Since the "Zhong Moumou" brand ice cream became famous for its high price, expensive ice cream has also become a hot topic. Recently I came across a new term "ice cream assassin", which refers to those ice creams hidden in the freezer that look unattractive, but when you take them to pay, you will be stabbed by the high price.
In the 1980s and 1990s when I ate a lot of popsicles and ice cream, there was no Ice Cream Assassin. In fact, there were relatively expensive ice creams back then (compared to the prices at that time), but at that time there were few "select" stores selling popsicles and ice cream. There are either small stalls or small shops, and there are even some selling bicycles. There are not many kinds in total. They all buy after asking the price. If I can't afford it, I just take a look at it and drool, but I don't know. Stung.
Let’s talk about the 1980s first. Although I started eating popsicles when I was very young, my parents bought them for me in the early days. I had the pocket money to buy them myself and had an idea of their prices. It was probably the mid to late 1980s. Let’s compare. My friend who is a few years older said that in the early days, there were some popsicles, but I didn’t catch up. The first thing I came into contact with was 1 cent. This was the cheapest series of popsicles that year. The cheapest ones were 1 cents, and there were also 1.5 or 2 cents. It is a very pure "popsicle", which is some fruit juice and sugar water frozen into ice in a mold. There are actually many flavors, such as original old popsicle, orange, peach, pineapple, etc. In fact, the color is different, and the taste is not much different. Some of them don't have formal packaging, and are wrapped with a layer of wrapping paper. What's more interesting is that some of the sticks are inserted diagonally. There is a three-color popsicle here that is considered a "high-end product."
Basic sugar water flavor popsicles
Three colors are very high-end in this category
A bit more advanced are red bean and mung bean popsicles. Although the main body is still ice, beans are added to it, and the texture does not taste like ice lumps. .
The more high-end ones enter the ice cream category. The basic model is a yellow cream ice cream with no formal packaging and a piece of paper on the outside. It usually sells for 2-3 cents. The upgraded version has a regular plastic outer packaging. In the years when the "Transformers" cartoon was popular, the wrapping paper also had Transformers painted on it. It was called "Transformers" ice cream. If you eat the ice cream and wash it off, it will still have collectible value. . The flavors are not just yellow cream, but also chocolate, mixed (such as doll's head), banana, and sandwich (a layer of ice on the outside and cream on the inside). The price is also high, usually 3-5 cents. There is also ice brick, which is actually not much different from ice cream.
The most popular one is cream ice cream , which is divided into small boxes and large boxes. There are various flavors. The small boxes are 4-5 cents, and the large boxes are 8 cents to one piece. The most impressive one is At that time, the square boxes of cream ice cream sold for 1 piece were available in pure cream flavor and three colors. The three colors were usually cream, chocolate, and strawberry. The three colors have been passed down to this day.
In the 1990s, the prices of various types of ice cream have increased a lot, but the varieties have also increased. In the 1980s, the popsicles have been improved in shape and taste. They are no longer the same lumps of ice in the past. I don’t know what is added to them. What, but it tastes a bit "glutinous".
In addition, there are two kinds of popsicles that evolved from the popsicles in the 1980s. The first one is popsicles , which are a bit like ham sausages. The outer packaging is made of hard plastic. One stick is not big, but you have to suck it hard. , so it tastes very slow. I remember it sold for 50 cents a piece in the 1990s.
The other kind we call "bag ice" is similar to bagged milk. It contains ice drinks of various flavors, frozen into an ice lump. It takes a long time to finish it. The most anxious thing is to fall. Break it into pieces and eat it. When it was first released in the 1990s, it was only 50 cents.This kind of "bag ice" later evolved into a bag with small ice cubes, which was more convenient to eat. I liked the Coke and Sprite flavor at the time.
Cream ice cream has also continued to evolve. Sandwiches were one of my favorites at the time. Speaking of eating this ice cream, I had never eaten an orthodox sandwich.
At that time, some large factories would also give out popsicle tickets to their employees
There were many types of ice cream. The most impressive one was the ball-shaped ice cream. In fact, the ice cream inside was still creamy, but the ice cream box was a Small plastic football, finish eating It can also be used as a small toy.
Another type is to add a layer of chocolate on the outside of the ice cream. The earliest one was in the shape of candied haws, and later it came in any shape.
I originally thought that when I grew up and had income from work, I would be able to enjoy the freedom of ice cream. Unexpectedly, the price of ice cream was also rising. I haven’t tried the Moutai one yet. I will buy one on an auspicious day.
