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.

