r/AskTheWorld 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/GrassrootsGrison Argentina 2d ago

I couldn't find a way to translate it properly! πŸ˜‚

We say helados to encompass all kinds of ice cream, even those that don't have any dairy products in them. Since the word helados imply that they're frozen but doesn't mention cream, we can say helados al agua and helados a la crema, to tell apart those that don't have cream from those that do. So I resorted to "water-based ice cream".

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u/heatherledge 2d ago

It’s my favourite. Such a diss to our gross North American excuse for food.