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What do you call this?

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:12 am
by Viktor77
I thought there was a dialectal vocabulary thread around but I couldn't find it. Anyway, what do you call this?

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For me in Eastern Michigan it's a Twisty, and there's even a store here called Tracey's Twisties. But apparently, in Western Michigan they call it a Twister. Or so I am lead to believe from experience.

Re: What do you call this?

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:29 am
by finlay
Disgusting fake ice cream that's half chocolate and half vanilla "flavour".

(ie, I don't have a name for it)

Re: What do you call this?

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:32 am
by vec
Why "fake"? That's what you get if you have vanilla in one box and chocolate in the other and you pull the middle handle (out of three) on the ice cream machine. We call it "blandaður ís" or mixed ice cream.

Re: What do you call this?

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:33 am
by finlay
Fake because it's clearly come out of a machine.

Re: What do you call this?

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:36 am
by Thomas Winwood
No special word for it, I've never even seen mestizo ice-cream like that before.

I don't mind smooth ice-cream like that, but that does look like a particularly vile and unappetising example.

Re: What do you call this?

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:41 am
by Taernsietr
finlay probably thought it is CG, plastic or some sort of candy.

In BP (Rio de Janeiro, anyway) this is called a casquinha mista, which literally means "mixed little crust". Any sort of pastry filled with ice cream is called casquinha here. Vanilla flavour is called "creme" and chocolate... well.

Re: What do you call this?

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:28 am
by Bob Johnson
Ice ... cream?

Or frozen yogurt. It's hard to tell which type of processed food-like product that's supposed to be.

Re: What do you call this?

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:33 am
by Declan
Never seen anything like that, but this is a cone (ice-cream cone really I suppose), or a ninety-nine, from it's (historic) price, particularly if it has a chocolate flake.

Re: What do you call this?

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:40 am
by linguoboy
I don't have a name for it IMD. I pretty much never have any cause to refer to soft-serve ice cream.

Re: What do you call this?

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:49 am
by ná'oolkiłí
The dish doesn't have a special name—just soft serve in a cone. I call the flavor swirl or twist.

Re: What do you call this?

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 12:23 pm
by ----
An ice cream cone, of course

Re: What do you call this?

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 12:25 pm
by Pthagnar
finlay wrote:Fake because it's clearly come out of a machine.
scotland has no need of freezers

Re: What do you call this?

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 1:24 pm
by King of My Own Niche
I call it Chocolate-Vanilla ice cream. I try to avoid it, opting for plain vanilla instead. I have never heard anyone refer to at as a "Twisty" or the like.

Re: What do you call this?

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 1:35 pm
by cromulant
I call it an "ice cream cone," or a "soft-serve ice cream cone" if I need to distinguish it from a "regular ice cream cone."

Re: What do you call this?

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 2:57 pm
by Yng
It might just about fall under 'ninety-nine'.

Re: What do you call this?

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 4:59 pm
by Lyhoko Leaci
cromulant wrote:I call it an "ice cream cone," or a "soft-serve ice cream cone" if I need to distinguish it from a "regular ice cream cone."
To me, it is a regular ice cream cone.

(Chocolate-vanilla) Swirl to be specific, or squirrel if I'm feeling silly at the time.

Re: What do you call this?

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 6:14 pm
by Ziz
I don't call that anything less vague than ice cream, except for maybe soft-serve.

Re: What do you call this?

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 6:30 pm
by Astraios
That is a "*vomit* machine ice cream which probably tastes metallic and slimy and why the fuck is there so much ice cream in such a tiny cone surely it's just going to fall off or melt before you get halfway".

Re: What do you call this?

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 6:33 pm
by MisterBernie
An abomination unto the LORD.

Ein Gräuel vor dem HERRN.

Re: What do you call this?

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:16 pm
by Shm Jay
Twist, I think. Oklahoma doesn't have a lot of Dairy Queen's or soft-serve ice-cream place. Braum's is good, but sometimes you want a soft ice cream cone. The nearest Dairy Queen is in Chickasha, which isn't too far away from me (30 min) but there’s not much of a reason to go to Chickasha.

Re: What do you call this?

Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:39 am
by Qwynegold
I'm not sure what to call it in English. Soft cone? Anyway, in Swedish it's mjukglass (soft ice cream) and in Finnish pehmis. Or were you referring to the mix of two flavours?

EDIT: Funny that so many think lowly of that type of ice cream. Over here it's considered a rare treat; the best kind of ice cream.

Re: What do you call this?

Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 6:03 am
by vec
In Iceland, icecream "ís" is soft-serve like that by default. You can only get the gelato-kind you take up with scoops at two or three places.

Re: What do you call this?

Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:04 am
by Acid Badger
In German that's a Softeis (yeah, soft-), as oppsed to normal Eis(creme).

Re: What do you call this?

Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:39 am
by Jipí
I think he might rather mean the disgusting ice cream that comes in liter boxes from the supermarket? Especially disgusting if it's cheap-ass "White Brands" like Ja and stuff :?

Re: What do you call this?

Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:12 am
by Timmytiptoe
In Dutch it works the same as German: softijs.