It’s summer. It’s hot. Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, there was hardly anything better than Jell-O pudding pops in the summer. The first time I had one was at a vendor cart at Adventureland Park. They only sold banana flavor and they were awesome and, because it was at an amusement park, fairly pricey. I remember going back each year looking for these. They sold them there for only a few years near the bumper car rides then they went away. After their release as a specialty product you could buy them in grocery stores for years.
Then, like lots of awesome things from our youth, like Wacky Wafers, like Seven-Up bars, like the original chocolate and peanut butter Oompas, and like the original Marathon bars, they went away. You’d think there would be a market for these treats of frozen goodness–their flavor was unique as frozen pops go.
You remember the Bill Cosby ads, right? Like this one:
