# What my daughter has taught me (warning TMFP!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 18, 2003, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-my-daughter-has-taught-me-warning-tmfp/195888 "2003-08-18T02:55:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Q.N.Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3da27b/32.png) [@Q.N.Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.N.Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-my-daughter-has-taught-me-warning-tmfp/195888/41 "2003-08-18T20:11:28Z")
I love this story. It reminds me of when my sisters and I were kids and Dad let us do stuff Mom would never, ever allow–like eat a whole box of freezer pops. The thing our dad let us overindulge in was bubble gum. Mom hated gum (_smack smack chew smack_) and would never let us buy it–not even a pack of Trident for the four of us to share. But when we went to the store with Dad, he’d buy us each a giant pack of Hubba Bubba or Bubble Yum or Bubbalicious, whatever flavor we wanted. And we didn’t have to share. Of course, one of us would end up with a big wad of gum stuck in our long hair, and Mom would have to get it out with peanut butter and scissors, but it was a small price to pay. Dads can be so cool. The other thing he let us do was drink beer and eat peanuts with him on Sundays, even when we were wee tots, but today that would be considered child abuse. ---
**Author:** ![Winnie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e480ec/32.png) [@Winnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnie)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-my-daughter-has-taught-me-warning-tmfp/195888/42 "2003-08-18T20:18:46Z")
While in the Rite Aid some weeks back they had a display of Incredible Hulk freezer pops and of course the regular ones. Then they had something else. **Fudge freezer pops.** Despite the someone grotesque imagery of what they would look like being pushed and slurped out, I had to try them anyway. Not good. They tasted like artificial orange-y cocoa. ---
**Author:** ![Q.N.Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3da27b/32.png) [@Q.N.Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.N.Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-my-daughter-has-taught-me-warning-tmfp/195888/43 "2003-08-18T20:20:18Z")
P.S.–Freezer pops are not just for kids. When I was in college, my roommate and I discovered that they were just about the only thing that would fit into the tiny freezer compartment of our dorm refrigerator. We’d eat them while we did our homework. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-my-daughter-has-taught-me-warning-tmfp/195888/44 "2003-08-18T20:25:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sweet contradiction \* > \*\*Does anyone remember when they all came attached? \*\* Oh yeah! I’d forgotten about that. I used to love it! ---
**Author:** ![White\_Ink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@White\_Ink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Ink)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-my-daughter-has-taught-me-warning-tmfp/195888/45 "2003-08-18T21:27:34Z")
but **Capybara** …“Otter Pops will join Fruit Stripe bubblegum, Kanagroo shoes with the little zip pockets and the Muppet Show in the list of irretreivable things from our past. . .” Fruitstripe gum is still available! I use it as shutters on my gingerbread houses every year. ---
**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 19, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-my-daughter-has-taught-me-warning-tmfp/195888/46 "2003-08-19T00:55:15Z")
When I was little, the only brand of freeze pops available in our area was [“Chilly Willee”](http://www.bnrglobal.com/alamance/chillie%20willie/chillie%20willie.htm). I was enrolled in a very small school–about 30 kids per class–so it wasn’t difficult for the teachers or parents to provide enough freeze pops for all of us. I fondly remember the day in first grade when one of my classmates allowed his freezer pop to completely melt, then carefully propped it on the table and slammed his hand onto it. We didn’t have freeze pops in class anymore after that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-my-daughter-has-taught-me-warning-tmfp/195888.md?page=2)