Am I remembering an ice cream that didn’t exist ??

[ImaginationZoo]

I was sure in the early 90s I used to absolutely love an ice cream I think was called ‘Mirage’ ? Maybe I’ve got the name wrong as googling isn’t coming up with anything ??!!

it was a bit like a solero but lemon shaped 🤷‍♀️ Maybe I dreamt it .

Also - a lemon drink called ‘Gini ‘??? Or have I made that up too 🤣🤣🤣

I’ve googled everything I can think of to find it and there’s nothing - surely if it had existed there would be something somewhere . I think I might have dreamt it 🤣🤣🤣

It just popped into my head this evening as I’ve been looking at 90s stuff but there’s no trace of it anywhere

Are you thinking of when you used to go to a restaurant and they had a frozen orange or lemon full of ice cream?

(also these ads prove solero originally had no swirl so up yours SIL, I was right!)

m.youtube.com/watch?v=QwnWFerhNM4

m.youtube.com/watch?v=fgD532ojx_M

I loved Aqua Libra, used to drink it all the time. It came in big green glass bottles.

Ooh which one? I know Asda and Iceland used to sell them. But was no longer available with my last Asda shop. Iceland no longer have them either.

We never went out to eat so it was definitely from a shop I remember the wrapper and I’m so sure it was called mirage or something very similar

@Hiphopfrogger
Aqualibra?

I’m not going to be able to sleep tonight I keep googling 🤣🤣

I don't remember anything like that. Did you buy them from a shop or kiosk or could they have been supermarkets own?

From the newsagent and also I remember vividly a kiosk at a little cafe in a park sold them when we had been out one day and I was so happy

They weren’t around long though I remember how disappointed I was when they disappeared (assuming they were actually real !!)

The one I remember from the 90s that I don't think exists any more was a Disney ice lolly. Lemonade flavour with a cola flavoured Mickey Mouse head set into it.

Was it a megabyte?

These ones?

It’s not this is it OP? It’s not lemon flavoured, but kinda has the shape of one!

I recall a summer holiday VIVIDLY where all my mum was eating for lunch was a mirage ice cream on the beach whilst we all played in the sea! This was in Cornwall somewhere around 1995-1996 I think! You haven't imagined them OP and it's driving me barmy that I can find no evidence they existed on Google!

Mivvis were around long before Soleros. So rather than saying they were like a Solero, I'd say Soleros were like Mivvis

I recall something a bit like funny feet in that it was a flat lemon shape like that, kind of a pale yellow but ice cream, not with sorbet around. No idea what it was! I do remember a lemon thing but it might have been an actual frozen lemon with ice cream in.
Feasts were a LOT better in the old days too!

This rings a bell for me. Might not be the same thing, though. I don't remember it being a lolly, but I do remember having it in a bowl. Lemon-shaped shell with ice cream or sorbet inside.

Melon and cucumber plus ginger and a few herbs? Aqua Libra. The name was bought and the current drinks under its are vile.

I remember a flat pale yellow lemon shaped type thing - I remember trying the Del Monte lemon smoothie lolly relatively recently and it reminded me of it in texture and taste, though without the outer coating. Try that if you can find it/if they still do it as its very close I think!

Unfortunately couldn't tell you the name of the mystery lemon lolly!

If you're talking about plain chocolate coated choc ices with a white rather than green mint ice cream filling, then yes I remember those.

And for those of you talking about Indian restaurants that used to sell lemon sorbet served in a whole lemon, my local one still does. Although I generally prefer the coconut ice cream in a half shell that they do.

OP have you tried contacting Walls? Send them a tweet. They will have an archivist who could look through the records for you.

It was most likely a tester product sold in a few postcodes to see if it sold well.

@Hashbrownsandwich.
Was it called Zap? Had a caramel flavour. I bloody loved those.

Ahhhh the music is in my head now!!