Ice Cream & Ice Lolly Brands

TheScribbler

Does anyone remember Patsi Pops that were sold in the Dublin area in the 1950s and 60s. They were often sold in cinemas too along with Palm Grove Ice Cream. The orange colouring made a real mess of your face. It made an even bigger mess of your jacket if you bought two while watching a film, then forgot about the one you'd put in your pocket!

TheScribbler

Yes I'm deliberately trying to elevate this thread in the ratings, thus I will add a few more names. many will remember the big dairies that used be around in the 60s including Merville TEK, Dublin Dairies and HB. Merville had a special name for its ice cream range, anyone remember?

Does anyone recall Valley Ice Cream and their colourful range of ice lollies?

Dixie Chick

my favorite ice cream was a Freaky Foot, now I have no idea how I ever ate an ice cream shaped like a foot

TheScribbler

Ummmm I would be concerned too. Licking feet, wow that is way out there!

Dixie Chick

there was chocolate on the tips of the toes so you bit them off first!! Vile though lovely lolly though!

TheScribbler

Nice one. It reminds me of some research I read a number of years ago that showed that 4 out of 5 people who eat Jelly Babies tend to bite the head off first!

TheScribbler

If I'm honest I would probably do the same to ice cream toes. Its nothing primeval, we just happen to like ice cream and prefer to eat the extremities before it melts. I used to suck the ice cream through the bottom of an ice cream cone too. Scary!

Fuzzy Clam

I remember the Golly bar in a pre pc era.

Bearhunter

TheScribbler wrote: »

Yes I'm deliberately trying to elevate this thread in the ratings, thus I will add a few more names. many will remember the big dairies that used be around in the 60s including Merville TEK, Dublin Dairies and HB. Merville had a special name for its ice cream range, anyone remember?

Does anyone recall Valley Ice Cream and their colourful range of ice lollies?

I also remember Leadmore Dairies. They used to have a penguin as a logo (or maybe that was one of their lollies).

There were so many great ice creams/ice pops back then - Robin Hoods, Lil Devils/Angels, Draculas, Golly Bars, Icebergers, Splits, the humble, but elegant choc ice...That's what summer tasted like.

TheScribbler

I used to love Golly bars. I also used to like choc ices that were produced by Dublin Dairies back in the 50s. They came in a silver paper wrapper (no stick) and the contents took some dexterity of lips to lick and eat the product before it melted. Wonderful.

smilerf

i remember a lolly from the early to mid eighties it was in tub
raspberry ripple or strawberry and vanilla ice-cream
it had a stick at the end which u pushed up for the ice-cream to come out of the tub
for the life of me i cant remember what it was called

TheScribbler

I can't help with that one. Anyone know what happened to Patsi Pops and Palm Grove Ice Cream? I also remember Teddys in Dun Laoghaire with the lovely soft cones. Woolworths were also great for soft ice cream. Indeed they were once Ireland's biggest ice cream retailers.

merlie

TheScribbler wrote: »

I can't help with that one. Anyone know what happened to Patsi Pops and Palm Grove Ice Cream? I also remember Teddys in Dun Laoghaire with the lovely soft cones. Woolworths were also great for soft ice cream. Indeed they were once Ireland's biggest ice cream retailers.

Palm Grove are sold under the Silver Pail brand today. Here is link:
http://www.silverpail.com/retail/palmgrove.htm

I remember an ice pop I used to have it was shaped like a rocket. It had a frozen strawberry ice base and creamy vanilla ice cream after that. I cannot recall its name but it was really nice.

Orange crush ice pop. In gold foil wrapper, I used to have this at the cinema. Loved it.

al3x

thers was nothing like a milky moo

Tedious Bore

TheScribbler wrote: »

I can't help with that one. Anyone know what happened to Patsi Pops and Palm Grove Ice Cream? I also remember Teddys in Dun Laoghaire with the lovely soft cones. Woolworths were also great for soft ice cream. Indeed they were once Ireland's biggest ice cream retailers.

I think Teddy's is still there.

I quite liked those Bonanza ice-cream bars. 1980s to '90s maybe, ...gold wrapper I think. They were one of the few rare bars on the scene before mars ice-creams and others swamped it.

Tedious Bore

al3x wrote: »

thers was nothing like a milky moo

I remember them milky ones I think.
...shaped like a sparkler kinda?

r3nu4l

TheScribbler wrote: »

I also remember Teddys in Dun Laoghaire with the lovely soft cones.

