Choc Ice RIP

Riddle101

Every time I see a Choc Ice I think of this scene from The Van.

https://youtu.be/vseBqLzBNbo

Guess I won't be seeing them anymore though.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120725516#Comment_120725516

Yip, same as Cadbury’s chocolate. Absolutely rank these days.

Lidl and Aldi have nicer ice cream and chocolate than HB and Cadburys.

teediddlyeye

The only time I'd eat a choc ice was when the oul lad was too miserable to buy magnums. (All the time)

Wouldn't buy them myself so won't be missed.

gmisk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120725109#Comment_120725109

The Lidl versions of magnums are delicious

Hannibal_Smith

Sad to see them go. When we were younger they were the posh ice cream. When there was a grushie in our estate the goal was always to get enough change so you could buy a choc ice. But over the years they made the chocolate so thin on them you could no longer get it off without taking ice cream with it. Also they changed the chocolate and the ice cream recipe I'm sure of it.

whisky_galore

They were sh1t. Good riddance.

Watery, cheap ice cream with the thinnest coating of cheap choc that would fall off if you breathed on it. Usually misshapen from being overlooked and mashed into the corner of the freezer.

One eyed Jack

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120725462#Comment_120725462

I remember buying an orange split for 20p back in the late 80’s, and the only reason I remember it is because if I hadn’t bought the damn thing I’d have had a nice even £20 Confirmation money! Instead I had £19.80… but it was damn hot that day! 😞

Choc-ice were lovely back then too though, they’d a decent amount of chocolate on them, but in the years since then they barely put a skin of chocolate on the lolly and jacked up the price big time! Magnums are just better value 😳

Montage of Feck

Mint Cornetto, Golly bar and fat frog all gone :(. Never liked choc ices though.

Greyfox

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120725700#Comment_120725700

Cadbury chocolate still tastes amazing with a cup of tea just as long as you never touch roses. As a kid the choc ice was popular as the cheap option for the kids but kids these days no longer accept the cheap option.

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120726709#Comment_120726709

You basically have to buy Dairy Milk branded stuff, and at that, the stuff made in Ireland or the UK. The Polish and Egyptian stuff is soy muck, as are their non Dairy Milk items s

Everyone has got so posh a choc ice was a big deal when I was young, it was one of my mothers favourite that or an ice berger plus she always had a pack of silver mints in her hand bag. The only ice cream we usuley got was a block of divide up and shared out

Markus Antonius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120725088#Comment_120725088

I didn't know he had an ice cream...

SuperBowserWorld

My feet are really itchy and annoying me at the moment and I thought of this yoke ...

endacl

The spice burger of the ice cream world. Everybody wants them available, but nobody wants to buy one.

Markus Antonius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120732575#Comment_120732575

No way! i didn't realise that's where the name came from! They were delicious ice creams.

Badly Drunk Boy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120732634#Comment_120732634

I was in the shop a few weeks ago, with my mother out in the car. She rang me to get an ice-pop because it was very warm. I asked what type she wanted.

"A Choc Ice!" she sez.

I bought a Choc Ice, a Magnum, and a Calippo for myself. I gave her the choice and she snapped the Magnum from me. (I know what she's like....) I ended up eating the Choc Ice (because it started melting 2 minutes after leaving the freezer), as well as the Calippo.

In fairness to Choc-Ices, they were better quality back in the day, having substantially more chocolate than the almost see-through amount on the current version.

Badly Drunk Boy

Since we're having an ice pop discussion, I'd like to mention my favourite for a short part of the 80s, the almightly Hiawatha! It was so fancy, it cost nearly as much as a Choc Ice!!

Chocolate, vanilla and lemon flavoured ice-cream and in the shape of an Injun, what's not to love about it?!? 😂

Hooked

While I was fond of a choc ice, do enjoy a Feast or a Brunch/Munch/Lunch... whenever a good old "99" is available - it won't be beat.

My local garage (last turn before home) has AMAZING 99's... just unreal on a hot / sunny day.

hoodie6029

Bring back the Chunky Choc or Sky if they are going to bring back anything.

Markus Antonius

I wasn't around for the 80s but they did a re-release in the 2000s of a lemonade sparkle ice pop which were nice:

artanevilla

It's not even chocolate on a choc ice, it's "chocolate flavour coating".

Leg End Reject

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120734101#Comment_120734101

That-a-ways! I had forgotten about them, used to love Funny Feet too.

mikeybhoy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120725490#Comment_120725490

Have to say Vienetta is seriously underrated. Hadn't had it in years but got one there recently and it was absolutely delicious.

Badly Drunk Boy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120736013#Comment_120736013

I was never a fan of eating reddish stuff (strawberry, raspberry, etc) but a That-a-way could be tolerated just for the prop value. 😄

Potential-Monke

Same as most stuff, they lost their quality years ago. I used to buy a box every now and then when I had a cheap chocolate icecream urge. Often find the bottom part of them full of ice bubble holes, showing how little cream/milk was in it.

Went mad for the Millionaire Magnums for a while. Eventually got sick of the uber sweetness of them.

Love me a Twister, even though I'm still convinced the flavours are different from the OG ones back in the day. I eat the ice cream first, usually with the use of a toothpick, then the green and finally the red. Noms.

Have a love for the Mars icecreams for the last year or so. Need to be bigger, but I love how they've somehow managed to keep the caramel soft. And I don't like Mars bars in general, but replacing the nougat with icecream was genius.

Loop-de-Loops have lost their way too. You can feel the reduction of quality in the ingredients. The sorbet is much more icy now and not as nice. Chocolate has gotten even cheaper and thinner. Whole thing is smaller overall, used to be a fine square jaw on them, now rounded and dick like.

I'd murder for a Fat Frog though. Can only imagine how many of the ingredients must be illegal by todays standards, considering they've never even attempted to bring it back. Bastards.

Brunch is also ruined. The coating is cheaper and sweeter, and it's smaller overall along with the usual more icy icecream. Not the worst evolutions, but still not as good as the OG.

The modern Feasts are an abomination. Tiny, way less icecream, chocolate is even cheaper and the bits are more like cardboard now.

Tucked into a sea salt caramel Carte D'Or last week. That was tasty. Nice and soft at all times.

Hotblack Desiato

Nogger - isn't that the one that was renamed Feast?

Badly Drunk Boy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120744782#Comment_120744782

It was very similar to the Feast but not the same. The Nogger had vanilla ice-cream while the Feast's is chocolate-flavoured. Well, I think that's the difference...

Archeron

Wibbly wobbly wonders back when the wibbly bit was actually proper wibbly.

Won't miss the choc ice, fare thee well cheap nasty yoke of the past.

pgj2015

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120745845#Comment_120745845

Do Aldi still do their version of the wibbly? it was great.

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120745242#Comment_120745242

Odd name all the same, needs to be typed carefully 😉