Hmm. Häagen-Dazs, a great example of not infringing on any Geographical Indications under TRIPS agreement of WTO yet still make you think that the products are related to Denmark somehow!

I like this idea of Iowa popping in whenever someone mentions "America".

I always think Haagen-Dazs came from Netherland or Germany

And then I learned something new today

Thanks as always

"oh Yes!" entertains me much more than the usual "fuck yeah"

America and their shenanigans.

OOZ662 said:

"oh Yes!" entertains me much more than the usual "fuck yeah"

Reminds me of the Kool-Aid Man.

Well, there are a large German community in America around 50 million (both full or a part of German), and many of them changed their names to more like Amercians name during WW2, but still a lot of them still keep their original name.

Back to Haagen-Dazs, it was founded in Amercia but the founders are British, and they name it for look like "Danish-sounding" name as a tribute to Denmark help Jews during WW2, lolz. And of course since Danish is Southern Germanic, Haagen-Dazs is German-ish : )).

I think I had heard that part of the naming choice for Haagen-Dazs was because it was one of the first "super-premium" brands of ice cream. As expensive brands were rare at the time and cheaper brands the norm, choosing a foreign sounding name was to help give it the image of being a higher quality import product and thus make people accept the higher price.

Panzercracker said:

And of course since Danish is Southern Germanic,

Danish is North Germanic, and German is West Germanic. There is no Southern Germanic.

OOZ662 said:

"oh Yes!" entertains me much more than the usual "fuck yeah"

I'm starting to hear a certain Robot saying it...

I didn't know this! I don't think most Americans know this, either. I'd always assumed it was a foreign company. (Though now they are wholly owned by Nestle, which is Swiss...)

mock said:

Danish is North Germanic, and German is West Germanic. There is no Southern Germanic.

Ops, I mean Northern Germanic, just type wrong Southern : )).

panzerfan said:

Hmm. Häagen-Dazs, a great example of not infringing on any Geographical Indications under TRIPS agreement of WTO yet still make you think that the products are related to Denmark somehow!

There was also a competing product called Frusen Glädjé that was sued by the Häagen-Dazs people for--I am not making this up--imitating their fake-ass-European naming style.

zankde said:

I always think Haagen-Dazs came from Netherland or Germany

And then I learned something new today

Thanks as always

It's supposed to be Danish-looking. It isn't even good fake Danish.

panzerfan said:

Hmm. Häagen-Dazs, a great example of not infringing on any Geographical Indications under TRIPS agreement of WTO yet still make you think that the products are related to Denmark somehow!

A millennia-spanning tradition of Naval Superpowers from the looks considering even Carthage sold "Greek Wine"