It was just a packaging thing, supposed to keep the ice cream from melting down your hand while you held it on a stick. As you ate, you’d slide the tube down and push more ice cream out of the top.
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Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
The fuk, what’s wrong with a bowl, or ice cream cone? Who uses toilet paper rolls?
atocci@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Yeah I get the concept and all, I did have those pushpip candies the odd time. Same premise, I just thought someone took the icecream from the normal tubs/boxes, filled the liter toilet paper roll then refroze it. Didn’t suspect it was company mass produced things.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 years ago
You don’t know how hard we had it in the 80s, man.
cerement@slrpnk.net 2 years ago
can@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Cassettes are coming back
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Which is ridiculous because it’s really inarguable that between cassettes, CDs, vinyl and digital music, cassettes are by far the lowest quality. No amount of Dolby noise reduction is going to get rid of the hiss entirely either.
Zidane@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Hell yeah I’m ahead of the curve, my shit ass old ass car has a tape player already B^)
noxy@yiffit.net 2 years ago
Practical cassette winder tool which the added benefit of being able to write on paper AND erase that very same writing!
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
I need to see some branding on this thing…never once seen thing before. Maybe my parents were just more frugal with their money?
- born in 80s
Syd@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Push-pops are what I knew them as, they were everywhere. Gas stations, ice cream trucks, grocery stores, it’s crazy to me you’ve never seen them.
RudeOnTuesdays@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I don’t remember the brand, but I ate these all the time as a kid. I have the feeling they were cheap because my parents didn’t have any money.
Magister@lemmy.world 2 years ago
We called them “pousse-pousse” in France, it means “push-push”, because you had to push the plastic thing from the bottom to push ice cream up.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 years ago
There’s nothing like French pousse-pousse!
brlemworld@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Plastic didn’t always exist. Also it’s just a roll of cardboard, nothing to do with toilet.
simplejack@lemmy.world 2 years ago
To be fair, the plunger was plastic.
TimeNaan@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Plastic has existed since the mid-XXth century.
ColdWater@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Ice cream with paper coating taste better
TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I mean, they weren’t truly toilet paper rolls, just similar shape, size, and material. These were waxed on the inside to prevent them from dissolving once you put ice cream in them.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I think it is highly likely the ice cream manufacturer ordered the rolls from the same company making toilet paper rolls.
bitchkat@lemmy.world 2 years ago
The ones I had were always sherbet not regular ice cream.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Yes, mostly sherbet. But there was also a vanilla with chocolate sauce swirl version too.
PushUps was the brand name I remember.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Thought this was home made, not company made. Saw the Flintstones branding on other ones which explains why I never saw/had these. $$$$