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AIBU?

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To call a Magnum a lolly?

70 replies

MerryMarigold · 02/08/2023 22:05

My kids say I'm being ridiculous and it's an ice cream. I know it's made of ice cream but it's on a lolly stick therefore it's a lolly to me. Likewise a solero.

AIBU?

OP posts:
onlyoneoftheregimentinstep · 02/08/2023 22:06

YABU! Definitely an ice cream.

Anotherdayanothermoodswing · 02/08/2023 22:06

Yabu, 100% it's a choc ice. Onna stick.

dementedpixie · 02/08/2023 22:07

They're all ice lollies whether they have ice cream in them or not

XenoBitch · 02/08/2023 22:09

To me, ice cream is in a cone/tub. If it is on a stick, it is a lolly... an ice cream lolly.

LightDrizzle · 02/08/2023 22:09

Lolly here too.
If it’s on a stick, it’s a lolly.

BrightGreenMoonBuggy · 02/08/2023 22:10

Only two kinds of lollies: lollipops and ice lollies. A Magnum is an ice-cream, even if it is on a stick.

Emmaemmeline · 02/08/2023 22:10

A Magnum is a Choc Ice

BrightGreenMoonBuggy · 02/08/2023 22:11

^ I said that with the confidence of someone supplying a dictionary definition but obviously I have no idea btw 😉

cruffinsmuffin · 02/08/2023 22:11

YABU, an ice lolly is flavour ice to me, not flavoured cream like an ice cream.

Ice lolly - fruit flavoured, like one of those traffic light ones. A calipso is a weird stickless one.

Ice cream - milk based, on a stick or a tub. Like a magnum, or Ben and jerrys.

Twisters are a weird ice cream lolly hybrid imo.

JollyGoodWine · 02/08/2023 22:13

Choc ice, with exciting USP of being on a stick. (Or it was whenever Magnums were first marketed.)

TwitTwont · 02/08/2023 22:16

DH ‘do you want anything from the shop?’
Me ‘ooh, an ice lolly please, one of those magnums’

Panda89 · 02/08/2023 22:17

It’s deffo an ice cream

Ice lolly = flavoured ice

OnionBhajis · 02/08/2023 22:17

No would never in a million years think an ice cream was an ice lolly.

Ice lolly frozen juice.
Ice cream =creamy. Ice cream.

Magnum is definitely ice cream not ice lolly.

ScarlettSunset · 02/08/2023 22:20

It's definitely a lolly as it's on a stick.
From my childhood I remember 'funny feet'. No idea if you can still get them but they were lollies too.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 02/08/2023 22:20

I think you could call it either tbh

But I think it’s a choc ice

Also now I want one

transformandriseup · 02/08/2023 22:22

I know a fair bit about the ice cream supply chain and to be honest both words are used interchangeably to describe any ice cream line.

Personally I like to call milk or milk alternative based products ice creams and water/fruit juice based products lollies.

kayserah · 02/08/2023 22:23

Ice cream lolly. Now I want one

julylover · 02/08/2023 22:24

Lol - there’s no way on earth that a Magnum is a lolly. It’s 95% ice cream!

Minimili · 02/08/2023 22:25

You are as unreasonable as the people who call all sweets “toffees” or call cordial “pop”

I hate it when people offer me a glass of pop and I get lukewarm orange cordial. Who are you people that participate in such nonsense? and why do you continue to taunt me?!

I was in the hairdressers during the heatwave and I’m normally just offered tea, coffee or water and was super excited to be offered what I thought was going to be a cold fizzy drink. But no it was weak warm blackcurrant.

ice lollies are made of ice, ice creams are made from frozen custard!

GoodVibesHere · 02/08/2023 22:25

Nope it's not a lolly. That's like calling a sweet a chocolate.

Lolly's are orange/lemonade etc on a stick.

julylover · 02/08/2023 22:25

Although having just Googled the definition of ice lolly, I might have to eat my words! 😁

  1. a confection in the form of a piece of flavoured ice or ice cream on a stick.
MammaTill2Pojkar · 02/08/2023 22:29

Yabu, Lolly is short for ice lolly or it's a sucker lolly (e.g. chupa chups). Would you call an American corn dog a lolly just because it's on a stick?

Yuasa · 02/08/2023 22:33

Definitely not an ice lolly. That’s absurd. But my mind is really blown by posters claiming it’s a choc ice. Surely choc ices are rectangular blocks of ice cream covered in a thin layer of chocolate and wrapped in paper - and only that.

This can’t be, can it?

Blueskysunflower · 02/08/2023 22:34

A magnum is an ice cream, or a choc ice on a stick. An ice lolly is frozen juice/flavoured water on a stick. An ice pop is one of those little long thin frozen pouches of flavoured water.

TotheletterofthelawTHELETTER · 02/08/2023 22:34

It’s on a stick so is def a lolly