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[cybermule]

Ice lollies. Bloody marvellous :D

Not so much a dull life as an appreciation of the little things :)

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[psilobabe.livejournal.com]

what flavour??

my favourite is cherry brandy or a good cider lolly is a close second!

[0ct0pus.livejournal.com]

Ice lollies where?? where where where???

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Blackcurrant. I love both those flavours, though, especially the cheery brandy. You'd like Winstone's icecream - they do both!

[psilobabe.livejournal.com]

mmmmmmm ice cream, now you're talking my mate in Pembrokeshire with the ice cream van has the tastiest rum and raisin and the loveliest toffee fudge ice cream eva!!

[0ct0pus.livejournal.com]

It's not "Mr Creemy", is it? I remember their rum & raisin from the van - used to play "we'll keep a welcome in the hillsides" as it cantered from valley to valley. Ah happy days!

[psilobabe.livejournal.com]

It is indeed mr creemy although the van belongs to my mates and it does'nt have a jingle jangle tune!! wow fancy you knowing that!! the mango sorbet is also heavenly!!

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Calvados lollies. With the middles still squishy.

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Mango sorbet is always heavenly - it has no equal here on earth. Well, maybe one or two ;) But not in the world of frozen desserts.

[cleverkat.livejournal.com]

What is an ice lolly? Obviously we don't have them in the US, so I'm very curious. They sound delicious though, and I'm convinced I'm missing out.

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Haven't tried them. Are they like those dairy splits, with the fruit around icecream idea?

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Oh you probably do have them. They're just frozen fruit-flavoured water on a wooden stick. I'm not entirely convinced I know the correct US-term though.

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

The last thing you seem to need is more sugar :)

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

You know, I've always been faintly dubious about ice-cream vans. And that image really hasn't helped :P

[aras-55555.livejournal.com]

Popsicle :)

[cleverkat.livejournal.com]

Okay, yeah. It's a popsicle. Except that I've never seen a cherry brandy or a cider flavor here. Those sound yummy. It's usually orange, cherry or grape, and sometimes some sort of berry, lemon-lime, banana or oddly enough, rootbeer.

Re: Eye scream

[kidkarrot.livejournal.com]

We don't yet allow liqour in our ice cream flavors, so that would be a new revolution in the US. However, Satan has generously made up for that lack of divine intervention with Coldstones. May the drooling never abate.

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Thank you :)

Re: Eye scream

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

To be fair, I'm not sure how much rum there actually is in our rum and raisin flavour. But American ice-cream is damn fine ice-cream :P

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Blech. Rootbeer :( Seems that the English make up in ice-lollies what we lose in the ice-cream wars. I'm not sure that that makes me feel good or patriotic or anything ;(

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Calvados is Normandy apple brandy. According to those who know, the best stuff is made by freeze distillation from cider.

If you try freezing calvados, or repeat freezing good cider (don't it with try the rough stuff), then you can make an apple juice lolly around a core of antifreeze. Like good vodka, this should be drunk cold enough to still be viscous.

Doing it in shot glass moulds works too.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Rootbeer. It's made from roots, yes?

So are turnips.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

FOAF once had a job driving an ice cream van onto the sands (at Tenby ?). On arrival he'd assemble the freezy-squirt machine he'd stripped and washed out the night before, then set to serving up those '99s.

One day he realised he'd arrived without the tube of food-grade nozzle assembly lubricant. He tried without, but Part A just didn't want to know about Part B. What to do?

It was too far to drive back to the office, and he'd cop an earful from the boss for losing a morning's sales. What did he have with him that would do the job?

He found the First Aid kit. In there was a tube of Germolene. It was sort of greasy, and it surely couldn't be poisonous. So he gave it a go, and sure enough the machine went together.

First cornet. Basically, well, pink. And tasting strongly of sunburn cream. Pull a few more through the nozzle.

After a quart or two, they'd lost the colour a bit and didn't really smell of ointment any more, but the taste was still distinctly weird. There was nothing to be done though, other than to be insistent and generous with the strawberry syrup.

At the end of the day, the ice cream still tasted medicinal. But the British day-tripper, stoical as ever, hadn't made a single complaint all day. Truly we'll eat anything if we're on holiday. Especially if it plays Greensleeves at us.

[amiga500.livejournal.com]

I just had a 'tropical' flavour one that was really good. It's some 'whole fruit' thing that actually is reasonably accurately named. There are more of this variety (in peach) in the freezer, and some of those red-blue-white rocket things, too. But I atill think Brit food is more interesting than American food, especially when it's frozen. I miss Marks & Spencers raspberry pavlovas.

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Heheh - thanks. You're a mine of useful alcoholic information. Don't think I'll be trying it with the farmshop stuff, though :)

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Heheh - you're right, very British. Mustn't complain and all that ;)