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NOT SO GOOD HUMOR
Posted On 01/24/2021 12:41:20 by merchandiser
SOME NOT SO GOOD HUMOR
Here's my story, sad but true
about some ice cream I once knew
It made my taste buds long for more
Now I can't find it in the store,
Turkey Hill and Jack and Jill are mighty fine
and Haagendazs Espresso Chip I can call mine
For Polar Bear and Klondke I would cry
But what I really miss today is Eskimo Pie.
Howard Johnson, Louis Sherry were okay
Carvel Ice Cream Cakes I hope are here to stay
Ben & Jerry I implore don't leave the scene
Or Baskin Robbins, Steve's and Dairy Queen
Frusen Gladge and Schrafts are blasts from my past
Nestles, Bassets, Cold Stone, and Edy's I doubt will last
and though Blue Bunny and Blue Bell won't say goodbye
I still could die for an Eskimo Pie .




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02/19/2021 21:37:05

Oh my GOSH... Eskimo PIE!!!!!!!



02/12/2021 14:04:03

Who knew such a simple icream treat could have such a torrent history. It is still here and will be back on the market as soon as possible.

So, keep an eye out for the new name Edy's Pie icecream, in honor of one of the founder's name, Joseph Edy. Edy's Pie has also been one of my favorate, for generations.

On January 24 in 1922, Christian Kent Nelson of Ohio and his business partner Russell C. Stover patented the Eskimo Pie. Nelson’s intent: to make an ice cream dainty that allowed for “ready handling.” The idea came as a response to an experience that he had while working the counter in the sweet shop he owned near the high school where he also worked as a teacher, writes archivist Maurita Baldock: "The inspiration for the invention of Eskimo Pie was a boy’s indecision in Nelson’s confectionery store in 1920. A boy started to buy ice cream, then changed his mind and bought a chocolate bar. Nelson inquired as to why he did not buy both. The boy replied, 'Sure I know — I want ‘em both, but I only got a nickel.'" intent: to make an ice cream dainty that allowed for “ready handling.” The idea came as a response to an experience that he had while working Russell C. Stover patented the Esthe counter in the sweet shop he owned near the high school where he also worked as a teacher, writes archivist Maurita Baldock: "The inspiration for the invention of Eskimo Pie was a boy’s indecision in Nelson’s confectionery store in 1920. A boy started to buy ice cream, then changed his mind and bought a chocolate bar. Nelson inquired as to why he did not buy both. The boy replied, 'Sure I know — I want ‘em both, but I only got a nickel.'"

Nelson worked for weeks to find the right way to stick melting chocolate to ice cream, she writes, finding that cocoa butter was perfect and immediately producing 500 bricks.  “The ‘I-Scream’ Bars’ were a hit at the local village fireman’s picnic and Nelson began searching for companies to manufacture his new product,” she writes.

In the end he partnered with chocolate maker Russell C. Stover. The two would sell the rights to make the confection — renamed Eskimo Pie at Stover's request — to local ice cream companies for between $500 and $1000, she writes, and take a cut of each treat sold.

The new name and the images that came with it were meant to evoke the chilly north and the indigenous people who lived there, but it traded heavily on a stereotype. Although there has been little public pushback to the Eskimo Pie in the way there has been to the Washington Redskins, at least one woman, who was of Inuk heritage, has said that the name is offensive. In Canada, there is a football team named the Edmonton Eskimos which has been the source of Washington-style controversy. 

Back in the early 1920s, though, this conversation wasn't on the radar and the treat was an immediate success. This 1925 earworm was part of the marketing campaign that helped sell the new product:

But the breadth of the patent was a real problem, she writes, one that brought down Nelson’s company. Charles Duan writing for Slate describes the issues:

Running a scant page and a half of text, the patent merely describes "a core consisting of a block or brick of ice cream, of general rectangular configuration," that is "sealed within a shell… of edible material which may be like that employed in coating chocolate candies, although preferably modified to harden at a lower temperature."  

It doesn’t describe the formula Nelson devised for the coating, which was the real thing that made the Eskimo Pie work and was Nelson’s actual invention. It basically covered the entire idea of coated ice cream bars.

Nelson and the Eskimo Pie Company spent way too much time defending and otherwise legally wrangling with their broad patent. It cost them about $4000 a day in legal fees, Duan writes, or about $53,000 in modern money. Russell Stover pulled out in 1923 to start the candy company that bears his name; in 1924, Nelson sold the company to the firm that made its wrapper, the U.S. Foil Corporation, later the Reynolds Metals Company.

Through all this, the Eskimo Pie name persisted. 



02/12/2021 13:33:47

Eskimo Pie, the chocolate-covered vanilla ice cream bar, was invented about a century ago under the name I-Scream Bar, but was renamed Eskimo Pie after founder Christian Kent Nelson partnered with chocolate maker Russell C. Stover, the New York Times reports. The brand’s character — a little boy with dark hair and a fur-lined parka, sometimes depicted riding a qamutiik-like sled in the past — and name were “meant to evoke the chilly north and the indigenous people who lived there,” according to a Smithsonian Magazine piece published in 2017. The term “Eskimo” is widely considered to be a derogatory name for native peoples of the Arctic regions.



01/31/2021 10:14:56

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream, LOL.  Cute and love the title, very clever. I love a snickers ice cream bar, drumb stick ice cream, for a hold in your hand quick snack. 



01/28/2021 12:41:11

Were you eating ice cream when your mind came up with this one?  Were you dreaming of eating ice cream?  This really hits the spot.  No flavors?  Any favorite flavors?  Home made is always the best.  This time of year snow ice cream is yummy.  Thank you for sharing this with us.



01/26/2021 08:15:08

Cute poem telling us you scream for ice cream.   I like the pun in your title.  clever!





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