• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
    32·
    1 year ago

    I’m having a hard time.

    American when the metric tonne of Reese’s peanutbutter cups, caramel chocolate chip…streusel?, and oreo cookies…falls?

    • superkret@feddit.de
      26·
      1 year ago

      Regenbogen = rainbow
      Streusel = sprinkles or “crumble”.

      Americans when the ice doesn’t contain a metric ton of…

        • Retrograde@lemmy.world
          5·
          1 year ago

          True, as an American and when I’m crying on the floor like this, I like to measure my pain in freedom units thank you

        • barsoap@lemm.ee
          5·
          1 year ago

          Yep ice cream is just Eis in German, even if the default is Eiscreme meaning at least 10% milkfat content or even Cremeeis meaning 50% milk, no added water, as well as egg. Frozen custard. It’s just that noone cares what exactly you’re going to order when asking “wanna go eat some ice”?

          Fun fact: A felt 99% of ice cream parlours in Germany are called “Venezia” or “Dolomiti” or “Rialto”, which is a quarter of Venice. Because that’s where the founders were from. It’s a fascinating natural phenomenon, flocks of ice cream makers migrating north in early spring and back home late autumn.

  • Millie@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    Why do so many Europeans seem to think the whole country is Texas?

    • Dee@lemmings.world
      19·
      1 year ago

      I imagine the same reason so many Americans think of the UK as just London, or France as just Paris. I don’t know what that reason is, but I imagine it’s probably the same reason.

      • Millie@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Honestly I can’t get Wiltshire out of my head. Rhotal rs? What? They sound like they’re from New England until they say something that makes my brain twist. I love it.

    • Jannis@feddit.de
      16·
      1 year ago

      That’s not true America is Texas, Florida (if it involves alligators or trans-hatred), California, Las Vegas and New York. Everything else is irrelevant.

      • Millie@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Massachusetts is literally the most significant state. It’s a forest with health care. We’re basically elves.

    • barsoap@lemm.ee
      7·
      1 year ago

      To contain, include, incorporate. To abstain really doesn’t make sense in this context. That abstain meaning I think uses the “return to natural state” meaning of ent- (number 1). Think “unhold” in the sense of “cease to hold a position”, that’s “to abstain”, the contain one… I’m not 100% but I think it’s number 6: A thing is furnished such that the adjective becomes true. The cookie is enholden with chocolate chips.

      karamellsirus is a misspelling, Karamellsirup should be obvious. crunshies, too, is a misspelt crunchies. Only one that shouldn’t be recognisable is Regenbogenstreusel, rainbow sprinkles. Like on doughnuts.