Ice Loolys/pops

Hard Larry

My stupid brain has gotten rid of some VITAL retro information in particular to do with the 10p ice lolly range from the 80s and 90s

I can't fully remember the name of this lolly that was my staple diet during the summers of the late 80s and early 90s

It was an orange flavour with a thin chocolate coating at the top...name had something to do with rockets....it could have just been 'Rocket' in fact but I need confirmation.

There was also one which was purple at the top and kind of blended in to an orange bottom...it would remind you of a tie-dyed t-shirt in a way. Can't think of the name of it

and was there such a lolly as a 'Magic Mouse'...?

It had a yellow wrapper with ablue mouse on the front think it was plain white lolly...lemonade flavour I believe.

Any memories or corrections to the above will be greatly appreciated.

Damn booze is the bane of all childhood memories!

Oh who am I kidding I can't stay mad at booze!

PS soz for the spelling in the title

WindSock

I remember one similar to magic mouse called percy parrot or something. Wrapped in a good ole paper wrapper. Are you thinking of Loop de Loop? I had a fruit pastilles ice pop yesterday, that is like a tie dye tshirt.

Ruu_Old

I think Loop De Loop was yellow, green with the chocolate tip. The only other ones I can think of is Sparklers or Sparkles but think they were only in orange (and very cheap).

Hard Larry

As far as I remember the Purple and Orange lolly wasn't a brand name (i.e. HB ice pops)

The Sparklers were HBs cheapest pops but as far as I can recall there were a couple of flavours but you could only ever get the Orange and White ones...an Urban Legend round my way was that one time a kid from two towns over once had the elusive Green Sparkler

There was also a cola flavour Sparkler-type pop...don't know if it was in the Sparkler gang though could have been an imposter like the Magic Mouse

Amandy

...Larry I was a child of the late 70's, 80's and I think it was a Shuttle Pop. But it could just be all the alchohol causing me some brain damage too. In fact maybe I wasn't there at all....There were also wibbly wobbly wonders, Kilamanjaro's ...JR's, Chilly Willys, Incredible Hulks. You think with a memory like that I'd have done a degree or something useful....

c - 13

Ok,
Magic Mouse
These did exist, packaging was as you specified, lemon/lime taste, more bitter tasting than most of those style ice lollys.

Rocket Yokes
These also existed and I remember them exactly down to the colour scheme you mention, damned if I can remember the name though. If memory serves Lidl/Aldi do something almost identical to these, not that nice though.

Sparkles
Cola flavour did exist, but I think it way have been a short lived flavour.

Anyone remember the Mario Head Ice creams made up of all the different flavours ?

EDIT:
Rereading this -
It was an orange flavour with a thin chocolate coating at the top...name had something to do with rockets....it could have just been 'Rocket' in fact but I need confirmation.

Are you sure this one wasnt "Striker" Ice lolly ? Had a picture of a guy in an unmarked football jersey belting a foootball on the wrapper.

Hard Larry

I remember them Mario Heads alright...they were the same flavours as a Freaky Foot just a different shape

'Kilimanjaro' has me thinking now...was that the purple and orange lolly?

I tryed looking on the net for info one the hits I got was this website...

http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/index.php

I can feel my teeth gritting already lol

thehomeofDob

The orang lollies with chocolate on top were just called "Rockets".
The purple ones with chocolate were actually Barney ice lollies.

Hard Larry

Yeah I'm just about convinced now the Orange Ice with chocolate tips were called 'Rockets'

Don't remember 'strikers' too well though

Dammit I'd kill for a Super Split now

Amandy

...Plain old Golly Bar!

ciaran76

A Sparkler was just a plain orange flavoured ice pop. In a smarties tube type shape.
The Rocket was a Sparkler with a thin piece of chocolate dipped on the top.

Anyone remember JR ice pops ?

Amandy

ciaran76 wrote:

A Sparkler was just a plain orange flavoured ice pop. In a smarties tube type shape.
The Rocket was a Sparkler with a thin piece of chocolate dipped on the top.

Anyone remember JR ice pops ?

Pay attention! I mentioned JR's earlier. They were orange and red and purple and looked like something Jimmi Hendrix would've worn (or thrown up) I had a very queezy experience with them as a nipper so unfortunately I can't forget them. And Brunches. Brunches looked like 70's carpet and didn't taste much better. I should take up gardening or something.

WindSock

Ah yes, sparklers, jrs-the pic on the pack had a cowboy hat on, i think. Chilly willys, they came in red and orange. Red was my fave flavour.

Ruu_Old

I'd love a fat frog (not the drink) or that foot ice cream with the chocolate dipped toes.

Kintarō Hattori

Does anyone remember the icepop that was the same size as the sparkler but was milky-ish flavoured, ohhhh they were divine.

Hard Larry

Jr's is the tie-dye one i was trying to think of...well done Amandy

Yep I remember the milky ice pops think they were called Milky Moo's

They had the same name as those sweets that were the bane of baby teeth everywhere

stovelid

Loved JR's when I was a kid. I'm almost sure they had something like 'orange shot through with blackcurrant' written on the side to tie in with the whole Who Shot JR thing.

