I used to love creamsicles. I went to Camp Milldale day camp when I was little and every afternoon in the scorching heat we got a creamsicle or a fudgesicle or something. I love a good fudgesicle, but those creamsicles are memorable. Very, very memorable. I’d know that flavor and consistency anywhere.
I remember a lot of other things about Milldale including the huge hill on the way to the pool and a girl my age named Gertrude. I’d never met anyone my age (or younger) named Gertrude before or since. If I recall correctly, she was very quiet and very nice.
But I digress.
What inspired me so very early this morning (I’m on my way to Amtrak to catch a train north for a meeting) was my daily Hungry Girl email.
Now I love Hungry Girl. Make no mistake.
But today she posted a drink recipe and wrote:
“This low-calorie cocktail tastes EXACTLY like those sherbet ‘n ice cream bars you used to eat as a kid… Mmmmmmmm!”
Now you tell me, if you put diet orange soda, orange-flavored vodka, Torani Sugar Free Vanilla Syrup, and Cool Whip Free in a blender, will it taste exactly like sitting on the hill at Camp Milldale?
I think not. In fact, the Splenda alone is enough to….. well anyway. It might taste wonderful. It might be refreshing.
But it can’t taste like my memories of a sweet, creamy, orangy frozen treat.
8 Comments
June 19, 2008 at 7:30 am
Wendy, wasn’t there something called a “Dreamsicle” also? (I should Google it.)
I hear kids over here talking about “Ice Lollies”. I think they must be the same sort of thing.
Janet
June 19, 2008 at 11:55 am
maybe just eat a Creamsickle and then do a shot of Vodka?
June 19, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Just looking at the picture of that cremesicle makes my mouth water!!
I remember enjoying them too.
June 19, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Janet - I never heard of Ice Lollies! Sounds like a popsicle!
Steak - best idea yet!
Millie - Thanks for stopping by - aren’t taste memories fun?
June 20, 2008 at 8:44 am
I went to Camp Milldale too! For years!! I remember the snacks so vividly! Fudgsicle or Creamsicle days were the best - popsicle days not as great. Fudgsicles never ever tasted as good as they did there. And I remember that gigantic hill. I always wonder if I went back if the hill would just be a little incline - maybe it was just my perception as a little girl that it was so big….
June 20, 2008 at 8:45 am
right now in my freezer is Dreyer’s light vanilla icecream swirled with orange sherbet…yummy…definitely brings back that childhood memory you’re talking about.
June 21, 2008 at 2:29 am
OMG! Fudgesicles! I was talking about these delectable delights just the other day. They don’t sell them in England
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June 23, 2008 at 8:29 am
I remember the first time I had an Orange Julius. I flashed back to Camp Milldale and creamsicles; an Orange Julius is nothing more than a melted creamsicle, I’m pretty sure.
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