Food of the Seventies, Carvel Flying Saucers
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Ice cream between two large chocolate cookies from Carvel. My grandmother loved them and usually bought the package that had both vanilla and choc. ice cream.
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I've seen other products but always related the 2 chocolate round cookies with ice cream in the middle to be a "Flying Saucer". Funny though, I don't think Carvel even calls them this anymore.
I loved these! The cookies were crisp and crunchy. Now, all the ice cream sandwiches have soft cookies. Even though they made a mess being crunchy, they were sooo good!
A little disappointed with the flying saucer today . The cookie itself soft and mushy. not what I remember hard and crisp .It was the whole part of buying them.
Found a comic book from 1958 with Carvel mentioned in an ad. Charlton Comics ran a contest where readers sent in suggestions of names for a new character. A $1000 savings bond was provided as a prize by the Carvel chain (based in Yonkers, NY) of ice cream stands. The Flying Saucer, Lollaoalooza and Papalooza treats are mentioned, and picture of a stand printed. Top prize in contest was a "Buster Crabbe (in ground, concrete) Swimming Pool," franchised by the actor ("Flash Gordon" serial) and Olympic swimmer (1932).
Tom Carvel founded the ice cream company in 1929, having control for 60 years (death in 1989). Soft ice cream was featured. Later, novelty treats like the Flying Saucer became popular with the sci-fi craze of the 1950s. Carvel was similar to Dairy Queen, by expanding to include indoor dining and offering hot food. At peak in 1967, Carvel had over 800 franchised stands, mainly in the eastern 1/3 of the U.S. A conflict involving food quality vs price between franchisees and corporate (early 1960s) was the company's low point in history.
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