"choc ice", the British Oreo (TM)

[Laurence Horn]

On Oct 29, 2012, at 10:45 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:

> Good Humor calls it "Original Ice Cream on a Stick"
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> http://www.goodhumor.com/product/detail/114447/original-ice-cream-bar-good-humor
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> 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.
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> DanG

In the 50s we certainly called them "Good Humors" (NYC, Long Island), regardless of whether the products were sold by Good Humor or a competitor, and of whether there were other products (i.e. not "Good Humors", defined as below) purveyed by Good Humor.

LH
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> 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?
>>
>> Joel
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