As many of those as I had as a kid, you’d think I’d smile more:
Otter Pops are still around, NN.
I saw some at the grocery store just yesterday, but my son had never had one before. They aren’t quite the institution they were when I was growing up.
My daughter couldn’t get enough of them when she was younger. Maybe it’s a regional thing?
I still buy these every summer as an adult, just to have something on hand to cool down with. I’m in California - did you raise your kid on the East Coast?
I’ve only seen that brand a handful of times. We have Flavor-Ice down here.
I can’t be the only one who didn’t hurt himself on these as a kid.
Like… I wasn’t the smartest kid in the world, but learning to be careful with anything you put in your mouth, that was a lesson I learned early.
Wtf were you people doing with these, anyway? It took me only like 3 tries before I decided these weren’t worth trying to open with my teeth. It was scissors from that point on.
The issue wasn’t opening them initially, the issue was with the flat edges on the sides where the two sides were fused together, and along which the layer of connected popsicles were connected. You put the popsicle in your mouth and it felt like you were slicing the corners of you mouth with a razor blade.
Maybe you had a really large mouth as a child? Idk. Now I’m wondering how you hurt yourself with these things lol.
That’s what I mean, I didn’t!
The plastic wasn’t a danger unless you were doing something absurd like putting plastic in your mouth and then tightening your lips to a dangerous degree. And that would be very easy to stop doing, you just… Don’t hold so tight with your mouth.
It’s not like you eat these like drinking a thick milkshake. You suck too hard, you pull all the flavor out and are left with flavorless ice. I would always rather have flavored juice left over
Ah see that’s where you’re mistaken. The concentrated hit of flavor juice was like kiddie crack.
Edit - you said you opened them like three times with your teeth then only used scissors from then on, so I assumed you hurt yourself during the opening process.
Melt them and drink the juice. Zero pain involved.
No, but brain freeze probably kept many kids from binging a pile of these!
