Silently Watches
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Just so everyone knows, this vote WILL BE CLOSED tomorrow around this time, plus/minus an hour. If you haven't voted yet and want to, you should probably get on with it.
Magical Girl Escalation Taylor (Worm/Nanoha)
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52TrenchCats
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Who'd want to rule a garbage town like Earth Bet anyway when there's infinite buffet of dimensions, some of which still have ice cream.
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- America
Wait. Are you saying earth Bet didn't have ice cream?
Silently Watches
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Mid-childa and really most of the TSAB worlds don't have ice cream per se. Mid-childa doesn't because their climate is cooler than Earth's, so while it's certainly habitable eating cold desserts isn't the most popular thing. Worlds that do have warmer climates don't have ice cream. They have sorbets, which are very similar, but they're all fruit-based rather than dairy-based. This came up in… let's check… chapter 9.18.
Is it bad that even after close to two years, I still remember the Mid-childan word I used for ice cream/sorbet?
Looks like Taylor has something to bring when she emigrates! Also a cow probably
I would. It Taylor's current position. Or as a Xianxia protagonist. Various hero types that can spread their powers Excetera. It's a modern planet with all of the modern conveniences and a legit excuse for tossing lightning at fools. Train up my army of followers, buy an AI from Dragon and sit atop my throne of jeweled skulls.
My army rounds up the worlds parahumans and sort them into Tinkers and everyone else. The everyone else become part of a world wide gladiator arena. It lets them fight, keeps them comfortable and provides circuses to pacify my population. The Tinkers would be tasked with creating me all sorts of superscience trinkets. Everything they can imagine. This trash is then handed off to my state science division for detailed study (even if the Worms blackbox it you can still discover things by study) and they get the budget for supersuits to take into the arena.
Worms are happy and sedated until I can get to their dimensions. World is no longer a shitsack. Fantasies are fulfilled.
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- Ural, Russia, Earth
Pretty sure you didn't mention he was working for the Fallen voluntarily.
It's good news and bad news in the same time.
It's good the Fallen won't be able to use his barrier for new terrorist attacks and defending against us. It's also good that without the Fallen Lilliput doesn't have firepower to make use of his very noticeable spell.
It's bad because we won't take him down together with the Fallen and while he's running free there is a chance he'll be kidnapped by Yangban/Gesellschaft/Elite.
Nanoha, Hayate and Fate had more than ten years to introduce ice-cream to Midchilda. If they failed so hard that even their own personal student doesn't know of ice-cream, Taylor has no chances.
Truly Midchilda is beyond saving.
Taylor shouldn't waste her time on this barbarians when there is other, more civilized planets in need of her help.
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Nanoha's family runs a cafe famed for its confectionaries locally and she spent a lot of her childhood helping out. She definitely knows more than enough.
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I love eating ice cream in the winter.
Rickshaw
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Baby steps. First, the world.
Then, university.
Okay also maybe the LDC and if reachable the remains of the Galean and Belkan Empires too but college is important
This sounds like a shitpost but I'm pretty certain it would be quicker and simpler for us to cause worldwide upheaval and institute a Magocracy than it'd take us to legitmately earn a degree. After all, we have a team of capes, two fairies, and a supercomputer to assist us with the former. The latter we gotta do on our own.
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There is the small problem that you have to be lactose tollerant to really appreciate it. That's probably why they go for sorbet and such instead. It's something of an issue in japan.
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Silently Watches
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Ding ding ding!
Yes, from the Mid-childan perspective, why should they adopt ice cream that if they slightly overindulge gives them abdominal cramps and gas when they already have a dessert that fills the same niche and doesn't cause problems?
Rajvik_wolfboy
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Ding ding ding!
Yes, from the Mid-childan perspective, why should they adopt ice cream that if they slightly overindulge gives them abdominal cramps and gas when they already have a dessert that fills the same niche and doesn't cause problems?
one word, CHOCOLATE!
i have never seen chocolate sorbet, (not saying it doesn't exist, but i haven't seen it)
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Bullshit. I'm lactose intolerant and while no number of pills can be digested fast enough to keep up with regular ice cream (shit just melts to liquid and moves along) there is in fact lactose free icecream. It's just as good and I was basically ready to worship the company that makes it after having to abstain for a year before I found it.
