What are those things called....?

[Dougella]

The long tubes of coloured ice that you have as kids? What do you call them? I always thought they were called ice-pops but someone told me they call them ice poles and now my mind is blown!


What's the answer?

[Professor Willow]

I always knew them as Ice Pops.

[Appear]

'Ice pole' when I lived down south.

'Ice pole' when I lived up north in defiance of everyone else who called them 'ice pop, southern wanker'.

[Jen.]

Iced poppies.

[Quietman]

calippo

[genovese]

Popsicles in America. Ice pops here.

[Dougella]

Originally Posted by Quietman

calippo

Ooh, a brand name one there. I used to like those.

[Quietman]

^ I remember my sister getting them from the ice cream van/post office 15 to 16 years ago, I feel so old saying that.

[anxiouslondoner]

freeze-pops?
(that's the first name I recall)
low temperature juice cylinders
frosted flavour tubes
thermally reduced elongated beverage lozenges

[neilm]

Iceicles, or Ice Poles, where what I called them as a kid (that was over 40 years ago though)

[Consolida]

Popsicles or Ice lollies.

I remember my mum pouring lemon/orange squash into Tupperware cylinders with a plastic stick and putting them in the freezer for me when I was a child. I was never that fussed about lollies, especially homemade ones, and much preferred the screwballs with the bubblegum at the bottom that I'd get from the ice cream van. Happy days...

[Dougella]

^^ I'm from the south and I'd never heard the term ice pole until last week! I'm from Wiltshire though, we do have some odd quirks, just ask someone from there how to pronounce the word Primark

[Consolida]

^ I'm a southerner too and I've never heard of ice poles

[Percy]

Originally Posted by Dougella

^^ I'm from the south and I'd never heard the term ice pole until last week! I'm from Wiltshire though, we do have some odd quirks, just ask someone from there how to pronounce the word Primark

Oh you're not that far from me.

[biscuits]

Originally Posted by anxiouslondoner

freeze-pops?
(that's the first name I recall)
low temperature juice cylinders
frosted flavour tubes
thermally reduced elongated beverage lozenges

Woah, yeah! freeze pops was the brand name ones. We used to get single ones from the corner shop for 10p or something! We always called them ice pops.

I had one the other day and they just don't give the same ten-out-of-ten buzz as the e-number ladened ones of yesteryear.

[Merritt]

They were ice poles here in the midlands. 'Ice pop' would have sounded too American.

Did they actually have a proper way to open them, or did everyone just bite off the top of the plastic? Maybe it was a schoolboy trying to look hard thing, like how we used to drink those plastic cartons of orange by turning them upside down and biting off a corner so you could squeeze a jet of it into your gob.

[biscuits]

^ you animal!

We'd mainly buy and eat them in places where we were scissorless, so I remember tearing the top off with my teeth. Sometimes I would snap them in half and enjoy two of them.

[Appear]

Originally Posted by Merritt

They were ice poles here in the midlands. 'Ice pop' would have sounded too American.

Oh my gosh. This suggests midlands-based variation. I lived in West Mids (I know - not technically the north) and it was pop. And 'mom'. So clearly not so concerned with Americanisms out West.

Originally Posted by anxiouslondoner

thermally reduced elongated beverage lozenges

I'd buy them for the name alone if they were called this.

[biscuits]

^ I'm in East Anglia aka no-man's land. The Midlands don't want us, the southerners don't want us. We belong to no man. It's a ice pole-pop lawless place.

Edit: whoops, sorry - you and Dean were posting time twins and were talking to Merrit.

[Appear]

^ You might not belong, but no one can refuse to acknowledge your West Midlands ice-pole-pop sensibility.

[3stacks]

Tip tops

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[anxiouslondoner]

I grew up in the Midlands, on the heavily fortified border between East and West Mids, and I don't believe I ever once heard the phrase 'ice pole' used. I definitely remember the things in question though.
Refrigeration-dependent circular extrusions of flavoursome water in its solid phase.

[Sunrise]

Originally Posted by Quietman

calippo

There was Jublee as well, which was like a weird triangle shape. I believe the Queen is a fan of them?

[biscuits]

^ they're still about and Calippos are too

[Tonkin]

Ice poles but there are brand names. I think there was one called Ice Berg. Mr Freeze was the local brand when I was young.

They seem to call them freeze pops

https://mr-freezepops.co.uk/

I think they were 10p back in the day. Probably £2 now.

[choirgirl]

Calippo man. Ah there's a childhood memory right there. Perched on a bar stool eating a Calippo.

[biscuits]

^ that's throwing down the gauntlet, Nanuq

Cola ones were good actually. There would only be like one in a multipack.

The strawberry ones were always the worst. You knew your friend's mum didn't want you back in her house ever again if you got handed a strawberry one.

[anewyear]

Southern wanker here.

Ice pops.
Mr Freeze.

And definitely the cola ones were best

[Quietman]

The orange flavoured ones were good.

[Mo34]

I honestly can't truly recall what I called them as a kid
I think ice pop. Ice pole doesn't ring true - it's the sort of thing that sounds like my mum though. Which is possibly where I'm getting confused.
Like growing up it was an ice cream cone (to me) but for my mum it was 'poke' or 'poke of ice cream'.

Cola definitely