• Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    People are bad at reading. Leads to a surprising number of english readers seeing Napoleon and Neapolitan as the same word. I went into more detail in a different reply in this thread if you want to know more.

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      5 months ago

      I inferred as much. It’s just a snide joke about how we call it something completely different over here.

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        5 months ago

        I don’t think it’s a snide joke about what people call it. I think OP has no idea that it’s called Neapolitan ice cream, not Napoleon ice cream, so there’s no joke at all. If it were called Napoleon ice cream, I suppose it’s a joke of sorts, but not one I consider very good.

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          5 months ago

          I think OP has no idea that it’s called Neapolitan ice cream

          "Confused Nick Young" meme (image of a man with a perplexed facial expression and three question marks on each side of his head)

          (i think you’re mistaken, and also that OP’s meme is good)