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alias ice_cream_bar -> popsicle

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The coating of an ice cream bar can make them look very different from a popsicle (post #3784316), particularly because nuts or other additions to the chocolate are pretty common in real life. Ice cream bars that lack sticks are common too, like the Klondike bar, and having such possible depictions be forced to be tagged "popsicle" sounds rather off.

Even if there is consensus to unify the image populations, it probably would still make sense to retain the ice_cream_bar tag as a sub-tag of popsicle to cover depictions given their visual difference from common popsicles. For example post #2753044 or post #4783452 in comparison depictions like post #5121729.

NWF_Renim said:

The coating of an ice cream bar can make them look very different from a popsicle (post #3784316), particularly because nuts or other additions to the chocolate are pretty common in real life. Ice cream bars that lack sticks are common too, like the Klondike bar, and having such possible depictions be forced to be tagged "popsicle" sounds rather off.

Even if there is consensus to unify the image populations, it probably would still make sense to retain the ice_cream_bar tag as a sub-tag of popsicle to cover depictions given their visual difference from common popsicles. For example post #2753044 or post #4783452 in comparison depictions like post #5121729.

I think popsicle is already being used as a catchall, is the thing. There are 16,000+ pics tagged popsicle (compared to ice cream bar's 34), and a lot of them are just ambiguously-colored ice creams. watermelon bar already implies popsicle, and that's an ice cream product.

iridescent_slime said:

Not to be pedantic, but the classic watermelon-slice-shaped product by Lotte is mainly frozen sugar water, just like any other popsicle. It is definitely not ice cream.

Dammit, I've been misled. Is the infographic on this page wrong, or are they just using a loose definition of アイス?

The_Bob said:

Dammit, I've been misled. Is the infographic on this page wrong, or are they just using a loose definition of アイス?

I'm just going by the ingredient label. They pretty clearly lack any whole milk or cream, which are generally required in any dessert labeled as ice cream. Also, I don't know if you've ever tried a watermelon bar, but they aren't creamy the way dairy-based melon-flavored treats like Melona are.

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