ooli3Friendly reminder that these aren't European (anymore)
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.
vaguely Danish sounding name
And creating something that doesn’t have the slightest resemblance to Danish, even using a letter “ä” which isn’t in the Danish alphabet.
To be fair, Danes themselves seem only able to resemble their own language, can’t really blame an outsider for no resemblance at all.
Danish language
From a norwegian TV show called Uti Vår Hage
MeldrikVery little resemblance to German either. Words with “äa” aren’t a thing, neither are words that end in “zs”.
Coincidentally yes, Hagen is a place name and das means “the”. In that combination it’s absolute gibberish though and Häagen Dazs’ founder probably had no idea about those meanings. He was trying to make it sound Danish. In his own words:
“The 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,” Mattus told me. “Häagen-Dazs doesn’t mean anything. [But] it would attract attention, especially with the umlaut.” Source
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A few weeks ago, roaming the endless aisles of the mammoth Fancy Food show in Washington, D.C., I stopped at the booth for Chozen, a premium ice cream with flavors inspired by the Jewish holidays: matzo crunch, apples and honey, chocolate gelt. “Who would have the nerve or the chutzpah to put matzo in ice …
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samus12345Now she does deserve the Nazi chocolate!
Imagine believing that “european chocolate” is somehow better than “american chocolate” when they’re both disgusting colonizer chocolate.
DandomRudeFun fact, which has unfortunately become completely meaningless since the US company Mondelēz (formerly Kraft Foods) has bought the brand: Since around 2000, the Toblerone logo has featured a mountain, the Matterhorn, a well recognized symbol of Switzerland. Hidden in the silhouette of the mountain is a bear, the heraldic animal of the Swiss city of Bern, where the brand was established in 1908.
“Toblerone” is a play on words combining the name “Tobler,” the surname of one of the company’s founders, and “Torrone,” the Italian name for honey and almond nougat. The brand name also includes “Berne,” which is the historical English spelling for the city of Bern.
BlackmistI’ll stick to Valor and Elgorriaga.
Now that I think about it, I haven’t eaten a toblerone in years and milka might be decades.