What do you call this?

Viktor77 · Post by **Viktor77** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:12 am

I thought there was a dialectal vocabulary thread around but I couldn't find it. Anyway, what do you call this?

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.

finlay · Post by **finlay** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:29 am

Disgusting fake ice cream that's half chocolate and half vanilla "flavour".

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

vec · Post by **vec** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:32 am

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.

finlay · Post by **finlay** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:33 am

Fake because it's clearly come out of a machine.

Thomas Winwood · Post by **Thomas Winwood** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:36 am

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.

Taernsietr · Post by **Taernsietr** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:41 am

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.

Bob Johnson · Post by **Bob Johnson** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:28 am

Ice ... cream?

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

Declan · Post by **Declan** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:33 am

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.

linguoboy · Post by **linguoboy** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:40 am

I don't have a name for it IMD. I pretty much never have any cause to refer to soft-serve ice cream.

ná'oolkiłí · Post by **ná'oolkiłí** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:49 am

The dish doesn't have a special name—just soft serve in a cone. I call the flavor swirl or twist.

---- · Post by **----** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 12:23 pm

An ice cream cone, of course

Pthagnar · Post by **Pthagnar** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 12:25 pm

finlay wrote:Fake because it's clearly come out of a machine.

scotland has no need of freezers

King of My Own Niche · Mon Jul 18, 2011 1:24 pm

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.

cromulant · Post by **cromulant** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 1:35 pm

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."

Yng · Post by **Yng** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 2:57 pm

It might just about fall under 'ninety-nine'.

Lyhoko Leaci · Post by **Lyhoko Leaci** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 4:59 pm

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.

Ziz · Post by **Ziz** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 6:14 pm

I don't call that anything less vague than ice cream, except for maybe soft-serve.

Astraios · Post by **Astraios** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 6:30 pm

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".

MisterBernie · Post by **MisterBernie** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 6:33 pm

An abomination unto the LORD.

Ein Gräuel vor dem HERRN.

Shm Jay · Post by **Shm Jay** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:16 pm

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.

Qwynegold · Post by **Qwynegold** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:39 am

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.

vec · Post by **vec** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 6:03 am

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.

Acid Badger · Post by **Acid Badger** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:04 am

In German that's a Softeis (yeah, soft-), as oppsed to normal Eis(creme).

Jipí · Post by **Jipí** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:39 am

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

Timmytiptoe · Post by **Timmytiptoe** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:12 am

In Dutch it works the same as German: softijs.

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