FabSwingers.com forum: Ice cream from an irish childhood

By *enerationfornication OP Man
7 days ago

not far from

I'm sitting here eating an aldi knock off Wibbly Wobbly Wonder and it got me thinking, what ice creams do you remember from your childhood which may or may not have disappered from the freezer.

I'm startimg with the HB ones i havent seen in years...

1.Wibbly Wobbly Wonder

2. Super Split

3. Mini Milk

4. Sparkles

5. Big foot

6. That-A-Way

7. Golly bar (not very PC & was simply vanilla bar in late 90s/early 00s)

8. Solero Shots

9. Fat Frog

Any more?

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By *ookAndDorkCouple
7 days ago

The West

No 90's ice-pop list is complete without a Mint Feast.

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By *iscuits8Man
7 days ago

Dublin / Meath / Birmingham

#1 Freaky Foot

The remainder a distance behind

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By *ergalMan
7 days ago

Cork

Choc ice

Orange cream

Twister

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By *og-ManMan
7 days ago

somewhere

The one I remember most is the orange super split the lady sold in the pictures during the intermission

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By *itty14Couple
7 days ago

kilkenny

Chilly Willy..came in a few flavours🙈

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By *hellyGWoman
7 days ago

Sandyford

Lemon cornettos

The original calipos

🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤

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By *ilderMan
7 days ago

dublin

Mr freeze

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By *ildarekinkstersCouple
7 days ago

kinkytown

Feast and cornetto

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By *affa31Woman
7 days ago

Galway

I really miss Fat frogs.

Twister will always be my number 1 though

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By *he KakapoMan
7 days ago

A nice rock

Sparkles are highly underrated

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By *ot neuteredMan
7 days ago

Kildare

Trupenny wafer

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By *aradox26Man
7 days ago

Milton Keynes

Iceberg

Dotty Delight (a Golly Bar with chocolate sprinkles in the ice cream)

Used to live close to the old HB factory in Rathfarnham.

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By *rRiosMan
7 days ago

dublin

Super Splits were pretty good! Not sure if they’re still around

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By *enerationfornication OP Man
7 days ago

not far from

"Super Splits were pretty good! Not sure if they’re still around "

Closest Ive come to super splits are the aldi & dunnes version. Could do with more orange flavour though.

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By *razy-CplCouple
7 days ago

Cork

Gollyiwog ice cream

Mrs crazy

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By *lareandjonCouple
7 days ago

clare/limerick

"Chilly Willy..came in a few flavours🙈"
just about to post that one lol

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By *razySexyCoolCorkWoman
7 days ago

Cork

"Chilly Willy..came in a few flavours🙈just about to post that one lol"

Cola was my favourite.

I always have Mr. Freeze and Loop the Loops in my freezer.

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By *elanie De La CoeurTV/TS
7 days ago

Dublin

Kilimanjaro. Old skool HB line

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By *insBadMan
7 days ago

& around

We got sent to the shops for a block raspberry ripple and a packet of wafers on a Sunday. Whole lot cost £1.09.

Unless she (me Ma) sprung the Viennetta, then you knew it was a special occasion or one of us had done something to make her proud.

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
7 days ago

Lucan

The local shop used to sell a chunk from a block between two wafers. Good times.

The choc ice, which I always thought was overrated the super split, golly bar, iceberger, those were the staples in the seventies, from what I remember.

I was saddened by the demise of the golly bar. I'm sure they could've just changed the name but it probably wasn't trendy enough for the new tastes that were developing.

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By *agneyandhutchCouple
7 days ago

lucan

👆 The ice cream block and wafers! I've a longing on me now. I used to keep rotating the wafer while my tongue ran along the ice-cream and the sandwich would get narrower and narrower. That's on the weekend shopping list now.

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By *og-ManMan
7 days ago

somewhere

You couldn't beat the neopolitian ice cream with wafers

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By *ric_twingeMan
7 days ago

Portrush

"I really miss Fat frogs.

Twister will always be my number 1 though "

This is what I came to say. Twister #1. Also, Cola mr freeze, and sometimes your tongue was so cold you didn’t realise you sliced it on the plastic, trying to suck the life out of it

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
7 days ago

Lucan

"👆 The ice cream block and wafers! I've a longing on me now. I used to keep rotating the wafer while my tongue ran along the ice-cream and the sandwich would get narrower and narrower. That's on the weekend shopping list now. "

Squeezing the wafers as you rotate so it pushes out more ice cream... Nostalgia is hitting hard here!

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By *affa31Woman
7 days ago

Galway

Anyone else call Mr Freeze, cool pops?

Cola and blue ones were the best

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By *imbob100Man
7 days ago

carrick/boyle

They were amazing

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By *iscuits8Man
7 days ago

Dublin / Meath / Birmingham

"Anyone else call Mr Freeze, cool pops?"

YES

Always cool pops

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By *s LollyWoman
7 days ago

The pub then supermacs ...

Dracula

Brunch

Loop d Loop

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By *affa31Woman
7 days ago

Galway

"Anyone else call Mr Freeze, cool pops?

YES

Always cool pops"

🙌🏻

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By *ookAndDorkCouple
7 days ago

The West

"Anyone else call Mr Freeze, cool pops?

Cola and blue ones were the best "

We called them Frozen Drinks

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By *annyZ100Man
7 days ago

Limerick

The Dracula ones. Used to love them.

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By *insBadMan
7 days ago

& around

"Anyone else call Mr Freeze, cool pops?

Cola and blue ones were the best "

Called a Coola Pop where I grew up

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By *enny100Man
6 days ago

City

Loop the loop 😋

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By *hydubcplCouple
6 days ago

Dublin

Ah with the Communion money you’d get yourself a Sky Bar

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By *rRiosMan
6 days ago

dublin

"Anyone else call Mr Freeze, cool pops?

Cola and blue ones were the best

Called a Coola Pop where I grew up"

Vivid memory of getting offered an “ice lolly” by an English friend’s dad when I was a ween… the disappointment when I realized it was just a cool pop!

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By *ot neuteredMan
6 days ago

Kildare

The HB Dracula are still available in multipacks from supermarkets, I got one recently, the local shop used to sell wafers on a Sunday after mass, the block was divided into 4 or 8 equal sections and priced accordingly

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By *agneyandhutchCouple
6 days ago

lucan

They were cool pops for me. Suck the flavour out until you're left with an ice stick.The large ones were a bit too big and the plastic always cut the corners of your mouth.

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By *rCupidMan
6 days ago

Cavan

Fat Frog ice pop…

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By *iablo soloWoman
6 days ago

dub

A "thataway" which was a hand with a finger pointing and a Hiawatha which was an Indians heat! Both very similar in taste

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By *rsandthecameramanCouple
4 days ago

City

Hiawatha

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