Ice cream

[rowan]

What ever happened to wafer ice creams?

I loved those more than cornets.......they lasted longer!!

You can only buy cornets now. Someone should go into business and start selling them
i'm sure they would be a sucsess

 

[Jerry]

You must have read my mind, I was thinking the same thing whilst going round the supermarket yesterday
Cornish ice cream wrapped like butter and tasting divine
I don't know of anywhere you can buy it these days

 

[gingerjon]

I have just finished eating a cornish wafer ice cream cut from a block purchased from our local Morrisons store and it tasted absolutely super I think I will have another one now mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[angie]

My fave is Hagen Das,not sure how you spell it :idiot2: pralines and cream

 

[Jerry]

Can't stand ice cream with bits and pieces in it
Ice cream is ice cream, if you want bits and pieces buy a trifle says I

 

[Rod]

Whatever happened to Aztec Bars. Ill never forgive them for not making em anymore!!

Aztec Bar
Made by Cadburys and, we think, launched to coincide with the 1970 World Cup (the one where Brazil scored that fabulous goal - Carlos Alberto I think). Not sure how long it lasted after that - lots of people seem to remember it fondly but it has long since gone.
https://www.aquarterof.co.uk/

 

[Jerry]

Jubblies
Hot roasted peanuts from Woolworths
Lucky Dips
Hot fudge from Woolworths
Spanish root
Anything you could nick from Woolworths
Sherbert dips

 

[Di.Poppitt]

Couldn't agree more Jerry. Do you remember Tuti Fruiti - ugh........

My pud most nights is a Walls vanilla soft scoop wafer. But my cousiin can go one better than me, we were at the NEC Antiques Fair some years ago and he found, and bought, one of the old wafer makers of my childhood. A box on a handle. You put a wafer biscuit in, scooped  in the ice cream, popped another wafer on top then pushed a lever and hey presto the perfect wafer. I loved watching Miss Edwards in our local sweet and icecream shop in Witton Road, she would move from the sweetie side of the shop, walk to the white freezer and lift its lid, take the  wafer maker out of a pot of water and give it a shake before  working her magic.

 

[Rupert]

Hey guys Midland Counties came in a little cardboard tub and you ate it with the cardboard top that you folded. Sometimes the shop had some little wooden spoons but rarely. It was not the absolute best but it was ok. Walls was ok Di but it had a weird after-taste IMO. Right after you opened it though it was the devil of a job to get the folded top into.

 

[Alf]

I buy my wafers and Cornish from our village shop.

Midland Counties was the best tasting Ice cream ever :smitten:

 

[Rupert]

Rowan,
I liked wafers too. But you had to keep licking around thm to stop them dripping onto onto your jumper. As the time went by it became a more demanding requirement.

 

[Astonian]

I Agree With You Rupert Midland Counties Was THE Best, And There Gold Top Milk Was Really The Tops, I Used To Deliver Milk FOR Midland Dairies Arond Handsworth In The Late Fifties And Sixties, I Used TO Work At Moland Street Costa Green, Fantastic Dairy To WORK For Sad They Closed Down ASTONIAN, ;;;;;;;

 

[Rupert]

Well Astonian I did not say the best, Alf did. It was certainly up there next to the top and was available most places but the top was in my opinion...that little store, often mentioned in Henly in Arden. Might not have been a brand name maybe they made it on site.

 

[Jill]

I buy the wafers and a carton of icecream and make my own - luverly.

 

[GER22VAN]

l had a chance a few years ago to get one of those wafer ice cream making machines for £6 from a car boot , wish l had now bought it. l know the flavour is not there but the nostalgia is. Anyone got a pic of one ?

 

[Jerry]

Back in the 50s there was a sweet shop on the Coventry Road near Small Heath Park run by two Italian brothers named Devoti and they had a machine that made soft ice cream for cones
Common enough now but at the time it was quite a novelty to us and it tasted a lot better than the stuff you get off the ice cream vans these days

 

[GER22VAN]

I bought a wrapped cone the other day,never again. Bought from a street vendor. The cone was all soggy so next time it is from a supermarket, or stick with soft ice cream strait from the machine.