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Friendly reminder that these aren't European (anymore) (i.redd.it)
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[โ€“] 160 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Haagen Dazs never had anything to do with Europe, it was started in the Bronx by a dude that wanted the name to sound posh so he went for a vaguely Danish sounding name.

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  • [โ€“] 69 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    vaguely Danish sounding name

    And creating something that doesn't have the slightest resemblance to Danish, even using a letter "รค" which isn't in the Danish alphabet.

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  • [โ€“] 35 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    To be fair, Danes themselves seem only able to resemble their own language, can't really blame an outsider for no resemblance at all.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    FOUND THE SWEDE! D:<

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Except that the video was done by NRK - Norwegian national TV. All the Nordic countries can be brutal at heckling each other - all in good fun.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 6 months ago*

    Swede. Norwegian. Potato. Potato.

    They're just mad because we used to own their asses and had a flag so awesome they got jelly and copied our design.

    Denmark superior country. ๐Ÿ‘ and don't kid yourself into thinking we are compensating because our nature is flat chested af and 60% is spent on growing pig food instead of protecting wildlife. And we are totally not ass mad that there is no tone or life in our language that more so resemble throat cancer than song when we speak. DENMARK COOL. DENMARK AWESOME. Sweden lame. Norway gay. DENMARK DENMARK DENMARK.

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Itโ€™s pretty German. Nothing to do with Danish.

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  • [โ€“] 27 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Very little resemblance to German either. Words with "รคa" aren't a thing, neither are words that end in "zs".

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Not the spelling yes, but both โ€œHagenโ€ and โ€œDasโ€ is German.

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Coincidentally yes, Hagen is a place name and das means "the". In that combination it's absolute gibberish though and Hรคagen Dazs' founder probably had no idea about those meanings. He was trying to make it sound Danish. In his own words:

    โ€œThe only country which saved the Jews during World War II was Denmark, so I put together a totally fictitious Danish name and had it registered,โ€ Mattus told me. โ€œHรคagen-Dazs doesnโ€™t mean anything. [But] it would attract attention, especially with the umlaut.โ€ Source

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 6 months ago

    Bruh, am I high or is that factually incorrect that we were the only country saving jews during ww2? I mean, my national ego would love for us to take credit for such a feat, but I feel like there were people in every country who tried to save the jews in one way or another. It was a collaborative effort, no? I especially feel like he did Poland dirty. Holy shit the effort some people went to in that country to protect and save Jewish lives. I mean fuck.

    Homeboy literally made a chocolate brand and gave it a vaguely Danish name that sounds nothing like Danish because of a misperception about ww2. Peak ignorance.

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