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.”
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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.
It’s pretty German. Nothing to do with Danish.
Very little resemblance to German either. Words with “äa” aren’t a thing, neither are words that end in “zs”.
Not the spelling yes, but both “Hagen” and “Das” is German.
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:
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.
Yea and completely failed at it 😅
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