Where Did Your Frozen Loyalties Lie?

[Earth 2 Chris]

I just pictured young Chris (little body, but adult-sized Chris head of course. And you're wearing a Jay Garrick Flash helmet!) telling the clerk he's almost done as syrup continues to flow over the edges of the cup!

Shave the beard and give me back my full-head of bowl-cutted hair, and you pretty much got it! I do remember workers at the store admonishing us kids to only use three squirts. There was even a sign on the machine at one point! We didn't listen. It's self-serve baby! Down with The Man!

I did forget to mention the wonder of the Mr. Misty Float! Add some DQ soft-serve ice cream to a Blue Rasperry Mr. Misty. HEAVEN!!!

[Confessional]

Hills = Icee + vending machines + video games + toys!

Agreed, the once-secret Mr. Misty Float was indeed the top of our or local childhood food chain!

[jwyblejr]

With Elsa.

Not with Olaf?

[Earth 2 Chris]

Agreed, the once-secret Mr. Misty Float was indeed the top of our or local childhood food chain!

We had two DQs in town. The Hilltop near the high school had the Misty Float on the menu, no problem. If you went to the Valley DQ, it was according to who was working the register whether you could get one or not. I'd often get "We don't do that here" or "I wouldn't know what to charge you".

[Confessional]

^^ Haha! Wild… my aunt turned me on to the secret DQ menu as kid, although, yes some employees refuse to acknowledge such delicacies!

[Mikey]

Slush Puppies !!! --- Thanks to my local country Ice-Cream shop --- Herbies !!!

Never heard of the other versions into well into the 1980's

Today, Herbies !!! (Ice Cream Parlour) is long gone, as well as my youthful spirit

But going back to the original question... Slush Puppies is the first time I've ever heared of Italian Ice treats

[palitoy]

Slush puppies. I didn't live near a 7-11 until high school.

Weird story but there is a shop nearby that my parents would let me get a comic and slush puppy a lot of the time. If I see that store sign, I immediately crave a Cherry Slush puppy. Pavlov's puppy.

[Random Axe]

Slush Puppy for me as well.

My local grocery had one at the front that was self-serve. The number of squirts allowed was on the honor system, and I'll admit to having none.

[Mikey]

Another thing I miss is "hard ice cream" --- scooped from a bucket---served in sugar cones

Today, seems like all ice cream EVERYWHERE is soft-serve

[Dark Shadow]

Slurpee for me!

Comic cups, Marvel glasses, KISS cups...it was always a win/win. The closest market for us was our local Stop 'n Go, which was less than a mile away. 7-11 was about a mile and a half from the house, so it required some effort, but was always worth the walk. They opened another one about a block and a half north around 77/78, so if we couldn't find the cups we wanted, we'd trek on to the next one. Sometimes doubling back settling for what we'd seen earlier.

My understanding is that Slurpee & Icee are essentially the same. Story goes that an owner of a Dairy Queen location invented it, hired some one else to name it and come up with a logo for him. He licensed it out under "The Icee Company", 7-11 caught wind of the product and made a deal to sell it in their stores, but under the agreement they had to name it something else and come up with their own flavors.

Our local K-Mart(s) sold Icees but we rarely had any as little kids. Maybe 5 of them, tops. As we got older, the appeal of the cups and the location convenience gave 7-11 the certainty.

Hadn't heard of Slush Puppie until today.

I still stop in now and then for a Slurpee, my preference these days is for the cola flavored ones though. The fruity ones are too sweet & sticky for this ol' geezer.

[TRDouble]

Another thing I miss is "hard ice cream" --- scooped from a bucket---served in sugar cones

Today, seems like all ice cream EVERYWHERE is soft-serve

Not around me. We don't have the Baskin Robbins and Carvels like we did when I was a kid, but there are plenty of locals places that server both hard and soft serve with homemade hard ice cream being way more abundant.

[Mike Osborn]

I don't regularly drink those but I was rather partial to Ice and Slurpees.

[Mikey]

We had a strip-mall Carvel round these parts (back in the day) '80's

But it was nothing special and nobody ever visited it.

We used to joke it was only there as a front to something more nefarious.

Like people say about Sleepy's nowadays