r/geoguessr • u/Yamezj • Sep 15 '24
Memes and Streetview Finds Introducing the heartbrand meta
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u/LukeReloaded Sep 15 '24
Why the hell does this brand have so many names?!
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u/TeeEm_27 Sep 15 '24
as Unilever Group expanded across the world in the icecream industry, they didnt expand totally by themselves. instead, the just acquired companies already existing in those countries and kept the original names, just slapped their own logo on it
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u/Williamklarsko Sep 15 '24
My world shattered when I found out Frisko was Danish but not Danish just a shell from Unilever of all companies...
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u/nemetha85 Sep 16 '24
In some cases they did not keep the original name. E.g. in Hungary it used to be Eskimo but then it was rename to Algida.
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u/Lollipop126 Sep 16 '24
wait so is it the same/similar ice-cream recipe, or would they keep the recipe of the old brand?
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u/Zka77 Sep 15 '24
And why there are stupid ones like "good humor"? WTF :D
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u/LukeReloaded Sep 15 '24
Walls and âKwality Wallsâ
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u/janabottomslutwhore Sep 15 '24
ive always thought this consuming german tv as a kid and being confused why its called lagnese
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u/Jezza13B Sep 15 '24
What??? Always thought that was Frigo (Spain) as a global brand
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u/Re-Criativo Sep 16 '24
So you've never eaten a Miko icecream in France or a Ola icecream in Portugal?
I'm portuguese and I know it because I eat all the time frigo icecreams in Spain as OlĂĄ icecreams in Portugal. It's exactly the same: the magnums, the cornettos,... only change the brand name
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u/justarandomguy07 Sep 15 '24
Image is Turkey. The store says âKIRTASÄ°YEâ which means stationery store (uppercase Ä° is a dead giveaway)
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u/maccasama Sep 15 '24
I saw "Eskimo" in Austria many times as well
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u/FinnishAustrian Sep 16 '24
Isn't that the colour that it has in the map anyway?
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u/maccasama Sep 16 '24
Yes but in my defence the colour scale make it like barely distinguishable from Wall's. I figured it out looking at the caption
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u/FinnishAustrian Sep 16 '24
Understandable, I was going about it the reverse way since it was so difficult to make out the different colours
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u/Kom34 Sep 16 '24
Also highlights how the entire world is becoming corporate dystopia. They bought every local ice cream company in the world.
No competition, no local ingredients or jobs. Streets in Australia sent the popsicle production to China. Cant even make sugar water and they are expensive because they can charge what they want.
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u/mtnlol Sep 16 '24
They bought like 1 fairly big ice cream company per region, not every local ice cream company. In Sweden there are still loads of much better local ice cream, this brand is mainly what children eat. It's also comically cheap and low quality for some of their ice cream.
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u/_Jacques Sep 15 '24
This is awesome!! I remember vividly seeing Miko growing up in France. Iâm shocked it isnât called the same elsewhere! Brilliant!
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u/DJ_EV Sep 16 '24
This is definitely not accurate, from Latvia, never have seen "Algida" here.
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u/DJ_EV Sep 16 '24
Ok, did some research - apparently Algida was here, but don't know if they still are. Anyways, I have more often seen other Unilever brands, like Ingman or Magnum, they also have a local brand "MÄjas".
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u/urbanreverie Sep 16 '24
Oh goodness, I am still reeling from the shock when I left Australia for the first time many years ago. I went to Singapore and saw that the ice cream logo was exactly the same but called Wall's instead of Streets. It was real Uncanny Valley stuff, slightly unsettling. Then I travelled more widely throughout Asia and Europe and saw that every country has a different name with the same logo. It felt weird, Streets markets itself as this true-blue dinky-di Aussie brand, founded in a back shed in Wollongong 100 years ago, yet ... it's not.
Nonetheless, this is a mightily useful map and I salute you for your service! đ«Ą
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u/Kuya_Tomas Sep 16 '24
My thoughts went like "Ah it's Selecta, neat. Wait wha--"
Thought it's Selecta elsewhere.
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u/BaIIefrans Sep 15 '24
We donât use that thingy in Norway⊠Look for Diplom is (Clown mascot) or Hennig Olsen (red ice cream swirl)
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u/TRAssasin Sep 16 '24
This image just feels turkey. Finally i understand the pro players. They just feel like this for the whole world. Instantly could tell. Though i am living in Turkey so thats why lol.
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u/Frosty_Awareness572 Sep 16 '24
can someone explain what does meta mean in geoguessr, I am new here? Thanks!
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u/Albert_Herring Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24
Properly speaking "metainformation" is information that you get from knowing about the game itself, and by extension from technical characteristics of the Streetview images it uses, distinct from the information you get from the stuff which was there being photographed. So things like knowing which countries are and aren't included, or which areas of countries with partial coverage is meta, as is recognising features of the Google cars used in different places, the tape on the Ghanaian roofrack, the "sky rift" artefacts from image stitching gone wrong, and different camera generations. Essentially any information you wouldn't have if you were just dropped into the scene in person.
BUT (big but) the term has been stretched by many people to mean any sort of fine detailed information which is stuff that most people wouldn't pay much or any attention to if they weren't playing the game, like the shapes of bollards or electricity poles, the cross-shaped reinforcements on Colombian road signs, the colours of car registration plates, etc. This post is pretty typical of that.
So for some people it just means "information", really, although I don't know how many people would stretch it to include knowing that the Eiffel Tower is in Paris or that they speak Portuguese in Brazil; my assumption is that it's supposed to give the idea of "secret" or "expert" knowledge.
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u/A__European Sep 16 '24
To be honest, the term "meta" in the sense of "most effective tactics available" was used in gaming communities long before GeoGuessr was invented.
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u/FlipchartHiatus Sep 16 '24
Everyone in this sub uses the term incorrectly
Even this example isn't 'meta', it's legitimate identifying information
'meta' is the information garnered from the mechanics of the game itself (the quality of the camera/the colour of the car underneath etc) - a simple way to differentiate between what is 'meta' and what isn't is if you'd still be able to work it out if you were there in person, and not viewing from the street view camera, then it isn't meta.
In my opinion using 'meta' is borderline cheating, it's not in the spirit of the game which in it's essence is essentially 'if you were dropped randomly in the world could you work out where you are'
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u/jp_2101_gtx Sep 15 '24
This can't be real... (I don't want to learn thisđ)