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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think anyone under the age of 45 would associate him with pudding pops. There are a lot of pops out there now including outshine, yazo, etc., so maybe they feel the pop market is saturated. I also bet they are tricky to transport and since so many cheaper brands have moved production to foreign countries, they may not find it cost effective to ship something that needs to have special refrigeration.

Gonna have to revise that further down. I’m 42 and I remember those commercials (and the thin ice! Good memory, PP!) very well.

Those strawberry ones were something else.

Same and I just turned 40! I never liked the strawberry ones though.

I am 45 and remember Cosby was the spokesperson, but most of my memories are just about childhood greatness. I wish they would bring them back.

Same. I recently stumbled across a re-issue of the scratch and sniff stickers I collected in ES. Why not these? There’s clearly a nostalgia market.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think anyone under the age of 45 would associate him with pudding pops. There are a lot of pops out there now including outshine, yazo, etc., so maybe they feel the pop market is saturated. I also bet they are tricky to transport and since so many cheaper brands have moved production to foreign countries, they may not find it cost effective to ship something that needs to have special refrigeration.

Gonna have to revise that further down. I’m 42 and I remember those commercials (and the thin ice! Good memory, PP!) very well.

Those strawberry ones were something else.

Same and I just turned 40! I never liked the strawberry ones though.

I am 45 and remember Cosby was the spokesperson, but most of my memories are just about childhood greatness. I wish they would bring them back.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think anyone under the age of 45 would associate him with pudding pops. There are a lot of pops out there now including outshine, yazo, etc., so maybe they feel the pop market is saturated. I also bet they are tricky to transport and since so many cheaper brands have moved production to foreign countries, they may not find it cost effective to ship something that needs to have special refrigeration.

Gonna have to revise that further down. I’m 42 and I remember those commercials (and the thin ice! Good memory, PP!) very well.

Those strawberry ones were something else.

I'm 32 and while I don't really remember the product, I definitely associate them with Bill Cosby and can't hear the words pudding pop without hearing his voice.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think anyone under the age of 45 would associate him with pudding pops. There are a lot of pops out there now including outshine, yazo, etc., so maybe they feel the pop market is saturated. I also bet they are tricky to transport and since so many cheaper brands have moved production to foreign countries, they may not find it cost effective to ship something that needs to have special refrigeration.

Gonna have to revise that further down. I’m 42 and I remember those commercials (and the thin ice! Good memory, PP!) very well.

Those strawberry ones were something else.

Same and I just turned 40! I never liked the strawberry ones though.

Anonymous wrote:For the person who has made them, do you have a specific recipe you use (and does it create that coat of ice we all seem to feel nostalgic for)?

Not the PP, but I just made fudgsicles the other day they taste more like pudding pops! Really easy.

https://www.chocolatemoosey.com/homemade-fudgesicles/

Anonymous wrote:They probably couldn't maintain their shelf space. Jello is Kraft. They dominate other aisles but not the freezer section. I'll bet people stopped buying during the Cosby scandal and they got pushed out of the case in favor of stronger brands, companies and better sellers.

Kind of, but not quite. Jello was made by General Foods, which merged with Kraft in 1990. Pudding Pops were first discontinued in the 1990s, which was before the Cosby scandal broke. (Cosby was the face of Jello through the 1990s and also pitched Jello online in 2010.)

Popsicle bought the rights to pudding pops and relaunched them in 2004, but with a different shape and supposedly a different recicipe and sales slumped.