A Saga of Fire and Ice Lollies.

When I was little we had ice cream as a treat after Sunday lunch. The ice cream man ( Mr Oddy )would stop at the end of our lane, usually just as we finished lunch. It was my job to go to the van with a bowl, and ask for "3 scoops of ice cream please". Such a treat, especially when drizzled with strawberry juice!
On Wednesday we had our first ice cream for months ( on low carb diet ). We went to Filey and had a Mr Whippy from a lady in a van at the end of the prom. It was delicious! x

Orange Maid! But it would stain if you let it drip down you front.
A rare treat anyway.
I’m not bothered about such things at all now, esp. ice cream, but I’ll still have the odd Solero.
Dh loves Magnums.

Yes screwballs were great too, my kids liked those (some still do?) they taste bit fake though.

Think you can still buy mivvies- but made by Nestlé now.

Aw yes loved the oysters- still do,though not had one for a couple of summers now..?the mivvies were nice- but my fave was a 'ice cream special' the ice cream van put whipped ice cream on a cone, piled high, then sprinkles like kali and stuck a small blue ice lolly in it.(like a 99 with a little ice lolly) The lolly was shaped like those little ones you can get to make at home in a lolly maker, flat at the end) occasionally he had orange or cola ones too but i loved the blue. You could buy the little lollies on their own too for a few pennies, then for about 3p when we went decimal.

NotSpaghetti : your post mentioned the worst ice cream of all you said the one with the bubblegum. It was called a screwball and my kids loved them.

I've seen them in the supermarkets in boxes you can still get them.

Ice cream van was a great treat when I was younger. All tastes
were catered for so it had to be a different choice every time.
The tubs were lovely it could be strawberry, chocolate, or butterscotch topped with the sauce and sprinkled with nuts if wanted. The 99s were nice sometimes a double one and you got two flakes in it. There was nice lolly as well choclolate and nut coating and either chocolate inside or coconut.
My children were obsessed with a screwball it had the bubblegum at the bottom and lots of swirly ice cream with sauce.
Oh those were the days. (smiling)

Teacheranne - that’s a lovely story. How kind ???

Cornergran - my friend lived on a main road with a bus stop outside her house. Never an ice cream van for her either.

I think there were laws in the fifties about when they could play their chimes. They had to stop at either five or seven I think.
I used to love to hear the sound of the ice cream van.
It’s years since I’ve heard the chimes.

Deprived person here. Growing up next to a busy dual carriageway for some reason an ice cream van never stopped . Staying with family I recalled waiting eagerly for this rare vehicle, when asked what I’d like the answer was always ‘anything’. . I was just fascinated by the van and how one person could produce anything that was asked for. Usually ice cream wafers for the whole family. I discovered Aldi sell a modern version, soggy wafers, not the same at all. Now it’s plain vanilla ice cream for me every time, boring I know.

Slightly off on a tangent but yesterday the company that owns several local care homes in Stockport, my mum lives in one, arranged for a Mr Whippy ice cream van to visit each one in turn to give every resident and staff a 99 ice cream. I happened to be passing one home while the van was there and saw a line of elderly residents lined up waiting to get one. It was a really kind thought from the company.

Shelflife and Callistemon - spot on. Probably made of real cider in those days too !

Shelflife

' cider lollies' remember those ?

Yes, it felt quite daring to have one of those, like underage drinking!

I can’t believe so many people like the sorts of ices I never did!
The horrible marshmallow ones, the chocolate ones, minty ones, the ones with hundreds and thousands on… I could go on …and worst of all, the one with bubble gum!

Obviously this is why the manufacturers offered variety!
??

I’ve never liked any ice lolly that had ice cream in the middle, but I liked Jubblies, Orange Maid and Walls Lemonade Lolly. Mostly though, we would get a penny lolly from the corner shop. They were frozen in little cylindrical metal moulds and the grocer used to have to rub the mould between his hands to free the lolly. We used to save the sticks to make models with! As for ice cream, our local ice cream man used to make his own and it was really delicious. Milky rather than creamy; there was always a queue for his van. Years later I had an ice cream maker and the base recipe in the book produced an ice cream that tasted just like it. Took us back years!

We had an Italian family who ran the local grocery shop the dad made ice cream and kept it in a freezer that had two metal lids inside one side ice cream and in the other he would put penny lollies into a teacup full of Tizer and freeze them so you had this great lump of frozen Tizer lopsided on the top of your penny lolly for threepence they lasted ages. I still love Tizer but can’t seem to find it anymore. Happy days

' cider lollies' remember those ?

Did anyone have a toffee apple man we used to. He used to ride a bike with a big basket shouting "Toffee Apples!" We always brought one they were brown toffee not the red ones or choc you get in shops these days. Surprise we kids wernt toothless

One ice cream van that came round in the evenings sold a "witches hat," which was an ice lolly with an ice cream cone upside down on the top of it.
Best of both worlds! ?

Midnight Mint choc ices. They were my mums favourite really but I also liked them.

We used to have an ice cream man who visited our road once a week. He came from a neighbouring town and his ice cream was home made. We bought an ice cream cone with strawberry syrup drizzled over.
If I'd saved enough of my meagre pocket money a marshmallow wafer was my treat.
I also liked a mivvi.

Oh there are some lovely icy memories mentioned here !
I’d forgotten those Oyster shells !

The first time ma bought an Arctic Roll, we all sat and stared at it. We were in awe - thinking it was so posh ?

My favourite treat ice cream name would be completely politically incorrect now. It comprised of ice cream between one plain wafer and one chocolate marshmallow one. Bliss. High days and holidays for one of these.

Or it could have been chicken pox.

My dad used to make us ice cream and Tizer. I remember we all had the measels and my dad made a tent out of sheets in the summer in the garden and we all had Tizer and ice cream. Funny what you remember I must have been very young.

I used to like the Polo ice cream, and it was really creamy.
It was round, as in a slice and had a cardboard cover.
Anyone else remember them?