Tedious Bore wrote: »

I think Teddy's is still there.

Wow, Teddy's. I remember their ice-cream cones very well. We used to walk the pier a couple of times a year and then go to Teddy's for a 99 Happy days.

I do remember getting a tour of the HB factory with the Esker (Lucan) Summer Project.

I also rememmber an ice-pop called Kojak that was around in the late 1970's, early 80's. It was black in colour so I imagine it was blacberry flavour or something. There was a carton of Telly Sevales on the white packaging

TheScribbler

Actually I was in Dun Laoghaire a couple of Sundays ago and had a Teddys 99. I think that I remember the Bonanza as well. The arrival of branded international chocolate names into the ice cream market a couple of years back has made it very difficult for local brands. Actually I feel Mars & Snickers etc are way too sweet as ice cream. It doesn't provide much value either but I will admit to being a sucker for Magnum bars

mud

Does anyone else remember an icecream bar called Sky? It was a bar like Aero surrounded by vanilla icecream covered in milk chocolate and it was yum!

powerfarmer

Valley Ice cream was based in Thurles, they made all the usual lollys, icebergers and tubs too.There was some family connection with Valley and Dunnes stores (like there was with Dunnes and Nevilles bread). They also had a distribution arrangement for Mars ice cream for a while.
Production ceased around 1998 , there was an attempt to re start a few years later but it never happened. the factory was turned into hardware store and supermarket.

Leadmore icecream was/is? based in Kilrush in Co Clare, making mostly lollys and similar products they were in production until fairly recently,
not sure if they still exist.

Dale Farm had a large production plant on the Castlereagh road in Belfast making almost every sort of ice cream , production ceased there in 1998/1999 and was outsourced to other companies in Ireland , UK and Europe.

HB, production at their Rathfarnam plant ceased around 2003, production of most tub and brick products was transferred to Lakeland Dairies in Cavan , manufacture of lolly and similar products was transferred to other unilever plants in Uk and Europe.

Silver Pail Dairy are based in Fermoy, Co Cork, they manufacture a range of tub,brick and lolly products . They make products under the Palm Grove, Silver Pail and Corrin Hill brands.

smilerf

mud wrote: »

Does anyone else remember an icecream bar called Sky? It was a bar like Aero surrounded by vanilla icecream covered in milk chocolate and it was yum!

i remember them they were lovely very chunky and the chocolate was yummy... 50 pennies if i remember.
one of the dear ones haha

TheScribbler

Powerfarmer thanks for the excellent update. You know your ice creams

Ann22

Little Angels, Little Devils, Ricki Raspers, Captain Quenchers, Chilly Willys, Jrs, Killimanjaros, Thataways, Freaky Feet, Draculas(delish). I remember them all.
I've a very early memory of an ice pop, back in the 70s, can anyone else remember them? They were strawberry surrounding vanilla (ripple I think) ice cream. They had gold wrappers with pics of strawberries around the bottom, I could be imagining the strawberries but the wrapper was defo gold.

TheScribbler

Ann I hope that someone can identify this mystery brand as a couple of people have alluded to it. Methinks you spent a lot of your childhood consuming ice cream!

TheScribbler

I've just remembered another ice cream that will have everyone licking their lips. Anyone who ever spent Sundays visiting Bray in those far gone summer days will never have departed the town without visiting Fortes (under the railway bridge) and consuming a creamy ice cream cone.

Ann22

TheScribbler wrote: »

Ann I hope that someone can identify this mystery brand as a couple of people have alluded to it. Methinks you spent a lot of your childhood consuming ice cream!

..I think I remember so many because it was a rare treat to get any.
There used to be one the ice cream man used to sell that was in a plastic cone shaped container, it had a ball of bubble gum at the bottom. I don't think I actually ever got one but used to dream about it.

Bearhunter

Ann, that wasn't a Split was it? Although I remember them as being orange over vanilla ice cream. And who else remembers the great Loop the Loop ice pop?

blinding

TheScribbler wrote: »

Actually I was in Dun Laoghaire a couple of Sundays ago and had a Teddys 99. I think that I remember the Bonanza as well. The arrival of branded international chocolate names into the ice cream market a couple of years back has made it very difficult for local brands. Actually I feel Mars & Snickers etc are way too sweet as ice cream. It doesn't provide much value either but I will admit to being a sucker for Magnum bars

Maybe its just when your young but i think that the ice cream was much better in the 70s/80s.
I always thought that Irish cream was(and maybe still is) much better than English ice cream.

