vanilla ice cream bars

[Dan Goncharoff]

You'll want to read this:

http://www.popsicle.com/article/detail/107647/all-about-popsicle-sicle-trademark-family

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On Oct 29, 2012, at 1:24 PM, "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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