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Jell-O Pudding Pops are BACK!

It's a short article that was more suited to be a blog entry, but it was just too big of an occasion to resist: Jell-O Pudding Pops are back! This probably isn't big news to most of you here; I've seen it talked about over the past few weeks, but for the other half of the planet who must have this information, it's now there in html form with a bunch of pictures of Tunnel Rat. Now then, the answer to yesterday's Kinder Egg trivia quiz is...

A spider. Guess the clue was a little easy. "Ant" is our winner with the first corrent entry. He wins a big huge smile. :)

Posted by Matt on 06/18/2004. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 165 comments

Thanks A-wel Cruiz, aprreciate the info. It’s the little things that make me happy and keep me going! I too remember the cool noise Mortimor Ichabob made when used for writing – I owned my own and always wanted/wished it would make that cool noise!

. .Lots of fun with pictures pages,
you’ll have fun with picture pages.
‘Til Bill Cosby does another picture page with you!

Chestnuts roasted by Mugzy. . . @ 06/20/2004 5:21 PM

Those things kick ass! I can’t wait untill I can get them tasty jello fuckers! And that cartoon was funnier than shit (and shit can be pretty funny, too)!

Chestnuts roasted by BigBallsMcGee @ 06/20/2004 7:09 PM

Mortimer Ichibod Marker. Sigh… he was the best.
Mr. trajeal’s uncle is a pilot, and he used to fly Bill Cosby all over the country on a private jet. Supposedly, he was a pompous jerk. I don’t know if I could believe that about Pudding Man. It’s just TMI, ya know?

Hey, aren’t Matt’s initials M.A.C.? Maybe that’s why he won’t review Mac and Me. He was traumatized by the thought of a relation.

Ok, here’s a fun game. Take the first 2-3 letters of your first, middle and last name, put them together into one word, and find out your Clan of the Cave Bear name. That’s where I got trajeal from. So, Jonathan Taylor Thomas (the only three part name I can think of off the top of my head) would be Jotato. If Matt’s middle name were Andrew, he would be Matanca.

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 06/20/2004 9:23 PM

I guees I ‘d be Dawiup

Chestnuts roasted by Bright Noah @ 06/20/2004 10:22 PM

"you see the kids they lissen to the rap music which gives them the brain damage with their hippen and a hoppin and the bippin and the boppin so they dont know what the jazz is all about you see jazz is like jello pudding pop. No, actually it’s more like kodak film. No, actually jazz is like the new coke …it’l be around forever ahh ahh ahh"

Chestnuts roasted by Scourge @ 06/20/2004 10:53 PM

I don’t have a middle name so I can’t play Trajeal’s game properly, but if I play it with only two names I can be Gabla, Gablar or Galar, depending on whether I use two letters or three from each name.

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 06/21/2004 12:35 PM

"I watch "Unwrapped" all the time just because it makes me happy to see that Marc Summers still has work." -Youji

It’s funny as hell that you said that, I’ve had the same reaction towards the show ever since it came on. The remote always gets put down when Marc Summers pops up out of nowhere with a new show. Not to mention the show itself is great.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt (#2?) @ 06/21/2004 8:36 AM

We’ll flip "Big John Studd" for it.

That almost made coffee come out of my nose.

Chestnuts roasted by Outta nowhere @ 06/21/2004 10:03 AM

Samuja or Sammurjam,

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 06/21/2004 11:16 AM

Using my real name, I’d be Adalawel. Hmmm, I think I’ll stick with A-wel Cruiz.

Of course, should Matt review "Mac and Me", I may be compelled to leagally change my name to Adalawel. Something to think about.

Chestnuts roasted by A-wel Cruiz @ 06/21/2004 12:05 PM

Nice….I remember Bill Cosby and I hated his comercials, but I loved the pudding stuff. Nice article too.

Chestnuts roasted by Caylor @ 06/21/2004 12:53 PM

Well, according to Kiowa legend, when the Kiowa say that bears are our brothers, its’ not in a spiritual sense, its literal. So be nice to bears, they might be my relatives. Hey, is that a pic-a-nic basket…?

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 06/21/2004 2:38 PM

I thought we were talking about spiders and frozen pudding. Where the fuck did all of that come from?

Chestnuts roasted by IncogNegro @ 06/21/2004 7:41 PM

I think it’s kinda sad that the only legacy this man is leaving behind is a decade of ugly sweaters and shilling for Jello.

