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[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 130 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 50 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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.

[–] CXORA@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How would option 1 be a microagression?

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] Cenotaph@mander.xyz 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

lmao #3 is how they do it in bojack horseman. There's an intelligent chicken who has a "lesser" dumb chicken farm

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And those "lesser" chickens are created by injecting chickens after birth with something that makes them essentially mentally disabled, though they are still sentient

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You know what?

Bojack should be depressed. His whole society should be destroyed. I'm glad I stopped watching the sad horse show.

[–] musubibreakfast@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

It was a source of joy for me. I still miss the sad horse.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Option 4.

It’s a planet of the apes situation.

[–] x4740N@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

There is an unseen slave caste of lesser intelligent members of species that are harvested for their products.

This is why you don't see monkeys in zootopia

[–] needanke@feddit.org 54 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They keep humans as livestock.

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 33 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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

[–] Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago

Commenting for the link to the comic... for scientific reasons

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

i don’t want to read it. but I have no self control

Here you go

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Awwww, I was hoping for the opposite.

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[–] germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 1 month ago

Maybe it’s like Beastars where animal products like eggs are just a pretty normal type of labor

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Zootopia? Based on what I've seen online, who's getting milked? Anything that moves.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

There is even spontaneous milkage just squirting around all the time it seems (at least that's what I'm told, by an unaffiliated & deprived third party).

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 25 points 1 month ago (10 children)

There isn't ice cream. They sell water based flavoured ice. Don't know what the English word for that is.

[–] Manticore@lemmy.nz 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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.

[–] Grabthar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Looks like an ice lolly

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[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In the US, I've heard it called shaved ice/snow cone if it's freshly ground ice with flavor added by a person, popsicle if it comes in a single serving, and sorbet (often pronounced "sherbert") if it comes in a tub. Usually sorbet tastes the most uniform and has the softest texture, but shaved ice at the County Fair on a hot sunny day hits like nothing else! (Also hits your wallet like nothing else too but that's event pricing for ya)

Sometimes we call the squeeze tubes otter pops but I'm pretty sure that's a brand name we use as a generic term.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

sorbet (often pronounced “sherbert”)

Sorbet and sherbert also called sherbet) are actually different. Sorbet is just fruit puree with sugar and water as needed. Sherbert also contains dairy, which adds fat and gives it a richer texture.

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[–] musubibreakfast@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago
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[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've had some non dairy ice cream that's pretty good

[–] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So it's the almonds getting milked 🕵️

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] whysteria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Coconuts, oats, cashews, almonds. I've heard good things about ice cream that uses avocado as the base too.

[–] StepUp2DaStreets@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I've tried 2 different avocado variations and both were delicious!

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[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 month ago

The almonds

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I've never understood this reaction. Goofy and Pluto are both dogs in the same way Humans and dogs are both mammals. They're not the same, just visually similar, but Goofy has more in common with Mickey than Pluto.

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[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 19 points 1 month ago
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

No, no, ...

The question (and shorter answer) is who isn't getting milked.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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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[–] Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 month ago

I can't forget the chicken in Beastars (similar show to zootopia but not for kids) who sells her own eggs to other students and is proud of it.

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago
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