Found this post on IG and I’m wondering what this community’s stance is. With winter now officially here*, I think it’s a valid question.

Edit: *where I live

  • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    7·
    9 days ago

    Bread sticks
    Stick of butter
    Stick of dynamite
    Carrot sticks
    Stick shift

    I feel like there’s enough precedent to allow the Ice stick, given the circumstances

    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      3 days ago

      Disagree. In each of the cases you’ve cited the term “stick” describes the form of the subject, and no better term exists.

      If small shafts of carrot were commonly called carroticles, then you couldn’t call one a carrot stick.

      Clearly the object pictured in this post is an icicle. It is not an ice stick.