The arrival branded international chocolate names into the ice cream market have done nothing for the quality of ice cream in my opinion.

Is it just me or has the range of ice creams available actually decreased in recent years.

tinkerbell

You could still get the Freaky Foot icecream only a few years ago, as well as the Super Split.

My fav ices were Sparkles, why don't they make them anymore My fav of all time was when they made the Sparkles with two flavours in them - the strawberry / pear one and the strawberry / apple one (at least I think those were the flavours?) - they were so yummy.

Nowadays it's all about Magnum and eating like 1000 calories in one go - why can't they bring back the good ol Sparkle

Tedious Bore

Bearhunter wrote: »

Ann, that wasn't a Split was it? Although I remember them as being orange over vanilla ice cream. And who else remembers the great Loop the Loop ice pop?

loop the loops are still around.

ghost_ie

Slightly off topic but does anyone remember the knickerbocker glories you could get in Caffolla's (or was it the Palm Grove?) in O'Connell Street? We only got them once a year - they were too expensive for continual consumption - after our Christmas treat of a trip to the Grafton Street cinema to see the cartoons.

bkelly86

Can anyone remember fat frogs that hb had out a few years the were so lovely. Where have they gone?

bkelly86

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzPltHKdQoE

Brilliant:D

powerfarmer

blinding wrote: »

Maybe its just when your young but i think that the ice cream was much better in the 70s/80s.

i would think this is because a lot of the flavours and preservatives etc used back then are not allowed any more.

I always thought that Irish cream was(and maybe still is) much better than English ice cream.

Ice Cream made in the Republic of Ireland has by law ,to contain a certain percentage (i cant remember exactly how much) of milk fat. Ice cream made elsewhere can use vegetable oil or marine oil or whatever they like.

The arrival branded international chocolate names into the ice cream market have done nothing for the quality of ice cream in my opinion.

True, I think they all taste the same

Is it just me or has the range of ice creams available actually decreased in recent years.

Yes because of a reduction in the number of large scale manufacturers in Ireland

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Pace2008

bkelly86 wrote: »

Can anyone remember fat frogs that hb had out a few years the were so lovely. Where have they gone?

Thrown aside to make way for hideous €3.50 Avacado and Mango Soleros and other such atrocities.

Ann22

Bearhunter wrote: »

Ann, that wasn't a Split was it? Although I remember them as being orange over vanilla ice cream. And who else remembers the great Loop the Loop ice pop?

Maybe they were a Strawberry Split.. but the likes of Orange Splits were among the cheaper ones. The wrapper that I remember seemed as if it was a more expensive type. I've a memory of being about 3 or 4, being in the shop with my mother and asking for a 'snowman one with a blue wrapper' ice pop. The shopkeeper didn't know what I was on about. He took every one out of the fridge but couldn't find it. I finally settled for this one in the gold wrapper.

TheScribbler

Thanks Ann

I love it when people share their views on nostalgic triggers as it says so much about us as individuals; the innocent things that gave us pleasure down the years and that remind us of less trying times perhaps! Nothing does that quite like recalling the taste of ice cream. However I will share an ice cream experience with you that may make you cringe.

Some years ago I lived in Northern California and reluctantly accepted an invitation from a friend to attend an agricultural festival which he assured me would be an awesome experience. It was awesome in scale certainly but not necessarily in relation to subject scope. What I am referring to is the annual Garlic Festival in rural Gilroy, California where one can sample a huge array of foods in which garlic is a core ingredient.

I sampled delicious soups, spare ribs and diverse meats and fish dishes with broiled vegetables that I never knew existed. I even sipped at some garlic sauces, garlic yogurt and nibbled a few garlic chocolates! However nothing, but nothing prepared me for the ingestion of a dollop of garlic ice cream. It had the consistancy and pale yellow colouring one associates with Dale Farm ice cream (which I love to bits) but it tasted utterly vile. It was positively disgusting. In fact in my haste to grab a free mineral water in an attempt to wash away the mouthful of liquid 'hades,' the effect was aggravated by the realisation that what I thought was a soft drink was (you guessed it) a 'healthy garlic liquid beverage' as my host described it.

