Häagen-Dazs is American, but was apparently meant to sound Danish. To a Scandinavian it absolutely doesn't.
replyScandinavia and the Nordics are quite fancy and refined for Americans. Lagom, hygge, fika, the minimalism, the enlightened equality and solidarity, good education, little crime, highest happiness ratings, even prisons are like hotels, etc makes it a kind of imagined lifestyle that's cozy and thoughtful and so on.
replyThat's how they getcha, and then go full midsommar...
replyCould also be Vietnamese, they are big on diacritics.
replyVietnamese can easily be recognized because most words are one syllable and the vowel may even have two diacritics stacked on top.
replyThanks to French, who came up with the current writing system.
replyA Portuguese Jesuit, actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_de_Pina
replySee also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_branding (especially the Foreign Orthography section)
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