Aye, the nights are fair drawing in! The leaves are turning red and yellow and there is a definite nip in the air first thing in the morning. So it's time to revisit the halcyon days of youth, when the school summer holidays seemed to last forever and all you needed to make hot day complete was an ice lolly. But not just any ice lolly!
There were so many good lollies to choose from. A Lord Toffingham, with its weird gooey soft toffee centre; a Fab with reddish-pink ice covering ice-cream, dotted with hundreds and thousands at the top; a Zoom, like a craft out of Stingray or Thunderbirds; a Lolly Gobble Choc-Bomb, with a strange waxy chocolate bar stuck in the centre that tasted a bit like dog chocolate (and yes I have tasted Bob Martin's finest dog drops!). But my favourite was a Count Dracula. A black ice lolly with a white ice cream centre which was covered in "blood-red jelly". Yeah, that certainly brought a chill to a hot summer's day!
What childhood ice lollies can you remember!
More pics of other ice lollies at: www.thoseweleftbehind.co.uk/2008/05/lord-toffingham-lollies-proof.html
And: http://cobwebbedroom.blogspot.com/2007/08/count-draculas-secret-ice-lolly-ads.html
Have fun!
3 comments:
Count Draculas, I'd forgot about them. they were great.
A frozen jubilee took some beating. Once the flavour was sooked out, the pale lump of ice could be launched through the darkness of the Odeon during the "Super Saturday Show" hitting some poor unwitting sap on the back of the head.
"Easy Easy Easy!!!"
I remeber those star shaped things we used to make out of 5 ice lolly sticks and then throw at the screen.
They might get a feature in lost weapons soon.
What about a Black hole or a Fab. It was never a good idea to ask for a black hole in an Asian shop though sounds a bit racist if you are not careful!!
Chilly Choc.
If i rememeber it was just like a Feast without the nuts.
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