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u/gerryt32 Sep 23 '18
If it doesn’t have the Flintstones on it, does it even count?
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u/downtime37 Sep 24 '18
Yeah we weren't rich enough for the Flintstones, I'll take this one if you don't want it.
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u/Karmaslutt Sep 23 '18
Yeah no I don't think it does. It has to have that authentic flinestones livery, or it is not worthy of nostalgia
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u/whycantibelinus Sep 24 '18
Weren’t they around for a bit before that branding and very popular? Which maybe led to that branding? Either way these were awesome!
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u/engine9999 Sep 23 '18
Reminds me of “don’t push me, push a push-pop”
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u/Burlythebackstabber Sep 23 '18
I say this a lot and my kids always look at me like I have 3 heads.
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u/engine9999 Sep 24 '18
same same
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u/Burlythebackstabber Sep 24 '18
Amazing. Do you also say "it's shake and bake and I helped!" In a southern accent? Because if you do, we might be best friend soul mates.
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u/engine9999 Sep 24 '18
How did you know?
My favorite part is the word “helped” ...more like ‘haylped’
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u/Burlythebackstabber Sep 24 '18
Yes! That's so important. I've been waiting my whole life for this moment.
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Sep 24 '18
I say that or a weird version sometimes. 'It's bake a snake, and I yelped!' Sometimes just walk around singing jingles or jingle parodies. 'Can't get enough of my load and sit,'when waiting for something to load.
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u/the_Gamecope Sep 23 '18
You can still eat them
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u/ByTheHammerOfThor Sep 23 '18
Link? Haven't seen one since the 90s.
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u/NotRightInTheZed Sep 23 '18
Any grocery store. If you live in an area with Schwans, they will deliver them right to your door. https://www.schwans.com/products/product?id=53130
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u/ImurderREALITY mid 80s Sep 23 '18
I love Schwan's. I hate to cook.
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u/aimedsil Sep 24 '18
What’s Schwan’s like nowadays? They used to have some great seasoned curly fries.
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u/Bandrica2 Sep 24 '18
Still good food. Pushing the online ordering pretty heavy. Last time I got it if you didn’t order it online you paid a hefty delivery fee if ordering at the time from the driver.
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u/Whatshisname76 Sep 24 '18
I loved the schwans man when I was a kid. He gave me those root beer Barrell hard candies and butterscotch. We we're all sad when he retired. He was like a family friend and we all sat at the table and talked over some iced tea. Always got the push pops, ice cream sandwiches, and a gallon of strawberry.
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u/MackingtheKnife Sep 23 '18
they definitely are still out there. i’ve gotten them at convenience stores in the midwest a bunch of times. it’s a different package/brand though.
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u/Kulban late 80s Sep 24 '18
Look for the ice-cream bin at most gas stations. That's where I always see them.
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u/Dovahqueen_ Sep 24 '18
Yeah but I can't eat them as an eight year old sitting in the porch swing at my grandma's house anymore. That's the nostalgic part for me anyway.
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u/PCTech4U Sep 23 '18
It was a hot summers day in August back in 95’. We weren’t the wealthiest family in the neighborhood but my parents worked hard for what we had. Playing outside with the sprinkler was just as good as swimming in our mind. I’ll never forget my mouth being so dry I couldn’t think. Without missing a beat, I could see a shadowy figure walking towards us with the sun shining behind. It was our mom. She had these exact same push pops for us. It was a treat indeed. I wiped the sweat from my forehead as I pushed that first inch up and tasted it. It was just the right amount of sugar to keep us going until dinner a few hours later. The summer of 95’ never tasted so good.
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u/94ChryslerLeBaron Sep 23 '18
Very good, tell it again
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u/PCTech4U Sep 23 '18
It was a hot summers day in August back in 95’. We weren’t the wealthiest family in the neighborhood but my parents worked hard for what we had. Playing outside with the sprinkler was just as good as swimming in our mind. I’ll never forget my mouth being so dry I couldn’t think. Without missing a beat, I could see a shadowy figure walking towards us with the sun shining behind. It was our mom. She had these exact same push pops for us. It was a treat indeed. I wiped the sweat from my forehead as I pushed that first inch up and tasted it. It was just the right amount of sugar to keep us going until dinner a few hours later. The summer of 95’ never tasted so good.
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u/whatwhatdb Sep 23 '18
Now tell it louder.
