Ice creams from your childhood

Posy

I saw this link https://wheresgrandad.wordpress.com/tag/fat-frog/ elsewhere on boards and thought you guys here would like it.

My favourite ice-creams from back in the day were the fat frog and the freaky foot.
Sparkles were good value though- at 10p a pop, they would make my one pound a week pocket money last that little bit longer!

branie2

My mouth's watering at the sight of them :-)

Amalgam

'Milk' ice pops. Not vanilla, an ice pop with a milk, cream flavour.

'JR', shot through with cranberry? ..or was that Dracula?

Edit: Mini Milk! Cheers for the link OP.

L1011

Leadmore anything. Used to be a Leadmore and a Lyons Maid freezer in the small shop back home, no HB products at all. Lyons Maid stuff was all rank.

The reduction to two main vendors - Unilever (HB) and Mars - has destroyed the range of things that aren't just icecream versions of chocolate bars. Even the Cadbury ones are made for them by someone else and are terrible.

noble00

My favourite ice cream was sky it was ice cream covered in chocolate and an aero bar inside I think HB made it , so sad when they stopped selling them

Cortina_MK_IV

Wibbly Wobbly Wonder.
Loop the Loop.

dudara

Mint feast
Wibbly Wobbly Wonder
Brunch
Iceberger
Loop the Loop

Halfprice

Fat frog.... mmm

siblers

Golly Bars when they had the paper wrapping, they went out of market and came back with plastic wrapping, they were never the same

branie2

Feast

Fighting Tao

I remember when Feast were an actual feast and not the miserable excuse they present themselves as these days.

laylag

Fighting Tao wrote:

I remember when Feast were an actual feast and not the miserable excuse they present themselves as these days.

Yes it had almost a bar of chocolate inside it! They were delicious!

seanin4711

Hia watha american Indian themed and thataway finger pointing

laylag

Mr freeze!
Cola and raspberry were the best.
Freezer always full of orange ones though and the plastic would cut the mouth off you.
Good times!

wendydoll

Apple cider refreshers and pear flavoured sparkles

Wexfordboy89

Dunno if anyone remembers them but the little small paper tubs of plain HB vanilla ice cream you used to be able to get for a pound back in the day.nothing fancy I know just memories from when I was probably about 5 r 6 years old

wendydoll

Wexfordboy89 wrote: »

Dunno if anyone remembers them but the little small paper tubs of plain HB vanilla ice cream you used to be able to get for a pound back in the day.nothing fancy I know just memories from when I was probably about 5 r 6 years old

Ah yes and you'd get a wooden spoony thing to eat them with.

Wexfordboy89

wendydoll wrote: »

Ah yes and you'd get a wooden spoony thing to eat them with.

Yep thats the one my granny used to me a pound to get it good times

wendydoll

They use to have a picture of HB hazelbrook farm and cows on them. It's all coming back to me now

siblers

siblers wrote: »

Golly Bars when they had the paper wrapping, they went out of market and came back with plastic wrapping, they were never the same

Was that a bit racist?

branie2

wendydoll wrote: »

They use to have a picture of HB hazelbrook farm and cows on them. It's all coming back to me now

I remember HB ads on tv which involved a grandfather reminiscing

siblers

Deleted User wrote: »

Was that a bit racist?

Yeah, the packaging was worse https://brandnewretro.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/golly.jpg
They changed the packaging in 1992 and eventually got rid of the name later in the 90s, I can't remember what name they came under when they eventually returned

L1011

Wexfordboy89 wrote: »

Dunno if anyone remembers them but the little small paper tubs of plain HB vanilla ice cream you used to be able to get for a pound back in the day.nothing fancy I know just memories from when I was probably about 5 r 6 years old

They were a lot less than a pound in 94/95, if your username gives away your age.

A pound would buy you something fancy with a decent amount of change back then - a Magnum or possibly two (and less/no change). Those were more like 30p.

Wexfordboy89

wendydoll wrote: »

They use to have a picture of HB hazelbrook farm and cows on them. It's all coming back to me now

Yep blue tub with pictures of fields and cows on them.cant remember the last time I actually saw one they must be gone years

Wexfordboy89

L1011 wrote: »

They were a lot less than a pound in 94/95, if your username gives away your age.

A pound would buy you something fancy with a decent amount of change back then - a Magnum or possibly two (and less/no change). Those were more like 30p.

Ah ok im probably wrong about the price so long ago I cant remember just my granny giving me a pound of a sunday to go to the shop

branie2

Just-a one Cornetto!

washiskin

Kilimanjaro
Mint choc
Nogger
Hiawatha
Tutti Fruitti Cornetto
Chilly Willy - All of them
Strawberry Super Split
Chunky Choc
King Tang

All of them were amazing - what a lack of imagination among HB HQ these days....

branie2

Wexfordboy89 wrote: »

Dunno if anyone remembers them but the little small paper tubs of plain HB vanilla ice cream you used to be able to get for a pound back in the day.nothing fancy I know just memories from when I was probably about 5 r 6 years old

I liked them as well

Mam of 4

A Patsy Pop.

Nothing Compares To You is the song for it , just a plain orange flavoured ice pop, bursting with flavour .

Charlie-Bravo

The Freaky Foot was the favourite as that's how far granny's pocket money stretched to. But some weeks granny might give that extra 10p so you could but a Feast. Them were the days.