Chestnuts roasted by pulseczar @ 06/21/2004 7:51 PM

i guess i would have to be Jerhel or Jerohelt, or some crazy shit…i really like the Clan series, i have read the first four books a bunch, but nothing after that.
On another series note, I just got the new Dark Tower book, so I am pleased as punch.
No fucking pops at any store around me, so I still run to the freezer section anytime I go in anywhere. If I don’t get them soon I’m gonna get the shakes and see bugs ooggy on the wall.

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 06/21/2004 7:53 PM

Pulseczar, if you think the only legacy is the sweaters ‘n jello,
ya got another thing comin’.

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 06/21/2004 7:54 PM

:) I’d be Aliviotur or Alivitur
Anyone remember the Flinstone’s pushpops? Man i miss those. Flinstones used to be on everything. I wonder if matt has done an article on flinstone’s stuff from the 80′s. Multi vitamins, push pops, other sutff i can’t remember :P
Just something to cotemplate. :D

Chestnuts roasted by Allie @ 06/21/2004 8:24 PM

Allie: they still make Flintstones Push-Pops. :) Check the freezer section. The vitamins live on, too.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 06/21/2004 8:29 PM

kidneyboy, you lucky dog! I’m dying to get the new Dark Tower book. Have you started it? how is it? is it all in Susannah’s perspective? Will you transcribe the whole book here in the blog?
I jest. Actually, no I don’t. Well, maybe. Not.
I’m dyin’ ovah heah.
Must.. have… new… Dark Tower… fix… now…

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 06/21/2004 8:42 PM

Don’t get me wrong, kidneyboy, I was a Picture Pages fanatic when I was a kid. Bill Cosby simply hasn’t done anything since besides that failed sitcom he had about five years ago.

Chestnuts roasted by pulseczar @ 06/21/2004 10:04 PM

where the hell is the chia plot?!?!?!

Chestnuts roasted by spoco @ 06/22/2004 1:44 AM

A-wel, shut up about your Mac and Me review. Pop Arena has one, and they mentioned you in it, that’s how notorious you’ve gotten around here……

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 06/22/2004 2:39 AM

I only liked the strawberry ones… oh, wait, no, I remember liking the butterscotch ones too. I don’t know if we even got the swirly ones in Canada. Weren’t the 1980s version flatter and less phallic than the ones seen in the photos here?

chem: If you’re in Canada, what you’re describing were called "Ice n’ Creamy" and I loved those things too.

Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 06/22/2004 4:28 AM

After reading this feature, I went on a quest to find these sacred pops. Last time I had one was in 1988 or 1989. Went to popsicle.com and aside from that site sucking, there was no information whatsoever about Pudding Pops.

So I left work and hit 5 different chain grocery stores. Nothing. Frustrated, I recalled that Popsicle bought Good Humor, so I gave that site a whirl. Sure enough, there was a store locator that showed which stores carried the Pops.

Only place in Milwaukee you can buy them is Jewel Osco – the only store I didn’t check. I bought $62.65 worth of Pudding Pops. That’s 17 boxes and cleared out their stock.

Just like Otter Pops aren’t the same as they used to be, the new Pudding Pops aren’t either. A very reasonable facsimile though. The flavors don’t seem as robust, and the couple of swirl pops I had just tasted like vanilla.

BUT… It was frozen Jello pudding on a stick, and I didn’t have to toil to try to reproduce the desired effects. I long for the banana. I long for the milk chocolate. But in the meanwhile, I have 16 more boxes to go through.

Perhaps I’ll put a bunch in deep cold storage and give them to x-e in 10-15 years when they pull them from the shelves again.

(oh, and trajael, they never discontinued the Whatchamacallit (sp?) candy bar. I’ve been buying them on a monthly basis since my youth. As with peanut butter cups, they’re best frozen.)

Jack

Chestnuts roasted by jack burton @ 06/22/2004 7:26 AM

Ok, there’s more. I know everyone loves Pudding Pops. Does anyone remember Jello’s Gelatin Pops? I’m not sure if that was the name, but it sounds right. Same shape as the Pudding Pops except fruity Jello.

Of course, I didn’t like them as much, but that’s just cuz they weren’t made out of pudding.

Remember those?

If they still make them (which I doubt) it shows you how much I don’t get out.

Chestnuts roasted by jack burton @ 06/22/2004 7:32 AM

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