What is your favorite ice cream novelty?
Popsicles of any kind are usually what I reach for, but hubby brought home some Diana's Bananas 'banana babies' the other day and OMG! I'm hooked!! They're little bananas dipped in either milk or dark chocolate, with or without nuts. What's your favorite cold treat?
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29 Comments:
Rainbow Dip N Dots! Or Klondike bars. Heath Bar Crunch Klondike bars.
embolini9 at 4:20PM on 05/26/09
Dove ice cream bars - the chocolate on chocolate ones.
tapioca at 4:21PM on 05/26/09
Diet popsicles and fudgesicles are my fallbacks, but it's hard for me, if I ignore calories, it's hard for me to decide between garden-variety ice cream sandwiches and good ol' Drumsticks, with the cone chewy. High-market options didn't exist when I was a kid (the sandwiches and drumsticks were high-market at a dime apiece!), so my options were limited. Least fave was vanilla ice cream coated with chocolate on a stick. I inevitably managed to get the chocolate on my clothes.
lemons at 4:21PM on 05/26/09
My favorites have always been the Strawberry Shortcake or Chocolate Eclair ice cream bars by Good Humor.
arm1970 at 4:27PM on 05/26/09
Does mochi ice cream count? It's two kinds of deliciousness rolled into one!
runnereater at 4:32PM on 05/26/09
This was my absolute favorite when I was still in Japan.
http://www.haagen-dazs.co.uk/collection/cream/Caramel.htm
I don't think they make it in the US! why!?
hmw0029 at 4:34PM on 05/26/09
Ice cream treats? Yes, please!!!
~ Paula
Paula Maack at 4:36PM on 05/26/09
It's Its -- the mint or cappucino versions
sfgoo at 4:38PM on 05/26/09
I love Edy's fruit bars, especially the Strawberry flavor. I also crave sherbet and Italian Ice...mmmmm... Wish I had some in the freezer right now!
mandoopandoo at 4:43PM on 05/26/09
DQ Fudge Nut Bars (also called Buster Bars) or Haagen Dasz Vanilla Almond Bars.
sarajane at 4:51PM on 05/26/09
I am with arm1970 on the shortcake and eclair bars. I would be ashamed to admit how many of those I was able to put away as a child! I have slightly more restraint now, but I still LOVE them!
I love rootbeer popsicles too.
sadiepix at 5:03PM on 05/26/09
Ever since I was a little kid, my father and I would have our "me" time and we would go to the local Dairy Queen, where he would get either a Peanut Buster Bar or a Peanut Buster Parfait, and I would always get a Dilly Bar. Still one of my favorites, if for no other reason than the memories.
Traveller at 5:24PM on 05/26/09
Does very cold Bailey's Irish Cream count?
No?
Well then just about anything on a chocolate-dipped waffle cone.
finewinendine at 6:18PM on 05/26/09
I like coconut FrozFruit. It reminds me of summers in the city and my dad would take me to the corner store and let me pick out some frozen treat. I invariably would get the FrozFruit.
laurelie at 6:31PM on 05/26/09
Chocolate Eclairs were one of my favorites as a kid. I was so disappointed when I found out a real chocolate eclair is a gnarly custard-pastry thing, and doesn't actually taste like the ice cream bar. Good Humor Cookies and Cream bars (I think they were marketed under Oreo's name) were also a favorite. Nestle Oreo ice cream sandwiches are also near the top of my list...way better than the Good Humor sandwiches since the ice cream had oreo flecks in it. Also the Reeses bars (no stick though) that tasted like Klondike bars with peanut butter ice cream were pretty good too.
cycorider at 6:59PM on 05/26/09
Your banana/chocolate thing made me think of Arrested Development...
I loved the Good Humor Bars (especially the chocolate eclair one) and FrozFruit (especially coconut or strawberry)
gingercookiewithlime at 7:09PM on 05/26/09
homemade tortoni.
pooch at 9:29PM on 05/26/09
I too am a fan of the frozen-chocolate-covered-banana (or, as I call them, "choco-naners"). Also Drumsticks... particularly with the caramel center. By the time I get down to that chocolate bit at the end of the cone, I'm convinced life can't get any better.
plaurel at 3:22AM on 05/27/09
@cycorider--eclairs? Gnarly? Good heavens, those were my favorite treat--the real ones, please!
As a kid--what treats DIDN'T I like, other than creamscicles, all were 'good'...
I'll mention the sundae cups, Jell-O pudding pops, and Klondike bars simply because they haven't been given 'props' yet. Also Flying Saucers and Friendly's ice cream sundaes....
HeartofGlass at 6:02AM on 05/27/09
When I was a kid, mom always gave us orange push-ups. Nowadays, I love fudge bars. My husband is obsessed with Dip-n-Dots.
CarrieBeth at 8:27AM on 05/27/09
Newport Creamery's Awful Awful (awful big awful good) they used to have a promo that if you drank 2 you got the third free I couldnt get through one, but they were yummy!
huneybumper at 8:31AM on 05/27/09
Vanilla Ice Cream topped with Apricot and Habanero Jelly. It has replaced my long time favorite of chocolate.
ArmadilloPepper at 10:21AM on 05/27/09
I was recently discussing with someone how much I loved Milky Way Dark ice cream bars in high school. I banned them from my memory for about a decade because I was so unbelievably addicted to them.
meem21 at 12:36PM on 05/28/09
@hmw0029, Do they sell those in the US? They look awesome!
eatinphila at 2:22PM on 05/28/09
@runnereater, how right you are. Personally, I'm not a huge ice cream fan but mochi ice cream? That's a totally different story.
When I was a kid I loved Creamsicle's. A delicious Orange Julius on a stick. Sort of.
chisai at 2:34PM on 05/28/09
Fudgesicles and Jello Pudding Pops!
radish at 3:18PM on 05/28/09
@eatinphila, unfortunately I can't find them in the US!! :(
they are sooooooo good. that airy crispy wafers with caramel coating & rich ice cream...heaven!
hmw0029 at 3:52PM on 05/28/09
I adore Choco-Tacos but they're hard to find. Someone told me that Taco Bell carries them, but I've never had the desire to step into the "Bell".
Josdean at 11:01AM on 05/29/09
Haagen-Daz vanilla ice cream on a stick, enrobed in dark chocolate and rolled in nuts - death to a Diabetic, but I do indulge about once/year, usually on a steamy, hot day visiting in South Carolina.
When I was a kid, my Dad used to take the five kids to Port Stanley, a beachside town on Lake Erie every day during his holidays - we couldn't afford a vacation - there were ice cream stands there that sold cones that were narrow and elongated and would fit two scoops of ice cream side by side and a third one on the top - they sold about 25 flavors - the cost was 25 cents and for $1.75, he had a treat for the entire family - I always remember him (he died in 1977) carrying one of my twin brothers under each arm because the sand was "too hot" for them to walk and my Mom and the rest of us trudging along behind to the water's edge, knowing that before we left we would get an ice-cream for the ride home. We never missed a "vacation" - we already thought we were in heaven!
bareneed at 11:21AM on 05/29/09