Hoodsie cups

[PebblesMom]

I think the DIS has caused all of us to do this at least once

I did twice and I am glad too that this was just ice cream!!!

 

[surfergirl602]

I'm an Okie who spent summers with my grandpa in New Hampshire. Okies also don't know anything about Fluffernutters and my DD and I get very strange looks when that's what we pack in our lunchboxes. Our Fluff is brought to us by family when they come this direction. One year, my wonderful husband contacted the company and had a box of Fluff (about 6 containers) sent to me for Christmas.

LOL!!! I buy many large containers of Fluff when I'm home, and have relatives mail or deliever it when they visit. They try to pass off that marshmallow creme as fluff, but its NOT fluff.

 

[TiggerStac]

the packages at the grocery store do not come with the wooden spoons anymore.

 

[englishteacha]

Hoodsie cups! Love them. I miss the little wooden spoons.
We Mainers are also familiar with the Hood blimp. It flew over my senior picnic in high school, just as the physics class was launching their rockets. We thought sure we were going to hit the blimp!

Mmmmm....fluffernutters. One of my favorite foods.

 

[JVL1018]

We call them Dixie Cups here.
I run a weekly ice cream fundraiser for my kids' school and one of the choices is Chocolate/Vanilla Dixie Cup...and yes I give the kids who order it the flat wooden spoon to go with it.

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

I was afraid this was going to be about another derivation of the Diva Cup.

We call them ice cream cups. They are too small. I like a nice pint of Dove Unconditional Chocolate. I can eat the whole thing if I don't stop myself.

 

[Just Jan]

Love hoodsie cups!
as an adult hoodsie cups equeal portion control lol

 

[momrek06]

You New Englanders know what I'm talking about.

My daughter's facebook status says something about wanting a Hoodsie cup. Her friends here in Arizona don't know what she's talking about, but her friends from Maine do. I'm guessing there must be something similar to Hoodsie cups in other parts of the country.

Hoodsie cups are made by the HP Hood dairy company, hence the name. They are little cardboard cups of ice cream, half vanilla/half chocolate in each container. They used to come with individually wrapped, flat wooden spoons. The ones that are found in plastic bags in the frozen section of the grocery store don't have the spoons, but I know there are smaller stores that sell single cups and they sometimes have a strip of wrapped spoons by the check-out counter.

Okay, so now I want a Hoodsie cup, too. If you had/have these little cups of ice cream, what did/do you call them?

Me, me, me, luv, I WANT A HOODSIE!!!! Grew up on them. Nope, none here in Southern California!

 

[mom2minniemouse]

I was born and raised in Massachusetts. LOVE Hoodsie cups! LOVE fluffernutters!!

And for those of you who call the ice cream cups Dixie cups, what do you call the little disposable paper drinking cups you put in dispensers in the bathroom for rinsing your mouth after brushing? Here, THAT is what Dixie cups are.

 

[LJC1861]

Well, those are dixie cups too I guess! I grew up on Long Island and the small cups of ice cream were always called Dixie Cups for some reason.

Linda

 

[JVL1018]

I was born and raised in Massachusetts. LOVE Hoodsie cups! LOVE fluffernutters!!

And for those of you who call the ice cream cups Dixie cups, what do you call the little disposable paper drinking cups you put in dispensers in the bathroom for rinsing your mouth after brushing? Here, THAT is what Dixie cups are.

Those are dixie cups too.

The ice cream cups were made by Dixie..

from http://www.thenibble.com/reviews/main/ice-cream/the-history-of-ice-cream7.asp

. In 1923, another iconic product debuted. The Individual Drinking Cup Company, whose founder, Laurence Luellen, had begun creating foldable disposable paper drinking cups for water coolers back in 1908, had found increasing success with its disposable paper Health Kup following the influenza epidemic of 1918. In 1919, to differentiate it from competitors, the product was renamed Dixie Cup after a line of dolls made by Alfred Schindler’s Dixie Doll Company in New York City. Growth required relocation, and in 1923 the company moved from New York City to Easton, Pennsylvania.

