Ice lollies - better than ice cream?

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Are ice lollies better than ice-creams in your opinion. I'm on the side of the lolly.

― Jonnie, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mmm, I used to love a nice Fab, and those cider ones were fantastic, so yes, in a lot of circumstance lollies win, especially in hotter temperatures wher the ice cream treat is going to melt before being fully savoured.

But what about the witches hat?

― cabbage, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Do you mean the icecreams that are sold in newsagents' freezers rather than posh icecream or icecream from tubs in supermarkets? I still go for icecream, specially Snickers or Mars icecream or a Magnum (what happened to almond Magnums, they were my favourite but you can't get them any more). Pricier but yummier. Possibly less refreshing in great heat but this is England after all.

― Emma, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am addicted to orange or tropical Sun Lollies - the ones you buy as liquid and then you freeze yourself. Gah...

― DG, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've got the cola ones of those DG, they're great possibly the most concentrated cola flavour I've ever tasted, but they're not in lolly shape, they're Jubblie shaped

― cabbage, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Breast flavoured cola lollies? Blimey.

― Emma, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry, over-excited - I meant Breast Shaped cola flavoured lollies. Blimey indeed.

― Emma, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was going to say! Breast-flavored cola = WORST IDEA EVER.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They sound a lot nicer than those minging happy feet Wall's used to make. Thank god they stopped making them.

― Jonnie, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Breast flavoured cola? I dunno,I'd try it.

Do they 'do' Funny Feet anymore?

― D*A*V*I*D*M, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to love Funny Feet, so be nice or I'll sulk.

― DG, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mmm, assorted frozen chemicals, yum.

i can't get my head round the concept of lollies with ice cream in. not the magnum type chocolate ones, which i can cope with, but the solero type ones. they're like a frozen form of the whole fruit juice and milk thing.

― kevan, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pink ice-cream on a stick!In the shape of a foot!Nice?!

― Jonnie, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mini milks

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am addicted to orange calippos. Looking at thee ingredients, perhaps they should be called "AGENT ORANGE callipos"???

xoxo

― Norman Fay, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Itzakadoozies because they are long and have 3 stripes of vaguley citrus fruit wrapping around each other ! Classic !

― anthony, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Again, food and perversion, as noted above. Both kinds of ice dainty are fine and useful things, but I come down on the side of ice creams. Can be horribly messy, though.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lollies can be too though. Especially that last lump that straddles the stick. Do you go for the lenghtways option and risk making yourself puke or bite one side off and jauntily twizzle the stick so the other bit does not fall off? One of the saddest sites in the world is a chunk of orange maid sat on the floor with covering of grass. Except for dogs who don't seem to care whether a bit of lolly is covered in lawn mowings.

― Jonnie, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A Frozen Kate?

― Nicole, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jubblies, lollies, Itzakadoozies . . .

Where the hell are you people from, anyway?

― Ugly American, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was just going to ask the same question!

I'm assuming a "lolly" is a popsicle, i.e. ice on a stick, in which case it is much inferior to ice cream.

― Sean, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In London, I am a big fan of the White Magnum. Really good white chocolate covered vanilla ice cream on a stick. (This is especially good for me as I am allergic to Chocolate).

I also like MiniCalipos because they come in Orange and Lime and are a good snack size.

In America, I love love love the Ginger Bread Ice Cream Sandwiches that come out around Christmas time, and also Orange Creamsicles. Orange Push-Ups are pretty nice too. I used to like Drumsticks and Chocotacos, but had to stop eating them.

― marianna, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Orange Creamsicles are God's Frozen Treat, you know...

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Chocotacos??? You're making that up.

― Sean, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No.

― JM, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In America : Rocket Pops. Red, white and blue (what *was* the blue supposed to taste like?) and lollielike. I always thought that The Rocket Pops would be the best name for a band, but then I ended up using it in fan fiction first. (How different would my life be if The Lollies had been called The Rocket Pops? Probably not very...)

In the UK: 99 Flakes. They never cost 99p, they don't even really taste of ice cream, the flake is miniscule, but on a hot day, there's still nothing better. Best enjoyed, like, walking along the Thames.

― Kate the Saint, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

looks like I'm going to have to explain Jubblies. They're not breast shaped at all, they're kind of old-fashioned humbug shaped, some sort of geometric shape that I have no idea as to it's name.

The Jubblie comes unfrozen in boxes and is placed in the freezer, hey presto, frozen treat.

when I was a kid the came with a straw and a pierceable hole so that, if you wanted you could drink them rather than freeze them.

― cabbage, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

perhaps some of you remember the little cardboard tubs of ice cream that you could buy at the cinema during the interval. the ones that came with a flat wooden spoon. hello? a spoon should be spoon shaped, not flat, and wood is just a compact mass of splinters. fools.

does anyone actually like the wafers/cones that you get with ice cream? cardboard masquerading as food, surely.

you don't get any of this rubbish with ice lollies, just a treat of delicious frozen fruity chemicals and a joke on a stick. zoom, just one lick and then my heart went boom.

― kevan, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am big fan of macha-aisu (green tea ice) and a dame blanche (vanilla ice with hot chocolate).

