• Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.ee
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    We have three options here:

    All dairy products are actually non-dairy equivalents that happened to just take the original names.

    There are equally intelligent milk-producing species that either keep themselves in a milk producing state or are otherwise forced into said state.

    Or

    There is an unseen slave caste of lesser intelligent members of species that are harvested for their products.

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      lmao #3 is how they do it in bojack horseman. There’s an intelligent chicken who has a “lesser” dumb chicken farm

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        And those “lesser” chickens are created by injecting chickens after birth with something that makes them essentially mentally disabled, though they are still sentient

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      Option 1: the best way to do things, but probably counts as a microaggression

      Option 2.1: probably what Disney would go with

      Option 2.2: the fanfiction explanation

      Option 3: the grimdark version

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        Perhaps it was option 2 or 3 originally which is why all the names are the same but over time transitioned into option 1 in a sort of abolition movement.

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      based on all the shit that cars 2 not only implies but explicitly shows on screen (genetically inferior racial underclass hell-bent on destruction of the civilised world, engine transphobia, sentient beings welded in place to do their work, force-feeding a man until his heart literally explodes out of his body, cartholicism), i would not at all be surprised if it turned out to be 3.

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      There is an unseen slave caste of lesser intelligent members of species that are harvested for their products.

      This is why you don’t see monkeys in zootopia

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      There is even spontaneous milkage just squirting around all the time it seems (at least that’s what I’m told, by an unaffiliated & deprived third party).

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      In the US, I’ve heard it called shaved ice/snow cone if it’s freshly ground ice with flavor added by a person, popsicle if it comes in a single serving, and sorbet (often pronounced “sherbert”) if it comes in a tub. Usually sorbet tastes the most uniform and has the softest texture, but shaved ice at the County Fair on a hot sunny day hits like nothing else! (Also hits your wallet like nothing else too but that’s event pricing for ya)

      Sometimes we call the squeeze tubes otter pops but I’m pretty sure that’s a brand name we use as a generic term.

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      I think snowcone if it’s crushed ice with flavour syrup added (though Snowcone might be a brand name that Americans just use for all of them)

      Or sorbet if it’s frozen fruit puree

      Was thinking of th giant ice block at first, forgot about them scooping health code violations

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        What about these? Especially the one on the left? They aren’t snowcones or sorbets. You might say popsicle but that leaves out the one on the left.

        Someone said water ice. And that’s the same we call them in German. But I’ve never heard that word anywhere. Maybe it’s a UK thing or so.

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          Oh, here we just call those ice blocks. As in, ALL of those are called ice blocks in Australia and New Zealand.

          There are ice creams on a stick (eg Magnum) which are ice creams in a chocolate shell, but in your picture all those are all very clearly water-based ice blocks.

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    We have human milk ice cream, why do you think it’s weird in Zootopia to have milk from other mammals

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      (The unironically correct answer imho, it’s just labour/a service of someone, same as manufacturing, or art. Basically analogous how bees could sell/give/share honey surplus.)