A Saga of Fire and Ice Lollies.

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Just remembered Rossi's icecream in Southend. An Italian family business which recently closed. Part of my childhood eating a cornet from them along the seafront when we lived near there.

The Rossi family are no longer involved but Rossi ice cream is still made in Southend. There are several shops retailing it too.
Some Morrisons and Asdas sell tubs of Rossi ice cream so keep a look out for it.
My Mum used to talk about Rossi ice cream all the time and she lived in Barkingside Ilford at the time.

Just remembered Rossi's icecream in Southend. An Italian family business which recently closed. Part of my childhood eating a cornet from them along the seafront when we lived near there.

Rosycheeks , yes, I remember it being orange. But the texture was just as you said. Thanks

Iceland shops are selling lollies like the some of the Barrett's sweets. I got a box of banana shaped flavoured ice cream and they took me right back to my childhood and also doing Funny Feet from the 1980s.

Does anyone remember an ice lolly that had soft toffee at its’ centre attached to the stick it might have been a fruity or chocolatey lolly….
Oh and ice cream boats from the ice cream van- boat shaped plastic container with ice cream and what must have been tinned fruit salad and a sprinkling of chopped nuts I definitely remember my older brother always getting one; this would be* mid 1960s*

Mid60s

I think they made it in orange too.

Everest (as in mountain) would make total sense as we would draw a mountain in that triangular shape. I was beginning to think I'd made it up as I couldn't find anyone who remembered it. Thanks

Rosycheeks the name doesn't ring a bell, but it was definitely a soft ice so could well have been that. Thank you.

Was it an Everest lolly like soft ice lemonade? RosemaryAnne.

I was hoping someone would come up with the name of my favourite lolly sold in the sweet shop. Would have been in the 50s. It was triangular with a thin cardboard wrapping which came off round all three sides. It had a lovely texture to it. Never yet met anyone else who has heard of it, let alone remembers what it was called.

Infinity2 and everyone one else . It was lovely reliving my childhood through ice cream and lollies. Many of you mentioned my favourites . When my nan was in hospital. Dad used to take my brother and me to the shop opposite while mom visited her. We had raspberry ripple ice cream on a stick. Yum. We used to have a milk lolly they where thin shaped cylinders from the grocers who also sold broken biscuits in large metal tins lined with white paper. Brought by the quarter of a pound .
Happy memories.

Infinity2 Try Soleros which are pretty much the same as mivvis. They come in tropical and berry varieties.

Chewbacca Jubbly’s do not engender fond memories for me. I was given a detention after I was caught consuming one at the back of the class, aged 12.

I remember the first time I had Neapolitan ice cream and thought it was miraculous. I would have been about 5 or 6 , in the 1950s. I used to like those lime green icy things with ice cream in the middle. We call things icy poles here but they weren’t called that in London.

We didn’t have a fridge till I was about 10. It was a Prestcold and came from a Prefab that was being demolished. We used to buy those blocks of ice cream from the wee shop opposite our house and mum would slice it up so we all got a bit. Being from a big family I still say I could pour out equal sized Tupperware tumblers of juice with my eyes shut! Sadly, two local Italian ice cream cafes have closed in the last year or so. No more Irn Bru ice cream for us.

I can't remember when we bought a fridge-freezer but we definitely didn't have one in 1992.

when the ice-cream van came round my gran used to throw me a threepenny bit from the veranda to get a cone with raspberry sauce, as i got bigger she would take me to a wee cafe and get me ice-cream and ginger beer, on my birthday i got a knickerbocker glory. at school i would go to the shop and get a jubbly, as i got older i am less keen on ice cream but sometimes i buy the fab ice lollies.

Rigger - Yes the good old days NOT ! I think fridges and freezers were the best inventions ever !

I must confess to eating two Magnums today and I don’t even like them that much, I think they’re too creamy. And they were salted caramel which I hate. But I ate them because I was hot !

BlueBelle

infinity I m with you, no fridge. Milk kept in water in an large earthenware vessel meat kept under a mesh umbrella thingy in the pantry, shopped daily
Strawberry Mivvi was my absolute favourite

Relatives of mine didn't have a fridge ever. I remember taking my new dh to visit them in 1995 and he was horrified by the sterilised milk. (He drinks his tea and coffee black but Uncle was deaf and didn't hear the request). They weren't poor but Uncle was a miser and controlled the purse strings.

I remember when the Walls ice cream came riding around on a bicycle .
I didn’t get a fridge until 1960 but the milkman came round every day as did the baker and butcher when we lived in London. I made a sort of ice cream with evaporated milk.

I’d forgotten those small round banana flavoured lolly ices - they were delicious.

I liked an ice cream push-up from Coletta's ice cream van (theirs was my favourite brand of ice cream).

If the Dixon's van came around, I usually had a lime teddy bear ice lolly, because I wasn't keen on their ice cream.

In my teens, I liked an ice cream wafer made with the thick, chocolatey wafers!

Mmm - I will have to go raid the freezer now for some sort of ice cream

Rosie heels we used to have Tizer with ice cream, I used to love it.

I also remember playing lolly sticks. When you had finished your lollies one of you would hold it between two hands and the other would have to break it in the middle. It could get a bit painful at times.

Nothing could be nicer than a Pendleton's twicer...
I've never forgotten that ditty...

We've never stopped having ice cream vans round the streets and to the park in the summer and weekends. Now the grandchildren run in wanting money . Favourite for DGS2 age 3 is a vanilla cone with red (raspberry) sauce - no flake, no sprinkles granny! The older 2 are more discerning. There have been ice cream wars in Midlothian between sellers!