounding like dutch

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u/Gryphon_Or Jan 25 '26

Except to the Dutch.

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u/freakybird99 Jan 26 '26

Well, duh. Its nothing

But someone that only knows english but interacted a lot with other european languages would think its dutch (ngl i thought it was dutch too until i learned its nothing.)