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11 Desserts You Definitely Had in Your Freezer as a Child

By Food & Wine
Updated May 09, 2016
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Remember when our frozen desserts came in individual packages and fun shapes? We each had our strategic way of eating a popsicle, and we all sucked down the last dregs of our Otter Pops. Let us pay homage to these 11 relics of our childhood freezers.This piece originally appeared on Spoon University.
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Push-Up Pops

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Scooby Doo? Flintstones? Just plain rainbow? Regardless of which kind you had, Push-Up Pops were incredible (until the plastic straw handle broke).

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Minute Maid Juice Bars

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These treats from elementary school showed us that frozen fruit juice really is more fun when it comes in the shape of a pyramid.

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Otter Pops

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Pink Bubblegum, Blue Raspberry, Red Fruit Punch. Having the 100 pack of these in your freezer meant an immediate status boost among your friends, but it was a sheer tragedy when you couldn’t find the kitchen scissors to open them.

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Firecrackers

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Just holding one made you feel patriotic. Somehow, these always ended up staining our tongues red and our Fourth of July outfits blue.

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Dibs

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It was popcorn for ice cream! In a time before we counted calories, let alone number of Dibs eaten, it was dangerous to get our hands on a carton of these.

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Skinny Cow Ice Cream Sandwiches

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When our moms were on diets and our dessert options limited, these were the go-to treat.

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Choco Tacos

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A waffle cone in the shape of a taco stuffed with ice cream and coated in chocolate — certainly a child’s dream come true.

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Italian Ice

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Skinny Cows weren’t the only “dieting” dessert. These frozen cups of fruit-flavored ice made us feel both healthy and fancy.

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Drumsticks

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These were the ultimate reward dessert when we were allowed to go all out. This was ice cream in a cone, coated in chocolate, and covered with copped nuts — any friend whose parents were willing to give these out was immediately made a BFF.

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Neapolitan Ice Cream Sandwiches

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Rectangular goodness of strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate ice cream between two chocolate cookie slices. You definitely saved your favorite ice cream flavor for last.

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Those Wooden Spoon Ice Cream Cups

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The little sticks of wood provided as spoons were puzzling, but these somehow made the tiny cups of ice cream better. Who knows what they were really called?It’s a shame they don’t give out popsicles as treats in college, but who says we can’t take a trip down memory lane by indulging in one of these sweet, colorful, oddly shaped treats?

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1 of 11 Push-Up Pops
2 of 11 Minute Maid Juice Bars
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