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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Popsicles!

It was all so sudden, I barely had time to react. Walking quickly back to work after a break, spotted was the mysterious truck. The closer I got, the clearer the form of a Ninja Turtle head became. Soon it was for certain: either the truck had TMNT ice pops, or they hadn't changed their window stickers for over a decade. Both were plausible, but only one would afford me the natural high necessary to lift a house over my head and make it sing about being a house that can fly.

We've seen the Super Mario ice pops before, but what of the Turtles? The gentleman running the truck, a bit annoyed by my picture taking but not enough to skip doing business with me, grunted a bare "yes" when asked if they had any Turtle Pops. Two dollars and a requited stare of hatred later, and thar be a cherry-flavored melting Ninja Turtles in my hand.

The wrapper marked it as part of the neoclassic TMNT line; it's not a stale throwback to the original run. But! There were TMNT ice pops nearly if not perfectly identical to these several years back. Even if you hate all the new Turtle shit, you've gotta appreciate it's power to bring back the lost pop. The eyes are gumballs, and in that we've developed the perfect way to determine if someone's really a true NInja Turtle fan:

If they refuse to eat the gumball eyes until the entire cherry ice pop is finished out of misfired loyalty toward their heroes, they're true Ninja Turtle fans.

If they eat the gum long before, then they like gum better than Ninja Turtles.

Science. Personally, standing for even two minutes in public taking pictures of a Ninja Turtle ice pop seemed far worse than being branded an untrue fan, so I offered it to the gods. Others offered them used cigarettes. I think I scored a brownie point today.

Posted by Matt on 08/09/2004. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 54 comments

Ahhh, the ice cream truck! It makes me yearn for the days of the old WWF Ice Cream Bar. Eating a cookie adorned with Hillbilly Jim’s image! Deeeeelicious!

Chestnuts roasted by Sweetie @ 08/10/2004 1:49 PM

Has anyone up in NJ been to Wildwood boardwalk lately? This Wack the Iraq thingy is un-buh-lieve-able.

http://www.nbc10.com/news/3636863/detail.html

Man, this place NEVER ceases to amaze and revile.

Chestnuts roasted by Blah...blah @ 08/10/2004 3:06 PM

At least the Ice Truck looks in good condition. The trucks that swing through my area look like they have come straight from the wrecking lot, or a van down by the river, and usually driven by a guy named Ali-al Abbabar.

Chestnuts roasted by Dik Fishman @ 08/10/2004 3:31 PM

(activating Van Halen Mode)
"I’m your ice cream man,
stop me when I’m passing by.
All my flavors are GUARANTEE-eee-HEEEE-heee-HEEEEE-EEEeee-heeeeEEEE-eeeed
to sat-is-fy!"
air guitar big finish.
(V-H Mode off)

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 08/10/2004 5:58 PM

Those Popsicle bars are so awesome. And they’re not too bad for you either, if I remember correctly. Certainly better than a cigarette, at any rate.

I’m pretty sure those Mario bars are permanently gone. The last truck I visited had duct taped an X over poor Mario’s picture. I asked anyway, but to no avail. So I settled for a Sponge Bob bar…..just not the same.

Chestnuts roasted by 4th Down @ 08/11/2004 9:10 AM

Those are good! I remember getting them a few times when I was a kid. (I barely ever saw an ice cream truck.) But why did you throw it away?

Chestnuts roasted by Anna @ 08/11/2004 7:52 PM

I think I remember mentioning these things on a blog before and mentioning the bandana ice cream and how I was the only one to have ever used the phrase "bandana ice cream" on the internet.

Anyhow, I’ve noticed that every single one of these new pops I’ve ever seen has been based on the likes of Michelangelo, and all the original ones were only based on Donatello and Raphael. As far as I know, there has never been a Lenoardo pop. Conspiracy?

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 08/11/2004 10:28 PM

There’s a Bart Simpson one out there somewhere but I have yet to try it. I’m usually more of a soft serve chick than a novelty ice chick.

Chestnuts roasted by AngeFaitore @ 08/12/2004 8:20 AM

So I am guessing you don’t have Bubble-O-Bill? Yum.

Chestnuts roasted by Bek @ 08/12/2004 8:52 PM

You people are all beautifully interesting.
Never change.

