Call for Contenders: The Popsicle Frodown

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03 Jul, 2009

Posted by: Gregory Ng: The Frozen Food Master

Well I have waited 8 long months for this weekend to come. I had made a self-imposed July 4th weekend date as the start of the popsicle (and other frozen stick treats) reviews. I plan on kicking it off with a Popsicle Frodown and I need your help for suggestions. What are your favorite frozen sticked treats?

Until then, enjoy this NKOTB classic

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1 | Patricia Beninato

July 3rd, 2009 at 12:31 pm

Dear God, the Jonas Brothers sound like Guns 'n' Roses compared to that!

I'm not a big popsicle fan, but you could always do the chocolate-coated vanilla ice cream on a stick Frodown.

2 | BearSilber

July 3rd, 2009 at 12:37 pm

Greg, popsicles suck (pun intended)!!!! It's all about ice cream sangwhiches.

…but since you altered it a little with the “favorite frozen sticked treat” I'd definitely got with a frozen banana dipped in chocolate rolled in Reese's bits!!!!! Mmmmmm.

3 | Alex

July 3rd, 2009 at 2:44 pm

Edey's has these awesome real fruit frozen “bars”. I've been eating them for so long that the syrup-sweet based 'sicles taste so fake to me I can't eat them.

http://www.edys.com/brand/fruitbars/index.asp?b...

4 | Alex

July 3rd, 2009 at 2:45 pm

*Edy's…

Sigh.

Sorry.

5 | meg

July 3rd, 2009 at 3:33 pm

When it comes to sticks, I go fruity. Edy's makes some very good fruit bars. They had a very good Mango..not sure if it still exists. If you want real, real fruit and nothing else, Whole Foods sells individual bars, not sure who makes them, but they come in all kinds of neat flavors.

6 | meg

July 3rd, 2009 at 3:34 pm

If we ever get to cones, you have gotta try the Skinny Cow's Vanilla-Caramel…oooooooh, heaven!

7 | celticheart

July 3rd, 2009 at 4:42 pm

If we are talking popsicles I'm with @Meg and @Alex! I love the Edy's Fruit Bars, my fave flavor is the coconut.
http://edys.com/brand/fruitbars/flavor.asp?b=13...
But if we are talking ice cream treats I love Haagen-Dazs Dark Chocolate Vanilla

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9 | paige

July 3rd, 2009 at 7:43 pm

Yep, I've gotta go with the Dreyer's (Edy's to you) fruit bars. My favorite is lemon. Tastes like frozen lemonade. Mmmmmm.

10 | julia

July 3rd, 2009 at 8:37 pm

Fudge bars! Yum.

or, as others have said, the fruity ones . I think the contenders need to be all of the same family, no?
OR, those fruity one with the cream center. Like creamsicles, but I've also seen them in raspberry. So good.

you could just do frodown after frodown!

11 | eric p

July 4th, 2009 at 5:56 am

Two words Greg, Bomb Pops! Accept no substitutes….well Popsicle brands calls them Fire Crackers now, but they are still the bomb!

12 | Pat

July 4th, 2009 at 7:53 pm

The best frozen treat had to be the original Popsicle in banana flavor (sadly no longer made)… the one I used to get when I was a kid when our old, retired neighbor Pete, would yell “Hey, bub, c'mere!”. (Every kid on the block was known as “Bub” to him.) He'd give you a nickel (this was a loooong time ago), and you'd go across the street to the neighborhood grocery and get a frozen treat on a hot summer day.

These days we almost always have Dove bars in our freezer — the Chocolate ice cream with Dark Chocolate variety.

13 | Nate

July 6th, 2009 at 1:47 am

Those banana popsicles were awesome. As kids my siblings and I would fight over those and the root beer ones (which I believe are also defunct).

14 | loserfairy

July 9th, 2009 at 4:00 pm

I don't even know if you can still buy these in the freezer section, but the old school popsicle brand twin pops!

15 | Echo710

July 12th, 2009 at 7:26 pm

I have to admit that my favorite frozen treat on a stick is probably a chocolate-covered frozen banana… but in terms of Popsicles and similar products, here's another vote for the Edy's fruit bars (favorite flavors are grape, strawberry, and coconut).

@eric p – I agree; Bomb Pops are a classic that should be included in this “Frodown”!

I also recommend Blue Bunny Banana Pops, but I don't know if these are available nationally or not (it may be just a Midwest thing):

http://www.bluebunny.com/Products/Family_Flavor...

16 | Echo710

July 12th, 2009 at 7:31 pm

According to this link, both of these products do indeed still exist:

http://www.icecreamusa.com/products/product.cfm...

17 | Echo710

July 12th, 2009 at 7:38 pm

And finally… if any frozen treat on a stick is fair game for this Frodown, there is just no disputing the greatness that is the almighty Pudding Pop:

http://www.icecreamusa.com/products/product.cfm...

Frozen pudding on a stick. I mean, how can you possibly beat that?