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Something that's been puzzling me lately - when (and why) did ice-cream stop being sold in bricks?

Ah, the Lolly Gobble Choc Bomb. Thanks, dg, for confirming that this wasn't something that I dreamt of existing.

dg writes: more evidence here.

After each successful swimming lesson, my three year old daughter gets a Mr Men ice lolly as a reward. The price? 40p!

On another note, can you imagine the outcry there would be if an ice cream manufactuer decided to lauch a product called the 'Cider Barrel' as a pocket money purchase these days?

And what the hell is a Lolly Gobble Choc Bomb?

Dear diamond geezer. Stuff still is that cheap... when english people travel to Australia.

I can remember a black, caped-vampire shaped ice lolly with a blood-red jelly centre.

Was that a Haunted House?

Dave - I think those were Count Draculas.

I used to love how Orange Maids made my lips turn orange.

Mini Milk! Fab!! Zoom!!! What brilliant memories. Especially because, with my being only 6 years old in '78, my parents rarely let me eat confectionary stuff (it was all 'healthy' foods: they were hippies), so when I was allowed one of the above ice-lollies it was cause for celebration.

Yum.

I loved feats, it's them, mr men, zoom, fab, mivvi, minimilk and cornettos are the only ones i recognise.

Ah....summers in the park with a cornetto.

Dave - was it green with a red centre? I vaguely remember those. Don't think it was a Count Dracula though.
This will annoy me all afternoon if I don't remember what it was called...

Hooded Skulls they were called... phew! Green with red stuff in the middle, looking a bit like Skeletor from He-Man

Glad I remembered, would have spent all day thinking of that!

I bought a Strawberry Mivvi yesterday as it is now officially Summer, to help me on my commute home, it was called something else I think, cost me a £1, delicious!

Mmmmmm....Mini Milks were great.

And they had jokes.

Ooo, feast and zoom (was that the one like a rocket), and I remember the one with dracula and red jelly. Was very rarely allowed a Cornetto because they were dearer. We also had just plain old choc ices (as opposed to dark satin choc ice). Someone just mentioned 3Ds and I used to really like Funny Feet.

Don't forget the Dr. Who icecream lolly!! It was mint choc chip and cool as heck.

There was also a elephant shaped icecream lolly that was...err...pink!

Oh!Oh! and the cola lolly too, and the lemonade lolly and...and...

At one stage in my misbegotten past (about 1980) I made and sold proper ice cream from the finest ingredients: basically fruit and cream. When bureaurocracy stopped me making my own, I found myself with locations to sell without what to sell. And I found out an abiding truth. Pink, brown and white sold as well if not better than my own strawberry, chocolate and vanilla (at vastly increased profit). NEVER underestimate the ignorance of the great british public.

DG - I am much alarmed to hear you were in A&E!! I hope you are OK now...

Wrong box Gina
But thanks.

Dammit. Now I'm craving a Zoom lolly. Mmm.

I believe I remember Fabs from when I was a kid in the 1960s! Are they still around?

Actually not that cheap by 1978 standards... the joys of rampant inflation! What was an ice lolly at the time of decimilisation in 1971?

COUNT DRACULA WAS A BLACK WATER ICELOLLY FILLED WITH ICECREAM WITH A BLOOD RED JELLLY AT THE TOP AS YOU BIT IN2 IT.

HOPSCOTCH WAS A BUTTERSCOTCH ICECREAM LOLLY THAT WAS REPLACED BY LORD TOFFINHAM.
LORD TOFFINHAM WAS ALLSO A BUTTERSCOTCH ICECREAM LOLLY BUT IT HAD TOFFEE THROUGH THE CENTER AND THE TOP HALF OF LOLLY WAS DIPPED IN CHOCOLATE AND WAS SOOO YUMMY.

THERE WAS ALLSO A PLAIN CHOCOLATE CHOC-ICE CALLED RUM-N-RAISEN THAT WAS ALLSO LOVELY.

TREATS WAS CHOCOLATE,TOFFEE N PEANUT WHICH WAS REPLACED BY MnM'S (I THINK THEY STILL DO THE TOFFEE TREATS THOUGH)

ALLSO REPLACED
OPAL FRUITS=STARBURST, OPAL MINTS=PACERS, MARATHON=SNICKERS,

CADBURYS DID A PLAIN AND MILK CHOCOLATE DIPPED FLAKE WHICH THEY DISCONTINUED AND FEW YEARS LATER BROUGHT OUT TWIRL WHICH WAS SIMILAR BUT SMALLER BAR'S, NOW THEY HAVE BROUGHT OUT A PLAIN FLAKE BUT ITS NOT DIPPED.

THERE WAS ALLSO PINK PANTHER, A BAR OF PINK CHOCOLATE AND IT WAS NICE.
AMAZING, A MILK AND PLAIN CHOC BAR WITH RAISINS N OTHER STUFF IN IT.

MY DAD HAD A SWEET SHOP SO I REMEMBER THEM WELL LOL

WELL I'VE WAFFLED ON ENOUGH, HOPE THIS BRING'S BACK A FEW MEMORIES.
TAKE CARE, KYM











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