Summertime Treats: Ice Pops
By Kareng
@kareng (80243)
United States
August 1, 2019 7:33am CST
Remember those things? We used to make them every day and usually out of Kool-Aid. Ice pops were a favorite treat.
Growing up in the south and in the era where you played outdoors during the day, an ice pop was a treasured treat back in the day. It tasted good and it helped cool you off.
We made these often if not daily and would rotate the flavors. I loved the blue raspberry flavor, cherry, and strawberry the best.
Do you remember making ice pops or did your mom make them for you as a kid?
Photo: Pixaby, public domain
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@Marilynda1225 (91013)
• United States
1 Aug 19
My mom made ice pops when we were kids and I'm sure it was probably Kool-Aid.
I still love ice pops but now I buy them in the supermarket. I'm fond of the sugar free Tropicals made by Popsicle.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
1 Aug 19
i remember back in the day mom came home from a neighbors Tupperware party with the popsicle kit, she won it at the party.
We made popsicle every day that summer!!!!
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
1 Aug 19
yes ma'am, didn't get many growin', but made tons fer my young'uns 'n their friends o'er the years. the eldest grands 're quite fond 'f 'em, too. so simple to make, so delightful'n the heat 'f summer.
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@kareng (80243)
• United States
2 Aug 19
@crazyhorseladycx and good for you. Can't beat that.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
2 Aug 19
@kareng very true :) most oft i made 'em with juices. watermelon 'n cantaloupe bein' fav's, lol.
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@kareng (80243)
• United States
1 Aug 19
When I lived in the country in my younger years, there was no ice cream truck. Then we moved to Baton Rouge and still no regular ice cream truck. Later, after moving we did have a truck that came into the subdivision. We usually had to chase him down though to get something.
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
1 Aug 19
I rreally have to stop having treats I am like a balloon
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@HazySue (39265)
• Gouverneur, New York
1 Aug 19
I used to make them for my girls. I used Kool-Aid, and juice ice pops for them. I have a couple of ice pops in the freezer right now made out of strawberries and bananas. I put them in the blender and added a touch of water and froze them.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
1 Aug 19
I never did ice pops. Just popsickles.
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@LindaOHio (222286)
• United States
1 Aug 19
I think I remember making those. But I also remember getting lemon ice from the ice cream man and big hunks of ice from the milk man's truck. Yes, I'm from the days of the milk man.
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@kareng (80243)
• United States
2 Aug 19
@LindaOHio Cool. We never made them that way.
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@LindaOHio (222286)
• United States
1 Aug 19
@kareng What I remember now was making ice pops in the ice cube trays with toothpicks in them. I knew we made ice pops; I just didn't remember how until now.
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