"choc ice", the British Oreo (TM)

[Dan Goncharoff]

Good Humor calls it "Original Ice Cream on a Stick"

http://www.goodhumor.com/product/detail/114447/original-ice-cream-bar-good-humor

It's worth investigating the out-of-court settlement between Good Humor and
Popsicle in the 20s. Popsicle got the rights to ice and sherbert on a
stick; Good Humor retained the rights to ice cream.

DanG


On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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