vanilla ice cream bars

[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/29/2012 11:05 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>On Oct 29, 2012, at 10:45 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>
> > 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
>
>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

Interesting.  For the same period in mainland NYC
(Bronx), I don't recall saying "I want a Good
Humor bar", rather "a vanilla popsicle".  (Or
"vanilla pop".)  Apparently I was misusing a
trademark.  But the trucks were definitely Good Humor's.

Joel

> >
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> >> Subject:      Re: "choc ice", the British Oreo (TM)
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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
> >>>
> >>> 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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