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Ice creams from your childhood
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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.
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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
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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
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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.Jr ice pops were divine , lovely rich raspberry flavour and substantial size , they'd last for ages
The freezer shop I went to had polly pineapples and the pear pig ones too.
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haha, yeah, unfortunate shape then too. I am not sure if I remember round chilly willys, sparkles came out as round ones.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!
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.
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The 'Frogettes' in the poster above are triggering repressed ads from my mind..
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..0 -
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.The local shop, that used to be called, 'Robinsons', in the Killiney Shopping Centre,
This could be wig-wams, think they were meant to be drinks but some shops froze them.Anyone remember the triangle shaped freeze pops, Mr. Freeze, but basically a triangular bag..? Usually a very weak 'orange flavour'.
Here is a mr freeze brand one, but I do not remember these
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right, I see that nowThe price list from 1979 has the Super Split on it as well, so not entirely sure what was new about it on the later price list. They certainly existed when I was a young kid in the early 70s.
searching tesco for super split I see club orange have a super split drink!
https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=296983828
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