![]() ![]() Almost every brand has their take, but I have to give kudos to tried-and-true Popsicle, which is transitioning to natural colors without sacrificing saturation. Ice popsįlavored ice pops are available in a dizzying variety of flavors, from single flavor sticks to triple-banded Bomb Pops and their doppelgängers. Then obviously they’re five stars, and at the top of not just this list, but every list. Now what? Hold them in your sticky hands? Try to chew them and eat the ice pop at the same time? These are near the bottom of the barrel, unless you’re a kid and they have SpongeBob today. Those peepers are teeth-crackingly frozen solid of course, and you get to them before you finish the pop. I prefer the Popsicle brand to the ice cream vendor-exclusive Blue Bunny character pops, even though the latter seals the deal with gumball eyes. The drawing on the package will hook you, but the treat inside is often a pale imitation -the colors are faded and the details scant by comparison. They’re vaguely fruity and sherbet-like, with extremely fine ice crystals, as though someone froze and sliced a Slurpee. Made in the shapes of your favorite cartoon and comic characters (or rather in the shape of their heads), these are definitely popular with the knee-high crowd. On a scale of 1 to 10, snow cones go to 11 in a bad way, but I'd suggest using it for Italian soda instead. Not to be confused with uniformly flavored and finely textured raspados (Mexican shaved ice), snow cones are irretrievably busted, but if you feel you must indulge in the inferior crushed ice variety, Hawaiian Shaved Ice has a great flavor assortment for home use. The reality, though, was without fail a disappointment: faintly scented crushed ice on top, undiluted corn syrup at the bottom - the worst of both worlds. One of my fondest visual childhood memories is looking up at the row of snow cone syrups in every color, the light glittering through in the impromptu street cathedral of a sunny afternoon, a literal rainbow promise of any flavor I wanted. Woe is me, but I live to serve you, the reader.īetter stuff a napkin in the neck of your T-shirt! This definitive ranking of that bastion of childhood summers - ice cream truck treats - is going to get messy! 11. What is there to do but single-handedly try every item in the ice cream truck? Such a difficult job. The ice cream stars are aligning over the next three weeks: it’s Klondike’s 100th anniversary this year, National Bomb Pop Day is the last Thursday in June (the 30th this time around) and National Ice Cream Day is July 17.
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