Politely disagree with a modding...

[Trinopus]

So, what I should have done was…

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15923599#post15923599

This?

[VinylTurnip]

@raindog

Ok.

I’m good with that.

What the… what is this? NO! You’re supposed to kick and scream! Intimate that you’re fighting for truth and justice! Accuse Marley of religious bias! Fling ad hominems until you get warned, then argue about the warning! Threaten to leave for more important pursuits, then stay and argue some more! This must go on for pages and pages! Don’t you know how these threads work?

[kayaker]

I can handle white chocolate, but am totally befuddled by Neopolitan icecream. Mods?

[Darth_Panda]

@kayaker

I can handle white chocolate, but am totally befuddled by Neopolitan icecream. Mods?

At the risk of junior modding, Wiki has some good quotes:

“Cosmopolitan slice. A slice of ice-cream cake made with mousse mixture and ordinary ice cream, presented in a small pleated paper case. Neapolitan ice cream consists of three layers, each of a different colour and flavour (chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla), moulded into a block and cut into slices. Neapolitan ice-cream makers were famous in Paris at the beginning of the 19th century, especially Tortoni, creator of numerous ice-cream cakes.”[1]

“(18th century) confectioners’s shops (were) very often run by Italians. Consequently ice creams were often called “Italian ice creams” or “Neapolitan ice creams” throughout the 19th century, and the purveying of such confections became associated with Italian immigrants.”[2]

“Neapolitan ice cream, different flavoured layers frozen together…[was] being first being talked about in the 1870s.”[3]

A cultural reference from The New York Times in 1887:“…in a dress of pink and white stripes, strongly resembling Neapolitan ice cream.”[4]

Neapolitan ice cream

[Drunky_Smurf]

@Senegoid

For better effect, there’s an additional step you may want to try.

I did not know this. Thanks for the tip.

[Kevbo]

@Simple_Linctus

There is no such thing as white chocolate.

I completely agree. Love that stuff, but chocolate it ain’t.

Also find that people seem to take me more seriously now that spell checking is ubiquitous. Posting to this board has incentivized me to improve in this and other areas. Occasionally criticism was mean spirited, but mostly it was well meant.