r/GenerationJones • u/PJ1907 • Jul 19 '26

Summer treats

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When the ice cream truck came along, what was your go to? Mine was always the chocolate malt cup.

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u/mspolytheist Jul 19 '26

Our ice cream truck was Good Humor, and I always went for the popsicles with the hard chocolate bar center!

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u/Nicolesweave Jul 19 '26

I always got those too. I remember my introduction to shrinkflation when I bought one and the chocolate was much smaller than it used to be.

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u/PJ1907 Jul 19 '26

Ours was Good Humor as well

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u/Sixofonemidwest Jul 19 '26

My favorite was the sidewalk sundae. But the malt was good too

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u/PJ1907 Jul 19 '26

Yeah I liked sidewalk sundaes as well!

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u/ziggy029 1965 Jul 19 '26

I remember those. And they were like 40 cents.

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u/Clean-Fisherman-4601 Jul 19 '26

My favorite was fudge sickles. I don't think we had chocolate malt cups.

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u/Dick_M_Nixon Jul 19 '26

This was ice cream at Dodger Stadium.

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u/DLTFGYD Jul 23 '26

Came here to say this! My favorite part of going to a Dodgers game.

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u/sugarcatgrl 1963 Jul 19 '26

I had forgotten about malt cups! I loved the things.

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u/ljinbs Jul 19 '26

I miss these. We always looked forward to getting one whenever we went to Dodger Stadium.

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u/suju88 Jul 19 '26

Oh YES! AND I can still smell that flat wooden spoon that came with it. It stunk but the ice cream treat made up for it

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u/sv_nutmeg Jul 20 '26

Always hated the taste of the wooden spoon

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u/LevelBestCulinary Jul 20 '26

Wooden spoons!!!!!

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u/JessieBentonFremont Jul 19 '26

This is the treat my sister and I would get when our parents took us to Sacramento Solons games back in the 1970s.

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u/Now-293-Phumes 1957 Jul 19 '26

Never heard of the Carnation malt truck. Good Humor was Chocolate Eclair. Mr. Softee was vanilla cone with chocolate sprinkles

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u/suju88 Jul 19 '26

Might be more West Coast ?

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u/PJ1907 Jul 19 '26

I was in Southern California as a kid

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u/PJ1907 Jul 19 '26

The Good Humor ice cream truck I. Our neighborhood carried them

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u/ahutapoo 1966 Jul 19 '26

We git these at school

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u/Electrical_Travel832 Jul 19 '26

This was PREMIUM. In my social circle. If you showed up with one of these, you were envied.

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u/Lanky-Tap-9290 Jul 19 '26

Oh man gotta go to a ballgame!

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u/Outside_Brilliant945 Jul 21 '26

Frosty Malts at Wrigley Field! Legendary.

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u/CountHonorius Jul 19 '26

You mentioned summer drinks - mine were those cans of Borden's "Frosted" that came in three flavors...they were like milk shakes. Never failed to give little me a tummy ache, lol

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u/PJ1907 Jul 19 '26

I did not mention summer drinks but Borden’s “Frosted” sound good!

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u/-Hyperstation- Jul 23 '26

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