Snooker joy

[altariel]

What makes the third session of the "888.com" World Snooker Championship so special is that you're allowed a Cornetto.

My tastes were formed in the early 80s and therefore a Cornetto is a product so stylish and expensive that it's bordering on decadence. Why, Ambassador, I'm not sure I have room for those Ferrero Rochers after my slice of Vienetta.

Comments

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Mine were formed twenty or more years earlier, so I suppose it would be a Lyons Maid or a Mivvi for me. But I doubt whether either of those products exists any longer.

[mraltariel.livejournal.com]

Surely they still make Mivvis?! Everyone should have a strawberry mivvi from time to time.

Lyons Maid as a brand disappeared when Wall's took them over (in the 70s? IIRC?)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

In lieu of a mivvi, enjoy this site!

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :) It looks like 1954 was a seminal year:

1954.
Orange Maid
Ice lolly launched as drink on a stick. Made from frozen fresh orange juice, foil wrapped and sold for 6d
.
Mivvi
Ice cream on a stick with frozen strawberry-juice shell.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

I've just done a Websearch, and it seems that Mivvi has been sold to Nestles (as we always pronounce it here).

[altariel.livejournal.com]

God, I remember Mivvis now! I just didn't know the name!

[watervole.livejournal.com]

I stopped eating Cornettos when they changed the recipie. The original version was made with milk fat rather than vegatable fat and tasted much better.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

I was never allowed Cornettos when I was little, so I was forever deprived of the elegance and sophistication that they might have brought me.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ha! We had both of those, but under different names. Our versions came in several fruit flavours,and I liked the orange best.

I'm not up on what we have now because I haven't bought that sort of thing since school. When I do have ice cream now, which is rarely, it's gourmet flavours in a freshly made waffle cone, usually at this ice-cream cafe.

Ooh, they have two excellent recipes up, the first one very like one I made as a teenager. I shall have to come back to this site.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ooh, cornettos! We have them here and they're the only ready-made ice-cream I buy, that that's only once or twice a year.

Did you knew that Simon Pegg uses them in his films? :-D

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Aw, I'm sad you never got a Cornetto. We should rectify that.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't know about the Simon Pegg thing! I remember the line from Shaun of the Dead, but didn't know it was a "thing"! Brilliant!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

No, they're not as tasty as they used to be.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Ah, times were hard in Warrington. It was years before I was even allowed a choc ice.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

All that time, saving up your farthings.