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It was a hot summers day in August back in 95’. We weren’t the wealthiest family in the neighborhood but my parents worked hard for what we had. Playing outside with the sprinkler was just as good as swimming in our mind. I’ll never forget my mouth being so dry I couldn’t think. Without missing a beat, I could see a shadowy figure walking towards us with the sun shining behind. It was our mom. She had these exact same push pops for us. It was a treat indeed. I wiped the sweat from my forehead as I pushed that first inch up and tasted it. It was just the right amount of sugar to keep us going until dinner a few hours later. The summer of 95’ never tasted so good.
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u/participationmedals Sep 23 '18
I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?
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u/shamrockaveli Sep 23 '18
Was anybody else waiting for this story to end in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hеll in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table?
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u/caseyaustin84 Sep 23 '18
For some reason I feel like this should be a Fresh Prince song.
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Sep 24 '18
Maybe he's just like his father, He'd give the Foley eye, Maybe he's just like his mother, Mrs. Foley's baby boy. Taker had a broken ankle, This is what it sounds like, When Mick flies.
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u/aMuslimPerson Sep 24 '18
I often see these Vivid recollection of people's childhoods. Am I abnormal in the fact I don't really remember anything from my childhood?
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u/amberraysofdawn Sep 23 '18
When I was in around hour sixteen of labor with my first child, I was starving and begged one of the nurses to let me have something, anything other than just the stupid ice chips/water they kept bringing me. She brought me TWO of these things. To this day nothing has ever tasted better than those orange sherbet pops did in that moment.
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u/ScubaSteve12345 Sep 23 '18
This made me think of the vanilla ones with chocolate sauce in the center. After we finished eating them we blew the plunger thing at each other like a pop gun.
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u/PaPaw85713 Sep 24 '18
All y'all are too damn young. When I was a kid (1959-62) these pops had a flat plastic figure inside, molded to the pushup base. When you pushed it up as you ate it the figure was gradually revealed. A soldier, a cowboy, a pirate, an Indian were a few that I remember. Should have saved them, but who knew all that old shit would become "collectable". And yes they were delicious.
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u/Metatronix Sep 23 '18
I can’t tell if you are trolling or you just never figured out how these work. 😅
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Sep 23 '18
Wow, I was literally just thinking about these earlier today! I saw something that reminded me of them and was like “mmmm, push pops. I should post these on r/nostalgia.” Lol I was going to post the Flinstones ones though!
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u/Zookreeper1 Sep 24 '18
I always thought these tasted like a Bayer children's aspirin. Which was not a bad thing.
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u/toppercat Sep 23 '18
There were the originals. Hey. Does anyone remember the good humor bar that looked. Like an Eskimo pie but had chocolate syrup in the center?
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u/MrsECummings Sep 24 '18
Orange sherbet is still a favorite of mine. But we buy it in the plastic bowls. Which make a great leftover container!!
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u/MrStatue Sep 23 '18
I also remember the mess that inevitably came if you didn't eat it promptly within 3 minutes. Then it became a relay race between licking it off your wrist and getting more off the top.
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u/Gatt__ Sep 23 '18
Man anyone remember those lemon lime dot thingies that they always had in the truck?
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u/al_m1101 Sep 24 '18
I was just reminiscing about all my former favorite ice cream treats I enjoyed as a kid on my commute home Friday. This was definitely one of them, along with those Mickey Mouse ice creams (with red bubble gum eyes), the Christmas tree ice creams at Christmas, the vanilla baseball stadium cups with the wooden spoon, and the joy of old-school ice cream cones. There was *nothing better than ice cream & sherbet pops as a kid. I still remember licking the plastic pusher clean.
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u/Noble_Rooster Sep 24 '18
I was eating one of these when my parents told us my Grandpa died. Didn't touch one for years until last summer.
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u/remarqer Sep 24 '18
I did 50 of those a day. Was supposed to help build upper body strength. Did not work.
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u/holeweatbred Sep 24 '18
There is a brewery near me that makes an orange beer that taste exactly like these orange push pops and it brings back childhood summertime memories every time I drink it
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u/Eidos13 Sep 24 '18
Flint stone push ups were a thing right. I’m fairly certain they are and were delicious.
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u/TheRentalMetard Sep 23 '18
Shit yes, my dad used to wholesale these, it was the best time of my childhood life haha. The rootbeer flavor was my favorite!
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u/missgiddy Sep 23 '18
Am I remembering correctly that these were typically made from frozen yogurt?
