is it just me or where ice creams better in the 70s who can remember these walls classics

funny faces
lord toffingham
dracula

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Funny Feet were excellent! :clap:

My Mom always wanted me to have a Mini Milk though, as she convinced herself that these wouldn't make me fat. Cut to memory of me as a twelve stone eleven-year-old! :hihi:

Oh god, funny faces were delish...and what about snowballs they were the ones with the bubble gum in the bottom. Lemondade lollys are something that always remind me of my childhood.

I definately remember Funny Faces; rather insipid -tasting to be honest. I don't remember the others, Panda. I was more of a Walls Rum and Raisin Choc Ice man, myself.

Originally posted by Caz1
...and what about snowballs they were the ones with the bubble gum in the bottom.
Not screwballs then? And then they became TWO ball - screwballs! (or was that only in Liverpool?)

Originally posted by Caz1
Lemondade lollys are something that always remind me of my childhood.
Sparkles! lemonade sparkles - only 10p :clap: I remember dangling upsidedown in the big deep freezer with my sister holding my legs and trying to find the lemonade ones under all the orange ones (that stained your arms!)

Originally posted by Strix
Not screwballs then? And then they became TWO ball - screwballs! (or was that only in Liverpool?

I don't remember these Strix, but I am Sheffield born and bred. My mate Nic who now lives near me does remember these in Kirby though, so maybe they were a scouse thing!

Don't have a go at me anyone for the 'scouse' comment; I lived in L'pool for a few weeks in the late nineties, and loved it. I was in a hotel come to think of it! Does anyone know The Trials?

K x

Originally posted by Kristian
I don't remember these Strix,
Sounds like the same product under a different name. A plastic cone full of ice-cream, with bubblegum at the bottom? and a spoon that was just short of useless!

Originally posted by Strix
Sounds like the same product under a different name. A plastic cone full of ice-cream, with bubblegum at the bottom? and a spoon that was just short of useless!

Absolutley! And, apparrently, the gum was always frozen, and therefore too solid to chew for a while... it also dyed the icecream at the bottom!

K x

Originally posted by Kristian
Absolutley! And, apparrently, the gum was always frozen, and therefore too solid to chew for a while... it also dyed the icecream at the bottom!
How true!!! And it was usually BLUE. Or red. Then you'd have to swap amongst yourselves 'til nearly everybody had their team colour :rolleyes: .

Are kids in Sheffield that patriotic? :D

I remember the ice cream man coming up the street in the van, and taking a mug to the van for him to fill with ice cream and lots of rasberry sauce poured on the top, then would take it home and eat it.
We used to long for a Mr Whippy also, before the days of the soft serve ice cream from Mc Donalds etc.
Although I have to say you cant beat a caramel sunday.

I remember traffic lights also, with the three colours of ice.

Originally posted by Strix
How true!!! And it was usually BLUE. Or red. Then you'd have to swap amongst yourselves 'til nearly everybody had their team colour :rolleyes: .

Are kids in Sheffield that patriotic? :D

Don't know Strix. I live in Hillsboro' but don't follw any of the games... :gag:

Doe's anyone remember 'Witches Hats' ?

T'was about 20p and you got a cornet with ice cream and a very long ice lolly stuck in the top

You can't talk about ice cream in the 70's without mentioning Taggys! O lord, what I wouldn't give to taste it again. Best ice cream in the whole world ever.

Originally posted by beansforyou
Doe's anyone remember 'Witches Hats' ?

T'was about 20p and you got a cornet with ice cream and a very long ice lolly stuck in the top

We knew those as a "special"

The corner shop over the road from us used to do home-made Vimto ice- lollies, we loved them, but they used to stain, all round your mouth! lol

And Jo90, I totally agree with you that Taggy's ice-cream was unsurpassed.

PT

I remember the Mr Softee ice cream van in Dinnington - it even had an enchanting smell as the refridgerator extractor blew ice -cream smell all over the queue of slavvering blackened urchins!

