"choc ice", the British Oreo (TM)

[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/28/2012 09:40 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> > an ice cream bar that is dark on the outside, white on the inside
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>An Eskimo Pie®? That is, if the bar is on a stick and essentially
>non-distinct from a Dove Bar®.

Well, I was eating them under the nomenclature
"vanilla popsicle [perhaps no longer ®-able]",
not Eskimo Pie®.  And Dove Bars® came later.

If anyone ate them in NYC in the '40s or '50s and
used a different name than mine, I would be grateful to hear.  Alice?

Joel

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