Perhaps the
advertising for Mini-Milks wasn't quite as successful as it could have been... but once Mum got you to
eat one, you were hooked for life.
I'm speaking from
personal experience here, Mini-Milks have to be
IMHO, one of the most
delicious ice-lollies there is. The
creamy texture, the
sweet taste... oh, the pleasure!
*ahem* Of course, there were many rivals to the icy throne, as mentioned above, strawberry Mivvis, which
consisted of an outer shell of strawberry-flavoured ice, filled with vanilla
ice cream.
There were Fabs, an ice lolly originally marketed at girls, which were a strange vanilla ice/ice cream thing coated strawberry from one third up, and
chocolate and sugar sprinklings on the top third.
The advertising for
Cornettos was extremely
successful, nowadays one cannot hear
O Sole Mio without thinking, "
Just one Cornetto!".
As an
aside, Zooms have now been "
reformulated". They are no longer 95% strawberry ice coated in a thin layer of
banana ice-cream in the top two thirds, and
blackcurrant ice in the final third. Now, much to my own personal
delight, they are nearly 80% banana, with a central core of popping-candy (AKA
pop rocks). Deeeelicious.