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    1 month ago

    The word for ice cream in Japanese is aisu (ice) because if they had to say aisu kuriimu all the time it would be too long and they use a native Japanese word for ice (kōri). Also they love shortening loanwords especially (like how Starbucks (sutaabakusu) becomes sutaba or First Kitchen becomes fakkin lol).

    The “University of potato ice” is a real thing, or at least it’s natural when separated from ice cream. A university potato is fried sweet potatoes covered with a syrup. Wikipedia says the origin of the name is unclear, and maybe it was invented at one university or maybe just students of a certain university really liked it.

    However, the “boobs ice (cream)” is translated correctly and I don’t think it means anything else. Seems especially odd given the message at the bottom about the ¥150 discount for women.