creamsicles are DEFINITELY a kind of popsicles, but they're like, the line. anything more ice cream like than a creamsicle or a Face Pop is ice cream rather than popsicle. drumsticks are NOT popsicles, Maya.
.........you know..... ill take the L here, because for a second i genuinely forgot drumsticks are in a cone and not on a stick
Now that's fascinating to me because we don't really have a concept of creamicles in the UK? If its on a stick then it's a popcicle and may also be an ice cream if its, for example, like a magnum or a feast, which is kinda like a magnum but with nut bits and a solid chocolate core. The closest thing I can think of that fits what I vaguely think of a creamicle as is a Solero, which looks like this -
I've never heard anyone in the UK refer to "popsicles". That there is an ice lolly. (Soleros are foul, personally speaking. Something about the ice cream + sorbet coating is ick.)
I genuinely can't remember what I called Otter Pops as a kid but man that packaging brings me back. That's the brand I always had in NE Oregon.
The phrase 'ice lolly' reminds me that I was watching How to Cook That and she called things I'd call hard candies maybe lollies and part of my brain went NO LOLLY POPS HAVE STICKS THIS IS THE ONLY LOLLY IN EXISTENCE NO OTHER LOLLIES EXIST while I happily watched my cooking shows where this woman made a giant kinder egg. Like the concept of a lolly that is not also a pop just does not exist for me. It must be a thing on a stick and the word pop must follow lolly.
To be fair I was born in Australia and have several IRL American friends over here so my perceptions may be skewed on the 'ice lolly/popsicle' debate.
...sweet things that are not baked goods, ice cream, or popsicles/juicies are lollies juicies are sometimes lollies and chocolate is sometimes a lolly but usually just chocolate
Juicies? Are those like candies that like have a juicy center or something? Also a lot of things that fall into that category are sweets or candies to me. Candy is...a lot of things. Like chocolate is a candy but in general I will call chocolates chocolates and not candies. Candies tend to be things like jolly ranchers, spoons, and weird flavored powders. But chocolates do fall under like the general realm of candy. Even though, for me at least, candies as a word brings to mind either something flavored like nothing but sugar or something fruit flavored. Lolly seems to be functioning kind of like how candy does in America maybe... Candies are a kind of sweet but so are cakes and cookies and cakes and cookies are not candies. Just sweets.
the True push pops are the orange ones with the Flintstones on them edit: I'm apparently late to the party in declaring this lol I have, in have seen the Flintstones push pops recently. I'd say within the last month, but I can't remember if there were actually Flintstones on, or if I just edited them in
in explaining this convo to my parents apparently they're actually freeze pops in my brain. dad born and raised central Florida says they are otter pops regardless of brand. mom says there was a specific brand when my brother and I were kids that we called them, but none of us remember
iirc there actually is a cheap brand that goes by "freeze pops" so you might be missing the trademark for the trees there
pretty charts for some US regional differences! https://www.rd.com/list/regional-sayings-phrases-words/
I’ve been fixating on grammar and dialect variations lately and i Cant get over this.. uh... handy chart of localized pronouns
Odd fact from linguistics: Some languages distinguish gender in both singular and plural (e.g., French) Some in the singular but not the plural (English among others) Some in neither (Chinese, in speech -- sometimes in writing) None distinguish it in the plural but not the singular.
