This is my idea of K-pop; this popsicle is only sold in Korea. The green is apple flavor, red is watermellon, the seeds are chocolate-coated sunflower seeds. After the monsoon, this will help greatly. The picture is behind Dongdaemun. (photo courtesy of “Superlocal“)
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Man, that photo seems to be gettin’ everywhere. It was featured on Serious Eats yesterday.
http://www.seriouseats.com/req.....sicle.html
Yes, but they don’t even know what the flavors are.
Hahaha. Sold only in Korea? I doubt it. I’m sure I had some similar flavoured popsicle from Dickie Dee like this when I was a kid. Been awhile but yeah, they’re great.
forget the watermelon bar… what I really miss (especially since I live in Arizona… FYI, hottest day of the year (121 F!!!!!)) is a strawberry-flavored popsicles that I used to love as a little kid (but no Korean mart nearby sells).
Incidentally, the snack in question was called Screw Bar.
Yes. 스크류바. X-D
That’s not he only popsicle sold in Korea - my personal favourite is Jaws. If that’s not a popsicle, I don’t know what is…
It is a copy of a popsicle sold in Japan for at least 20 years. Chocolate watermelon seeds and all. My daughter loves them (here in Japan).
It’s also sold in Japan, for sure, and probably many other places.
Bumfromkorea (#4) 121 F!!!??? That’s like 49 degrees celsius! What the heck!? Get out of the desert, man!
“Melona” popsicles are good. We can get it here in Vancouver. I don’t go for the “Bingeure,” that red-bean treat, but my wife likes it.
There was a movie where someone fried an egg off of a car in Arizona… yeah, it’s not an exaggeration (I’ve seen it done… and it tastes horrible). I’m staying indoors all day, with a/c turned on at maximum… and it’s still pretty hot ^^;
It’s been a while. Is Jaws grape-flavored?
unless they changed the formula, Jaws tasted like grapes outside, and reddish grape inside.
Watermelon popsicle is indeed probably a copy from Japan, probably unlicensed. Unless it’s Lotte, which I’m not sure about.
It was around at least since 1991, when I left the ROK.
They sell the Japanese brand of the Watermelon in the Korean mart in NYC.
Jaws bar–don’t be deceived by the color; if you look at the packaging, the purple outside is actually orange flavor and the reddish inside is strawberry.
Man, I forgot about the Jaws bar. I remember seeing some of its kid victims with the red and purple stains on their face!
No Jaws bar around where I live…
Better go get some of those orange popsicles…
Here in the states you can get watermelon flavored ice cream in the summer time. It is even shaped like a watermelon and you simply cut slices and serve. Yum!
@Sewing, #9 – Man, I’d kill for a Melona right now. I am not much of an ice-cream eater, but Melona, hmmmm….