MMMmmmr Softee - where are you now?


Mr Softee's rival in Dinnington was Hill Top Dairies which was always inferior stuff. Yellow & hard ice cream.
And the woman was a wizzened professional smoker who never took her fag out of her gob even when serving.

Bleurgh :gag: !

Do you remember Rocket lollies & FAB with the 100's & 1000's stuck to the chocky dip?

Taggy's the best ice cream in the world.

In those days there just wasn't the array of ice-creams and lollies to be bought from the supermarket to take home and keep in the freezer. Come to think of it, there wasn't any home freezers either!

The best you could hope for was a 'block' from the ice-cream man on a Sunday afternoon. That is a lump of ice-cream wrapped in a card box. Then along came the good old raspberry ripple flavour. This was revolutionary at the time when all we had was vanilla.

Kids today don't know they're born:D

Your showing your age now Mo ;) Turners from Mosborough and Joe's From Beighton were IMHO by far the best , none of that soft sloppy Mr Whippy, or Mr Softee stuff, which was only soft because it was nothing but flavoured air :gag:

BTW Joe's is still alive and kicking and can be bought direct from their factory shop in Beighton :clap:
and I am not and never have worked for them, but am open to bribery :heyhey:

Mo! don't you remember the amazing feat of ice-cream manufacure.. the "neapolitan" ice cream?

Just the same as the vanilla, and the raspberry ripple flavours, it came in its cardboard box..... (that got very soggy, if you were not careful or quick enough)
but....
it had Stripes!

it had Strawberry flavour ice cream !(it'd probably never even SEEN a strawberry in its whole existence, lol)

it had Vanilla flavour ice cream...

and it had Chocolate flavour ice cream!

I mean, come on! how innovative was that? ( she says with a wink!)
three flavours in one block! sheer genius! lol

Which order did you eat the flavours of ice cream in? I ate the strawberry first, then the chocolate and then the vanilla last.

and does anyone remember when the "mister whippy"/ "mister softee" vans started coming round, taking over from the "real" ice cream vans like Taggy's, etc?

They had machines with three nozzles to dispense Ice cream from, on the van...
the first nozzle dispensed the soft goo that passed for ice cream, in plain vanilla flavour..

The middle nozzle dispensed a half-and-half mix of vanilla and strawberry (again, it probably had never seen a strawberry!) so you had a "stripy" cornet!

and the third nozzle dispensed purely strawberry flavour icecream.

PT

I remember my mum going out on a sunday afternoon to the ice cream van, caserole dish in hand, and coming back with it full of ice cream & wafers...all for about 50p if memory serves me right!

Originally posted by owdlad
Your showing your age now Mo ;) Turners from Mosborough and Joe's From Beighton were IMHO by far the best , none of that soft sloppy Mr Whippy, or Mr Softee stuff, which was only soft because it was nothing but flavoured air :gag:

BTW Joe's is still alive and kicking and can be bought direct from their factory shop in Beighton :clap:
and I am not and never have worked for them, but am open to bribery :heyhey:

Yes I can remember Joe himself coming on his rounds. When my dad left my mum we didn't have much money at all (no Social Security or child support agency then) and often when he came I would stand back looking longingly at all the other kids having an ice cream. I must have looked a pitiful little creature because he used to break the end off a cornet cone and put me a blob of ice-cream on the top. :sad: :cry: all say 'ahh'

In later years it was, I think his grandson who took over and he asked me out on a date one Sunday afternnon at the ice-cream van. I turned him down but just think I might have been part of the Molinari (sis ?) dynasty by now. :hihi:

Originally posted by beansforyou
I remember my mum going out on a sunday afternoon to the ice cream van, caserole dish in hand, and coming back with it full of ice cream & wafers...all for about 50p if memory serves me right!

I remember this, what memories. I used to get so excited when hearing the jingle of the ice-cream van ("Valderi, valdera, a knapsack on my back") and begging my mum to let me go and get a bowl full. I always preferred Mr Whippy ice-cream when that came out.