Del.Monte

Back in the day, fado, fado - it was just ice cream wafers on Bray seafront and it all depended who did the cutting in the shop whether you got a decent size one or a miserable one. But we we were happy back then.

Also 99's in Woolworth's on the Main Street - a real treat.

Fighting Tao

Del.Monte wrote: »

Back in the day, fado, fado - it was just ice cream wafers on Bray seafront and it all depended who did the cutting in the shop whether you got a decent size one or a miserable one. But we we were happy back then.

Also 99's in Woolworth's on the Main Street - a real treat.

Did you not have tins of fruit to go with the ice cream? Or am I confusing you with someone else?

Markcheese

When did H.B become hazlebrook farm?

Wexfordboy89

Markcheese wrote: »

When did H.B become hazlebrook farm?

Think they were always called that they were just called HB in ireland for licence reasons

Flat Earther

Dracula' deadly secret. A black outer shell with a red inner. Oh and Cola flavoured Mr Freeze cool pops.

Posy

branie2 wrote: »

Just-a one Cornetto!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nSRsyKrJ-U

Passenger

So many classics here...

Posy

The Freaky Foot was superior to the Funny Feet, because it had the chocolate big toe.

thebuzz

Wexfordboy89

thebuzz wrote: »

Ah god I forgot about this one

Posy

Wexfordboy89 wrote: »

Ah god I forgot about this one

Oh my God, me too! A lot of memories have come flooding back now!!

Lorelli!

There use to be an ice pop called a Rocket and it was orange flavoured with a thin piece of chocolate on the top. They were lovely.

I think there was another ice pop called a Rocket too that was red because my oh and I had an argument about it one day! I don't remember a red one and he never heard of the orange one

rubadub

There was a newsagent near me every kid went to. There was a freezer place across from it, you do not see these much anymore, it was nothing but chest freezers with meat etc. looked like a stock room or something so no kids went in, but they had the leadmore stuff there.

They had the JR mentioned before



and they had the ginormous mr freeze that would slice your mouth and leave you looking like the Heath Ledger joker.

I do not remember noggers, but I remember people calling feasts noggers





1981 below

Oops69

Jr ice pops were divine , lovely rich raspberry flavour and substantial size , they'd last for ages , not like today's ice pop e.g. Loop the loops , 3 bites and they're gone nowadays .

rubadub

Oops69 wrote: »

Jr ice pops were divine , lovely rich raspberry flavour and substantial size , they'd last for ages

yes, and they were very good value compared to HBs cheaper end, might have been 2p more than HBs cheaper ones and far bigger. They were really rich and concentrated. I remember some were crap and you could suck the flavour out of them, leaving a stick of white ice behind.

The freezer shop I went to had polly pineapples and the pear pig ones too.

laylag

rubadub wrote:

1981 below

I love that the guitar ice-cream has a man next to it playing guitar....we'd never make the connection otherwise!!

I remember being too mortified to ask for a chilly Willy!

rubadub

laylag wrote: »

I love that the guitar ice-cream has a man next to it playing guitar....we'd never make the connection otherwise!!

I remember being too mortified to ask for a chilly Willy!

haha, yeah, unfortunate shape then too. I am not sure if I remember round chilly willys, sparkles came out as round ones.

Looking at the list again what surprises me most is that the orange super split was "new", I would have thought it was well established before many of the others on that price list.

This is from 1984


note there are no round chilly willys! I do not remember the paddle pop at all.

That-a-ways had a very harsh artificial strawberry taste. The red tubs of ice cream were always in cinemas, and not in many shops that I remember, they always seemed bad value to me. The iceberger were dearer than the choc ice, which I would have always remembered, but the 1981 list was the same price

That 84 feast was the same price as a choc ice, I do not remember that -feast was always dearer as I remember, also it does not have chocolate the whole way down, or many/any nuts. This is the feast I remember, quite a substantial thing, must have gone up in price as it got better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS_mpkACA4U

Oops69

i'd kill for an old fashioned loop the loop or Jr , bring back the e -numbers , its 30 years on and I'm still here , they were grand .

Amalgam

The 'Frogettes' in the poster above are triggering repressed ads from my mind..

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

Paddle Pop looks interesting. The local shop, that used to be called, 'Robinsons', in the Killiney Shopping Centre, up to the mid 80s, didn't stock the higher priced stock at the time. There was a lot of Mr Freeze.. but it was non brand and also, I think Leaf had ice pops too.

Someone mentioned further up about the lip cuts you'd get from the plastic..

I wanted to find, but never could, Jumbo or Chunky Choc. Luxury items for me, at the time.

Anyone remember the triangle shaped freeze pops, Mr. Freeze, but basically a triangular bag..? Usually a very weak 'orange flavour'. This was budget pricing, the ice cream equivalent of a clutch of black jacks and chewy salads..

rubadub

Amalgam wrote: »

The local shop, that used to be called, 'Robinsons', in the Killiney Shopping Centre,

That was Harrisons. There was a freezer shop opposite it which I mentioned earlier, had other non HB brands and many kids did not know it did, it did not look like a welcoming shop for kids.

Amalgam wrote: »

Anyone remember the triangle shaped freeze pops, Mr. Freeze, but basically a triangular bag..? Usually a very weak 'orange flavour'.

This could be wig-wams, think they were meant to be drinks but some shops froze them.

Here is a mr freeze brand one, but I do not remember these

StereoSound

My number one was the Golly Bar, it was cheap and yum! Big mouthful of soft icecream..... Choc ice and fat frog were cheap to and super nice..