A Saga of Fire and Ice Lollies.

Oh what memories. I was a teenager when Strawberry Mivvis were invented. I still love anything that's similar today and I am 80. Going back further I remember going to the cafe and having the money to indulge in A Hot Orang e drink. The height of my teenage years.

My grandma and I both loved coffee ice cream.
When I was about 10 or 11 I used to go home from school for lunch. My grandma was at home and she would send me to the local sweet shop for a block of coffee ice cream. As we didn't have a freezer they would cut the block in half and keep one half in their freezer for me to pick up the next day, and it was taken home wrapped in newspaper.

We lived in Germany for some years and use to go to an Italian ice cream shop. They were wonderful. As a child we didn't have a fridge. Our neighbour was the first to get one. She came outside with a bowl of ice cubes and handed them out to us kids!

I remember being told that the cruellest thing any parent could say to a child was that the ice-cream van only played its chimes when they had run out of ic-cream!

My favourite was a large drinking glass with lemonade (from Corona) topped with ice cream.

I loved Strawberry Mivies too, but as I kid I loved to get a screwball cos I got a chewing gum ball at the bottom.
Now I love Pear Picking Porkies and Polly Pineapples if it's an ice lolly and a Brunch if it's an ice cream one. They are Dale Farm and HB brand which I think you only get in N.Ireland.
A local ice cream shop still sell oysters and wafers, the wafer one you can get is a normal wafer and the one on top has choc on it and is filled with the with the white gooey stuff you get inside a Tunnocks teacake and are really gorgeous.

I am another one who never liked lollies that mixed icecream and fruit lolly. Also disliked the taste of those rectangular blocks of icecream, Wall’s I think, with paper or card around, that were put between 2 wafers or jammed into a square shaped hard cone, then the wrapping removed. Just disliked the taste of them. Remember being given one as a “treat” on a plate in hospital aged about 6 when I had my tonsils out to soothe my throat, and the staff being cross with me because I wouldn’t eat it.
The wafers from the Italian icecream shop in our village, Contis, used to be lovely, though. They had a gadget for wafers, put 1 biscuit in the bottom, then slathered icecream in, another wafer biscuit on top, then the base pushed up to release the icecream. But only the grownups could have wafers, as the melting icecream went down your front unless careful, the kids always had cones-with raspberry sauce as mentioned by previous posters!

Infinity2 ha ha! I was always the straggler at the back as us kids made our way back from the off licence wrestling with our Jubblies they required intense concentration else they launched themselves from their the cardboard tube - which mine often did , usually straight into a gravelly puddle..a quick rinse under the kitchen tap once home, all was ?

The big orange juice oones, 99s and raspberry ripple wafers.

My daughter’s childhood memory, not mine (she is 30 next month). We were on hol near Chania in Crete and visited the town on market day. A firm was promoting ice lollies, handing out free ones, all sorts full sized including ones covered in chocolate and nuts, plain orange ones, football shaped ones. We all had one, then as we wandered around, kept coming across this team from the firm, who were pushing a freezer on wheels, and DD kept being given ice lolly after ice lolly, she must have had a dozen! Wouldn’t have been allowed them as a rule, but we were on hol. Her best holiday ever! I couldn’t believe how much stock this firm were just giving away, and wondered if the publicity stunt paid off for them.

Just an ice cream cone from Charlie the ice cream man who used come along the road with his ice cream cart pulled by his wee pony. Nothing has compared,

In the 1940s, 50s and 60s my grandmother and aunt ran a corner sweet shop and tobacconist. In the 1950s they installed a small freezer so that they could sell ice cream. Slices were cut from blocks of Walls ice cream and sandwiched between two wafers. My special treat was a slice from a block of Neapolitan ice cream. It tasted delicious and the different colours made it seem so exotic.

We had a pantry with a marble shelf and the milk went into a bucket of water to keep it cool. It was delivered every day but sometimes the heat got it. Ice cream - I remember buying a block and as we didn’t have a fridge the grocer would wrap it in newspapers to insulate it and it was cut into slices and sandwiched between two wafers. Usually it was white, called vanilla but I somehow doubt there was any vanilla in it, but also Neapolitan which was striped pink, brown and white -

Strawberry splits were my favourite - had ice cream in the middle. A mivi I believe just was ice lolly. I could be wrong though.
Didn't like oysters but did like FAB and Feast. For a block of ice cream that we sliced as a pudding - Neapolitan was my favourite. Always leaving the chocolate part to last.

We lived above the bakery that my Mum managed and it had a freezer with Ebor ice creams and lollies. My sister and I were only allowed a lolly when they were broken! Orange or raspberry were my favourite,but you took what you could get!

Walls heart lollys
Choc covered heart shaped ice cream with a red blob in the middle

We still get an ice cream van, an Italian family concern, once a week, I had a cone with red and green sauce a few weeks ago!

I loved Fab lollies with the sprinkles and Orange maids but my favourite was Arctic roll after Sunday Salad

Orange Maid was my favourite. We also had an Italian ice cream man with a van, Cavaciutti's; we used to love his ice cream in shell wafers.

They do still make mivis Infinity2.
But nothing tastes the same these days,or maybe that could be because we are adults.
I loved Oyster wafers with ice-cream inside/jubblys/99`s actually anything really as it was such a treat.

Has anyone made ice cream with condensed milk it delish and no churning.

Nannan2 - Caddys sounds absolutely lovely. Ice cream parlours ! You don’t see them nowadays, at least not round here. Reminds me of Lyons Corner Houses and the Kardomah coffee house.

I don’t think that ice cream tastes the same nowadays unless it’s just my palette is giving up the ghost.
As for those bright blue lolly ices that some of you liked, they were probably so full of E numbers and suchlike that they were radioactive. You probably glowed in the dark after eating one.

In these modern time they would probably have made them keep Caddys as a protected building.

It was'nt Caddys did the whippys with lollies though- Caddys were only served by a scoop.It was very special ice cream, never tasted any creamier.

We had a lovely (famous) ice cream parlour locally when i was a kid- CADDY'S - and it was really old fashioned inside from back in days when it was first open, (1901) but it was the creamiest, purest ice cream ever- really pure white- when i was abot 4/5 (late 60's) the caddy's was brought round our streets as well the guy on a bycycle with a cold box on back- then by early 70's promoted to a caddys van.Sadly they closed him down by 1980 to demolish for a new bus stn/retail area. Sad days. Mr Caddy (as we called him) vowed to never open up anywhere else & took his special family ice cream recipe to his grave?