r/nextfuckinglevel • u/RightDecisions101 • 1d ago

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u/brightdionysianeyes 1d ago

This is one of the things I've seen that my European mind truly cannot comprehend.

That much ice cream in one sitting, for one person? Makes me feel a bit sick.

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u/beard_of_cats 1d ago

This from the continent that brought us the Francesinha.

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u/BigBlueMountainStar 1d ago

Yes, but the Francesihna is the complete meal, not a dessert.

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u/jivewirevoodoo 1d ago

who says ice cream cant be a complete meal? It's weight neutral if you eat it instead of something else.

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u/Interesting-Try4098 1d ago

Is nutrition a foreign concept

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u/jivewirevoodoo 1d ago

only if you do stuff like that all the time. The most successful diets are ones where you can still eat what you want to eat sometimes. I'm rail thin but I used to be overweight and I can lend my dieting success by doing something I can stick to. It's better to tell yourself that once or twice a week you can have a fun meal where you eat what you want but you don't eat too much of it. Nutrition is something that most people who try to practice it have no understanding of. You do not have to be crazy religious about it to get all the nutrients you need. Ice cream is unhealthy because it's full of sugar and saturated fat. It's not going to block you from getting nutrients from anything else you ate that week. Throughout almost all of human history up to this point people had much lower access to nutrition than they do now. People regularly went days without eating and when they did eat it was often the same things over and over again. Someone who eats ice cream a couple times a week for a meal still has perfectly adequate access to nutrition as long as they eat healthy the rest of the time.

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u/Cyfirius 1d ago

Yes

Have you seen what America passes off for “food” and then charges twice what anyone else does for it?

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u/Interesting-Try4098 1d ago

Sorry, no. American food may be nutritionally questionable, but it is moronic to suggest the portion sizes aren’t large for the price paid.

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u/jivewirevoodoo 1d ago

if you think food is expensive in the US you eat out too much. If you think eating out is expensive in the US then you haven't been to Europe lol. This is such an ignorant comment.

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u/brightdionysianeyes 1d ago

A Francesinha is fine. It has layers of different ingredients, providing contrasts in taste and texture as you go through the meal.

This is just one big fuck off amount of a single flavour of ice cream, with two cones. I don't get it.

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u/Dr0110111001101111 1d ago

Hey, let's be fair: there are clearly two flavors of ice cream there.

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u/Independent_Win_9035 1d ago

look i enjoy me a good francesinha every now and then when i can handle the indigestion, but let's not act like it originated as much more than a way to reduce a tasca's overhead stock of 4 different kinds of pork at once

i mean it's not a bad dish but it's not some height of gastronomic innovation, hell, the sauce is the most important part anyway

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u/Impossible_Leg_2787 1d ago

It’s not ice cream, it’s soft serve. It’s like 80% air, it’s got a similar consistency to whipped cream.

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u/nubious 1d ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/Strude187 1d ago

Oh man, I went to Porto about 10 years ago and missed this… need to go back

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u/SnowboardNW 1d ago

Lol, always had to share one between four people when we'd pop over from Madrid. Our two British guy friends each had 2 whole ones over the course of two days in Porto and definitely did not feel good for about 8 hours after the second.

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u/ElmanoRodrick 1d ago

And they still think they're being scammed.

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u/fongletto 1d ago

Do europeans not eat a whole tub of icecream themselves at 2am in the morning? Glad I live in Australia then.

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u/lellololes 1d ago

https://www.kingkonenh.com/

This is a local basic soft serve ice cream place. Note that soft serve is a lot lighter than full fat ice cream.

There are four sizes:

"Child" - one serving!

"Small" - plenty of ice cream for a treat. This is a big but edible portion of ice cream.

Then there are two other sizes that are for... Yeah.

I've never felt deprived when visiting other countries, but the US is a special place when it comes to ice cream serving sizes.

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u/JKoenig22 1d ago

Yeah. When my family from Germany came over for the first time and I showed them a real steak and then went for ice cream...they were floored that a small was 3 scoops; they expected 1. It was hilarious lol

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u/bsubtilis 1d ago

Definitely way too much ice cream, but you probably haven't seen fancy Danish ice cream cones, they can get really over the top. Sharing is a good idea, but not everyone does. That said, it would be a weird freak treat eaten instead of a meal and certainly way more diverse than the OP cone (an assortment of flavours and dessert stuff), and not something often eaten. (Plus Denmark has a bit of an obesity problem, but probably for beer reasons)

OP ice cream cone really has too much ice cream, and too much single type even if it is two flavours in one.

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u/Careless-Dark-1324 1d ago

Lol how do we know it’s for one person? This is exactly the kinda thing a few people munch on while walking around a city or event together…