Wafer and ice-cream

[Toothfairy]

You know how sausage in yorkshire puds is called 'toad in the hole' and lamb mince with mash is a 'shepherds pie' well when you cut a slab of ice cream and put it between two wafers... does it have a name???

It could just be me and my crazy family making stuff up, but I swear it had a name.

[5029]

A slider?

[Chillum]

yup, a slider's what we call them. You also used to get a chocolate/marshmallow version, know surprisingly enough as a "chocolate slider".

[Toothfairy]

Hmmmm that doesn't ring any bells. Could that be a regional thing maybe?

[luckystrike]

I had totally forgotten about that term, but they're called sliders in Northern Ireland!

[smudge]

When we lived in Essex, we just used to call them 'wafers' - now we live in Bedfordshire & still call them 'wafers'.

[Gilli]

In north west London they were called wafers too.

[spudqueen]

In the North West we called them wafers aswell.

[silly moo]

In N Yorks we called them 'sandwiches'.

[The Tiggster]

In Scotland they are sliders. We also have nougat sliders which is 1 normal thin wafer & one thick one which is made with 2 thin wafers with nougat sandwiched in between & the edges dipped in chocolate. Yes, typical Scottish food, keeping up the healthy tradition such as deep fried Mars Bars !!

[kev100]

Lancashire they are called "sandwiches"

[rod]

In Hampshire we call them wafers as well

[gazzawazza]

On Teesside we too call them sandwiches.  Must be a regional thing.

[artee]

In NZ they are simply called ice cream wafers

[fibifooz]

Here in South Wales we call them wafers too My dad always had a wafer with a chocolate flake inside it. 

[flaming]

How amazing that toothfairy had to ask that question?  I don't have much ice-cream at all these days, and I took it for granted that people would always have 'wafers' or  'cornets'.  Licking the ice whilst rotating the sides of the rectangular ice-cream sandwich was quite an art as it always hurt my teeth to bite into it.  I'm from NW London too but on hols. anywhere on the coast people always had the choice at ice-cream kiosks.

[smudge]

Mmmm - Leo's Ice Cream Wafers or Cones from the 50's!