There is no such thing as too much/many freezer pops.
I love those things. Many freezer (freezie as I grew up calling em) pops get eaten in the swampcave throughout the year.
Cartooniverse why did you have to say fudgesicle? Now, I have to have fudgesicles. Notice the plural. One fudgesicle is impossible. You are evil for putting fudgesicle thoughts in my head. If I suffer from fudgesicle od tonight it shall be on your head. On second thought, fudgesicle overload usually means fudgesicle headache, so it’ll be on my head. But it’s your fault!
Maybe where I come from freezer pops have a different name. I’m not quite sure if I have it right, but these aren’t popsicles, right? Popsicles have sticks in them. Are these the kind that are liquid in a plastic tube/bag thing that you freeze and then eat by tearing the top and pushing them up? I think I called these icicles or ices as a kid.
My favorite is a kind that they don’t make anymore. If they do, I haven’t seen it in years. They weren’t just made with sugar water, they were creamy-sticky. They came in three varieties, which you could get all in one box: orange, strawberry, and banana. The banana ones were my favorite. MMMMM. I haven’t seen this since I was about 9 (15 years ago).
No one has mentioned the one bad thing about freezer pops.
Have you all forgotten the pain from trying to suck the last bit of half melted goodness from the bottom of the container… And getting a “plastic” cut on the inside of your lips right on the side there.
They have tropical flavored ones around here. The pink ones are mango, and the yellow are banana. Has anyone else ever noticed the strange physics at play when you put a bunch in the freezer together? It could be a week since you put it in, yet one or two will remain unfrozen. Usually those two will be the same color. My guess is that the Upjohn Freezer Pop Addictive Nectar drug[sup]TM[/sup] has a lower freezing point.
Bomb Pops. Manna from the heavens. Cherry, (something), Blue Raspberry.
Freezies- I get all the yellow ones. Sometimes they’re banana. Sometimes lemon. Either way- delicious. The lime green ones are great also!
Push-ups- either the straight orange sherbert, or the Scooby ones with a rainbow fruit punch.
As I type this, I’m gnawing on a bomb pop, thanks to Lil Miss. It’s going to hit 95F with a heat index of over 105. The treats are going to be gone fast…
My boyfriend and I were running some errands last Friday, and the topic of freezer pops came up. It was a hot, humid day, and suddenly we both got huge cravings for them. We went to the nearest grocery store, but alas, there were no freezer pops to be found in the store.
MMMM…freezer pops. They got 'em here too! There is one type with the stragest flavour- I think it is black current, but I’m not quite sure. But it is tasty…
I can’t believe no one has yet sung an epideitic encomium to That Most Glorious Exemplum of the generic item know as the freezer pop,
OTTER POPS.
Mmmmmm.
Don’t worry - I’m sure Scylla didn’t put away all that many childish things; he just doesn’t come across as that sort of guy. He just couldn’t resist the urge to riff off of a good allusion (I Corinthians 13, in this case).
I was trying desperately to remember what those things were called. I used to eat Otter Pops all summer long. What on earth were the flavors? I remember they had really funny names for the flavors. OH, how I’d LOVE to get a box of Otter Pops now!!!
Ah yes, freezer pops. We called 'em squeeze pops in my day. And yes, random1, that is a terrible hazard. As a grownup, I keep a pair of scissors handy to open my squeeze pops, and carefully trim that wicked-sharp plastic with curved ends to minimize the danger.
Has anyone noticed that no matter what the brand (excluding of course the hippie-dippy “real fruit juice with no refined sugar!” ones – oh please) and no matter what the flavor, they all have a particular… sort of tingly chemical element to the taste? I LOVE that flavor. Anyone know what, exactly, it is, and whether it can be purchased separately?
The blue ones are totally the best.
I once attended a party at a grad student’s apartment; he and his buddies had actually decorated with squeeze pops by carefully thumbtacking them, through the ends, to the walls.
Man, oh, man…add me to the list of people who is going out to buy freezer pops tonight. I used to eat those things all summer as a kid. Lucy, you can send me all your uneated orange and purple ones. Those are my two favorite flavors (orange is the BEST, closely followed by purple, green, and blue; the red is just no good). I rediscovered them one day in college and went on a freezer pop eating orgy for a couple of months, after which I swore that I would never again forget the wonderful snack that was the freezer pop. But that was years ago. Thank you, Scylla, for reminding me. I wonder if my local grocery store carries them, or if I’ll have to go to Sam’s…
Breezy, note that on the ‘ordering info’ part of that site they mention t-shirts-- I have SEEN these t-shirts.
I think I need one.
You notice that in the adult sizes they only have Louis Bloo Raspberry, Sir Isaac Lime, and Strawberry Short Kook, and not the less stellar Orange and Grape flavors. I find that interestingly in synch with my own tastes.
Poncho Punch lies in between, imo.
That site also notes that the current pops no longer have the exact same flavor, as they are being put out by a different company. How sad. I guess 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. . .
Does anyone remember when they all came attached? There would be five or six of them all attached with a slight perforation inbetween each of them. You would have to carefully rip them apart…heh heh…I loved that…cuz you could conveniently (accidentally of course) rip two of them at once. Then you would HAVE to eat both because you didn’t want to waste one…you know that starving child somewhere in the world thingy.
