I love Napoleonic ice cream.
Try it in Russia, in the winter!
On the plus side, you wouldn’t need a freezer if you don’t finish it all at once…
Nah, for that there’s this:
(Russian ice cream)
As others have pointed out, Neapolitan ice cream is not named after Napoleon.
Extra painful when you consider there is a pastry called Napoleon:
Neapolitan ice cream is not named after Napoleon
There’s also a weird Danish marcipan tricorne cake named after his hat 😁
That’s a custard slice where I’m from.
Worst cake ever, since any attempt to bite into it results in all the custard being ejected from it.
If that’s the best he could come up with, it’s no wonder they exiled him to a remote island.
you really can’t joke in lemmy huh? it’s the same joke as “caesar salad was invented by julius caesat”
it’s the same joke as “caesar salad was invented by julius caesar”
Except it’s a bit different because the Caesar in Caesar salad (named after chef Caesar Cardini) is actually spelled the same way as Julius Caesar, whereas Neapolitan (meaning of Naples) is not related to the name Napoleon at all.
It hadn’t occurred to me that Neapolitan ice cream might have something to do with the name Napoleon before I saw this meme; the similarity of the words and incorrect implication that they are related is what makes it funny.
ok it’s shitpost equilecant then
Is the cluelessness the joke or is it genuine ignorance?
You mean we’re expected to know that Neapolitan is in reference to Naples (despite the ice cream not being from there) and doesn’t relate to Napoleon at all?
Yes
A common reading comprehension error is people that have either been taught, or taught themselves to sight-read every word, and not just the super short ones. So rather than seeing what word is actually there for longer words, they see some of the more obvious or prominent letters and guess what the rest might be. And most of the people I know who learned that way never fixed it, no matter how big of a problem it became later. And it’s like, a third of the people I know. Way more common than would be expected.
So yeah, those people will see Napoleon and Neapolitan and see pretty much the exact same word.
Can just be punny
What does this have to do with the Carthaginians?
YOU CAN KILL THE MAN …
No I can’t, you idiot, Napoleon died in 1821. I can however, most definitely kill a tub of Neapolitan ice cream.
Is this a joke I’m too German to understand?
This is often called “Neapolitan” ice cream in america.
While it was obviously invented by the Prussian nobleman Fürst Pückler, who also invented modern landscape gardening and got his wealth from a series of erotic travel journals about England?
Uh, acshually it was invented by the head chef of a prussian family IN HONOUR of Furst Puckler. Let’s put credit were it’s due, I hate when the work of professionals is misattributed to random rich people that just happened to be there at the right time.
The same way, I’m sure Mr. Sandwich had nothing to do with the actual creation of the food that bears his name. He probably never even put foot in the kitchen.
This is the most perfect comment on the Internet. A series of wildly unbelievable facts that sounds exactly like shit posting random bullshit, but is in fact, all true
Holy shit that’s all true. Coincidentally, he wrote a book called Tutti Fruitti.
Awop-bop-a-loo-mop alop-bom-bom
I inferred as much. It’s just a snide joke about how we call it something completely different over here.
Austro-Hungarian Ripple
TBH I’m somewhat surprised to hear that it’s even a thing outside of north america.
Why though? The first recorded recipe for it was created by a Prussian.
Because the number of people/households who consume equal amounts of chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry ice cream seems limited. And I don’t think there’s much to be gained by eating all three at once. Therefore it seems like something that has very little utility, so I’m surprised it would spread. Plus I can’t say I have any knowledge of it being invented outside the US, since to me it feels very… 1950s America vibe.
And I don’t think there’s much to be gained by eating all three at once.
Ah see, my friend, that is where you are mistaken.
The entire point is eating all three at once. If you don’t do it that way, your parents raised you wrong. Hehe. Scoop across, not within. Though to be fair, I’ve never bought the separated blocks one. I’ve only ever had the ones that are already swirled together to make the intention not only clear, but nearly impossible to circumvent.
WAS ZUM TEUFEL?!
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.
I inferred as much. It’s just a snide joke about how we call it something completely different over here.
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.
I think OP has no idea that it’s called Neapolitan ice cream
(i think you’re mistaken, and also that OP’s meme is good)
Yeah Josephine always used to say Napoleon was a bone apart
I initially read this as “Yeah Josephine used to say Napoleon was a bone spirit”, and I got amped to talk about bone spirits.
I work with a woman who believes she is the most wise and informed person alive, but is shockingly consistent in how very wrong she is about almost everything. Whether it’s a completely incorrect fact or a misunderstanding of how letters work, she’s always sure to hit you with a “Believe it or not, [insert either extremely common or wildly incorrect knowledge here]”.
Recently she went on for a day about the new Napoleon cake out bakery was selling, and wound up buying half a cake for herself. She invited several of us back to try this Napoleon cake (which was nice of her). As you have likely predicted, though, this was not a Napoleon cake.
Well what cake was it you lunatic?
Also sounds like the bakery was incorrect
Here for all the comments giving corrections.
“Vanilla for the squares, strawberry for the perverts, and chocolate for the rest of us” - John Oliver
What’s that?
Fürst (von) Pückler, a German nobleman who that icecream is named after.
Thank you for including the von
