# Popsicle products
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-products/662
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [May 31, 1999, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-products/662 "1999-05-31T18:20:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 31, 1999, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-products/662/1 "1999-05-31T18:20:00Z")
Two questions on “old” POPSICLE products. In the 60s there was a DREAMSICLE & a CREAMSICLE. What’s the difference. It’s NOT the flavor/color. Old ads show both in orange. Second, can you still get ROOT BEER popsicles?
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 31, 1999, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-products/662/2 "1999-05-31T18:58:00Z")
The only place in Southern California that I’ve been able to find rootbeer and banana popsicles on a regular basis is at almost any drive-thru dairy. They come in plain brown boxes and our family has been buying them that way since the 60s. One of the pleasures of having a sore throat when I was a kid was all the rootbeer and banana popsicles I wanted.
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 31, 1999, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-products/662/3 "1999-05-31T19:29:00Z")
I think CREAMSICLES had ice cream in the middle but DREAMSICLES had ice milk.
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 1, 1999, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-products/662/4 "1999-06-01T20:30:00Z")
I’ve also heard the ice cream/ice milk distinction.
On a related note, does anyone remember something called a “sidewalk sundae”? It was vanilla ice cream inside a chocolate shell, but at the very center was cherry flavored ice cream.
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 1, 1999, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-products/662/5 "1999-06-01T20:45:00Z")
Gilligan, you’re right. Cecil answered this in one of his books.
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 1, 1999, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-products/662/6 "1999-06-01T21:23:00Z")
I remember “sidewalk sundaes”. I recall a chocolate-fudge center rather than cherry, though.
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 1, 1999, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-products/662/7 "1999-06-01T22:36:00Z")
Of course you can still get root beer popsicles. Fill a Dixie cup with root beer, stick a spoon or something in it, and leave it in the freezer for a few hours. Sheesh.
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 2, 1999, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-products/662/8 "1999-06-02T14:21:00Z")
Torq, Papa - You’re both right. Sidewalk sundaes had two varieties, cherry center and chocolate-fudge center. Can’t imagine though why anyone would choose the cherry center when chocolate-fudge was an option. The king of cheap frozen dairy and imitation chocolate desserts is and will ever be the “Choco Taco”. Ahhh, memories!
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 2, 1999, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-products/662/9 "1999-06-02T15:37:00Z")
Screw you all, I want a Fudgsicle 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 7, 1999, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-products/662/10 "1999-06-07T07:41:00Z")
_I_ want the ice cream, or maybe ice milk, that I got at Shea Stadium when I was a kid (in the seventies). A shallow cardboard cup, one half vanilla, one half chocolate (not two hemispheres, but a yin-yang symbol), and a wooden paddle to eat it with. Mr. Rilch makes fun of me for craving this, but memories are memories.
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 7, 1999, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popsicle-products/662/11 "1999-06-07T10:01:00Z")
Oh, wow, nostalgia time. Waaaaay back when I was a little kid in the early eighties, my dad used to stop to buy milk at a place called, IIRC, ‘Dolly Madison’s.’ They gave out free white paper, no-name, double-stick popsicles with every gallon, I think. At any rate, I remember digging in the freezers, looking for the rootbeers.