Also why does Mickey Mouse keep Goofy's intellectually disabled relative as a pet? It's the sort of messed up thing I'd do, but not suitable for a children's character.
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Vegan?
There isn't ice cream. They sell water based flavoured ice. Don't know what the English word for that is.
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
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.
Looks like an ice lolly
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Literally called water ice
Not to be confused with water ice, which is just ice.
Sorbet
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They keep humans as livestock.
please, please, do not reply with a link of a fan comic about this,
i don't want to read it. but I have no self control
Commenting for the link to the comic... for scientific reasons
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The almonds
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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Maybe it’s like Beastars where animal products like eggs are just a pretty normal type of labor
I've had some non dairy ice cream that's pretty good
So it's the almonds getting milked 🕵️
Most of the fat is actually sunflower seed oil, but also almonds.
Edit: I take it back. Apparently the fat source varies pretty wildly depending on the flavor. This one really is almonds!
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Coconut milk?
Coconuts, oats, cashews, almonds. I've heard good things about ice cream that uses avocado as the base too.
I've tried 2 different avocado variations and both were delicious!
Oats don't have nipples. You can't milk them.
I've had good coconut-based ice cream. Almond milk is really only good as a coffee whitener. Cashews are overabused as terrible vegan replacements for thins when they're far superior just by themselves.
I can see avocado having some potential, given its fat content, but I'm not much for savory desserts.
You can add (vegan) sugar, it doesn't have to be savory
What is "vegan sugar" supposed to be?
You don’t have to kill the unicorn and grind up its horn.
You never have to kill the unicorn, just tranq it and saw off the horn. It'll grow back. Maybe.
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.
lmao #3 is how they do it in bojack horseman. There's an intelligent chicken who has a "lesser" dumb chicken farm
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 4.
It’s a planet of the apes situation.
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.
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
How would option 1 be a microagression?
I could imagine the dairy and veal industry being a very sore subject for cows in zootopia, and casual references to dairy products might be a painful barb for them.
Isn't option 1 all dairy products being non dairy? I'm sorry am i just particularly slow?
It is, but they retain the same names as dairy products did. If it was option 4, the cows in society would be separate from the milked creatures, so they might be totally unaffected by thinking about the dairy industry. It is unpleasant for different reasons, though
All mammals produce milk, not just cows.
Assuming zootopia never had a cows milk industry, dairy wouldn't be wrongly assumed to just mean bovine milk.
That’s what I’m saying. I’m interpreting “original names” to mean that they used to be made out of cow dairy products (instead of just happening on the same names we use), so option three is the only one where the cows in society might be totally unconnected to the dairy industry.
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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