Poll of the Day > Opposite of soft serve ice cream

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It just occurred to me earlier today when I fumbled trying to name ice cream that isn't soft serve. It occurred to me that I have no idea what "not soft serve" ice cream is actually called, and Google was no help. Does anyone know what it's actually called?
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Ice cream
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Mead posted...

Ice cream

=P
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ice cream

soft serve is directly from the machine
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It's just regular ice cream.
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Jen0125 posted...

It's just regular ice cream.

Thank you for trying to legitimately answer, at least. I guess it's technically regular ice cream, but it seems like a lot of people would think you're talking about vanilla instead of un-soft serve.
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no one would think that
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"Ice cream" is accurate. Unless it's preceded by "soft serve," it's presumed that ice cream is not soft serve. "Regular ice cream" could indeed make people think of vanilla, you're right, but the "regular" isn't needed.
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Golden Road posted...

but it seems like a lot of people would think you're talking about vanilla instead of un-soft serve.

So you think people think soft serve is a flavor?
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Hard serve shake?
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Is this a NMB topic I swear to fuck
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Zangulus posted...

Literally every response was a serious and accurate answer.

It would be like if someone asked what non-cake doughnuts are called, and people just answered "doughnut." It's technically correct, but a smart-ass answer. You know that's not the answer that person was looking for.

adjl posted...

"Ice cream" is accurate. Unless it's preceded by "soft serve," it's presumed that ice cream is not soft serve. "Regular ice cream" could indeed make people think of vanilla, you're right, but the "regular" isn't needed.

Both actually came up in conversation today. That's when we realized we didn't know what "not soft serve" ice cream was called. I guess "regular" would've been clear given the context, admittedly.
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Gelato.

Shit is hard as diamond coming out of the freezer.
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Zangulus posted...

Golden Road posted...

It would be like if someone asked what non-cake doughnuts are called, and people just answered "doughnut." It's technically correct, but a smart-ass answer. You know that's not the answer that person was looking for.

You're not knowing the correct answer doesn't mean they're smart ass answers.

They're literally the correct answer.

If someone asked what non-cake doughnuts are called, they're looking for a kind of doughnut (yeast or raised doughnuts), not just "doughnuts." When I asked what non-soft serve ice cream is called, I was looking for a kind of ice cream, not just "ice cream."
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...But it's just called "ice cream."

>.>
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faramir77 posted...

Gelato.

Shit is hard as diamond coming out of the freezer.

wtf kind of gelato are you eating
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Super_Thug44 posted...

faramir77 posted...

Gelato.

Shit is hard as diamond coming out of the freezer.

wtf kind of gelato are you eating

Mass produced store bought bs.

I used to work in a restaurant and would have to dish that shit straight out of the bucket. They only gave me a spoon but I needed an ice pick and a jackhammer.
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keyblader1985 posted...

...But it's just called "ice cream."

>.>

What kind of ice cream -_-
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Golden Road posted...

hat's when we realized we didn't know what "not soft serve" ice cream was called.

ice cream.

it's just literally ice cream.
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Golden Road posted...

keyblader1985 posted...

...But it's just called "ice cream."

>.>

What kind of ice cream -_-

i'm not sure why you keep asking.

ice cream is ice cream. are you asking what flavor? there are different flavors of soft serve just like there are ice cream.

there are variations of ice cream including soft serve, gelato, frozen custard, frozen yogurt, etc.

but in the context you're asking it'd just be regular hard ice cream which is just called ice cream.
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Golden Road posted...

keyblader1985 posted...

...But it's just called "ice cream."

>.>

What kind of ice cream -_-

Ice Cream

Literally answered in the first response
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Zangulus posted...

How many more people have to give you the same answer before you finally get it?

I dunno'. How many people are going to keep misunderstanding my question? I know it's ice cream. I'm asking what it's called, to differentiate it from other ice cream.

Like bacon. Everyone loves bacon. Usually pork bacon. Calling it pork bacon, instead of just bacon, isn't usually important, but it can sometimes be useful to specify pork bacon if you're talking about different kinds of bacon.

So what is "regular" ice cream? What is the pork bacon of ice cream?

Jen0125 posted...

but in the context you're asking it'd just be regular hard ice cream which is just called ice cream.

Thank you for trying, at least. Is it called hard ice cream? Guess that makes sense if that's it.
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You gotta be trolling dude
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Yeah, at this point it's far more likely than him being this dense.
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Mead posted...

Ice cream

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Golden Road posted...

Thank you for trying, at least. Is it called hard ice cream? Guess that makes sense if that's it.

It's called "hard ice cream" for those people that just can't wrap their head around the fact that hard ice cream is just ice cream.
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AllstarSniper32 posted...

It's called "hard ice cream" for those people that just can't wrap their head around the fact that hard ice cream is just ice cream.