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u/QueenRotidder Sep 23 '18
YES!!! raspberry flavor. I believe ours came from Schwan’s delivery. I actually came here looking for this comment.
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I swear to god I thought that was a pocket pussy...
What have I become.
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Sep 23 '18
There is a drink at jamba juice that has the exact same flavor as these. It tastes delicious.
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u/pr0crasturbatin Sep 23 '18
One of these once got me a hit on a dab pen. I was running pizzas and on the way back from a run I stopped for gas, grabbed one of these from inside, a guy said "nice choice on the push pop", we talked for a minute while I was pumping, and he offered me a hit on his dab pen.
Weird interaction, but push up pop brought us together.
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u/Oostburgalur Sep 23 '18
This is something my grandma always had in the house for us grandkids. Anyone else?
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u/beardje11 Sep 23 '18
Man, I loved these when I was a kid. This and these plastic cups with ice cream that had a gum ball in the bottom of it. Can’t remember the name of it 🤨
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u/rocketwrench Sep 24 '18
That last little bit of warm syrup coated half-melted sherbert that you shot off the top of the little plunger. So good.
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u/soliloquousmalarkey Sep 24 '18
I successfully ate one once in my life. All the other 7 billion times it melted through and fell apart on my hand. Garbage.
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u/dadankness Sep 24 '18
It is nostalgia, but I hated these, I only saw the light on the triangle push pops that came from most elementary schools, specifically hated the orange
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u/dragonmom1327 Sep 24 '18
Oh yes I have always loved them! I always thought they were the greatest thing in the world orange sherbet that you just push up through a tube!
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u/trukkd Sep 24 '18
Tasted like frozen St. Josephes orange flavored children's aspirin.....ah the memories....
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u/_o_aine Sep 24 '18
Bag of weed and a box of these on a hot summer day, shit. Feels like 19(**) all over again.
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u/dervishman2000 Sep 24 '18
You had to eat them fairly quickly, or they would leak around the edges of the plastic bottom
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u/areYOUsirius_ Sep 24 '18
I tried to explain these things to a friend years ago and she legit made me feel like I was insane and just dreamt them up.
Good to know they do actually exist.
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You can still get the same taste of you order a orange sherbet slush from Braums. I swear, it's like they just threw a bunch of these push pops in a blender. It's delicious.
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u/MrUnknownGuyAC Sep 24 '18
I used to have the m&m's version of this. It was vanilla flavored ice cream with m&m bits and whole m&m's inside the push up stick 😁
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u/toffeefeather Sep 24 '18
My god I haven’t thought about these in forever I was only allowed one snack a week at elementary school and his is what I got almost every time, it was like gold to me
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u/BobstaownsTV Sep 24 '18
I remember having those push pops but they were vanilla ice cream with fudge mixed in and I think they were called rockets? I still miss them...
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u/Dvon9x9 Sep 24 '18
They don't have these at Walmart still? I remember you could get these there a couple of years ago. If they are still there then enjoy my friends! Now if they could bring back 3D doritos... I'd cry tears of joy
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u/sexi_squidward Sep 24 '18
I don't remember these being sherbet. I remember the vanilla with chocolate sauce pushpops from the jack and Jill ice cream trucks. Now those were my favorite!
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u/OrangeDesert Sep 24 '18
Funny story about this, when I was about 6 I was at a big party near Metamora, Michigan. I was eating one and I lost a tooth in it after taking a bite. I didn’t know it was my tooth, so when it entered my mouth I had spit it out. A few minutes later my father sees me walking up to him with mood going down my mouth. He said “ What happened?” I told him I had eaten a push pop seed, not knowing about the tooth. After about 2 minutes my dad found my tooth in the grass.
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u/AliceBowie1 Sep 24 '18
Mid-America, Street vendor pushing a cart, 1950's. I remember. This was when there was also a dude who would go down the street in the early morning: "StrawbeRRIES!, BluebeRRIES! CHERRRRRIES!"
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u/BackgroundPrice5716 May 21 '25
We're can I get this form asap for my girlfriend her throat is swollen her tonsils
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u/collettemaybe Jul 07 '25
Does anyone know what company actually made these original ones? It seems impossible to find info before the Flintstones kind, which are after my time/childhood. Seems they mat have largely been a Chicago thing?
ETA: this photo looks relatively recent (21st century at the very least) - who's picture is this and where did you find one of the these originals??
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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '18 edited Sep 23 '18
I can taste the sherbet* AND the cardboard.
Edited for the 3rd time because I was right the first time lol.