Does anyone remember rectangular ice-cream cones?

[scrummyyummy]

I was scooping some Wall's vanilla ice-cream from a long block for my son today and I was telling how when I was his age, they used to sell individually wrapped vanilla ice-cream rectangles (shaped a bit like choc ice) which fitted perfectly in a rectangular cone. I haven't seen these around for many years and wish they would bring it back. Wall's sell a long block of vanilla and it would be easier to cut it neatly to fit in a rectangular cone. I know they've brought back things from my youth for nostalgic reasons; I wonder if rectangular cones and individually wrapped ice-cream will ever make a return?

[TheWinner]

I remember those too...........

[scrummyyummy]

I wonder why they got rid of them?

[lorri24601]

I remember them :-) and yes your right there is deffinately a market for them, i much preffered them to round ones when i was young, and i had forgotten about the long slicing "bricks" of ice cream you used to get till i read this lol. Walls Vanilla, cornish or neopolitan were a staple of my childhood lol

[Mamyalynne]

Oh yes very good product as were the wafers with a choc layer to make your own sandwich.
http://www.maneklalex...Ind/IceCreamCones.jpg

[NazNomad]

lol, half a gallon brick of Walls vanilla ice-cream ... fan-bloody-tastic.

[boxtops]

Yes, I remember them - the little packs of icecream you could buy were in vanilla or neapolitan.

[boxtops]

Rooting around the interweb - Farmfoods may still do them?

[starone]

This is going back farther than any of you can, I think. They used to have "Stop me and Buy One" men on bicycles with a sort of cart on the front and from this they sold their icecreams and the forerunner or ice lollies which were a triangular shape, like toblerones. They were one penny each and the men would cut them in half and sell you a half for a halfpenny. They were enclosed in a cardboard container which you held and pushed the ice lolly up from the bottom. I can still taste the ice lolly - and the cardboard - now.

[THECORBYLOON]

I would think wrapped ice-cream would be too costly these days. I seen them the other day but didn't buy any. If you think on how much air there is in a carton of ice-cream I would think there would be a lot more in the old block compared to what you get if you asked for a slider from a van.

[starone]

*of* icelollies, not or icelollies - sorry didn't proof read very well.

[NazNomad]

"They used to have "Stop me and Buy One" men on bicycles ..."

They used to have machines in the pub toilets with ''Buy me and stop one" on them. :-))

[NazNomad]

You mean the frozen Jubbly, SB?

[Buenchico]

As a mathematics graduate, I feel that I ought to protest about the description of a 'rectangular cone' ;-)
(That's definitely an oxymoron!)

I seem to remember that they were referred to as ice cream 'cornets' (but that term will probably upset musicians!).

But, yes, of course I remember them (whatever they're called). An essential part of the rigmarole of inserting the ice cream into the 'cone' was to remember to lick the wrapper, so that not a single piece of ice cream was wasted!
http://farm2.static.f...091920_5e1d28dfc1.jpg

Chris

[hc4361]

A cornet is definitely the cone shaped cone.

Try Iceland or Farmfood for the rectangular shaped wafer ice cream holders. Trying very hard not to call them cones.

[hc4361]

Can you still get those oyster shells from the ice cream van?

[Buenchico]

Well they still make them ,Hc4361
http://www.grecobroth...Brothers%20GB%202.htm
but I'm not sure whether they're still available from most ice cream vans.

[starone]

Naz! (1) Don't change the subject!
(2) >you mean the frozen jubbly< No, before that Naz - I told you it was going back a long way.

[Buenchico]

SB1:
Snofruits?
http://www.igg.org.uk/gansg/00-app1/smabo.jpg