Taste Testing the BEST British Ice Lollies | Canadian in the UK
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- What's the best UK ice lolly?? Let's find out! Join me for my first time ever trying British ice lollies to see what's the best!
As a Canadian living in England, I LOVE taste tests - and I can't believe we've never talked about ice lollies before!!
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what's your favourite ice lolly??
Kulfi
Whilst im on do Canadians have ice cream floats ?
Scoop of vanilla ice cream plonked in a glass of cold limeade
Anything that is orange!!
The Fruit Pastilles lollies are delicious, 5 different fruit flavours and really refreshing on a hot day. Very similar to the Rocket but 5 rather than 3 flavours.
Milky and chocy are code for "not real milk" and "not real chocolate"...
It is so bloody cold, I've put my Christmas Tree up.
😂
Up what?🤩
I'm actually _wearing_ my Christmas tree. The lights keep me warm.
The met Office today said
It's been the hottest spring and May since records began (1881) 😂
I've sat in my house with a coat on 😂
I wonder what they're up to
❤ from Northeast England ❤️
@@oopsdidItypethatoutloud They changed how they took the temperature readings, something about ground and ambient temperatures. And they take readings from next to airports and under motorway bridges..
The classic “Rocket” Lolly ice is the ZOOM. The classic milk lolly is the “Mini Milk”. I love “FAB’s” by the way. My favourite of that type would be the Pineapple Mivvy or Pineapple Split. My absolute favourite Lolly is “The Feast” - chocolate and ice cream.
I used to love mivvies - wonder if you can still get them?
I used to like feasts as a child but there were not many options back then. These days I really don't like them - something about the solid chocolate in the middle is unappealing, I prefer a crunchie blast or a mars ice cream.
The milk bit of a fab is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Complaining about the weather in June? Now more than ever before, you are truly one of us.
lol! You said “taking the piss” I’m so proud 😢
☺️
Why are you proud of by someone saying taking the piss
Ah (R) Whites, I’m a secret lemonade drinker. (In the most creepy voice you can muster)
I've been trying to given them up but its been one of those nights...
When I saw the name on the lolly, the memory of those ads gave me an instant nostalgia hit 😊 Except I don’t remember feeling it was a creepy voice lol Back from the time R Whites lemonade came in glass bottles (presumably with a deposit on them?) Gosh - that must be 50 years ago! 😬
It seems that the R Whites lollies only came about in 2012, according to a quick websearch. Apparently they did a new series of 70s-style ads with the original actors to mark the launch.
While sneaking about the house in flannel PJ's.
R Whites lemonade ads on ITV in the UK, oh dear I really am feeling my age. It was cracking lemonade though.
cider ice lolly from the 70's! so tart! :) big love to all people :)
Where, as a kid, you would lick it once and then be convinced you were drunk.
Best lolly ever x
Strawberry Mivvi.... always the best. 😍
Or pineapple! ❤
My favourite too!
Feast (nutty) with the block of choc in middle and Magnums, our ice lollies used to be much bigger when I was young. Used to give my little kids the mini milks (milk lollies), they loved em. We have had so many different lollies to choose from over the years.
I LOVE Magnums or anything similar to those, but I consider those to be more ice cream than ice lollies
Yes but they're ice creams :D
Have you tried the Lidl version? £3 for a box of 6 Almond ice creams. Company name sounds Italian. You won't regret it!
@@divegabe Oh, I love those! I've been going through entire boxes at quite an alarming rate lately... But yeah, you definitely won't regret trying them!
It’s funny that you said ice lolly sounded like something a child would say or was childish because to me popsicle sound like something a child would say or is childish 😂
😂
Was thinking the same thing.
ice lolly is just diminutive of ice lollipop and popsicle is an amalgam of (lolli)pop and icicle. Both are fine I think.
@@nilsdesperandum oh yeah both are fine just made me chuckle that's all. Tater tots always makes me laugh too I remember once watching 60 days in and 2 convicts fought over an unpaid debt of tater tots and it sounded so child like 😂
@@lifelikegnome sometimes it’s nice to stay in touch with your inner child though
Frozen Orange Jubbly was my favourite as a child. Not exactly an ice lolly as it didn't come on a stick. It was in a triangular shaped carton. A lump of orange flavoured ice. When it thawed out, you had an orange drink.
Same...Remember them well..
The drink to have with stottie n crisps
Delboy liked those as well 😅
The rival product was Mambo, also in a tetra-pak. The corner shop opposite my school used to sell them by the lorryload in summer.
Lovely jubbly !
lol never in my life have I ever seen someone wince at a Fab lolly, we loved those when we were kids.
I think when R Whites pack says it’s been around since 1845, they mean the company not the ice lolly - they are famous for their bottled lemonade
1854 was when the freezer was invented. They probably would of made more money selling the miracle process to freeze stuff 9 years before it was possible but instead went with the drink because thats a warm lolly.
@@RubbishGimpyWould have*
@@WayneCrow85 Get a life bruv
@@RubbishGimpy Haha! Got a cushty, professional life thanks.
@@WayneCrow85 But clearly ur personal life is lacking summink.
Alanna - can't believe you of all people haven't discovered the joys of homemade CIDER ice lollies! What a joy on a warm Summers' afternoon (if we ever get one....)
(I used to love a Mivvi)
Pear Cider. Beautiful.
You used to be able to get "Giant" lollies from the ice cream van in several flavours which included cider and lemonade in the choices.
Everyone in my house 🏠 adores you Alanna. 😎 👍🏻
You're too kind! 🙏🏻
one thing I note about the water based lollies, is the way they squeak when you bite into them. Love the squeak!
Wall's Feast is mine, but if you can count Magnums, that definitely is the top choice
The best ice lollies were always the cherry brandy or the cider ones you could get from the ice-cream van
To hear you say ‘ lolly’….you’re welcome to stay forever 🇬🇧 🇨🇦
or 'taking the piss'!
I ate hundreds of Zoom and Fab ice lollies in the 1960s because Lyons Maid told me that by doing so I would save the world. Zoom was particularly important because it was a missile that even saved London on one occasion. Look at "HD Thunderbirds Advert Compilation (Kellogg's Sugar Smacks plus Zoom and FAB Ice Lolly Commercials)" from "Century 21 Films" for more details. Zoom also had collectable Gerry Anderson Thunderbirds cards which was a big reason to eat them. The rocket that you ate was a Zoom clone.
Interesting! I was thinking Grand Day Out!
Congratulations on saving the world!
@@mikegerrish3459 It went well didn't it? 😃
Mr Men Milk Lolly, don't argue...
Yesssss
I'd like to take this moment to say something that's been on my mind for a while. Orange ice lollies tasted better when they were wrapped in paper, not plastic.
Pop to the shop, taking the piss both within 5 minutes...your metamorphosis to a Brit goes well. And complaining about the summer
Was about to say this!
The manic rises as the E numbers kick in
FAB is best eating in stages. Choc, white icing then the strawberry ice. Taking care not to damage the layers below until you’ve finished the one above.
Tropicana mango sorbet ice lolly.
Solero did mango and raspberry sorbet lollies but they don’t do that anymore
Also twister!
Re R.Whites - check their famous ad 'secret lemonade drinker'. Not only is it funny, but the music was done by Elvis Costello's dad.
@roger It's his vocal too.
Solero exotic and red berry’s. Not sure if you will like them Alanna, but worth a try.
Strawberry split ❤
We used to call spinkles hundreds and thousands.
Fruit Pastel lollies are a must, really good, my favourite lolly is a 'Solero, Red Berry' lolly they're also made in the 'Exotic' flavour but I prefer the berry more, it has an Ice Cream centre with Sorbet on the outside.
Imagine sitting out at the height of British Summer with a sweater and coat on with gloves on and eating lollies. Brrrrrrr
Nearly 3 weeks until its summer here in the UK
That's normal
Ice Lollies to try if they're still around, Rowntrees Fruit Pastels, Solero, Calippo, sun lolly (in a tetrapack), Mr Freeze Pops (but you need to freeze them yourself).
There are also various own brands in different flavours, and styles, You can get similar iced lollies to the R.Whites, but by different manufacturers in flavours like Cola, Strawberry, and Orange.
I remember the mini milk from my childhood, an ice cream van would visit our semi-remote village once a week in the summer and this was the only way of having anything like this at home because we didn't have a freezer, the mini milk was by far the cheapest option at 8p, and would only ever be considered if one could not afford something else. I remember being shocked when I visited my friend in the comparative metropolis of Huddersfield that sometimes ice cream vans drove around (with chimes on) as late as 11pm, but then his mum pointed out that they were probably selling drugs.
The FAB lolly was originally released in the 60s as Thunderbirds tie in.
Milk based ice lollies have been around in Britain since at least the 1960s. I can remember having Lyons Maid Sea Jets in about 1965, they were another TV programme tie in, this time it was Stingray.
I like a Cornish Strawberry Mivvi but if I am craving luxury then a Magnum.
Check out the R White's lemonade commercials from the 1970's and 1980's. They will leave yo with an ear worm which you won't be able to get out of your head. You'll hate me for it later
Yep, earworm arrived - without having to watch the old advert! 😂
Great video Alanna! My favourite lolly was a Toffee Crumble. Haven't had one for years!
I'm glad it's not just me then. I've not seen a Toffee Crumble for many, many years. 😢
We (UK) have Ice Pops. They're long thin bags of flavoured sugar water that go in the freezer. Basically it's poor quality pop (but not fizzy) that gets iced.
Popsicle is a Good Humor-Breyers brand of ice pop consisting of flavored, colored ice on a stick. An ice pop is a liquid/cream-based frozen dessert on a stick. Unlike ice cream or sorbet, which are whipped while freezing to prevent ice crystal formation, an ice pop is frozen while at rest, becoming a solid block of ice.
When I was a kid in the 1960s we saw the launch of the Fab lollies and the Zoom ones of which the Tesco "Rocket" one is a copy.
It's funny to me that you did not like the Fab lolly as that was specifically marketed at girls and women. Our Mum loved them! 🙂
I agree that an ‘ice lolly’ should not contain ice cream. However, there are some great hybrids with both water-ice and ice cream content, of which my favourite is the Walls Tropical Fruit Solero. For a pure water-ice lolly, my favourite is the M&S Valencia Orange Fruit Lolly - it has really deep flavour that lasts right through the ice melting. Yum!
Another Solero vote!
Calippo (various flavours), Del Monte Raspberry Smoothie, Fruit Pastil-Lolly
If you liked the Whites lemonade lolly then you would have loved a Walls lemonade sparkle which they sadly don't sell anymore but was the definitive lemonade lolly we all remember........They did an orangeade version too.
From my childhood it was lolly ices on the wooden sticks. Popsicles are those long plastic wrapped multiple E number flavoured, coloured and sugared water that your mum would get in a big box from the pantry and chuck a pile into the freezer for a few hours. No stick needed. You peeled the top and pushed the ice through the plastic wrapping.
Those long plastic things are ice pops. Have a look at images of ice pops.
@@elemar5 ...or Popsicles as I remember them in the 70's and 80's.
@@Drew-Dastardly Even though it says ice pops on the wrappers?
@@elemar5 Whoever read the wrappers? We called them popsicles in the 70's/80's.
@@Drew-Dastardly Yeah, when I go to buy a strawberry mivvi I always asked for a pink ice on a stick. 😂
Great video, Alanna. You know the rule - it's never too cold for an ice cream or lolly!
I loved original twisters the green on the outside..always Gaza e my children min milk and now my grandson ..they’re perfect for wee people
Alanna, in her selflessness, has sacrificed so much freezer space just to entertain us!
😂
All hail
Don;t worry too much, the Miss Molly lollies have gone straight in the bin so she has a bit of room in the freezer now! :)
The R whites 1845 is the lemonade drinks company not the ice lollies part which is resent
Yep the lolly launched in 2012 I think (based on a quick google search)
I'm old enough to remember the 'Secret Lemonade Drinker' commercial... ;o)
@@eugeneshadwell6596 The song was written and sung by Elvis Costello's dad, with Elvis on backing vocals.
Never knew that.thanks.rrrrrr whites lemonade.rrrrr whites!trying to give it up but it's 1 of those nights rrrr whites.as if cheap lemonade was the equivalent of smack😜😫
@@eugeneshadwell6596 Elvis Costello's dad
If you want to do an ice cream themed video, try choc ices, screwballs, and arctic roll.
back in early 2000s in India, Twisters used to be one of the most in demand lollies amongst children
My fav ice lolly is a lemonade one. So refreshing
The two main ice lolly makers (from ice cream vans) in the 1960s/70s wee Lyons Maid and Walls.
'FAB ' had a tie-in with the "Thunderbirds" puppet Tv show.and you got a picture card of the characters or vehicle in the wrapper . Rocket was called ZOOM!
As a kid I always loved Fab but I also had a real favourite called a Mivvi which was an Ice Cream with a fruity outer ice lolly covering of strawberry!
R Whites (the lemonade lolly maker) had a very very famous ad in the 1980s "I'm a secret lemonade drinker..." You should look it up 🙂
This is a GREAT video! Perfect selection, perfect reactions 😂 loved it 👏🏻
Ice lolly without a wrapper - reminds me of when I opened up a multipack of ASDA crisps and found a sealed inflated completely empty bag among those containing crisps. So surprised that I kept it as a trophy rather than complaining to ASDA.
R Whites - who else remembers the R Whites lemonade TV adverts? ('I'm a secret lemonade drinker - R Whites, R Whites....')
Strange weather for this time of year, June and it feels and looks more like January.
Oh, and my favourite ice lolly is Iceland's Cola Bottles.
On the fruit based lolly category a calypso is good, Lyon’s maid orange lolly and one I think you’d like is the cider lolly.
FAB Ice lollies they take me back to my childhood in the late 1970’s early 80’s.
The FAB lollies used to be big back in my childhood.
Love them.
If you don’t like the milk, then you won’t like Milk lollies.
best ever...Lord Toffingham....long gone, but fond memories...(bring em back!)
An ice pop is a very sepcific thing in the UK. A sort of plastic tube filled with flavoured ice is an ice pop.
