• @[email protected]
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    I’m having a hard time.

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

      • SonnyVabitch
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        221 year ago

        They’d cry even harder if it contained a metric anything.

        • @Retrograde
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          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

        • @[email protected]
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          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.

    • @a1mlezz
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      61 year ago

      Americans when their ice doesn’t contain…

    • Dee
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      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.

    • Jannis
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      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

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

        • @Bernie_Sandals
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          Hmmm idk about that Vermont is much closer to being elves than any part of Mass I’ve ever seen

    • @Cabrio
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      51 year ago

      Because American culture is your greatest export.

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      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.

      • @WayTooDank
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        21 year ago

        The reflexive form “sich enthalten” means to abstain, without the reflexive pronoun it always means “to contain”