Remembering: Orange Push Ups

Off-topic Chatter
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Many years ago that was one of my favorite treats from the ice cream truck—3 or 4 bites of lip-smacking orange delight for about 50 cents, i can’t remember exactly but it was fairly expensive for my meager savings back when mowing a yard would earn $3 during the summer. So it was a special treat.

Now imagine my surprise to find that Dollar Tree, which sells all that cheap plastic crap, crappy batteries and crappy LED flashlights, also has a freezer section in which they sell pints of pure orange sherbet for $1. It’s like a whole box load of push ups without the tubes and sticks—just grab a big ole spoon and start diggin’…

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Thanks for the tip kennybobby, headed for Dollar Tree tomorrow. :white_check_mark:

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I remember more of running down that Old Man in the ice cream truck —- His choke was stuck or something —We were high by the time we got him to stop

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No, no, no. You’re doing it all wrong.

You heat up the spoon, jam it down into the sherbet about halfway, then stick it back into the freezer ’til it’s frozen again.

Later, take it out, cut off the bottom of the container, then you got the biggest-ass Push-Up in the county.

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OMG, I love those things. We have a local ice cream shop that makes that flavor for a week at a time every few weeks.

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used to ride bikes w/friends to thrifty/sav-on for the ice cream section, alway got rainbow sherbet (rainbows didnt mean nuttin back then)…good times…

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Reminds me of a song:

I'm your ice cream man
Stop me when I'm passin' by
I'm your ice cream man
Stop me when I'm passin' by
See all my flavors are guaranteed to satisfy
Wait a second
I got bim bam banana pops, dixie cups
All flavors and push ups, too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2RKWJD5ops
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Creamsicles…. mmmmmm. :slight_smile:

Although, I like Boston Coolers even better.

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Oh my god I loved those as a kid, they were my favorite. I like the purple ones too- some reason I'm thinking flint stones branded ones?

anyway- does the orange sherbert taste the same though?? Because that is the key! Lol

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Yes! I immediately pictured Fred when I read the thread’s title. :smiley:

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My wife financed her college tuition including room and board by selling popsicles and ice cream treats during the summer seasons.

All items sold for 10 cents each and she made 2 & 1/2 cents on each item. Of course that was over 50 years ago, when a penny was still worth something.

Lots of competition back then for those lucrative ice cream truck jobs but you had to be able to drive a stick shift, hope they gave you a good route and not eat up your profits.

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I’m going to dollar tree tomorrow! Thanks!

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I love orange sherbert but the push ups were different if I remember correctly. They seemed creamier.

I’ll never forget the ice cream guy stopping by the school when I was in first grade. Of course none of the kids had money so he offered credit (bring me a nickel tomorrow). I came home with a wad of Bazooka bubble gum the size of a baseball in my mouth. Of course my mother and the others were incensed and apparently got the poor guy fired. We never saw him again.

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Never what they were until about 3 days ago when someone got me one. It came from a Dollar General.

Edit - just asked and it was $1.