# Popsicle flavors **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 5, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-flavors/458965 "2008-08-05T23:06:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-flavors/458965/1 "2008-08-05T23:06:31Z")
What happened to all the old popsicle flavors? When I was a kid in the '50s, we had flavors like banana, root beer, blueberry, lemon, lime, coconut, pineapple, watermelon, and probably a lot I don’t even remember. Now, I go into the supermarket, and there’s cherry, orange and grape. I can’t believe there’s no demand for additional flavors. What gives? If there is a heaven, they have mango, pina colada, and licorice popsicles. And for the true connoisseurs: bacon. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-flavors/458965/2 "2008-08-05T23:10:44Z")
When I was a kid (early to mid 90’s), you could still find lemon lime, banana, and root beer (all in the same box!) under the Popsicle name brand. They aren’t there anymore. ☹ Looking at the Frozen Novelties section, there doesn’t appear to be a demand for flavor – just color and shape. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-flavors/458965/3 "2008-08-05T23:13:01Z")
My store doesn’t even carry Popsicles anymore. They have frozen flavored sugar water on a stick, but they aren’t Popsicles. Remember the blue ones? What flavor was that? I never could tell. Cherry and grape were my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-flavors/458965/4 "2008-08-05T23:17:44Z")
Blue raspberry ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-flavors/458965/5 "2008-08-05T23:33:11Z")
As a mom desperate to widen my child’s palate while she’s desperate to get me to buy her Lunchables, I see a total of about 4 sweet flavors and 4 savory flavors on practically everything marketed to kids. If it’s not cherry, watermelon, orange or grape, (or XTREME CHILL CHERRY, WOWZA WATERMELON!!!11, AWESOME ORANGE, or GROOVY GRAPETASTICAL!), it’s pizza, nacho, fajita or taco. Why? It’s safe. Kids do, on average\*, have a more limited list of “likes” than adults. If you’re spending a gazillion dollars a year, do you risk it on the chance that kids will like Dopey Durian, or do you just color the cherry something funky and slap a new name on it? In short: risk averse business practices mining what works. \*I know, I know, \*your \*kid eats foie gras in the backseat of your SUV while it’s pulling a horse trailer up a mountainside. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-flavors/458965/6 "2008-08-06T00:39:40Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] My store doesn’t even carry Popsicles anymore. They have frozen flavored sugar water on a stick, but they aren’t Popsicles. Remember the blue ones? What flavor was that? I never could tell. Cherry and grape were my favorites. [/QUOTE] Blueberry. They made your tongue blue. ---
**Author:** ![masterofnone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@masterofnone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/masterofnone)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-flavors/458965/7 "2008-08-06T02:01:43Z")
You can still buy the rootbeer, blue raspberry, banana, and ??? here. (I can’t recall what the 4th flavor in the pack is - it’s red - cherry perhaps?). I’m not sure if they’re Popsicle brand, but they are available. I don’t recall seeing the other flavors listed, but it seems there’s always some new frozen novelty coming out here. ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-flavors/458965/8 "2008-08-06T02:18:52Z")
I just wandered out to the garage freezer to check. I have root beer, banana, and lemon-lime flavored Popsicle brand frozen treats. I bought them a couple of weeks ago at Safeway. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-flavors/458965/9 "2008-08-06T03:40:45Z")
Also for those who haven’t checked in a while, they’ve done The Thing to Fudgcicles. They’re much more watery and dissappointing than they used to be. Fuckers. ---
**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-flavors/458965/10 "2008-08-06T04:17:26Z")
[QUOTE=panache45] If there is a heaven, they have mango, pina colada, and licorice popsicles. And for the true connoisseurs: bacon. [/QUOTE] Your heaven is here: [http://www.yelp.com/biz/locopops-raleigh](http://www.yelp.com/biz/locopops-raleigh) ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-flavors/458965/11 "2008-08-06T06:20:00Z")
OK, **Panache** , you’ve flung a craving on me! I had to go to the freezer to get out a twin pack…one SF pineapple and one SF orange-mango. I buy these at the grocery store…they are Popscicle brand and the other flavor in the trio is tropical punch (red). I also can get them in the classic cherry-orange-grape combo or the diet A&W root beer - orange Crush - Dr Pepper pack. Of course, they conform to the dreaded combo pack rule of one superb flavor, one decent flavor and one you foist off on the kids. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![masterofnone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@masterofnone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/masterofnone)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-flavors/458965/12 "2008-08-06T06:47:55Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] Also for those who haven’t checked in a while, they’ve done The Thing to Fudgcicles. They’re much more watery and dissappointing than they used to be. Fuckers. [/QUOTE] OTOH, the white chocolate Fudgicles are heavenly. I haven’t tried the dark chocolate or milk chocolate from the same variety pack, as I’m not fast enough to beat the wife and kid to them. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-flavors/458965/13 "2008-08-06T07:47:34Z")
We have guys (it’s always guys) who push around a little cart during the hotter months. These guys have all sorts of weird but very good flavored ice thingies. My BIL’s favorite is banana, mine is strawberry, and they have all sorts of fruit flavors. This seems to be a Hispanic thing, as the guys are almost always in a neighborhood that has quite a few Hispanics in it. They probably have cherry, orange, and grape flavors, but the strawberry is so yummy that I never get anything else. There’s chunks of real fruit in the strawberry and banana flavors, too. ::drool:: We still have the Hawaiin Snow/Shave Ice booths around here. They always have a gazillion flavors. Sonic drive-ins also have quite a few slush flavors. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-flavors/458965/14 "2008-08-06T10:34:43Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] My store doesn’t even carry Popsicles anymore. They have frozen flavored sugar water on a stick, but they aren’t Popsicles. Remember the blue ones? What flavor was that? I never could tell. Cherry and grape were my favorites. [/QUOTE] We called 'em “blue” flavored. And any “red” popsicle was an automatic favorite, too. Didn’t matter what it tasted like, as long as it was red. I used to keep a box of those unfrozen plastic packets around for when little ones would visit. I’d toss a handful in the freezer. Happiness was had by all. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-flavors/458965/15 "2008-08-06T17:36:04Z")
[QUOTE=Harriet the Spry] Your heaven is here: [http://www.yelp.com/biz/locopops-raleigh](http://www.yelp.com/biz/locopops-raleigh) [/QUOTE] Glad to see someone gave a shout-out to Locopops! These are (obviously) Mexican-inspired and they have all sorts of off-the-wall flavors (like cucumber-chile and mango-chile :eek: , mojito, tamarind, etc.) and they change pretty frequently. So if you’re ever in the Triangle area of NC, we can hook you up. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-flavors/458965/16 "2008-08-07T02:26:51Z")
[QUOTE=panache45] If there is a heaven, they have mango, pina colada, and licorice popsicles. And for the true connoisseurs: bacon. [/QUOTE] If you’re in the right neighborhood, just wait for the guy with the [paleta cart.](http://www.heladosmexico.com/history.htm) Yesterday, I passed over getting a Mango or Horchata paleta and asked for a pecan one to match what my son got. I could have got a coconut, raisin or tamarind one instead.