Summer Novelty Treats Ranked

[Anonymous]

The classic Popsicle

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Red white and blue bomb pops are classic

Love those. Especially the white layer, which is like frozen 7-Up.

The first summer I spent in my college town, I discovered Dove Bars. I used to eat 2 of them a day, and they were much bigger back then!

[Anonymous]

Hard to beat a Coke slurpie from 7-11 after a Little League game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am here for this very important and nuanced debate. While taste is of course the most important factor, one must also consider durability and repeatability.

Durability - If it's super hot or you're out in the sun, push-ups are the best, being somewhat self contained. Popsicles also melt a little more slowly. Ice cream sandwiches, while earning top points for taste, score very in this category.

Repeatability - how many can you/ do you want to eat? One Klondike bar is too much. I mean, you're going to finish it anyway, but those things are massive and messy and you're kind of disgusted with yourself by the end. Smaller items are preferable here, because "just one more" doesn't feel bad when you're eating small items. Plus, each new one is frozen, so less dripping. Mini drumsticks win this category.

And taste - ice cream sandwiches, of course. And no need to get fancy. The box of 20 for $6 is bomb.

Well said. The push-up is so underrated - definitely contains the treat, and most importantly, keeps your hands from getting sticky. I love an ice cream sandwich, but not the gross chocolate residue left on my hands.

And repeatability is huge. I just bought a box of Snickers ice cream bars because I was craving one, and they've been sitting in my freezer since.

[Anonymous]

Coke Icey from 7-11

Orange push ups at the pool

Red white and blue bomb pops from the ice cream truck

Chik Fil A diet lemonade-ice cream

[Anonymous]

Orange creamsicle
Otter pops (I loved getting down to the last bit of thawed juice and sucking it out of the tube - this is truly the only frozen novelty that is just as good as it melts)
Root beer float
Hawaiian shave ice

[Anonymous]

Häagen-Dazs chocolate almond vanilla ice cream bars. Good vanilla ice cream, nutty good chocolate coating. Not too big.

I was having a conversation with my husband one night and got my evening bar out of the freezer to eat while we talked. Except when I started eating it, I noticed he wasn’t really talking and he said, “I’ll wait. You’re so distracted when you’re eating one of those, it’s not really worth it.”

And I realized he is right. I get VERY into my Häagen-Dazs ice cream bars. The chocolate needs to be eaten exactly at the right time, bitten off in the right place, sort of from the sides, so as not to lose a shard, or drop it on your lap, and so that you have a little left for the last bit of ice cream. I realize I am very very focused, eating a Häagen-Dazs bar. 😆

[Anonymous]

DQ all the way. Peanut Buster Parfait, M&M Blizzard, Dilly Bar, Mr. Misty, in that order.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone else remember the Tupperware popsicle molds to make popsicles out of Kool-Aid?

[Anonymous]

Still miss Jell-O Pudding Pops.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else remember the Tupperware popsicle molds to make popsicles out of Kool-Aid?

I remember chewing on the sticks for sure. I'm sure my mom despaired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else remember the Tupperware popsicle molds to make popsicles out of Kool-Aid?

Oh heck yeah! I still have mine and my kids still like to do that every summer.

[Anonymous]

Coming in for the sole and VERY important purpose of representing Its Its and Otter Pops.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Coke Icey from 7-11

Orange push ups at the pool

Red white and blue bomb pops from the ice cream truck

Chik Fil A diet lemonade-ice cream

Chick Fil A's Peach Frosted Lemonade is divine. 10/10 Perfect balance of real peaches, lemony creaminess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DQ Blizzard, every member of the family likes different things, but it's definitely a summer road trip thing for us

I need to hunt down a DQ. Haven't had one of these in ages.

Rockville & Germantown for MoCo