Talk:Pop (frozen snack)

March 2004
In what region is this used? I've never heard of such a usage of the word "pop." You should insert in your article that this is a regionalism, and is not used throughout the English-speaking world. Moncrief 22:16, Mar 31, 2004 (UTC)

I'm a little iffy on it also. But what do I do with popcicles and bomb pops? Gbleem 00:56, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

What about ice cream novelties or frozen confections? Gbleem 01:08, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)


 * I'm really not sure what you mean. If you're iffy about it, why did you create an article? What about popsicles? If there's no article and you want one, create one.  At least that's a word most English speakers use.  I'm sure there is an article on ice cream already.  Moncrief 01:15, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC)


 * The term popsicle is far from universal. It certainly is never used in Australia or New Zealand, and I can't say I've ever heard reference to it except by those in the US and perhaps Canada. Andoka 15:57, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

I think that this article should be merged with popsicle, since that seems to be what it's describing. 68.0.212.218 05:14, 2 July 2006 (UTC)Joe

This actually sounds a lot like what we in Canada call a "freezie", the only way I recognize that being the reference to Mr. Freeze, a popular brand of freezies here. Pop to us is just soda. I'll perhaps give this article a stab at clarifying it, after I figure out what it is for sure. AbstractEpiphany 19:55, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Sounds like what we call an "icy pole" in Australia. Steve 05:16, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Flav-or-ice
i think Flav-or-ice that is the most descriptive term, considering the odd sounding nature of pop (frozen snack) in this context.. if necessary, "bagged ice pop" or maybe even "squeeze pop" would probably be a more descriptive generic title, although I'm not sure if anybody else uses those terms.Ben 22:38, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Except Fla-Vor-Ice is a trademark and already exists as an article. =)  Powers T 16:50, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

pop/ice pop
ok, if you look up ice pop it brings up a page for ice lollies, which are completely different to ice pops, which are these (pops) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Daniel625 (talk • contribs) 17:39, 4 March 2007 (UTC).


 * Ice lollies seem to be just popsicles? Seems there's an awful lot of pages for the same thing. AbstractEpiphany 19:55, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Merger proposal
Pop (frozen snack) seems to me to be a sub-kind of Ice pop, and they're both short articles, so I figure we should merge them together and make this a new section in that article. What do people think? Dreamyshade (talk) 05:30, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Agree. --96.236.151.123 (talk) 01:57, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Disagree. Though they're both frozen treats, I would say they differ in just about every other way. They're known by different names, they're eaten in different ways, they have different consistencies, and of course they come in very different forms (one on a stick, and one in a tube). Freezies (or freeze pops if you prefer) are certainly not a subset of ice lollies or ice pops. Lumping them together in some kind of "frozen treat" article seems confusing and unnecessary. I agree the article, as it exists now, is a little skeletal, but the full story has definitely not been written on freezies. Dindon (talk) 03:06, 8 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Merge&mdash;MDCollins (talk) 01:04, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge but discuss differences as pointed out by Dindon, unless someone can point out any consistent difference in ingredients between ice pops on sticks, and freezies in tubes.--Egmonster (talk) 08:06, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Sugar water or fruit juice?
As far as I can make out, the original text described these snacks as containing frozen fruit juice, fruit puree, or flavoured sugar water. In July 2006 this was changed to "delicious fruit juice," and although the "delicious" was later removed and a link to "juice" restored, the implication remained that there was food value in these tubes. Now I've restored the original triad, listing sugar water first.

Among various brands of these things I've seen here in Canada, I perceive no evidence of any ingredients closely resembling fruit. Why should there be, if a plastic generation likes cheap, imperishable artificial flavours and colours?

Is there any fruit-based version of the frozen-syrup-in-plastic-tube confection, marketed anywhere in the world? On sticks, yes, but in tubes? In other words, is there any reason not to remove fruit references from the description entirely? --Egmonster (talk) 09:30, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Ice pops (asian snack?)
The Ice pop article refers to a "and (as in Dominica) the term ice pop is used for frozen dessert with no stick, usually sold in plastic sleeves - eaten by biting off a small corner of the sleeve and sucking on the ice", is this anything like these kind of "ice pop" which seams more related to the treats described in this article. That's the only image I could find, though the brand I've got with me right now was most certainly labeled "Ice pops" and that product listed here does call them ice pops. I only see this specific treat in stores specializing in foreign, namely Asian foods and it's a treat depicted in a number of anime (a la Gintama heat wave episode 21?). It appears this treat is missing any mention on Wikipedia. Dantman (talk) 19:07, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * It's another anime reference but apparently according to Gintama 149 in Japan they are referred to as a "Tūpet" (spoofed under the name "Chūbert"), I'm guessing this treat is going to be a hard one to track down real references for. Dantman (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 07:18, 31 August 2009 (UTC).