Microblog Memes

Last couple decades? There historically the most winningest military of all time bar none.

The French have always been pretty strong. I don't know what history you read, but they've pretty consistently had one of the strongest militaries in the world. Sure, they surrendered quickly on WWII, but the people kept fighting even then when their government was occupied. They were one of the first nations to aid the United States also and have always been pretty active.

Is this all good? Idk. Besides resisting the Nazis after the occupation, I would very much argue much of this is bad (or at best self-serving). It's nation-state shit. It's never out of marality. They're strong though.

The English were assroped by the French Normans that they had to rename many common foodstuffs.

Wasn't the American revolution like a decade before the French one?

I don't really care about glorifying past military victories but rather about the fact that the white flag internet meme appeared when the French government refused to follow the USA into Irak War II. https://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/07/villepin.transcript/

depends whether the price reflects it or it's an attempt to trick you into paying more for less

yeah, but they call them "shakes".

"shakes", heh. don't know what you're gunna get.

From the United States Code of Federal Regulations:

§ 58.2825 United States Standard for ice cream.

(a) Ice cream shall contain at least 1.6 pounds of total solids to the gallon, weigh not less than 4.5 pounds to the gallon, and contain not less than 20 percent total milk solids, constituted of not less than 10 percent milkfat. In no case shall the content of milk solids not fat be less than 6 percent. Whey shall not, by weight, be more than 25 percent of the milk solids not fat.

It continues on in that fashion, but if I'm honest I see this as the system working correctly. The food in that carton likely doesn't meet the legal, technical definition of ice cream and thus cannot be labeled as such, and it isn't. There are things that are labelled as ice cream in Europe which cannot be labelled as such here because they don't conform to the above standards. But if you were served a scoop of it and asked what it was, you would confidently identify it as ice cream.

I'll tell you what does bother me though: The front of the package and a marketing blurb on their website refers to it as vanilla, strawberry and blueberry flavored, but the ingredients are listed as:

INGREDIENTS: SKIM MILK, CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, CREAM, FRUCTOSE, STRAWBERRIES, WATER, COCONUT OIL, WHEY, LESS THAN 2% OF: MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, GUAR GUM, NATURAL FLAVOR, BEET JUICE (FOR COLOR), CAROB BEAN GUM, TARA GUM, SPIRULINA EXTRACT (FOR COLOR), ANNATTO (FOR COLOR), VITAMIN A PALMITATE. CONTAINS MILK

Vanilla and blueberries are not listed among the ingredients. I'm guessing whatever wood pulp derived vanillin that most of the vanilla flavored things in the world are actually flavored by is included in the "natural flavor" and we're left to guess where any "bold blueberry deliciousness" is supposed to come from.

I've long thought they shouldn't be allowed to put "natural flavor" as an ingredient as that is too vague, what if there is a "natural flavor" you are allergic to? What if that "natural flavor" is cat smegma?