Old School Ice Creams

[Bobby Giovanni]

Ditch the Magnums and bring back the Smurf, the Lickity Split and the Rocket.

The Smurf - was on two sticks, one was blue icy pole, the other was ice cream. My personal favourite.
The Lickity Split - Again on two sticks (I think) with one orange, the other green.
The Rocket - shaped like a rocket, with colours like a Life Saver. Stick was made of yellow plastic that you could build crap with.

I also remember the:
Monaco Bar
one with a Bubblegum stick (orange or chocolate bubblegum)
Peppermint Eskimo Pie
Coconut Ice
Rainbow Choc (yeah baby)

Apart from being a waste of money at $3, I find that Magnums lack a gimmick. (aside from the Musk one that is coated in Magic Gum-type stuff)

What were your favourites?

 

[Disgustipated]

The Bubble o Bill. The gum was so tasty, shame all taste was gone after 30 seconds. Was good as blue tac also

During the school days, our canteen sold Oz blocks for 30 cents.
Plain ole lemonade ice block, nothing too fancy.

Whenever anyone had a financial windfall (back in those days $20.00 was like a thousand now) it was there shout for ozblocks!

Im currently addicted to Frosty Fruits and once had a thing for Mango Weis bars.

 

[Dogs 13]

Wasn't there a Bubble O Bill and his nose was bubble gum.

Split, same as a Choc Wedge but with two sticks. Good for sharing. As if !!!

Jublees at school on a hot day.

Green Pipeline Pete.

Pine Lime Splice, you can still get them, but they don't taste the same.

Carnival Twirl/Twirl, in a plastic cup but with different flavoured syrups through the ice cream.

 

[Bobby Giovanni]

Bubble O'Bills are still available.

I remember those cups, but with Strawberry/Passionfruit or Choc/Strawberry.

 

[Fire]

Monarco bars were the greatest things ever put into the freezer.

They were too overprice dhtough, and that might be the reason they went.

 

[Runk]

Originally posted by Bobby Giovanni
Ditch the Magnums and bring back the Smurf, the Lickity Split and the Rocket.

The Smurf - was on two sticks, one was blue icy pole, the other was ice cream. My personal favourite.
The Lickity Split - Again on two sticks (I think) with one orange, the other green.
The Rocket - shaped like a rocket, with colours like a Life Saver. Stick was made of yellow plastic that you could build crap with.

I also remember the:
Monaco Bar
one with a Bubblegum stick (orange or chocolate bubblegum)
Peppermint Eskimo Pie
Coconut Ice
Rainbow Choc (yeah baby)

Apart from being a waste of money at $3, I find that Magnums lack a gimmick. (aside from the Musk one that is coated in Magic Gum-type stuff)

What were your favourites?

All sensational. Especially the one with the bubblegum stick.
Barney Bananas were a personal fave. However I really loved the Shark icy pole that was around for a while. Basically a Blue Lemonday icy pole but shaped like a shark. WAY COOL!

 

[bunsen burner]

Hail the Jelly Tip. The ice-cream of all ice-creams.

Also good:

Monaco (they were called Giant Sandwich in WA)
Patch
Freezer
Big Toff

 

[bunsen burner]

Re: Re: Old School Ice Creams

Originally posted by Runknisse
However I really loved the Shark icy pole that was around for a while. Basically a Blue Lemonday icy pole but shaped like a shark. WAY COOL!

Streets Cool Shark they were called. Didn't do it for me.

Pacman (and Donkey Kong to a lessor extent) ice-creams from the early 80s were good as were Mash and King King ice creams from the late 70s.

 

[Dogs 13]

Originally posted by Bobby Giovanni
Bubble O'Bills are still available.

Thanks, gotta find one, I can feel my teeth starting to hurt already.

 

[SonOfScray]

Used to love this Eskimo pie type one that had vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. Triple delight or something like that- they were awesome.

 

[Runk]

I remember a competition that involved Choc Wedge, Barney Banana and a few other icy pole brands where you had to collect the sticks to match up the entire Australian cricket team. I kept getting Len Pascoe and Kim Hughes, but could never get Greg Chappell or DK Lillee.