Chestnuts roasted by The Vampire Cullen @ 08/13/2004 12:23 PM

Personally I’m a fan of the Pink Panther ice creams of the same nature. The gumball eyes are still just ick though

Chestnuts roasted by Megan @ 08/13/2004 3:26 AM

Oh my shit, no! Those things have come back to haunt me.

I almost died eating one of those when I was a kid, and I am *not* lying. Email me (gnoose@actionfigureadventures.net) if you want to hear the story.

I’ll try to make it exciting.

Chestnuts roasted by G'Noose @ 08/13/2004 2:51 PM

hi

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 08/13/2004 3:43 PM

Bubble-O-Bill!!! My God it’s all coming back to me now. I would sell my first-born child for one of those. And as far as the WWF ice-cream bars; they used to be my holy grail as a child. The WWF always used to advertise that they were sold in most grocery stores, but it was only the drug dealer who ran his business out of the ice cream truck who ever had them in CT.

Resurrect Bubble-O-Bill!!!
Resurrect Aged WWF ice cream bars!!!

Chestnuts roasted by friedburn @ 08/13/2004 6:27 PM

I’m the Good Humor Man! Ba ba dee bop bop ba ba da bop bop bop ba ba da…

Chestnuts roasted by Luap @ 08/13/2004 11:12 PM

Back when the X-Men cartoon was really popular on Fox, I remember the ice cream man selling X-Men ice cream bars. They were the exact same ice cream bar as the WWF one, except instead of a wrestler on your ice cream, it was an X-Men character, and you received an X-Men trading card instead of a WWF trading card.

There was another ice cream bar I used to order everytime the ice cream man came to my neighborhood, I don’t remember the name, but it was something about a vampire ice cream bar or something. When you bit it, your tongue would turn red and it would have a black or red inside. I don’t remember what the filling was made of, but those ice cream bars were my all-time favorite until I was turned on to Mario and WWF ice cream bars.

Chestnuts roasted by charliecucumber @ 08/14/2004 11:34 AM

I was always a fan of the Great White lemon pop

Chestnuts roasted by CobraCriesCaramel @ 08/16/2004 2:43 AM

Okay so what is worst mascot: Dr Angus selling BK’s awful lies with the "angus steak" burger, or Mr 6 and his wacky dancing?

Chestnuts roasted by RandomHero @ 08/16/2004 2:51 AM

Anyone ever have the NASCAR bars from the ice cream man? Damn those were good, but they get stuck in your mullet too easily.

Chestnuts roasted by Jesus @ 08/16/2004 2:36 PM

yeah bubble o bills are sold pretty much everywhere in australia. well in my city anyway. it has been ages since i looked into an ice-cream freezer. i loved bubble o bills- pretty much the same as the ninja turtle ice-cream except he was a cowboy, had a moustache and a bubble gum ball for a nose. you didnt even know which colour nose you were going to get. and oooooh, written on the nose was a saying that cowboys are supposed to say i think… mmmm.

Chestnuts roasted by Rachel Cakes @ 08/16/2004 8:37 PM

Never had TMNT or WWF, just lots & lots of pac men. After spending Grandma’s dollar I morphed into a ghost and exacted revenge against that foul mouthed cheese wedge. Then I had to go brush my teeth for ten minutes. Come to think of it, the idea of giving children money and sending them into the street unsupervised to flag down a moving vehicle driven by a would be pedophile terrorist has odd implications. My parents don’t love me after all!

Chestnuts roasted by wasteoid @ 08/18/2004 1:47 AM

No one cares about my brush with death…

…just as well. It’s not that great of a story. I used a tooth pick to extract the eyes, and it fell into my mouth and kept going, choking me.

The Heimlich maneuver really works, kids. :)

Chestnuts roasted by G'Noose @ 08/18/2004 4:46 PM

You know, ice cream trucks are usually fronts for drug dealing operations.

Chestnuts roasted by jordan @ 08/18/2004 7:21 PM

I’m seriously gonna check that out about them bein’ drug dealers, cos where I’m from it only seems to be taxi drivers who deal weed…

Think i should be an ice cream man n use the munchies to my advantage…

Chestnuts roasted by Gerardo Atomico @ 08/20/2004 7:14 AM

I always loved to eat the eyeballs first to blind my turtle, and make my teeth blue. WOW nice to know they are still around somewhere.

Posted by rimmie @ 08/09/2004 10:02 PM EST——>

this girl is an obvious liar, as the original eyes of the turtle pop were red, not blue

Chestnuts roasted by mik @ 08/20/2004 12:34 PM

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