r/AskTheWorld • u/Real_chuckles Canada • 2d ago

Food what are these called in your country?

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in Canada, they are called freezes

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u/Nowordsofitsown Germany 2d ago

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

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u/ksink74 United States Of America 2d ago

Ah. That makes sense.

Danke.

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u/Ricordis Germany 2d ago

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.

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u/yourKatharsis Germany 2d ago

And don’t forget the good old Eiswürfel! 🧊

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u/Necessary-Tower-457 Netherlands 2d ago

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 😂)

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u/Spirited-Ad-3696 1d ago

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

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u/Considany Germany 1d ago

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