Re: ice cream cups
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 21, 2003, 2:51 |
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On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 09:17:18PM -0500, Robert Jung wrote:
> Plus, I wasn't sure what was meant by "ice cream cup". I thought of "ice
> cream in a cup", but wasn't sure; I thought maybe it was like "cupcake" -
> not a "cake in a cup" but something else...
Well, a cupcake *is* cake in a cup - cake baked in a cup, in fact.
Taking any old cake and serving it in a cup doesn't make it a
cupcake, but the compound is still pretty transparent.
Around here, "ice cream cup" refers to a cup used for serving ice
cream. At an ice cream shop, it also refers to the menu item consisting
of such a cup (usually paper) with ice cream in it, to be distinguished
from an ice cream cone.
-Mark