# Packaging for ice-cream-truck snow cones? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 6, 2020, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/packaging-for-ice-cream-truck-snow-cones/917417 "2020-08-06T14:54:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/packaging-for-ice-cream-truck-snow-cones/917417/1 "2020-08-06T14:54:45Z")
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](https://f7df8ec1684c5b3178f2-f7e1bf445cd4107ff335f94b86ba8d7e.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/misc/clients/dixie-belle/popsicle2.png) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/packaging-for-ice-cream-truck-snow-cones/917417/2 "2020-08-06T15:11:25Z")
I don’t recall every seeing one, but judging by [this picture](https://www.fooducate.com/product/Popsicle-Strawberry-Blue-Raspberry-And-Lemon-Flavor-Snow-Cone/6074DE60-0CF8-11E0-BF92-FEFD45A4D471), I’ll bet it had a clear plastic dome lid on it. You can see the shape where the ice meets the paper. ---
**Author:** ![Tarataratara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tarataratara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarataratara)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/packaging-for-ice-cream-truck-snow-cones/917417/3 "2020-08-06T17:38:40Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/packaging-for-ice-cream-truck-snow-cones/917417/4 "2020-08-06T17:39:56Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/packaging-for-ice-cream-truck-snow-cones/917417/5 "2020-08-06T18:11:29Z")
I htink you’re talking about a [push up pop](https://www.mercato.com/item/nestle-frozen-dairy-dessert-push-up-outrageous-orange-275-ounces/172470?featuredStoreId=1430&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=ML_PLA_All_Products_US_Smart%20Shopping&utm_content=&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqt2IoZWH6wIVUMDICh3Pnw-LEAQYBCABEgJd-fD_BwE). 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. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/packaging-for-ice-cream-truck-snow-cones/917417/6 "2020-08-06T18:24:35Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/packaging-for-ice-cream-truck-snow-cones/917417/7 "2020-08-06T18:27:37Z")
> [@doreen](#): > > As best as I remember, the ball didn’t need protecting - it was frozen solid. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Tarataratara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tarataratara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarataratara)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/packaging-for-ice-cream-truck-snow-cones/917417/8 "2020-08-06T18:56:46Z")
I mean similar to the packaging for a Drumstick. [Product Search](https://www.dollargeneral.com/drumstick-king-size-triple-chocolate-ice-cream-cone-7-5-fl-oz-wrapper.html) I haven’t thought of these snow cones in ages. Yes, they were frozen rock hard. ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/packaging-for-ice-cream-truck-snow-cones/917417/9 "2020-08-10T20:23:17Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/packaging-for-ice-cream-truck-snow-cones/917417/10 "2020-08-10T23:13:53Z")
[Found a picture](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/376050637608066769/) ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2020, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/packaging-for-ice-cream-truck-snow-cones/917417/11 "2020-08-17T21:01:19Z")
😮 AMAZING! Thank you!