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gelats comestibles

English translation: edible ice creams

18:08 Aug 5, 2002
Catalan to English translations [Non-PRO]
Food & Drink / food
Catalan term or phrase: gelats comestibles
This appears in a list of goods for trademark registration. There is no context, except that it is in the same class as coffee, tea, spices, flour, pastry, etc. I know that "gelat" is usually ice cream, but it seems odd to add "comestible."
Jeanne Zang
United States
Local time: 03:57
English translation:edible ice creams
Explanation:
To my surprise, there is such thing as an "edible ice cream" ... maybe they're making a difference with lickable ice creams!!! Link 1 shows a page listing this (including edible ice creams AND ice creams):
"THEY'RE OUT
OF THIS WORLD
CARVEL FLYING SAUCER"
(and design)
[edible ice cream
cones, wafers, waffles,
crackers, cookies, ice
creams, custards and
sandwiches made from
layers of wafers, waffles,
crackers and cookies with
interlayers of ice creams
and custards]" Link 2 (on freezing machines) shows this: "Edible Ice cream can be produced so long as you freeze and expand the materials of ice cream (fresh milk, cream, egg, stabilizer,fragrance and etc. materials)...". It looks as ice creams can be edible or just ice creams... If you do a googling search for edible + ice cream you'll find plenty more instances. Good luck :-)


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Note added at 2002-08-05 20:56:56 (GMT)
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The difference may be related to the manufacturing process, an ice cream is not edible until they add all the nasty stuff....
TITLE IX
ICE-CREAMS AND THEIR MIXTURES Article 243.- Edible ice-creams are the products obtained by an emulsion of fat and proteins, with the addition of other ingredients or, of a mixture of water, sugars and other ingredients that have been frozen and maintained in that state.
http://www.usembassy.cl/agriculture/fas8_9e.htm

Does this make now a little more sense?? :-)
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Paul Roige (X)
Spain
Local time: 09:57
Grading comment
Thanks - but be careful. In your first example the edible refers to the cones, not the ice cream. This is true of the majority of the Google hits.
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Summary of answers provided
5 +2ice creams
Flavio Ferri-Benedetti
4edible ice creams
Paul Roige (X)
4 -1frozen foods
Marian Greenfield
4 -1cold foodstuffs
Amanda Tozer


  

Answers


3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
frozen foods


Explanation:
Hi Jeanne,

Just an educated guess, but I assume <gelats> is equivalent to <congelados> in Spanish....

Marian Greenfield
Local time: 03:57
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Flavio Ferri-Benedetti: Nope :( That would be "congelats". I really think it's just "ice creams", but as the links below confirm, it is their "legal" name. How odd though!!
3 mins
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
ice creams


Explanation:
Indeed it is odd, Jeanne... "gelats" is clearly "ice creams" in Catalan. As a noun, there is no "gelat" which is "no comestible" in Catalan.

Of course you have "gelat" as an adjective, meaning "frozen", but it does not count, in my opinion...

I am clueless!

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Note added at 2002-08-05 18:14:52 (GMT)
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Oh... got it... it\'s the \"legal\" name for ice cream.

http://www.google.com/search?q="gelats comestibles"&ie=UTF-8...

Have a look...

Flavio Ferri-Benedetti
Switzerland
Local time: 09:57
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian, Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Sheila Hardie
16 mins
agree  lidius: Gelats comestibles són simplement gelats.
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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
cold foodstuffs


Explanation:
No es una traduccion muy buena, pero "comestible" es realmente curioso, ya que se sabe que el gelats es menjen.

Amanda Tozer
Local time: 09:57
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Flavio Ferri-Benedetti: Not really any foodstuffs but ice-creams
51 mins
  -> Yes, but "comestibles" is totally ambiguous.
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
edible ice creams


Explanation:
To my surprise, there is such thing as an "edible ice cream" ... maybe they're making a difference with lickable ice creams!!! Link 1 shows a page listing this (including edible ice creams AND ice creams):
"THEY'RE OUT
OF THIS WORLD
CARVEL FLYING SAUCER"
(and design)
[edible ice cream
cones, wafers, waffles,
crackers, cookies, ice
creams, custards and
sandwiches made from
layers of wafers, waffles,
crackers and cookies with
interlayers of ice creams
and custards]" Link 2 (on freezing machines) shows this: "Edible Ice cream can be produced so long as you freeze and expand the materials of ice cream (fresh milk, cream, egg, stabilizer,fragrance and etc. materials)...". It looks as ice creams can be edible or just ice creams... If you do a googling search for edible + ice cream you'll find plenty more instances. Good luck :-)


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Note added at 2002-08-05 20:56:56 (GMT)
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The difference may be related to the manufacturing process, an ice cream is not edible until they add all the nasty stuff....
TITLE IX
ICE-CREAMS AND THEIR MIXTURES Article 243.- Edible ice-creams are the products obtained by an emulsion of fat and proteins, with the addition of other ingredients or, of a mixture of water, sugars and other ingredients that have been frozen and maintained in that state.
http://www.usembassy.cl/agriculture/fas8_9e.htm

Does this make now a little more sense?? :-)



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Paul Roige (X)
Spain
Local time: 09:57
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in CatalanCatalan
Grading comment
Thanks - but be careful. In your first example the edible refers to the cones, not the ice cream. This is true of the majority of the Google hits.
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