As many of those as I had as a kid, you’d think I’d smile more:
LOL
Otter Pops are still around, NN.
I saw some at the grocery store just yesterday, but my son had never had one before. They aren’t quite the institution they were when I was growing up.
My daughter couldn’t get enough of them when she was younger. Maybe it’s a regional thing?
Could be
I still buy these every summer as an adult, just to have something on hand to cool down with. I’m in California - did you raise your kid on the East Coast?
Nope, she was born in L.A., but we moved back to Indiana where we were raised when she was 2, so this was here in Indiana.
There’s also a variant called Pop-Ice. I think it’s a little cheaper since that’s the brand we usually bought, but we’re talking a decade ago now.
I’ve gotten the giant ones of Amazon before, they’re good (better flavors than other brands)
I’ve only seen that brand a handful of times. We have Flavor-Ice down here.
flavor-ice in NYC, but also these
I can’t be the only one who didn’t hurt himself on these as a kid.
Like… I wasn’t the smartest kid in the world, but learning to be careful with anything you put in your mouth, that was a lesson I learned early.
Wtf were you people doing with these, anyway? It took me only like 3 tries before I decided these weren’t worth trying to open with my teeth. It was scissors from that point on.
The issue wasn’t opening them initially, the issue was with the flat edges on the sides where the two sides were fused together, and along which the layer of connected popsicles were connected. You put the popsicle in your mouth and it felt like you were slicing the corners of you mouth with a razor blade.
Maybe you had a really large mouth as a child? Idk. Now I’m wondering how you hurt yourself with these things lol.
That’s what I mean, I didn’t!
The plastic wasn’t a danger unless you were doing something absurd like putting plastic in your mouth and then tightening your lips to a dangerous degree. And that would be very easy to stop doing, you just… Don’t hold so tight with your mouth.
It’s not like you eat these like drinking a thick milkshake. You suck too hard, you pull all the flavor out and are left with flavorless ice. I would always rather have flavored juice left over
Ah see that’s where you’re mistaken. The concentrated hit of flavor juice was like kiddie crack.
Edit - you said you opened them like three times with your teeth then only used scissors from then on, so I assumed you hurt yourself during the opening process.
See, I preferred to save that for the end, so it ended on a high note. Being stuck with boring ice in the end just left me feeling like the whole thing was a bummer.
Like chewing a stick of Fruit Stripe gum
That fucking zebra bro.
What’s your country’s generic name for them?
Cool pops here. Dominant brand when I was a kid was Mister Freeze.
When I was growing up, they were ‘Fla-Vor-Ice’, but I think that was the cheap brand.
Those are the GOOD ones.
In Australia the biggest brand, and therefore the name we all call them is “zooper dooper”.
Litteraly could not name another brand, I genuinely don’t think I’ve seen a competitor for zooper dooper in Australia (not counting black & gold because that’s not exactly a brand, or squelch, who do the fruit juice version, as it’s a different product).
It’s strange how zooper dooper are in an entirely unique class of frozen product here. Everything else could arguably be called “an icey pole” but zooper dooper is its own thing somehow. (same as sunny boy, that was its own thing, I miss sunny boy!)
Melt them and drink the juice. Zero pain involved.
Diabeetus.
The sugar doesn’t go away when it’s cold, just so you know.
No, but brain freeze probably kept many kids from binging a pile of these!
ha! ok that’s a great point
Wanna know how i got these scars?
i instinctively pushed my tongue against the roof of my mouth as soon as i saw this image
These are still around btw
The summer I worked at Wal-mart’s tire center management gave us an entire crate of these things. I thought that was pretty cool. Better pay and benefits would have been better but it was more than I expected from them.
I think they still have these to this day