I also remember an Italian ice-cream "factory" at the bottom of Scott Road, next house but one to the corner of Grimesthorpe Road. It's terribly racist, but we always avoided their ice-cream as kids because we'd heard there was a big pile of "bogies" in the yard that were used as ingredients. I'll always remember the house next door, too, because it was the only place in the whole of Pitsmoor you could ever see a Conservative sign in the window at election time.

Originally posted by Plain Talker
Mo! don't you remember the amazing feat of ice-cream manufacure.. the "neapolitan" ice cream?
PT

Yes I do, but it was never a favourite of mine.

I especially liked jam sandwiches and you could also get chocolate ones. The ice cream man had this wafer making gadget which he would put a jam wafer or chocolate wafer in the base followed by a liberal dollop of ice cream which he would then shape almost like bricklayer layer bricks. This would then be followed by a plain wafer on top. He tipped the gizmo up and lo and behold a perfectly formed wafer ice cream.

This reminds me of those horrid Walls wafers. You would come away from the ice cream van carrying a cuboid of wrapped ice cream and 2 loose wafers and you had to make your own wafer. How naff was that ? :D

Haunted House lollies - ultimate treat :D

I remember screwballs Strix but we weren't allowed to choose those cos we weren't allowed to have bubblegum :(

Did anyone mention Taggy's? Lol. No mention of Ice Cream is complete with Taggy's. Simply, the best!

Originally posted by Siân
Haunted House lollies - ultimate treat :D

I remember screwballs Strix but we weren't allowed to choose those cos we weren't allowed to have bubblegum :(

Haunted House Lollies
These were the white lollies which used to have a green skeleton on them? As you licked away the skeleton disappeared. Fantastic!

I also remember Grainger's Beer-off in Ranmoor in the seventies. They had a room 'round the back' which sold huge tubs of ice-cream. I don't know if it's a kid thing, but they seemed to taste so much better then, really fruity.

Probably pre EU days when we didn't have to fill the stuff with anti this and that and we could get away with colourings etc!

Cider lollies were always very popular around our way.

We used to think they were made out of the real thing instead of apple juice!

If we ever buy from roaming ice cream van we usually use Sanella's, who are from Sharrow Vale Road. Lovely ice cream.

Also the red sauce the ice cream man squeezes over the ice cream was always known as dragon's blood!

taggys was definitly the best!He came round just in time for sunday tea.what a treat,nothing compares.We also took a bowl out,and had it filled up for a shilling.Enough for everyone in the family.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by fhain29
[B]I remember this, what memories. I used to get so excited when hearing the jingle of the ice-cream van ("Valderi, valdera, a knapsack on my back")


lol i haven't heard of that tune in years (classic)

Originally posted by dishwasher
Cider lollies were always very popular around our way.

We used to think they were made out of the real thing instead of apple juice!

If we ever buy from roaming ice cream van we usually use Sanella's, who are from Sharrow Vale Road. Lovely ice cream.

Also the red sauce the ice cream man squeezes over the ice cream was always known as dragon's blood!


back in the days when i was a lad (blimey was it that long ago)late 70's early 80's up shiregreen these cider lollies where very popular too as was these so called plain lollies just stuck into the top of a 10p cornet

Ahh, so many memories.

The band I used to play in had a 70s nostalgia-tinged song. It was called "Orange Maid"- you can hear it here:
http://www.sumption.org/caustic/audio/08_Orange_Maid.mp3

Agree that Taggy's ice creams were the best...are they still around?

I remember buying 'Screwballs' for my kids and not being keen on the 'bubbly' bit either!

Must have been something 'bout those Urban Myths that circulated when I was a kid that 'bubbly' or chewing gum would strangulate your guts and you would die. Strange thing those things...probably circulated by oldies to stop us chewin gum.

