Blinky the Shark > wrote in
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> Michael "Dog3" Lonergan wrote:
>> "jmcquown" >
>> :
>>
>>> Just heard the ice cream truck go down the street! As hot
>>> as it got last summer I can't recall hearing the it drive
>>> by, not once. Today it's only in the 50's but there's the
>>> truck going down the street playing that goofy music. Of
>>> course, by the time I could grab my wallet and step outside
>>> it was long gone. Just as well, I don't remember them
>>> selling coffee ice cream
>>
>> We get them rolling through here sometimes. They never come
>> through here with any regularity though. It's been so long
>> since I've bought ice cream products from one of the trucks,
>> I've forgotten what they offer.
>
> Mmmmmmmm...Dreamsickles.[1] I don't know if they still carry
> them. My flashback is from about 50 years ago. <blink> Holy
> crap -- that's half a century. Ow.
>
> [1] Thick orange coating over a vanilla base.

Creamsicles weren't they? I think the one's you mentioned are sold
in the stores under the Popsicle brand name.