― nathalie (nathalie), Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I believe the Jubbly is tetrahedral in shape, therefore when too much pressure is applied (after industrial strength sucking of all the flavour out) saide three sided pyramid of ice would leap out of its packing and fly on to the floor.

Chocotacos - its a better name than the animorphing Winner Tacos I suppose.

― Pete, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I still cannot believe some branding fool named something you are supposed to suck after breasts. It's like calling an ice lolly Knob or something.

― Emma, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Hey kids! Next time you see the ice cream man, ask him if he has a creamy Knob you can suck on!" *cue happy ice cream music* "Everybody wants one/Everbody wants one/Everybody wants to lick a Knob!"

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Emma, rest assured they are no longer called Jubblies any more, that's just what I call them, it's a snickers/opal fruits type thing.

― cabbage, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Me teef are toe sinsetuv fer oyce crame"

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The ChocoTaco really is a beautiful thing: a waffle-cone "shell" filled with ice cream and carmel with a chocolate coating sealing off the open portion. They're incredibly taco-like. They're what would happen if you put a taco in a magical machine that made everything into a delicious sweet treat.

― Nitsuh, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nitsuh, I WANT THAT MACHINE.

I had a co-worker who insisted that we drive 15 minutes to the nearest Taco Bell because they sold Choco-Tacos. I now work five seconds away from that same Taco Bell... and they've stopped selling Chaco Tacos and started selling Personal Pan Pizzas. UNFAIR.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That machine sounds like a 21st century Mr Frosty.

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can I put my cock into that machine?

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't think you want to do that, Mike. Imagine life with a cannoli hanging between your legs.

― Nitsuh, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's something I have to face every day of my life.

― Sean, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I dunno, I coudl tempt the tummies of Librarians with a honey nuts and cheeriocock.

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ice Cream Vans = Classic because of Daily Star shop-a-pusher campaign c.1986 - the evil dealer had a SPECIAL JINGLE which meant he had HEROIN FOR SALE on that day. They always sold mad minority-brand lollies too.

Favourites: Orange Maid, banana/chocolate Max The Lion

Dodgiest lolly was the Sparkle - it tasted of bathwater.

― Tom, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Once when I was a kid they sold me a bomp pop with no stick and I couldnt eat it so I lobbed it at the truck and it hit it and the truck stopped and we ran.

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

five months pass...

Does anyone remember the name of the ice cream that came in a plastic rounded pyramid shaped holder and had a bubble gum at the bottom !! Can't think of the name for the life of me !!!

― Gary Sawyer, Monday, 31 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Screwball!

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Screwballs were ass.

― N., Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

FROZ FRUIT !! what is your favorite flava??

1. banana
2. strawberry
3. pina colada

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three months pass...

i like lollys personally bt im not sure of the boob flavered one!

― sally, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

bt i 4gt 2 say that BEN & JERRYS ICE CREAM kicks ass!!!!! mmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!! especially Phish food flava!!yummmmmmieeeeeeeee!

― sally, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wish I had thought of that email address.

― Sarah, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sung to the tune of "the man with the child in his eyes"?

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Only if you have the voice to do so.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh pleeeeeeease!!!

― Phil, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

this thread has made me very happy and Mike Hanle y is a V BAD MAN!

― katie, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three months pass...

I am desparate need to find where I can buy 'Orange Sparkles' does anyone have any ideas. If not even just knowing who made them might be a step in the right direction....fanx

― ceri, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

All of these are wonderful. I came across the cheapo lollies in Iceland, at 69p for ten, and I like them, so am buying two packs a week. And some ice cream as well. I'd have one or the other right now if I hadn't just shoved a pizza in the oven, so I shall wait for dessert.

― Martin Skidmore, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hi everyone, Found this fab site and would like to know if any of you lolly lovers could participate in a bit of a 'focus group' and answer a few questions. I'm basically trying to bring back to market some of those old fav's, but will exclude most, if not all, those nasty E numbers and horrid preservatives, so our kids ( if you lot have any yet) won't be bouncin' off the walls.

1. Flavours: What were your favourites?

2. Would you like to see the joke on the stick again?

3. Should the stick be longer for little hands to hold?

4. Could the lolly be smaller so they eat it more quickly?

5. How much would you want to pay?

6. What shape?

I would very much appreciate anybody who wants to reply to any of the above questions.

Thanks

― Anna 'screwballsrbest' Capron, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

hi i like riding camels with ice-cream on my head.
what do you like to do?

― Freya Booth, Thursday, 19 September 2002 13:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Will you be my friend

― Freya Booth, Thursday, 19 September 2002 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Will you be my friend?
I have ice lollies.

― Freya Booth, Thursday, 19 September 2002 13:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll be anyone's friend (and more!) for ice lollies. Though they are dead cheap at Iceland - 10 for 77p! I shall go and have one now!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 19 September 2002 16:57 (twenty-three years ago)

10 for 77p

They've gone up then? The previous two times you told us about this product they were 10 for 69p I think you said.

― David (David), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:44 (twenty-three years ago)

but I come down on the side of ice creams. Can be horribly messy, though.