 

[Bobby Giovanni]

Just remembered another one:
Mint Choc, which was in my top 5.

 

[bunsen burner]

Originally posted by SonOfScray
Used to love this Eskimo pie type one that had vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. Triple delight or something like that- they were awesome.

May have been a Street's Triple Treat. Rectangular shape without a stick and had vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry coated in chocolate.

Streets were relative nobody's until 1982 when they almost tried to corner the ice-cream market overnight. One day I went down the shop and they had this big-ass new Street's ice-cream fridge with all these new ice-creams that made everthing else look old-school. This was the birth of Bubble-o-Bill, Golden Gaytime, Fat Frog, Paddle Pop, Triple Treat, Cornetto, Calipo, and many more. Literally overnight there were about 20 new types of ice cream available.

 

[bunsen burner]

Originally posted by Bobby Giovanni
Just remembered another one:
Mint Choc, which was in my top 5.

At my school we had these things called Count Chocula. Mint green ice-cream with a chocolate coating. A staple diet for many.

 

[ElVinoDeUruguay]

Halo

 

[Uncle Steve]

Originally posted by Runknisse
I remember a competition that involved Choc Wedge, Barney Banana and a few other icy pole brands where you had to collect the sticks to match up the entire Australian cricket team. I kept getting Len Pascoe and Kim Hughes, but could never get Greg Chappell or DK Lillee.

I remember that summer I must've spent about $15 (hey, that was big money to a kid in the late seventies / early eighties) on Choc Wedges at 30 cents a pop, trying to win that bloody contest. All I had to show for it was about 50 icecream sticks.

What about the 20-cent Sunny Boy, or its close cousin the Razz? A great big chunk of flavoured ice enclosed in a paper/foil wrapper - no stick. After scoffing the iceblock, you got to drink all the stuff that had melted and collected at the bottom of the wrapper. Nothing went down better on a hot school day...

 

[Runk]

Originally posted by Uncle Steve
I remember that summer I must've spent about $15 (hey, that was big money to a kid in the late seventies / early eighties) on Choc Wedges at 30 cents a pop, trying to win that bloody contest. All I had to show for it was about 50 icecream sticks.

What about the 20-cent Sunny Boy, or its close cousin the Razz? A great big chunk of flavoured ice enclosed in a paper/foil wrapper - no stick. After scoffing the iceblock, you got to drink all the stuff that had melted and collected at the bottom of the wrapper. Nothing went down better on a hot school day...

The sunny boys (whilst not called that anymore) you can still get them from suprmarkets around town. I know my local BI-LO has them. They're tops.

As for the competition, yeah, I spent at least $10 trying to win it. CURSE YOU LEN PASCOE!!!!!

 

[kristin5]

Bubble O'Bill was always a fave as was the Big Foot - banana icecream in the shape of a foot, with hard chocolate coating on one side.

 

[Au_Blue#24]

two sweet words


banana ruffle

 

[Bobby Giovanni]

The Big Foot rocks! Good get, kristin.

 

[Squeak]

You're all old. I can't remember any further back than the Toucan.

 

[GoEagles]

Does anyone remember the icypole that had '3 fruits on the one stick' (lemon, orange, strawberry) but they were shaped as the fruits? Always use to get them when i was younger but havent seen them on sale for about 5 years

 

[Captain Sensible]

The Wink. Caramel and vanilla ice cream, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[PeteLX]

Paddle Pops were my choice. Pretty sure they're still around. Did they have one covered in nuts?

Anyone remember the Sunnyboy 'Luckies'? About every fifth one had yellow writing inside that meant you could get another one free! I know some kids stored up all their luckies for months and then went sick and had ten. My record was five luckies in a row (in one lunchtime).

I was also a fan of the Rocket.

 

[Bobby Giovanni]

Originally posted by GoEagles
Does anyone remember the icypole that had '3 fruits on the one stick' (lemon, orange, strawberry) but they were shaped as the fruits? Always use to get them when i was younger but havent seen them on sale for about 5 years

Yeah, I rememebr those! They were great as well. Loved the lemon part.