Ms Molly is one of the budget ranges in Tesco, like Basics or Essentials in other shops. My favourite ice lolly is the Solero tropical flavour.
I think we sometimes use popsicle or pop ice to refer to those long sticks of flavoured ice in plastic wrap.
Never forget the Cornetto! Thanks Alanna! 🙏🙏
That's an ice cream cone, not an iced lolly.
Yesterday 11/6/24 was a bit chilly here in Kent.
R. Whites Lemonade has been around since 1845.
I love Twisters (The full size ones).
The original “Rocket” Ice Lolly known as Zoom made my Nestle was discontinued in the mid 1990’s.
I remember Fab and Zoom lollies had something to do with Thunderbirds.
I think Fab was Thunderbirds and Zoom may have been Fireball XL5.
I tend toward icecream over ice, but I like orange calippos, and sainsburys do a cloudy apple lolly that's pretty good.
Fabs are a staple of British cuisine
Quite a few people have mentioned Magnums. They are of course lollies - they're on a stick - but they still fall at Alanna's first hurdle as they are ice creams.
Alannah. The shape of the ms molly's is what we used to call a popsicle in England. I would suggest it is the brand R Whites that has been around since the late 1800s and not the ice lolly, just because freezers would not have been around back then.
My favourite ice lolly is a Strawberry Mivvy , which is an ice cream centre, covered with a strawberry ice.
yeah cos 'popsicle' sounds so mature!
Just depends on what you're used to!
My favourite all time lolly would be a Pineapple Mivvi, followed closely by a Sea Jet milk lolly of any flavour.
R Whites are Britain's best known lemonade manufacturer, if you get the chance you watch their TV adverts - "I'm a secret lemonade drinker"
cider or lager & lime from the van were my favourite
There was once one called a haunted house lolly. It was white and very nice. My favourite now is a solero. Since you don't appear to like milk based lollies, I suggest you try the Asda cider flavoured lollies.
SOLERO TROPICAL ..... the perfect combination.
Love that the marking system changes with each lollipop 😊
You have to turn each score into a %, with a 10/10 being better than a 8/8
@@suttoncoldfield9318 wow
I love a raspberry or strawberry mivvi, it's vannila ice cream covered in raspberry/strawberry ice sorbet onna stick. (Identical to a Strawberry split.) A lot of the ice lollies nowadays are a poor reflection on lollies from the 80's. They've "new and improved" them all to taste the same and cost as little as possible to manufacture.
You used to be able to get Cider ice lollies when I was young. I know you like cider so you could look out for them. You may have to visit a shop with a big ice lolly freezer or an ice-cream van.
You can have ice lolly any time of the year if it's raining, sunshine, snowing, cloudy there truly an all year round treat. The best ones are round trees fruit pastels ones.
The offensive Rocket lollies are the no, or low sugar ones. All supermarkets have their own version (probably all made by the same manufacturer), I haven't seen an original Rocket lolly in decades.
"that was a mouthful"
Me "that's what she said last night". lol
Brunch ice lolly was my favourite when I was growing up and they still make it 50 years later - it is that good!
My favourite is a nobbly bobbly! They sell them at Tesco definitely try one !!!!
You know its a 3rd of the way through June when you've just put the heating on and gone to the shop with a wooly hat and coat on
Love the Twister Minis(just the right size) but the best by far is the Solero!
Twisters are always my favourite ice lolly.. you like around the outside & it tastes so nice
Twisters are my favourite.
Cider refreshers are really good you should try them.
FAB was introduced in the era of “Thunderbirds” - “F.A.B.” was their radio acknowledgement
R Whites Lemonade lolly is my favourite by a long way
Almond Magnums or Soleros are my faves.
You have a jumper on? I got a down coat on indoors today. At work my office is a north facing cube with the north facade facing out - over 50% of the area being single glazed windows with steel frames and the rest of the wall being very thin concrete panels - the building was constructed when society expected nuclear energy to make heating cost-free, which never happened. No heating and heavy showers flowing down the outside of the glass making the inside of the glass feeling like a giant ice lolly sheet (when water evaporates outside the inside freezes). I was making all kinds of typing errors because of frozen fingers. You people down South should not complain.
Let’s go old school. A Screw Ball, there’s a bubblegum at the bottom. What more could you want out of life?
4 hours, until the bubblegum was soft enough to chew.
OMG I could actually taste the screwball when I read this. Must be at least 45 years since I had one of those.
Thats more ice cream than iced lolly, much like Funny Feet.
Twisters are the greatest of all the ice lollys
You need to get a strawberry mivvi. Tesco call them fruit splits and do multiply flavours.
Calippo are pretty solid too.
Toffee crumble was my favourite, and a screwball.
Fun video as always Solero number 1 for me would recommend if you did a part 2 .