Ned: ew.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, they have gone up. I am clearly talking too much about them, but they do take up a lot of my life - I am buying two or three packs a week, though it is dropping a little as we move towards Autumn.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:55 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

Stumbled across this thread... I think its a great shame that no one on the web has yet put a collection of ice lollies up in like a Hall of Fame, cause lets face it (here in the UK) we basically had icelollies or 99 cones to choose from.
Here is a list of Ice Lollies i remember, with a approx price that i remember plus a rough date i last saw them...give me your thoughts and please submit some that i forgot!! I have found it really hard to find pics, i have one of the K-9 lolly from the 80s but as for the rest, it seems no-one is bothered about them...its nostalgia!!!!!

Anyway here we go...

1) Funny Feet - This has already been mentioned, a strawberry ice creamy lolly in the shape of a foot...nice about 20p i think circa 80s

2) Dracula - In the shape of....yeh u guessed it Dracula and it was a mixed fruit flavoured red lolly about 15p circa 80s

3) K-9 - A dog ice lolly, orange in colour about 15p circa early 80s
(i have a picture...ahhh brings back good memories)

4) B A Baracus - a cola ice-lolly in the shape of that mean dude Mr T from the A Team... about 15p and early 80s i think this one only lasted for a year or so

5) Jelly Jumbo - A choc lolly with a stawberry jelly centre, 20p and circa 1987/8

6) Moonlight Mint - Actually a choc-ice with a mint centre, 18p circa late 70s/ early 80s

7) Magnifico(Huge Cornetto) - You must remember this monster! It broke the price barrier as far as ice creams/lollies were concerned...it cost 80/90p and was much larger than the long running cornettos circa late 1980s

8) Cornetto - We have seen these survive the test of time...ive seen them for 30 years now, but do u remember the other flavours that are no longer made... Rum and Raisin, Raspberry (did i forget any?)
I remember them being 27p in the early 80s

9) Union Jack Ice Lolly - In 1977 there was this UJ Ice Lolly crammed full of colours with a vanilla taste, i was only 4 at the time but i remember it :)

10)Sparkles - The cheap option that most of our parents chose us to have were around 10p and either orange or lemonade flavour

More to follow...any suggestions?

― Mr FUBAR!, Sunday, 10 November 2002 23:49 (twenty-three years ago)

nine months pass...

Revive, since I want to keep up my tradition of only posting about food or sex.

Edy's Whole Fruit bars, classic or classic? And which flavor do you prefer, wildberry, lime, or strawberry?

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Saturday, 16 August 2003 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I really wouldn't know Christine, but if they're lollies made entirely out of fruit juice I'd have to go for classic, not that I get an option, and whilst we're at it, what on earth is wildberry?

The main reason I posted here was to say surely this has to be one of the greatest ILE candidates for googletastic who the fuck are they? posts (I exclude B*n*b*5 for reasons of common decency)

― Matt (Matt), Saturday, 16 August 2003 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I really wouldn't know Christine, but if they're lollies made entirely out of fruit juice I'd have to go for classic, not that I get an option, and whilst we're at it, what on earth is wildberry?

They're not just made out of fruit juice, they have pieces of fruit added as well. Which makes them extra yum.

Wildberry is, uh, let me get the box out of the freezer to check. Whoops, I forgot that I threw the box away because of my freezer's chronic lack of space. I can taste blackberries and cranberries in there, though.

It's too bad that none of these one-time posters became regulars.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Saturday, 16 August 2003 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

No, wait: I was wrong. There's much more grape flavor in wildberry than there is cranberry flavor.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Saturday, 16 August 2003 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd never even heard of "lollies" before this thread. Whatever. One nice thing about New Orleans (and a compensation for the brain-frying heat) is SNO-BALLS!!! Especially Tee-Eva's Sno-Ball's on Magazine Street. They restoreth my soul.

― jewelly (jewelly), Saturday, 16 August 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

They're not just made out of fruit juice, they have pieces of fruit added as well

Obviously I must find a UK purveyor AT ONCE...

― Matt (Matt), Saturday, 16 August 2003 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't eaten a sno-ball in almost twenty years.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Saturday, 16 August 2003 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Must suck to be you.

― jewelly (jewelly), Saturday, 16 August 2003 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Edy's Whole Fruit Bars (especially strawberry) are bliss on a stick. But strawberries in general are totally blissful.

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 16 August 2003 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I've had bliss on a stick before. But that's a whole 'nother thread.

― jewelly (jewelly), Saturday, 16 August 2003 23:29 (twenty-two years ago)

But ILE's all about the thread mutations, yo....

― Matt (Matt), Saturday, 16 August 2003 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha, you're just encouraging me cuz you think I'm talking dirty talk.

― jewelly (jewelly), Saturday, 16 August 2003 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

wtf have they done with the Twister? every one i have lately the wooden stick has been completely off centre. it ruins the whole lolly

― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Sunday, 23 November 2008 00:54 (seventeen years ago)

POPSICLE

― the table is the table, Sunday, 23 November 2008 02:49 (seventeen years ago)

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