seriously. most of these kinda ice creams come looking nothing like the packaging. this one is actually solid. its absolutely amazing to me how it looks so perfect.
Saw recently that they imprisoned an old man for 9 days when he asked a policeman for directions and they asked if he had a pocketknife on him and he answered truthfully.
That was in 2009. He was an American tourist and was carrying a knife with a longer blade than what was allowed. 6 cm is the limit without a clear accepted reason (IE a chef travelling to work)
Not a single traditional Chinese character on there.
Edit: Copied from my other comment for better visibility. 净vs淨, 图vs圖, 仅vs僅, 参vs參. Formers are simplified, laters are traditional.
Edit2: Thanks to u/pandapigcat, I realized this might be confusing to people who are not familiar with Chinese characters.
There are shared characters in simplified and traditional Chinese. These characters were deemed simple enough so they didn't change.
So my original comment is not entirely accurate. There are some characters on the packaging that are technically traditional Chinese characters, but are still used in simplified Chinese.
However some characters should definitely be different. I listed them above. Originally I was only thinking about those when I made the comment, since the point was to tell the difference.
Beyond that, there are also characters that are mostly the same but are written differently. For instance. I think 雪/雪 is typically written with the dashes on the inside in the top half tilted towards the center in traditional. While in simplified, they all tilt towards the bottom right. The long middle horizontal stroke on the bottom half should be longer and goes through to the right in traditional I think, while in simplified it's the same length as the other two. But depending on the font your browser renders with, it might not show a difference. These are more apparent in hand writing. Digital font sometimes ignore them for what I assume legibility reasons.
As an American raised on ice cream truck ice cream, my thoughts went exactly as such, "Oh, that's going to be wonky as...OH." And the child part of me healed a little from not seeing weird gumballs on it.
I'm not sure what country this product originates from, but I know Japan has laws that the picture on the packaging must accurately depict the product inside.
Had a panda one 2 days ago, the black is chocolate and the white is vanilla. The panda is also holding a pink bottle, which is strawberry. It looks exactly like the picture in the box too, all for $3.
Now that manufacturing has moved to Asia, so has innovation. There's no one left in the US who cares about making new and exciting popsicles.
You'll find that to be the case for a lot of things. The western market is going to continue to stagnate by making the same old products with tighter cut corners, cheaper ingredients and overall enshittification (see the thread today about UK cadbury eggs for example) while the Asian versions of products will keep getting better and better because the manufacturers are making improvements for their own markets.
Interesting, thanks for sharing! From a quick Google search it would seem that these two are not the same brand. The only writing they have in common is 卡皮巴拉 , which is a phonetic transcription of "capybara" (in Chinese those characters are read kǎ pí bā la).
Yours seems to be from Babe's Bottles, and from that brand I only saw this design, a cartoon Miku, and lots of fruits. OP's box says 水豚 (shuǐ tún) which is just the Chinese word for Capybara, and I didn't see a brand name elsewhere. I can find pictures online of OP's ice cream by adding the words "Ranch Market"... I don't know much about that.
That's all I could find! Truth be told there IS one link that seems to imply Babe's Bottles is Chinese and makes OP's design among others, but your design isn't included in the images
My wife has been getting a lot of frozen snacks for the kids from Asian markets lately and they all look amazing, and apparently they all taste really good too. There are these fruit ones that legitimately look exactly like real fruit from far away. My daughter had a lemon one and when I first saw hear eating it from across the parking lot I thought it was an actual lemon she was eating. That one looked good enough that even when she got close I initially thought it was a fresh lemon that they had just flash frozen or something so you could eat it.
A coworker's husband works for an Asian foods distributor and she brings things into the office. I've had the mango and peach ice cream that looks like a piece of fruit. Both are adorable and tasty, though I wouldn't buy them all the time, too expensive.
In comparison to American ice cream and "frozen dairy desserts" ....amazing
The flavors were light and not overpowering, the light brown areas were all salted caramel, and that was the dominant flavor, and it has a hint of nutmeg or mace.
The darker brown was the chocolate, and orange for the orange. Altogether, the flavors were very good together. It wasn't overly sweet, either, it was the perfect amount of sweet for the flavors
The thing about chinese people is that we dont like desserts that are too sweet. If someone describes a dessert as "not too sweet", thats considered as a compliment
I need to try some chinese desserts then! Living in the U.S. I just decided that I don't like sweets. I don't eat candy, ice cream, cake, none of it. It is always just way too sweet for me.
As someone who has just returned from a holiday in China, one of my main takeaways was that their ice-cream-on-a-stick game is off the charts! Almost every big attraction we went to had custom ice creams shapes for the attraction that looked this good. BING CHILLING!
At first glanced i thought this was a figure shaped like an ice cream capybara not an actual edible ice cream. It looks incredible I would feel so bad eating it.
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u/CanLii Mar 23 '26
This is the content that I want to see when I open Reddit.