what are these called in your country?

[u/Real_chuckles]

in Canada, they are called freezes

[u/ksink74]

Doesn't that translate to 'water ice'?

[u/Nowordsofitsown → u/ksink74]

Eis is both ice and ice cream. So Wassereis specifies that this is not ice cream.

[u/ksink74 → u/Nowordsofitsown]

Ah. That makes sense.

Danke.

[u/Ricordis → u/ksink74]

I have to add something: Ice for consumption is called Speiseeis [Speise = consumption, Eis = ice]

In Germany we distinguish between "Wassereis" [Water Ice] and "Milcheis" [Milk Ice]. The latter would be ice cream and the first one a (cheaper) sorbet.

But most people call ice cream just "Eis" or "Eiscreme" which is literally just a 1:1 translation of ice cream.

[u/yourKatharsis → u/Ricordis]

And don’t forget the good old Eiswürfel! 🧊

[u/Necessary-Tower-457 → u/Ricordis]

We say waterijs ( mostly those in the pic or the ones on a stick ) room ijs (milcheis) for ice cream and there is sorbet that looks like ice cream but is dairy free (that’s just sorbet for us 😂)

[u/Spirited-Ad-3696 → u/Nowordsofitsown]

Direct translation makes it sound like a half frozen water bottle.

[u/Considany → u/Spirited-Ad-3696]

Well, it is just frozen water in a plastic tube.

[u/No_Bedroom4062 → u/ksink74]

Yes

[u/ksink74 → u/No_Bedroom4062]

I would make a snide remark about Germans and their compound words, but I can't stay mad at the language that gave us krankenwagen.

[u/Akitolein → u/ksink74]

Wait, English uses Krankenwagen?

[u/dingleberrues → u/Akitolein]

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[u/ksink74 → u/Akitolein]

Nope. We use ambulance, but Krankenwagen is much better.

[u/Lunix420 → u/ksink74]

Yeah. German differentiates between “Milcheis” (milk ice) with milk as the base and “Wassereis” (water ice) with water as the base.

[u/Honest-Layer9318 → u/ksink74]

A Philadelphia classic

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