Talk:Edy's Pie

Choc Ice
This sounds a lot like a Chocice. Is it the same thing? Skittle 09:47, 8 June 2006 (UTC)


 * It's a different trademark by origin, It's Klondike's firstborn, now-known as Klondike bar. Similarly, Post-USSR Russia had a "golden bar" ice-cream, formerly known by its high price - 48 kop in USSR time. 81.195.19.242 (talk) 08:58, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

Russell Stovers
The origin related here doesn't quite match up with the one on the Russell Stover Candies page. Does anyone know which is right? Rojomoke 12:56, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, apparently nobody noticed or bothered to address this until now, so I have done so. See my explanation further down the page. BecauseWhy? (talk) 19:57, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Neilson Dairy
This passage in the wikipedia entry is a unsupported conclusion:

''In an apparent case of parallel development, the Eskimo Pie was also sold by Neilson Dairy in Toronto, Ontario starting in 1921. The summer treat was a means to combine two of the company's products, ice cream and milk chocolate, into one product.''

Here are the sources:

from listed source http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/d8553.htm

''On July 13, 1921, Nelson and chocolate maker Russell C. Stover entered into a joint agreement (other image) to market and produce the product. It was decided the name would change from Nelson's "I-Scream Bar" to "Eskimo Pie". In the hand-written agreement composed the same day the two met for the first time, the entrepreneurs agreed to "coat ice cream with chocolate [sic] divide the profits equally." They decided to sell the manufacturing rights to local ice cream companies for $500 to $1000, plus royalties on each Eskimo Pie sold.

Nelson and Stover began their business venture with an advertising campaign in Des Moines, Iowa. The first 250,000 pies produced were sold within 24 hours. By spring 1922, 2,700 manufacturers sold one million Eskimo Pies per day.''

Then, from listed source http://www.neilsondairy.com/en/about_history.htm:

''William's second son, Morden, took over the company at his father's death in 1915. But he had worked his way up through the company - starting as a milker and ice cream churner at the company's founding. Under his leadership, William Neilson Ltd. became the largest producer of ice cream in the British Commonwealth and the largest manufacturer of chocolates around the world, earning international renown.''

''Morden continued the traditions established by his father. He was a "hands-on" manager, intimately involved in the daily operations of the company. He was an innovative promoter: in summer 1921, he dressed a man in a heavy parker like an "Eskimo" to walk up and down Yonge Street to introduce Eskimo Pies.''

Judging by this information there is nothing to suggest that Neilson Dairy did anything but license and manufacture Eskimo Pies under the standard agreements. Nor do they claim to have invented them, nor to have offered them before the Stover/Nelson agreement. Because of this, I am removing the initially quoted statement from the article but will leave record here of the original and my reasons for removal.

Cheridy (talk) 08:26, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

An inconsistency between this article and Russell Stover Candies - 8 July 2008
This article states that the Eskimo Pie was formed by a partnership with Russell Stover Candies. Russell Stover Candies, on the other hand, states that Russell Stover Candies was not formed until after Stover sold his share of Eskimo Pie Corporation. From the description at the Smithsonian Archives, it looks like the other page has the correct history of Russell Stover Candies. The Eskimo Pie was produced by a partnership between Nelson and Stover as the Eskimo Pie Corporation, and the corporation known as Russell Stover Candies did not exist until at least 1922, when Stover sold his stock in Eskimo Pie. However, Russell Stover Candies basically has no sources. So, I can't actually pin down the year it was formed in. I also cannot read the official agreement provided at the Smithsonian. If anyone can read it, could you transcribe any particularly important parts? So, I have edited this page. I believe it is more consistent now. I have also made a note of this on Talk:Russell Stover Candies, because the topics are basically the same. Hopefully I haven't made any gross historical errors. BecauseWhy? (talk) 20:05, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

saturday night live
in a saturday night live episode with eddie murphy and some other guy, they sing a song about racial mixing and say, "life's an eskimo pie, just take a bite". is there some other colloquial meaning of "eskimo pie" that's not addressed on wikipedia? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.233.197.84 (talk) 02:30, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Racial Controversy
This paragraph isnt really related to Eskimo Pie the ice cream at all. Should it even be in this article? I wouldn't think so... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.219.255.133 (talk) 08:52, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

It is related to Eskimo Pie - just as the references, for example "She has also complained about our icecream Eskimo Pie. Ms Parsons maintained the term Eskimo was an insult and had been replaced with Inuit." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.54.238.178 (talk) 23:24, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps it should be mentioned that the idea of "Eskimo" as an insult is peculiar to Canada and not shared by U.S. citizens, including Alaskan Eskimos. Furthermore the Canadian notion that "Inuit" is a synonym is just plain incorrect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.53.195.38 (talk) 17:33, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Eskimo is a broad term covering both the Inuits, Yupiks and Aleuts, so "Eskimo" is not the same as "Inuit". 92.98.242.15 (talk) 11:05, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Perhaps it can be added that "Inuit" is racially offensive to everyone not belonging to that nationality, since the word simply means "people", chauvinistically suggesting that those who are not "Inuit" are not really people, i.e., less than human. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:2454:8524:2500:4845:5758:7681:312 (talk) 22:27, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Is the New Zealand one related?
This article mentions the Eskimo Pie in New Zealand (now called Polar Pie), but it appears to me that the two are unrelated and coincidentally had the same name. It doesn’t seem appropriate to include it then, right? — Panamitsu (talk) 10:50, 12 October 2023 (UTC)