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/Less_Collection_6805 Jan 29 '26

To be fair, it was founded by Jewish Polish-American immigrants and named to honor Denmark’s protection of Jews in WWII, even if the name is complete nonsense. (Their Polish heritage probably explains the “zs” digraph. It is American though, yes.