The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties

by Christopher Caldwell

If they were imitations, they were authentic imitations.

Well, there was nothing authentically Scandinavian about Frusen Glädjé, it turned out, except the more or less Swedish-sounding name. The ice cream was made in Pennsylvania by a guy named Richard E. Smith. But it was still just as Scandinavian as Häagen-Dazs, which had been named with a Nordic-looking nonsense word by its founder, Reuben Mattus of Brooklyn, and was manufactured in New Jersey.