I'm not 100% clear on the details, but lactose is a byproduct of whatever they do to kill germs in milk, I think they boil it but I'm not certain. Anyway point is I could drink straight from a cow and be fine so long as I didn't go nuts. Thing is cows are kind of filthy so you need to take care to keep the animals really clean or you end up with shit germs in the milk, which is why they started boiling it or whatever in the first place.
you can absolutely have cramp free icecream especially in a magic space age society which has nonlethal fireballs to cleanse germs and dirt and whatever else from cows utters prior to milking.
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- Tromso, Norway.
Sure, but would anyone invent lactose free icecream if no one invented icecream in the first place?
Fencer
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Did you not read the rest of the post? Lactose free ice cream literally is just ice-cream minus boiling the milk. (To the best of my knowledge) there's nothing to invent you just have to keep the animals clean.
...uh, no, lactose is part of the milk.
Straight from the teat
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Damn then I have been lied to. And I actually liked that teacher too.
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I was lactose intolerant as a child, but bizarrely developed a tolerance for it as an adult(usually, that goes the other direction, making it safe for most children even in countries that don't have large numbers of lactose tolerant adults). "Lactose " means "milk sugar". Not all animals generate the same amount of lactose in their milk, though, giving you options.
What you can do is make ice cream from goat milk instead of cow milk. The result is richer, creamier, and so hypoallergenic that goat milk is used to feed babies that can't tolerate even the tiny amounts of lactose in human milk. My parents raised goats when my brother and I were young just for a supply of milk that we could drink.
There's also a relatively new product called "Lactaid" that uses an enzyme to break down the lactose, leaving the flavor almost completely intact. That's what you're probably eating as lactose free ice cream.
Archeo Lumiere
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That enzyme is Lactase, the enzyme that lactose intolerant people have a hard time producing. In pill form it can cause issues due to accidental overconsumption against consumed lactose, but when prepared in a dairy product, it's very consistent about being perfectly safe for lactose free individuals.
While there are some traditional foods you DO use unpasteurized milk for, the milk is horribly dangerous to store for longer than a day, because its so nutritious that basically all the bacteria, no matter how clean the animal is, are going to have a fine old feast.
But some natural food advocates are dead convinced that any kind of food processing is bad.
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Like most of the big misunderstandings in American culture, they get something big wrong by getting lots of little things right. Every bit of processing you do on food makes it a little easier to digest, meaning your body absorbs the nutrients faster and spends less energy to do so, causing bigger spikes of blood sugar and makes it harder for your body to maintain constant levels of some other vitamins and minerals in addition to the big one, sugar. If you can get milk "harvested that day" levels of fresh, it is not only safe, but better for you. If you aren't driving to the farm and milking the cows yourself, unpasteurized milk only lasts a few days, and even that long requires refrigeration.
This does not mean that all processing is bad. Pasteurization is essential to reducing disease when you aren't getting it fresh from the farm. Prior to European genetics came to the Americas, corn was essentially impossible to digest without first treating it with lye to break down the outer layer. Excessive processing should be minimized, but unless you are a raw foody who insists on only eating things exactly as it grows, some processing is good. Even most of the raw fans don't realize that grinding, blending, smashing, and mixing foods are all processing. They even use a lot of acids which chemically cook the food, meaning they are not really eating raw so much a cold food. There's also a reason that raw foodies rarely look healthy.
How this applies to Midchilda, and the TSAB as a whole, is that altering foods to be edible to a larger percentage of people requires first developing a product popular enough to warrant that innovation. Bringing the knowledge of how to make lactase alongside bringing something as delicious as ice cream gives it a chance to develop into a major cultural phenomenon. I would want to bring cuttings and seeds of every domesticated crop on Earth Bet to see how much of that we could trade to farmers, chefs, etc. for, first, money, and second just to see where things went from there. The greatest thing about American food, to me, is the way it has developed so many fusions of cultural styles into delicious new ones.
Sure Nanoha may have brought some of the same items, that doesn't mean that Earth Bet's crops are necessarily the same as on her Earth, even before you get into the fact that most people would not be inclined to put that much effort into the matter. The two Earths in question don't have to be as similar as Bet and Aleph, after all, just because they have a Japan. Bet likely also has some tinker created crops to export, too.