Also remember that when we were skint we used to sing loudly when the ice cream chimes sounded ... never fooled anyone tho

Anyone remember Hulley's Ice cream factory in Ecclesfield
or am I showing my age?

Originally posted by dowkeruk
Anyone remember Hulley's Ice cream factory in Ecclesfield
or am I showing my age?


did they have a factory on barnsley road just past the huntsman pub im sure its the one one your thinking about

I think you are right.
It was on the right hand side going north on Barnsley Rd,
although at that point it might be called something else.
Can't recall the Huntsman (I was too young at the time - in the 1940s-50s). Actually it was a bit set back, and there was a wooden counter inside where they took `orders to go'.
I lived just above the Essoldo at 885 Barnsley Rd. My mother's
family came from Ecclesfield.

My mum always says that the ice cream was better in the 70's.

Unfortunatley I wouldn't know :(

Did anyone else have "Terror Eye Specials"? A big round bubbly that was printed to look like a freshly poked out eyeball, with blood round it (well, raspberry sauce), in a vanilla cornet socket.

Fantastic!

I remember when i was younger, walls had this ice cream called funny feet and it was in a packet and there wuld be lots of feet shaped mini ice creams coated in sweet chocolatey textured stuff but all different colours...anyone else remember them?:cool:

Originally posted by dowkeruk
I think you are right.
It was on the right hand side going north on Barnsley Rd,
although at that point it might be called something else.
Can't recall the Huntsman (I was too young at the time - in the 1940s-50s). Actually it was a bit set back, and there was a wooden counter inside where they took `orders to go'.
I lived just above the Essoldo at 885 Barnsley Rd. My mother's
family came from Ecclesfield.


My mum and auntie worked at this place,I was not born then but i rember her saying she worked there,The only once i can also rember are mr men lolly's.As kids i rember walking from eccelsfield to kepple colum and was a old shop near by were we use to get them from.But funny feet was my fave i got to admit.

Where I come from (Lincolnshire) we had Lollygobblechocbombs - can't for the life of me remember what they were like but I'll never forget that name. No-one's mentioned them on the thread - did they not get this far north?

cant believe u mentioned Lollygobblechocbombs,Id totally forgotten about them but we definitely had them in Sheffield;cant remember what they were like tho'.

Originally posted by Kristian
Funny Feet were excellent! :clap:

My Mom always wanted me to have a Mini Milk though, as she convinced herself that these wouldn't make me fat. Cut to memory of me as a twelve stone eleven-year-old! :hihi:

still get mini milk, i get em for the kids when im feeling tight

lol

haunted house lollies,like a milky ice=cream lolly with a picture of a spook on the front.

Check some of these out

Anybody remember lolly gobble choc bomb
Scrummy.......

http://www.kzwp.com/lyons/group2a.htm

I remember something like funny feet?? (thinks):suspect: shaped like a foot, soft and pink, but without the sweaty smell.

Who remembers Granelli's Ices on City Road?

Used to get a sort of domed oyster shaped shell that was filled with ice cream and then another one placed over it like a sandwich.
By the time you got home it was all melted and running down your arm.
Great ice cream tho.

Originally posted by PhilipB
Who remembers Granelli's Ices on City Road?

Used to get a sort of domed oyster shaped shell that was filled with ice cream and then another one placed over it like a sandwich.
By the time you got home it was all melted and running down your arm.
Great ice cream tho.

its still there as far as i no the sweet shop is still there im always in there:D :D :D

Originally posted by fhain29
I remember this, what memories. I used to get so excited when hearing the jingle of the ice-cream van ("Valderi, valdera, a knapsack on my back") and begging my mum to let me go and get a bowl full.

I'd forgotten all about 'Valderi, Valdera' our ice cream van used to play that and also 'Popeye the Sailor Man' . Did you hear the one about the little boy whose Dad told him that the ice cream van only played a tune when all the icecream was sold out?

I vaguely remember being able to buy a 5p cornet (5p??!!!) or a 10p cornet. The raspberry sauce was free, but I never had enough money to upgrade to a '99'. Does anyone know why they were called 99s??