So if you're talking about soft serve ice cream and hard ice cream in the same conversation, what do you call them?
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i would call it hard ice cream if you're going to do that.

when i worked in an ice cream shop at an amusement park and we served soft serve and regular ice cream we called it hard and soft. so if you absolutely want descriptors to differentiate you could use those.
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https://www.mymomochi.com/blog/mochi-ice-cream/3-different-styles-ice-cream/

This says it's New England style. So you should just go in asking for that and hopefully you won't be tazed.

I've heard it called Hard Ice Cream before.
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Golden Road posted...

AllstarSniper32 posted...

It's called "hard ice cream" for those people that just can't wrap their head around the fact that hard ice cream is just ice cream.

So if you're talking about soft serve ice cream and hard ice cream in the same conversation, what do you call them?

Depends on how you're talking about them.
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Golden Road posted...

AllstarSniper32 posted...

It's called "hard ice cream" for those people that just can't wrap their head around the fact that hard ice cream is just ice cream.

So if you're talking about soft serve ice cream and hard ice cream in the same conversation, what do you call them?

soft serve

and ice cream
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Freezerburned ice cream.
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this topic is 37 posts too long.
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Golden Road posted...

I know it's ice cream. I'm asking what it's called, to differentiate it from other ice cream.

You call one Ice Cream and the other Soft served ice cream. Though, depending on the conversation, most people would understand what you're talking about...
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Ice cream, no one calls it anything else and no one is gonna think your talking about vanilla. Stop being dense.
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Golden Road posted...

If someone asked what non-cake doughnuts are called, they're looking for a kind of doughnut (yeast or raised doughnuts), not just "doughnuts." When I asked what non-soft serve ice cream is called, I was looking for a kind of ice cream, not just "ice cream."

Ice cream literally is the term for non soft serve. There is no other term.
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Revelation34 posted...

Ice cream literally is the term for non soft serve. There is no other term.

Ice cream is also the term for soft serve. Often, but not always, modified with "soft serve." And we've already clarified that hard ice cream is another term. Not the most widespread of terms. but it is out there. Now the real question is if there's a term more widespread than hard ice cream.
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idk. scooped ice cream ?
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Golden Road posted...

Ice cream is also the term for soft serve. Often, but not always, modified with "soft serve." And we've already clarified that hard ice cream is another term. Not the most widespread of terms. but it is out there. Now the real question is if there's a term more widespread than hard ice cream.

Nobody says hard ice cream. Also people say soft serve alone most of the time.
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Golden Road posted...

Revelation34 posted...

Ice cream literally is the term for non soft serve. There is no other term.

Ice cream is also the term for soft serve. Often, but not always, modified with "soft serve." And we've already clarified that hard ice cream is another term. Not the most widespread of terms. but it is out there. Now the real question is if there's a term more widespread than hard ice cream.

I don't thnk we "clarified" that hard ice cream is a term. You just refuse to believe that non soft served ice cream is just called ice cream. There most likely isn't a separate term between soft served and ice cream other than ice cream. Because that's what people call it. When I put ice cream in the freezer, it gets hard. You know what people call it? Ice Cream. They don't ask for hard ice cream, because that sounds stupid. It's just called ice cream. And you an called soft served ice cream, too. Depending on a couple of things, people usually know which one you're describing. In what context are you having trouble with describing both of them in a conversation? Maybe you're doing it wrong...
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Golden Road posted...

Now the real question is if there's a term more widespread than hard ice cream.

That isn't a real question because it's been answered millions of times. If it took this many posts for you to find out that "hard ice cream" is a potential and very uncommon alternative to saying just "ice cream", I don't know how many more it'll take you to realize that there is no other "widespread" term.

Ffs it's like you're planning on writing a thesis on the elusive terms of non-soft serve ice cream. Or you're just grade-A trolling, which I will admit you're doing a great job of if true.
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I mostly lurk, but isn't golden road a well known dipshit, troll account? Why are you all letting him play you so hard?

Super_Thug44 posted...

Ffs it's like you're planning on writing a thesis on the elusive terms of non-soft serve ice cream. Or you're just grade-A trolling, which I will admit you're doing a great job of if true.

If I'm trolling, I'm so good that I didn't even know it! I got myself good!

Like seriously, I made this thread because of a weird conversation earlier about ice cream, both soft serve and hard, and it came up that we didn't know what hard ice cream was called. I thought this would be a fun little thread and maybe someone out there would know of the term used. I never expected this thread to blow up the way it did, like I thought it would just be a little thread that might get answered if I was lucky. Instead it turned into a mess with most people being as deliberately unhelpful as possible, which I guess happens sometimes on this board, but I mistakenly believed this thread was benign enough to avoid that fate. Turns out that people take their ice cream very seriously.

I know it's called ice cream. Telling me that it's called ice cream is entirely unhelpful. I was asking what it's called when you want to make the distinction between hard ice cream and soft serve ice cream.
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it didn't really blow up. you just kept posting asking the same question over and over again not accepting that it's literally just called ice cream and that it isn't an unhelpful answer because the distinction between soft serve and ice cream is that one is called soft serve and one is called ice cream.
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