Wibbly Wobbly Wonders(?)

Funny Feet - pink ice cream lolly in a foot shape

Loop the loops - yellow and green with a choc top

Fat Frogs

Also slush puppys. So cold your teeth would ache.

Mrs. MacGyver

Hard Larry wrote:

My stupid brain has gotten rid of some VITAL retro information in particular to do with the 10p ice lolly range from the 80s and 90s

I can't fully remember the name of this lolly that was my staple diet during the summers of the late 80s and early 90s

It was an orange flavour with a thin chocolate coating at the top...name had something to do with rockets....it could have just been 'Rocket' in fact but I need confirmation.

There was also one which was purple at the top and kind of blended in to an orange bottom...it would remind you of a tie-dyed t-shirt in a way. Can't think of the name of it

and was there such a lolly as a 'Magic Mouse'...?

It had a yellow wrapper with ablue mouse on the front think it was plain white lolly...lemonade flavour I believe.

Any memories or corrections to the above will be greatly appreciated.

Damn booze is the bane of all childhood memories!

Oh who am I kidding I can't stay mad at booze!

PS soz for the spelling in the title

It was actually called 'Rocket' it had a blue wrapper and i've one in the fridge as i type . They stoick them in our local shop so nostalgia is still alive here in the nortthside of the Liffey.Can't remember 'majic mouse' but remember one shaped like a pencil with a blue top, red body and yellow nib (or was i imagining this one?). Also have really fond 80's summer memories of JR's....

Yeah there were pencil ones alright. Then there were Captain Quenchers (orange) Porky Pear (pear) Robin Hood (blackcurrant) Polly Pineapple (pineapple), orange lemom & lime and cola sparklers (cola tasted like clay but they were my favourite), tangle twisters, loop the loops, JRs, brunchs, feasts, gollybars, icebergers, some penguin ones similar to the icebergers, milky moos, super splits, choc ices, mr. freezes (strawberry 20p ones ftw), magic sticks (or magic something anyway, they were mr freeze rip offs), rockets, fat frogs, then the elusive magnum came about and changed the face of the ice pop business as we knew it along with the ice cream mars, snickers, twix etc.

Ruu_Old

stovelid wrote:

Loved JR's when I was a kid. I'm almost sure they had something like 'orange shot through with blackcurrant' written on the side to tie in with the whole Who Shot JR thing.

Wibbly Wobbly Wonders(?)

Funny Feet - pink ice cream lolly in a foot shape

Loop the loops - yellow and green with a choc top

Fat Frogs

Also slush puppys. So cold your teeth would ache.

Ah the many brain freezes were worth it though.

WindSock

Hehe. King Magnum certainly muscled his way in onto the colourful sugary turf and claimed his throne in the freezers for him and his similarly chunky friends.

Ah the joys of fat frogs. Remember they brought them back a few years ago and they seemed smaller. Or was it that I was bigger?

Irish Gardener

Ahhh ye all had it so good with your shop bought ice lollys.

Did any of ye have these...
Ice lollys that your mother would cast from Tupperware lolly moulds.
The inside of the lolly moulds has to be greased with butter to ease the extraction on the frozen lolly. mmmmm cholesterol.
What flavour were the lollys made in? Miwadi orange of course

ciaran76

There was also an Ice pop / drink called Wig wams does anyone remember those?
The were shaped like a triangle and you popped a straw into them and could drink them just like a capri sun. But our local shop used to pop them in the freezer and we would buy the frozen solid and they used to take ages to eat.

c - 13

Actually heres one for ye, I cant remember if this was real of imagined, Two tone Mr. Freezes (may not have been brand name only same style)

One flavour on the bottom and another on the top, bloody manky due to the contrasting flavours IIRC.

Amandy

Deleted User wrote:

Yeah there were pencil ones alright. Then there were Captain Quenchers (orange) Porky Pear (pear) Robin Hood (blackcurrant) Polly Pineapple (pineapple), orange lemom & lime and cola sparklers (cola tasted like clay but they were my favourite), tangle twisters, loop the loops, JRs, brunchs, feasts, gollybars, icebergers, some penguin ones similar to the icebergers, milky moos, super splits, choc ices, mr. freezes (strawberry 20p ones ftw), magic sticks (or magic something anyway, they were mr freeze rip offs), rockets, fat frogs, then the elusive magnum came about and changed the face of the ice pop business as we knew it along with the ice cream mars, snickers, twix etc.

You have to get the retro memory prize for that thread.... I remember wig wams too. D'ya remember "Oasis"....giant cool pops. How did we survive into our thirties and keep our teeth. (and our long term memories?)

stovelid

ciaran76 wrote:

There was also an Ice pop / drink called Wig wams does anyone remember those?
The were shaped like a triangle and you popped a straw into them and could drink them just like a capri sun. But our local shop used to pop them in the freezer and we would buy the frozen solid and they used to take ages to eat.

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sioda

The pencil ones were called scribblers afaik they were yum.

