Talk:Softcream

This is basically my as-is translation of the Japanese article. It contains information not found in the en.wikipedia articles about soft serve or soft ice cream. Are there any differences among softcream, soft serve, and soft ice cream other than the names themselves? I've had both soft serve in America and softcream in Japan, and they taste the same to me. But I've also heard (from a questionable source) that they are completely different from each other.

If the three things are indeed similar enough to warrant a single merged article, could someone more knowledgeable than myself merge them, explain the differences between different kinds of soft ice creams, flesh out a comprehensive history of them (including information about its ancient Chinese roots mentioned in this article and the British chemical research team mentioned in the soft ice cream article)?

Spacecat2 December 29, 2006

Well, to add to the confusion among the articles, the soft ice cream one is simply a copy of a paragraph in the main ice cream article. That duplication should be fixed also. I thought there was a difference between soft ice cream & soft serve, but from the articles, they sure sound the same (though soft ice cream claims that most major ice cream brands now use this manufacturing process which either isn't true in the States or they're not talking about soft serve). It is quite possible it is regional terms for the same thing, but I'm in the same boat as you (i.e. need someone more knowledgeable than myself). -- JLaTondre 12:32, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was bold. I merged creemee, soft ice cream and softcream into soft serve. I left out the "invented in China" bit because it's unsourced, and since the article stated that the American Armed Forces set up the first softcream stand in Japan, and the process described is identical to that laid out in soft serve and soft ice cream, it stands to follow that they can all be merged. As well, I did not include all the flavors, because you can make just about any soft serve flavor you want, there is no exhaustive list. I summarized and gave notable examples from Japan. I hope this will do. Iamvered 18:31, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]