There's much to please the ice cream nostalgic on the net, not least those confections licenced to Gerry Anderson TV shows like FAB, Super Sea Jets, Orbit, Space 1999, Sky Ray and ZOOM.
Less well-known ice creams from the swinging Sixties can also be found. I used to love the milky Haunted House and the chocolate filled Lolly Gobble Choc Bomb. Don't remember Luv, Crime Squad or Captain Rainbow. Do you?
Cornet was fave of mine too, a block of vanilla ice-cream stood in a T shaped cornet. Woppa and Heart were delicious, as was the minty Tiger Mint. Don't recall Wiz though!
Happy Faces were fun, as were Choc Top Woppa. Kinky was an absolute favourite and looking at Big Wiz I'm wondering if the centre was butterscotch, which rings a taste bell.
Which ice creams did you like in your country?
Firstly, I am stunned by the huge range of icecreams available in Britain, nothing like that selection in New Zealand that I can recall. There was a Joe 90 one in NZ, but I do not think it was the same as the British Joe 90 ? It was a long time ago, and I do not recall exactly what it was. There was a Skippy icecream, for the Australian TV series about a small bush kangaroo. I do not remember any icecreams with pictures printed on them at all. Why is FAB only for girls ?
ReplyDeleteI loved Skippy. Don't recall an ice cream. I suppose FAB was part of Lady Penelope's domain and therefore girl oriented Paul. It's still going!
DeleteI remember these ice lollies from the days before I emigrated to Australia!
ReplyDeleteAs Paul says, nothing really comparable for us lower hemisphere blokes!
There was an amusing ice called Bubble O Bill which was a cartoonish Cowboy face complete with Stetson hat and a round gob-stopper bubble gum ball for his nose!
I'm intrigued to see the Lyons Maid sign which still advertises Sea Jets (a hold over from the Stingray days, but now featuring Scott Tracy, with Thunderbirds Zoom now being hosted by Joe 90!
I guess those Tracy Boys just took over Looey. Sky Ray was good for mail away gifts like the map and jacket.
DeleteThe original Zoom was produced with Fireball XL5 advertising. Can any of you remember if it had an ice cream centre, or was it solely ice lolly? Certainly the modern ones are just lollies, but I do remember Zoom as lolly exterior and ice cream middle. Crunching through the icy exterior to the slighty softer, creamy interior.....yumyumyum.
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Hmm. I just can't focus my taste memory enough to know A Nony Mous sorry. I bet it's explained somewhere on the web.
DeleteThose illustrations of delicious ice cream are so mouth-watering - all those pretty colors!
ReplyDeleteWonderful TV tie ins. We lapped it up Zigg!
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