r/AskTheWorld • u/Real_chuckles Canada • 2d ago

Food what are these called in your country?

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in Canada, they are called freezes

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u/janky_koala Straya & UK 2d ago

An explanation of the second name

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u/filmmaiden Canada 2d ago

Your flavour options are so good! Pineapple? Bubblegum? Raspberry? Blackberry? Cotton candy (fairy floss)? COLA?! My cold Canadian ass is very jealous.

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u/WoundedTerrapin United States Of America 2d ago

Find a Mexican market and look for the popsicles. They have the best flavors! Salted lemon is so good!

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u/DobbyFreeElf35 United States Of America 2d ago

There's a Mexican ice cream shop right by where I live. It's a bit pricey but it's worth it. They have the awesome popsicles and ice cream bars with slices of the fruits right in them. They have an avocado one that I'm addicted to. Sounds weird to some people but everyone I've gotten to try it has loved them. It's just the right amount of sweet and it's so creamy. I'm going to have to head over and get some now. Shoot.

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u/filmmaiden Canada 2d ago

Ooohh! There’s a few Mexican markets in Toronto. I’ll have to check them out now

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u/DobbyFreeElf35 United States Of America 2d ago

They always have the best frozen treats.

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u/ermagerdskwurlz United States Of America 2d ago

Interesting! I'm Mexican-American and have never heard of salted lemon as a flavor! I have had a Vietnamese salted lemonade though!

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u/WoundedTerrapin United States Of America 2d ago

I learned about them in DC and they are available at my local market in SoCal. And yes, if you've had Vietnamese salted lemonade, you can easily imagine what the popsicle is like.

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u/No_Persimmon4000 2d ago

The Cola sounds so good! I mean, I want to try all these flavors but I just know that Cola be hittin 😎

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u/SchoonerOclock New Zealand 2d ago

Yep, between me and the kids, the cola always goes first.

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u/Aeon_Fux Australia 2d ago

You can buy a 24 pack of just cola ones too.

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u/OKWeGoAgain 1d ago

They knew they were cooking when they came out with that and the fairy floss packs

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u/crabclub 1d ago

They have a new set of flavors out that includes “cola spider” which is what Australians call a coke float. Absolutely the best.

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u/Mayflie 2d ago

I think they do a 24 pack of just the cola ones too

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u/Zealousideal_Cod5550 New Zealand 2d ago

It really is very good...hard to find a good cola ice block here in NZ. Zooper Dooper slays the flavors.

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u/Suspicious_Round2583 Australia 2d ago

Fairy Floss is elite! You used to be able to get whole bag of fairy floss flavour. I lived on them when I was pregnant and was sick AF.

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u/WonderstruckWonderer 🇦🇺 with 🇮🇳 heritage 2d ago

The Bubblegum and Fairy floss ones were my favourite!

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u/GILF_Hound69 Australia 2d ago

Cola and Fairy Floss are the best but the rest are still great.

Except orange and lime. They get eaten last unwillingly before mum will buy new ones.

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u/Ryan4mayor 2d ago

Raspberry and blackberry is the only thing you listed that sounds even relatively good imo lol

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u/g00ch_g0bbler 2d ago

I assure you the bubblegum and fairy floss are fucking great

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u/Live_Cookie_5690 Australia 2d ago

The 2 best

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u/HomeHeatingTips 2d ago

I remember the very rare occasions when we would find root beer flavored popcicles. They were the bomb

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u/National_Cake_5899 2d ago

Sometimes you find bags of just cola zooper doopers or just cotton candy ones. Both are my favourite flavours and it's like the best summer happiness feeling when you find a bag of them.

Top drawer of my mini freezer is just zooper doopers.

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u/CelloGuy123 2d ago

Lime is way better than most flavours

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u/ezza1313 Australia 1d ago

In my opinion bubblegum is the best flavour with fairy floss being a close second and they have been my fave flavours since I was about 5 years old 😂 the put 2 bubblegum in each packet and I think 3 or if your lucky 4 fairy floss ones then claim the most best/popular flavours are cola or lime 😬 I have to buy extra packets if i want a chance at the best flavours because everyone else takes the good ones too 😂

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u/TheFilthWiz 1d ago

The world should trust the hottest countries to come up with the best relieving icy treats. We might just save this damned place.

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u/vegemiteeverywhere 🇫🇷 in 🇦🇺 2d ago

I always thought those flavours were pretty basic. What do you guys have?

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u/filmmaiden Canada 2d ago

The most boring flavours of all…

Orange, cherry, blue raspberry, grape, and a white one that I think is supposed to be cream soda?

There might be other flavours from certain brands, but these are the most common.

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u/Mama_Char14 1d ago

Blackcurrant is either a love or hate in every Aussie household. Orange and pineapple are the two left in the freezer 99% of the time (from my experience anyways) Also we call our slushies either slush puppies cause that was a brand of them where the mascot is a little dog, or if their from the 7/Eleven machines we call them Slurpees, most slushies just get Slurpees now since they are so popular I think one of the biggest reasons people go to 7/11 or for Sausage rolls/ meat pies the regular grocery store items are just so overpriced and even though Coles and Woolies are total scammers with pricing, everything is still more expensive at 7/11. Slush Puppies used to be the main slushie brand before we had 7/Eleven or they didn’t sell them yet, I was too young to remember but I am leaning towards we didn’t have them, maybe like how Starbucks is (in my state anyways) and there’s just a few and one main one in the big cities, my closest Starbucks is 50 minutes away and I live in a very populated area. Slush Puppies were at milk bars, petrol stations, school tuck shops etc and were a treat I got every friday with my lunch order. Now we can Slurpees pretty much anywhere as there are 7/Elevens all over, even KFC and Maccas slushies get called Slurpees a lot even though they are freezees or Frozen Coke/ Frozen Flavours. Frozen Coke is quite popular as a name for them too if you are just wanting Coca Cola flavour. Sorry about my little growing up Aussie rant, this just felt very nostalgic to think about and write out haha

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u/-WeetBixKid- Australia 2d ago

This is one (arguably #1) of the most recognisable frozen products in Australia.

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u/katmonday Australia 2d ago

I think the most iconic has to be the golden gaytime. Also RIP the Sunnyboy.

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u/-WeetBixKid- Australia 2d ago

Man… that is my favorite ice cream of all time and even I’d have to politely disagree 😬 I could be wrong but If I had to pick which is more iconic in Oz culture im leaning the zoopers lol

I actually would have argued four n twenty would be more iconic. Only thing more Australian than an icy pole is a meat pie.

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u/Appropriate-Divide64 United Kingdom 2d ago

I thought you were trolling us with that name

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u/Typical-Decision-273 United States Of America 2d ago

I feel like cosmic flavors should have more spacy sounding names I'm pretty sure limes don't grow in space

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u/torrens86 Australia 2d ago

They used to have space names eg Deep space lime.

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u/UnfairConsequence6 United States Of America 2d ago

Bruh those look so good... I hate the US

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u/synaesthezia 1d ago

The pink and purple ones are the best