Comments on: Pop-bottle snap-on cup makes ice cream floats on demand

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yes, I remember the old ones. You would just put ice cream in the center, and snap the 2 half round pieces together and they would fit onto the old soda bottles. They made great floats. My brothers used them every night.

My parents had bought them in different colors for each of us.

The favorite of the family was a “root beer” float.

This new product seems better in some ways as it screws onto the bottle not just pushed into it. Less chance of it coming apart that way.

Although, I do not like the the taste of ice cream or soda. I am one of a few I guess.

By: mongo

mongo — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@Razordu30

That map is funny. I think it corresponds in Illinois to pretty much where I’ve always said grocery “bags” start to become “sacks.”

Somewhere further south automobile “accidents” on the traffic reports become “wrecks.”

For the record it’s “soda pop” so we’d be two measures on the map.

By: Avram

Avram — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@Razordu30 I’ve seen that map before, but note that it’s based on geography, not population. The yellow “soda” areas cover a lot of the most densely populated parts of the country, while a lot of the blue “pop” regions are largely rocks and trees.

By: Deb Geisler

Deb Geisler — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Um, is it really *that* hard to make one the old-fashioned way?

By: Bitgod

Bitgod — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sigh, now I’m sitting here in 100 degree weather and I wish I hit the local A&W for a float.

By: zikzak

zikzak — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

That’s so cute that you call it a “pop” bottle :)

By: Halloween Jack

Halloween Jack — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Well, it’s better than the Batter Blaster, anyway.

By: Antinous

Antinous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Okay, who else has ever had Moxie? I used to get a glass of half Moxie, half milk when I came home from school every day.

By: twig

twig — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This looks pretty cool.

In Michigan I’ve heard soda and pop and cola and pretty much everything but when ‘get me a coke’ gets answered with ‘what kind’?

I think I heard that’s a Southern thing.

By: buddy66

buddy66 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Customers will stay away in droves.

By: Torley

Torley — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

That looks delicious. I wonder if these will get very popular. Sounds relatively effortless.

By: mongo

mongo — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This was already invented. There was a gadget sold in the early 1960s that was a plastic ball that split on the “equator” with spouts on the axis. Just like this you filled it with ice cream and drank the soda through it. I’ll bet it was like 29 cents.

As I remember it may have been promoted by Seven-Up. It was hawked on the lunchtime “Bozo’s Circus” on WGN in Chicago.

For some reason, we had to buy and drink 7-up through it, but I’m sure we tried it with Coca-Cola.

By: Pipenta

Pipenta — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’d rather have my ice cream floats in a glass. That plastic gadget is going to be a real pain to clean.

And I remember the gadget that Mongo had. Never bought one, but saw the ads. It seemed stupid, yet compelling. Forty years later, it just seems stupid.

By: oceanmajk

oceanmajk — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“The ultimate ‘on the go’ soda float device” hahaha is there a lesser adequate one out there somewhere? And who’s so damn fat and lazy they need to be able to make a float on the go?

By: EricT

EricT — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@Mongo

Yeah I remember those and it was what immedialty came to mind when I saw the post. I was pretty young but I seem to recall it being during the Nixon / Kennedy presidential race and the product was called Mixen or something like that. I still get flashes of the icecream/7-up mixers when I hear Nixons name.

By: Crunchbird

Crunchbird — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

In what situations will you have access to a 16-24 oz. soda, this plastic device, ice cream, and a scoop but no access to an actual glass? I guess the mechanics of it are kind of neat, but it seems like another solution in search of a problem, and the idea that it’s in any way less “messy” than a traditionally-made float seems pretty laughable.

However, I do think it would make a fair amount of sense as a disposable item that came already filled with ice cream. Not environmentally sensible, perhaps, but at least there would be a reason for it to exist . . .

By: UkuleleElvis

UkuleleElvis — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

in Australia we call an ice-cream float “a spider”… i have no idea why?! but it sure sounds fun.

By: razordu30

razordu30 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@zikzak - That's so cute that you call it a "pop" bottle :) I call it a soda bottle too, but believe it or not, as far as usage goes we're not exactly in the majority: Usage Map: http://popvssoda.com:2998/countystats/total-county.html

By: theophrastus

theophrastus — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Very good memories Mongo/Erict! They were usually called 'Fizz-nik's (cuz-y'see they were marketed not long after the launch of the Sputnik and everything had to be related to space) uhm... here

By: stratojoe

stratojoe — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah.. an on-the-go float cup is nice, but it’s no Salsa Chassis.

By: Peaceflag2007

Peaceflag2007 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

As if your soft drink wasn’t sugary ENOUGH??

By: assumetehposition

assumetehposition — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You could probably market the glass as a solution to the messiness of this device.

By: Versh

Versh — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I, like the majority of Ohio, refer to the beverage as “pop,” not soda.

I’d have to confirm Razordu30′s usage map is accurate.

Makes me wonder what the “other” category comprises of. “Sooder,” “Sody Pop,” “Fizzy Drink”?

By: chris23

chris23 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Finally a valuable use for the strategic plastic reserve!

By: EricT

EricT — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@Theophrastus

Yeah that was the thing I remember thought I seem to recall them being marketed in Rocky the Squirrel heads and those of other cartoon characters.

I wonder if there is a patent infringement / conflict potential here. I noticed a patent number in the wiki you linked to.

It is cool that these are being manufactured again but If they tried to patent it….