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[edit] Disambiguation

Hum, I don't think this type of disambigution is appropriate here. As a general rule we should only do this level of disambiguation when two widely known and used terms share the same word. An example would be [[Mars]] which is nearly as widely known as being the Roman god as it is for being the 4th planet from the sun. Iv'e never heard of the band named cream so I doubt that the band's name is really nearly as widely known as is the food item. For example, It would be foolish to have Paul Simon page made into a disambiguation page just becasue their is a congressman from Illinois with the same name. Having a link to Paul Simon (politician) at the bottom of Paul Simon would be the preffered way to go (better yet - find out what the middle name of the politician is, and if it is different from the Paul Simon, then have an article named Paul X Simon for the politician -- where "X" is his middle initial). This project aims to make more than 100,000 articles and probably more -- if we took disambiguation to the extreme, then nearly all the articles about famous people and things would have to be turned into disambiguation pages since there probably are numersous other far less famous, yet still important historically, people and things with the same names. We should avoid the use of parenthetical disambiguation whenever possible (especially for the most widely known use of a word). I think this is the case here; compare a Google search for <Cream -"Eric Clapton"> with <Cream "Eric Clapton">. You get more than 800,000 more hits by excluding "Eric Clapton" than including the name. If there is no objection, I will move cream (food) back to cream and place a link to cream (band) at the bottom of cream's page. --maveric149, Saturday, May 25, 2002

I moved the food item back but put a link to the band at the top of the article. --maveric149
What?!?!!?!?!?!?! You've never heard of Cream(band)?!?!!?! Yet you know who Paul Simon is.... Cream was the biggest band around back in the 60's, excluding the beatles. They were much bigger than The Stones or The Doors or The Who. There is no way that maveric149 likes rock. --71.112.132.42 04:02, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Crème fraîche

I grew up in France but now live in California. If a recipe calls for crème fraîche, is there any combination of creams I can use to substitute? If so (or if not), please update the article. Vik Reykja 08:58, 25 May 2004 (UTC) (amateur chef)

An answer two years later: Crème fraîche *is* sour cream, so it's not *that* subjective. But the taste of the sour cream differs from brands and countries, and what in france is called "crème fraiche" usually has a milder taste thanwhat otherwise is known as sour cream. Half sour cream and half fresh cream should do it, I think. It's weird how they call sour cream "fresh cream" here in France... :) And the trouble I had to find a good cream that really *is* fresh... --Regebro 23:16, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sour cream

Sour cream is the best cream? I happen to agree, but it seems a bit subjective, no?

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[edit] Disambiguation vs. (cream)

I have certainly heard of Cream (band) and Cream (color), but Cream (food) remains semantically the most central, statistically the most common, and substantively the most used of all these creams. I believe we should return to the status quo ante, with cream referring to the food and cream (disambiguation) used for disambiguation. --Macrakis 14:20, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] External Links

Do we really need 2 links to places that sell cream and cream related products? Looks like advertising to me.70.23.8.77 23:52, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Cream Base"?

I don't see any definition of "Cream Base" in the Cheese and Cream Regulations, which is what that table is supposed to be based on. I guess the product linked to would legally be half cream. (Besides, making that link is advertising IMO.) So I'm commenting out that line in the table. Hairy Dude (talk) 15:17, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Soup

So "cream of" soup (cream of mushroom, cream of tomato) doesn't have to contain cream but is merely blended / puréed? Maikel (talk) 21:17, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Whipped cream

if sour cream and creme fraiche have their own articles, whipped cream should as well. There's enough information here already.FiveRings (talk) 19:55, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Glad that got done, but usually one waits a while for discussion. FiveRings (talk) 15:53, 20 May 2008 (UTC)