Im surprised nobody has mentioned Cuneo's iced cream.....they were usually found parked up at the entrances to Weston park and attended events such as Sheffield Show. I went to school with Andrew Cuneo....wonder what happened to him.

Taggy's chocolate wafers, wonderful no one else comes near, do you remember he used to park his van up Heeley Green next to the butchers, as well as down Gleadless road near the cobblers, this shop had a smell all of it's own.

I Can Remember Space 1999 Lollies.

I Think They Used To Put A Collector's Card (Or Something Like That) Inside The Wrapper.The Only Problem Was Getting Them Out.They Tended To Get A Bit Soggy. :(

Originally posted by BILDEBORG
Im surprised nobody has mentioned Cuneo's iced cream.....they were usually found parked up at the entrances to Weston park and attended events such as Sheffield Show. I went to school with Andrew Cuneo....wonder what happened to him.
When the Cuneo family first arrived in Sheffield from Italy in the late 1800s all the family apart from the Mother were classed as Musicians in a census return and by the next census they were
all ice cream makers as they are to-day

I worked at Hulleys at high greave(ecclesfield) in the 70s.
We had to wear little white wellies and white hats and long overalls that nearly touched the floor.
I use to like packing the tubs , screwballs etc but hated filling the giant plastic tubs with ice cream from the pipes, as you had to swirl it in from bottom to top, corner to corner, then put the lids on, and you were not allowed to stop the machine till the whole batch was done, so if you did one wrong , or was a bit slow putting the lid on then you got absolutely covered in ice cream from head to toe.

I sometimes took some home for my parents but i never hardly had any as i was so damn sick of the stuff. lol.

Originally posted by dowkeruk
I think you are right.
It was on the right hand side going north on Barnsley Rd,
although at that point it might be called something else.
Can't recall the Huntsman (I was too young at the time - in the 1940s-50s). Actually it was a bit set back, and there was a wooden counter inside where they took `orders to go'.
I lived just above the Essoldo at 885 Barnsley Rd. My mother's
family came from Ecclesfield.

Thats correct, its now the site of houses - and the essoldo was a regular sat matinee for me - thas now a carpet warehouse

Taggy's ice cream was the best far better than this whipped stuff

Originally posted by oopspardon

I vaguely remember being able to buy a 5p cornet (5p??!!!) or a 10p cornet. The raspberry sauce was free, but I never had enough money to upgrade to a '99'. Does anyone know why they were called 99s??


I read somewhere that the 'Flake' was Cadbury's 99th product line - hence the name.

I remember my grandma asking for an ice cream for me from a van in the centre of Chapel St Leonards and saying to the sales girl "Have you got a Funny Face?"

Am I the only person on this forum who didn't like Taggy's. I was a manfreddi's fan.

Is Taggy still with us? He was getting on a bit when iwore a lad
I can still taste that lovely ice creamm to this day.

The times I was asked for a "69" When I used to sell ices up in Teeside in the 70s:rolleyes:Used to cause some red faces. People used to ask me "Do you have crushed nuts" My reply "No I always stand like this:clap::hihi:

Originally posted by artisan
Is Taggy still with us? He was getting on a bit when iwore a lad
I can still taste that lovely ice creamm to this day.

Sadly, no, I havent seen Taggy's ice cream in what, it must be nearly thirty years, much to my family's annoyance.

I have never tasted ice cream as wonderful as that creamy, golden heaven that was Taggy's.

I remember them being based at the back of Anns Road school, near Richards Road.

I don't remember them being in business from a year or two before there was a whole shedload of demolition in heeley, which was around 1977. I think the old chap died in about 75/6, (I could be wrong). My aunt and uncle lived in the old houses, on Sturge Street (which is now the "new"er housing called Sturge Croft)

PT

That is a shame PT. I remember he used to come down the View on Sunday afternoon after dinner and we used to get cornet from him.