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Does anyone remember rectangular ice-cream cones?

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scrummyyummy | 23:35 Tue 28th Dec 2010 | Food & Drink
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I was scooping some Wall's vanilla ice-cream from a long block for my son today and I was telling how when I was his age, they used to sell individually wrapped vanilla ice-cream rectangles (shaped a bit like choc ice) which fitted perfectly in a rectangular cone. I haven't seen these around for many years and wish they would bring it back. Wall's sell a long block of vanilla and it would be easier to cut it neatly to fit in a rectangular cone. I know they've brought back things from my youth for nostalgic reasons; I wonder if rectangular cones and individually wrapped ice-cream will ever make a return?
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I remember those too...........
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I wonder why they got rid of them?
I remember them :-) and yes your right there is deffinately a market for them, i much preffered them to round ones when i was young, and i had forgotten about the long slicing "bricks" of ice cream you used to get till i read this lol. Walls Vanilla, cornish or neopolitan were a staple of my childhood lol
Oh yes very good product as were the wafers with a choc layer to make your own sandwich.
http://www.maneklalex...Ind/IceCreamCones.jpg
lol, half a gallon brick of Walls vanilla ice-cream ... fan-bloody-tastic.
Yes, I remember them - the little packs of icecream you could buy were in vanilla or neapolitan.
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Rooting around the interweb - Farmfoods may still do them?
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This is going back farther than any of you can, I think. They used to have "Stop me and Buy One" men on bicycles with a sort of cart on the front and from this they sold their icecreams and the forerunner or ice lollies which were a triangular shape, like toblerones. They were one penny each and the men would cut them in half and sell you a half for a halfpenny. They were enclosed in a cardboard container which you held and pushed the ice lolly up from the bottom. I can still taste the ice lolly - and the cardboard - now.
I would think wrapped ice-cream would be too costly these days. I seen them the other day but didn't buy any. If you think on how much air there is in a carton of ice-cream I would think there would be a lot more in the old block compared to what you get if you asked for a slider from a van.
*of* icelollies, not or icelollies - sorry didn't proof read very well.
"They used to have "Stop me and Buy One" men on bicycles ..."

They used to have machines in the pub toilets with ''Buy me and stop one" on them. :-))
You mean the frozen Jubbly, SB?
As a mathematics graduate, I feel that I ought to protest about the description of a 'rectangular cone' ;-)
(That's definitely an oxymoron!)

I seem to remember that they were referred to as ice cream 'cornets' (but that term will probably upset musicians!).

But, yes, of course I remember them (whatever they're called). An essential part of the rigmarole of inserting the ice cream into the 'cone' was to remember to lick the wrapper, so that not a single piece of ice cream was wasted!
http://farm2.static.f...091920_5e1d28dfc1.jpg

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A cornet is definitely the cone shaped cone.

Try Iceland or Farmfood for the rectangular shaped wafer ice cream holders. Trying very hard not to call them cones.
Can you still get those oyster shells from the ice cream van?
Well they still make them ,Hc4361
http://www.grecobroth...Brothers%20GB%202.htm
but I'm not sure whether they're still available from most ice cream vans.
Naz! (1) Don't change the subject!
(2) >you mean the frozen jubbly< No, before that Naz - I told you it was going back a long way.

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