Loved the Robin hood orange and the Cola ones as well

olaola

Hard Larry wrote:

It was an orange flavour with a thin chocolate coating at the top...name had something to do with rockets....it could have just been 'Rocket' in fact but I need confirmation.

There was also one which was purple at the top and kind of blended in to an orange bottom...it would remind you of a tie-dyed t-shirt in a way. Can't think of the name of it

A rocket it was. It was like an ice pop made out of Kia-ora without any water in it! And the thinnest of crappy chocolate surrounded it.

I think the other one was a J.R. - I remember having one the day before my communion and it stained my face purple!

Hard Larry

I trawlled up another memory of 'that-a-ways' hand shaped ice-cream with the index finger pointing out.

Can't believe someone said Rockets are still available...next time i'm in a newsies i'm gonna have a gander in the freezer.

Does anyone remember a drink, tasted like melted cool pop, and it came in a 'six-shooter' gun style plastic bottle? you had to bite it open to get at the 'E' number filled nectar within.

WindSock

Yeah I remember that gun drink. It was manky and tasted of plastic. I once had a bright idea to put in the freezer and make an ice pop, but had a crap time trying to open it.

Ruu_Old

The Wibbly Wobbly Wonder was a bit strange, if anyone remembers it.

Yeah I remember that gun drink. It was manky and tasted of plastic. I once had a bright idea to put in the freezer and make an ice pop, but had a crap time trying to open it.

I think they were supposed to be frozen. They always were around our way anyway. Or the ones similar to a cool pop that you could break in half.

The two tone ones were like two Mr Freezes side by side. The divide was straight down the middle, not one above the other.

darkskol

Ruu wrote:

The Wibbly Wobbly Wonder was a bit strange, if anyone remembers it.

Yeah I remember it, used to be one of my favourites. Strawberry and banana flavoured ice cream with a jelly top covered with chocolate. Still very easy to get in shops.

Yeah they were relaunched about two years ago. Those triplets from Dundalk were used in the promotions.

darkskol

Oh yeah, I remember that now.

soccerc

For a real retro Icepop it had to be the "Patsi Pop" from Palm Grove icecream.

Now they were a real icepop, orange flavoured with real chocolate tip.


The same company also made the original "Perri" crisps IIRC

tk123

c - 13 wrote:

Actually heres one for ye, I cant remember if this was real of imagined, Two tone Mr. Freezes (may not have been brand name only same style)

One flavour on the bottom and another on the top, bloody manky due to the contrasting flavours IIRC.

I remember these!!! - when I tell my nephew about them he's amazed at the thought of them!:D
Does anybody remember shuttles well I think thats what they were called - it was like a plastic tube of ice cream and you had to put the stick in the bottom and push the ice cream out - kind of like a giant ice cream syringe?

Can't believe I never mentioned the Maxi-Twist!

murphaph

Deleted User wrote:

Can't believe I never mentioned the Maxi-Twist!

Now comes with an individual plastic spoon but remember it used to have no spoon but there'd be a bag of loose wooden spoons in the freezer. Digging a cold maxi-twist was hard work. You really had to hold it to melt the stuff a bit before going in.

Are there any brand name cool pops available anymore? Lidl does their own brand FWIW.

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Irish Gardener wrote:

Ahhh ye all had it so good with your shop bought ice lollys.

Did any of ye have these...
Ice lollys that your mother would cast from Tupperware lolly moulds.
The inside of the lolly moulds has to be greased with butter to ease the extraction on the frozen lolly. mmmmm cholesterol.
What flavour were the lollys made in? Miwadi orange of course

What a great memory.

We never had butter, so it was pull the bejaysis out of the stick, which meant half the frozen miwadi was left inside the mould.

Sometimes the mother would get a bt scabby with the oul miwadi though, and we'd be left with watery flavoured yokes.

Thanks for resurrecting this memory from the back of my mind.

Hard Larry

Moulds you say!

We had to use the plastic cups from the top of themos flasks

And no Mi-wadi for us we had to stick to Orange Juice

Yeah we had it rough alright.

But the best one had to be the Homemade concoction of HB vanilla ice cream and red lemonade or cream soda.

Man, it sounds foul now.

The inside of the lolly moulds has to be greased with butter to ease the extraction on the frozen

We just ran it under the hot tap for a few seconds.

Anyone remember the He-Man jellies that came in the plastic moulds that you then filled with mi-wadi and popped into the freezer?

WindSock

Deleted User wrote:

We just ran it under the hot tap for a few seconds.

Anyone remember the He-Man jellies that came in the plastic moulds that you then filled with mi-wadi and popped into the freezer?

Yes. yes I do. I loved those jellies, my mouth waters now. two flavours to each one. I loved peeling off the packet and the sugary smell hits.

Jesus Wept

Ruu wrote:

I think Loop De Loop was yellow, green with the chocolate tip. The only other ones I can think of is Sparklers or Sparkles but think they were only in orange (and very cheap).

Sparklers were simple, cheap, but effective!

A welcome addition to any tight sweets budget.

Ruu_Old

Indeed, as were Orange Splits, ice cream with orange coating.