It took me three months to face garlic after that and distorted my view on the role of ice cream in an ordered society forever.

mike1970

I remember Patsy Pops well. They were delicious. Brendan O'Connor wrote about them in his food column in The Sunday Independent some years ago. His reminiscences exactly coincided with my own. The Patsy Pop was like frozen freshly-squeezed orange juice and no other orange ice pop tasted anything like it. It would be great if they were available again. It's interesting that you remember them in Dublin, because I assumed they had only been available in the Cork area (I'm from Fermoy) and Palm Grove was made in Cork. In fact, the Palm Grove name is now owned by Silver Pail Dairy in Fermoy.

iguana

An awful lot of the ice pops mentioned here are still on the market. It's just that certain ranges are seasonal and aren't available in late autumn/winter/early spring.

bdr529

a Nogger bar... used to be 12p...

miss choc

Gold star if anyone can remember this icecream remember getting it in the 80's was shaped like a tangle twister but had caramel/toffee/vanilla swirls around it think it had so kind of exotic name to it was in a brown wrapper? It may have been made by Leadmore or Dalefarm the local shop didnt do lots of HB only for the odd choc ice, splits, and brunches,

miss choc

Just remember the name of the icecream I'm 99% sure it was called a Zanzibar was delicious

Princess Peach

tinkerbell wrote: »

You could still get the Freaky Foot icecream only a few years ago, as well as the Super Split.

My fav ices were Sparkles, why don't they make them anymore My fav of all time was when they made the Sparkles with two flavours in them - the strawberry / pear one and the strawberry / apple one (at least I think those were the flavours?) - they were so yummy.

Nowadays it's all about Magnum and eating like 1000 calories in one go - why can't they bring back the good ol Sparkle

They were the best on a hot day cause they were 12p, always enough change in your mam's purse for one!

I want ice-lollies like these again!

desolate sun

Anyone remember ThatAway? I think it's out again, but it's different from the old one.

Ice creams and Ice pops I remember were -
Choc Ice
Wibbly Wobbly Wonder
Twister
Brunch
Loop the Loop (prob my favourite)
Fat Frog
Freaky Foot
Mr Freeze
ThatAway
Calypso
99s from Ice cream vans with sprinkles and syrup
small tubs of icecream that another poster talked about

Did Freaky Foot have a chocolate layer on the big toe?

greenslider

Thanks for the memories folks...I was looking up for old icecream companies and here i find the info as usual! I remember the more obscure icecream freezers in small shops in country towns whilst on summer holidays. HB and Dale farm being the two big ones..then there was Valley, Palm Grove, Leadmore etc...Great to hear those names again. Does anyone remember an ice lolly in the early seventies that had a a plastic lolly stick that could be collected and used as a primitive mechanno type toy?

Aglomerado

bdr529 wrote: »

a Nogger bar... used to be 12p...

I saw these in Albania recently! The name is vaguely rude. I don't remember them on sale here, though.

Edit: Eep. Zombie thread!

Taltos

One I loved was the Hiawatha - you wouldn't buy it now - would be considered racist I guess.
Ice cream in the shape of a side-profile of an American-Indian chiefs head with different layers of flavoured ice-cream. My favourite was the chocolate layer.

Only out each Summer early to mid-eighties - 2 or 3 years max I think.

thejampot

TheScribbler wrote: »

I can't help with that one. Anyone know what happened to Patsi Pops and Palm Grove Ice Cream? I also remember Teddys in Dun Laoghaire with the lovely soft cones. Woolworths were also great for soft ice cream. Indeed they were once Ireland's biggest ice cream retailers.

My family are the wholesalers of silverpail/palmgrove ice cream since the 1960s to present

sudzs

TheScribbler wrote: »

Does anyone remember Patsi Pops that were sold in the Dublin area in the 1950s and 60s. They were often sold in cinemas too along with Palm Grove Ice Cream. The orange colouring made a real mess of your face. It made an even bigger mess of your jacket if you bought two while watching a film, then forgot about the one you'd put in your pocket!

I read the title of this thread and opened it to mention Patsy Pops!! When I was very little I somehow managed to buy 6 Patsy Pops, ate them all and soon afterwards puked up an unending amount of dayglow vomit!

nlgbbbblth

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