To call a Magnum a lolly?

[MerryMarigold]

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?

Just checked, Tesco list both of those as ice lollies.

Magnums to me are ice creams, if anyone described them as lollies I'd be concerned!!

Seems I've got to be concerned about a lot of people on this thread 😂

You ABVU 😂😂😂

There are two types of lolly - an ice lolly, and an ice-cream lolly. A Magnum is the latter!

It's a lolly, and it's an ice cream.

Let's all try to understand one another 😂

I'm from Liverpool. It's a lolly ice. Same grammatical rules as choc ice. Magnums aren't choc ices though, they're lolly ices because they've got a stick.

It is a choc ice on a stick.
Although a Mivvi is definitely a lolly, and that has an ice-cream middle….

Is a corn dog a lolly? How about a pork chop? Is a magnum just food on a stick?
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33943760

This thread has brought me to realisation that "lolly" sounds like nails on chalkboard to my ears. No wonder that satan of a word is not part of my vocabulary.

Belongs somewhere with "boiled sweets" and smells like fragranced nappy bags.

Of course it's a lolly. It's on a stick therefore it's a lolly.

It fits Collins dictionary definition etc and was voted the nations favourite ice lolly.

Does anyone else think they’ve got smaller?

It can be a lolly, but not an ice lolly imo. An ice lolly has to be water-based.

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Society needs rules

Surely choc ice is short for chocolate ice cream. Isn't Magnum a chocolate ice-cream? Could get away with chocolate lolly but definitely not an ice lolly?!

YABU it's an ice cream not a lolly.

If I asked for an ice lolly - I'd want an orange juice frozen or lemonade frozen Ior similar

Thise of you who call them all ice lollys how do you distinguish between ice creams and what I call ice lollys (ie frozen ice) ?! Or don't you at all!?

It's an ice cream on a stick.

An ice lolly is frozen flavoured water.

Fruity thing on a stick - lolly
Ice cream and fruity thing on a stick - lolly
Ice cream with chocolate on a stick - ice cream
Ice cream and chocolate not on a stick - choc ice
Collective term for a selection including different items - ice cream
So ‘mum can I have an ice cream’ includes all of the above.

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I don't call them ice lollies. Just lollies eg. There's some lollies in the freezer.

I currently have a collection of 'hybrid' lollies in the freezer - twisters, fabs and nobbly bobblies - all of which contain milk (I believe, I will check tomorrow) and are not purely iced juices.

Totally surprised by this thread. It feels really wrong to me to call anything moulded onto a stick ‘an ice cream’. I would actually call a Magnum an ice lolly; it just happens to be the ice cream type of ice lolly.

If I said I wanted ‘an ice cream’ I would be thinking of an ice-cream cone, or some scoops of ice cream from a tub. I wouldn’t be wanting a Magnum or similar.

never really thought about it before but didn’t know I was so unusual!