Eli Gets His Rocket Pop
On July 7th, 2015, on a whim I decided to draw Eli with a rocket pop on a comic about JPP blowing his hand off. I’m not sure why, to this day. Just kinda happened. It just sorta fit. Been drawing him with that damn rocket pop ever since. Anyway now Eli having angry child hulk strength is Draw Play Canon
Don’t get between Elisha and his rocket pops.
Rocket pops were legit always my favorite of the bad Popsicle ice creams you’d get from ice cream trucks and whatnot. It was like 3 flavors in one. Plus the blue was the best, and you got to save it for last. Of course you still had to eat it fast otherwise the stupid thing would melt. Sticky hands are the worst.
I think the next best thing was orange creamsicles. They were the bomb. I don’t think they were a terribly common ice cream truck product though. Ice cream trucks tended to have those kinda gross push up popsicles. They weren’t great but they were pretty easy to stay non-sticky with. After the creamsicles I went for the other two flavor pops, usually the chocolate and vanilla one with chocolate crunchy bits on the outside. Then usually drumsticks, then classic ice cream sandwiches.
Like every kid I went through a phase of the bubble gum eyeball character popsicles that always looked incredibly wrong. The gum was crap, and the popsicle was crap, but I was a dumb kid who thought he was getting a deal because he was getting both a popsicle AND bubblegum, in the shape of a ninja turtle (I’m too old to have gotten pokemon or spongebob ones, they came after my time).
Rank your favorite dumb ice cream truck ice creams! Just don’t rank Rocket Pops too low. If you hate rocket pops we are gonna have words.
The cartoon character popsicles are what nightmares are made out of
Agreed. By the way, love your name!
Those “cookies and cream” ice cream sandwiches where the “bread” is a cookie were always my favorite. Drumsticks and orange creamsicles were great too, but my dad and I always had those sitting in the freezer so felt kinda silly to get from an ice cream truck. Rocket pops were good, but I always have really bad associations with them because my grandma would always have them, and she was a crazy abusive nutcase.
Of course now that I’m an adult and don’t have the unreasonably fast metabolism of a teenager I had to stop eating pretty much all of them because they’re like 900 calories each. Trying to be healthy sucks sometimes :c I do still save room for a local ice cream shop every few weeks though.
Ah yes, the cookie sandwich. I haven’t had one in years, but I fondly remember getting the Blue Bunny Big Bopper sandwiches at the local ice cream truck after swimming in the lake. Good times, and if you got sticky, you’d just jump back in the lake to wash it off.
Popsicles are overrated
Blue was always the worst imo.
Choco tacos and drum sticks were king. I too fell for the ninja turtle gum eye pop. I was so excited to get one! I don’t think I understood the concept of disappointment, but I never ate another one. Rocket pops are pretty good. I preferred ice cream to popsicles when given the choice, but I wasn’t unhappy when the camp counselors would break out the buy-in-bulk rocket pops on the 4th. Ice cream > Popsicles > Ice Pops. I didn’t mind getting ice pops, but I knew they were like 5 cents a piece and not very exciting. Kept you cool, though.
I get what you mean, they don’t stay intact for few minutes during the summer. This is why I prefer lemon ice in one of those yellow cup, forgot what it’s called. It’s kinda like Italian ice but you have to keep scraping it with a widish looking Popsicle stick that came with it.
#1 popsicle: Captain America
After seeing this comic, now I want a Draw-Play style Eli Manning popsicle with bubble gum eyeballs.
Rocket Pops were ok.
Orange creamsicles, however, were the worst shitbars on the truck.
I was like you Dave: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/69/0b/8c/690b8c1d359160f6d6aeac6f7ac9f312.jpg
Cookie sandwiches are the best, way better than rocket pops.
Also, this is the worst gumball eye http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/079/259/882.jpg
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My dad would make his own homemade ice cream sandwiches using the cookies he made from store bought dough and then add ice cream in the middle of 2 cookies. Something about his was just great from store bought ice cream sandwiches
Never mess with a 10 year old stuck in an NFL quarterback body’s rocket pop. Especially Elisha’s rocket pops.
Rocket Pops were always my favorite, followed by the Flintstones push-up ones.
I still have the cookie-ice cream-cookie sandwiches to this day, though.
Choco tacos are indeed the absolute shiz-nit. I can’t be the only person who liked the ninja turtle things though, can I?
They might be a regional thing and only in New England, but the Hoodsie Cups were always my favorite.
I like bomb pops, but they were always second banana to Choco Tacos. Best ice cream truck treat 4 lyfe.
don’t think i’ve ever had a rocket pop in my life
chocolate chip ice cream sandwiches 4 lyfe
Melting Moments’ cookie ice cream sammiches are dope AF… but unless you’ve been to East Lansing, MI, you may be unfamiliar. Seriously, though — So. Epic.
Side note: Elisha’s cross-eyed deer-in-headlights-face looks a LOT like the special needs horse from an old episode of Family Guy. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uL37RDS2Qiw/maxresdefault.jpg
I was a shaved ice kinda guy. All I know is the “banana” popsicles with the double-stick were the worst.