I need some photo reference of those old snow-cones that you used to get from the ice cream truck. Not a made-by-hand snow cone or shave ice, but the kind that came ready-to serve.
I can find endless pics of what they look like unwrapped as you eat them… but how were they packaged in the freezer? What protected the ball of the snow cone?
I may need to make a trip to an ice cream shop for research purposes. I’m hoping you’ll all spare my waistline that.
I don’t recall every seeing one, but judging by this picture, I’ll bet it had a clear plastic dome lid on it. You can see the shape where the ice meets the paper.
I thiiiink they had a paper coating on the top. Maybe wax paper. It’s been a long time since I saw one.
I’m starting to remember - weren’t they flat across the top, with a paper lid, then you would squeeze the cone to lift the snow cone up to eat it?
That’s how I imagine they would do it today, but I don’t recall there being those domes on things when I was a kid in the 70s… but I could be totally wrong.
I htink you’re talking about a push up pop.
About the snow cones - I couldn’t find a photo, but I remember them being wrapped in a plastic bag. Not saran- type plastic, the crinkly kind that microwave popcorn packs are sometimes wrapped in. As best as I remember, the ball didn’t need protecting - it was frozen solid.
This is honestly the first time I’ve ever seen a pre-packaged snow cone like the shown in the OP. They were apparently not popular where I grew up or have lived in the last 50 years.
All of my snow cone experiences were the hand scooped and syrup drizzle variety.
On a trip to Washington DC about five years ago on a 95 degree day we purchased one of these cones for my then teenage son from a street vendor. He put his tongue on it and it immediately stuck to him! The vendor was keeping them on dry ice and the cone was solid as a rock. It took a couple of minutes of his mother pouring water onto to to try to remove it while his sister took a video. I’ll have to ask if she still has that.
If my memory serves me correctly I believe it was shrink wrapped in plastic.
I mean similar to the packaging for a Drumstick. Product Search
I haven’t thought of these snow cones in ages. Yes, they were frozen rock hard.
I think the ball of the snow cone protruded above the rim of the paper cone, Tarataratara. In that way, it was uniquely unlike all of the ice-cream cone desserts, like the Nutty Buddy, Drumstick, King Cone, etc. Those ended at the flat top of the cone, and you peeled the paper down to eat them.
Doreen—That is my best recollection, as well. But I can’t find any photo evidence.
AMAZING! Thank you!