There, the idea developed to merchandise an individual, portable serving of ice cream in a Dixie Cup. The first experiments were a disaster, but the company soon developed a smaller, more rigid 2-1/2-ounce cup that would not absorb moisture or crumble in the filling process, that would sell for five cents. The cup had a patented, pull-off lid, and the ice cream was eaten with a spade-like wooden spoon. Ice Cream Dixies earned almost instantaneous consumer acceptance.

 

[Piglets Mommy]

I grew upin MD. We called them Dixie cups too, now I know why!

 

[BellePrincessBelle]

We love Hoodsie cups here. The other brands just aren't the same.

 

[Aisling]

Well, those are dixie cups too I guess! I grew up on Long Island and the small cups of ice cream were always called Dixie Cups for some reason.
Linda

I live in NYC and we always called them Dixie cup. I never heard of Hoodie cups.

 

[3prettyprincesses]

OMG, I grew up in New England and we had hoodsie cups every summer! I haven't heard that phrase in forever. Oh, I miss them. And the jimmies you could put on top too, yum! That's right, they're called 'jimmies' not sprinkles. And while I'm at it fried dough is VERY different from funnel cake! We also put Fluff in our hot chocolate too.

 

[mom2boys77]

Ohhh Dixie cups!!!

You New Englanders know what I'm talking about.

My daughter's facebook status says something about wanting a Hoodsie cup. Her friends here in Arizona don't know what she's talking about, but her friends from Maine do. I'm guessing there must be something similar to Hoodsie cups in other parts of the country.

Hoodsie cups are made by the HP Hood dairy company, hence the name. They are little cardboard cups of ice cream, half vanilla/half chocolate in each container. They used to come with individually wrapped, flat wooden spoons. The ones that are found in plastic bags in the frozen section of the grocery store don't have the spoons, but I know there are smaller stores that sell single cups and they sometimes have a strip of wrapped spoons by the check-out counter.

Okay, so now I want a Hoodsie cup, too. If you had/have these little cups of ice cream, what did/do you call them?

 

[DVC~OKW~96]

Yep, Fluff in hot chocolate, and with peanut butter for the oh so sticky and cloyingly sweet fluffernutter! LOL.

Hoodsies in MA and other parts, but Dixie Cups in some areas of NE too.

Paper cups... that's what we called the little paper drinking cups, to differentiate from plastic cups, and those g-dawful styrofoam things. Blick.

Didn't like the wooden spoons either. I used to use the lid from the ice cream cup (bent in half) as a spoon.

Sealtest Ice Cream and Sealtest Milk are two others that aren't around much anymore. Sweet milk!

Friehoffers, Hoffman's Hots, Red Hots, White Hots... Moxie... all sorts of "local" things that you can't get everywhere.

Crogan bologna, and cheese curds, and ohmyg-dthatdisgustingchudge from Herkimer cheese!

Real pepperoni (not that silly hormel stuff) and hard shell lobsters...

Yep. Now you've done it. I wanna' go home.

 

[luvflorida]

There you go!

...I think you just need to move back to New England. lol

Or at least go back every few months to eat. We are going back for a visit in May and this is what I'm looking forward to: Nissen donuts, Helluvagood French Onion dip, Weathervane restaurant, Clambake restaurant, Clam Shack in Kennebunkport, Friendly's, Alex's Pizza (best pizza ever!), Amato's sandwiches, OOB Pier Fries, and Humpty Dumpty potato chips.

Oh and of course, looking forward to seeing friends and family...after we get some good seafood.

I was afraid to open this thread because I wasn't sure what a hoodsie cup was? Glad to see it's just ice cream. I was thinking it was one of those things I'd just have to google and regret googling...

I did twice and I am glad too that this was just ice cream!!!

I was afraid this was going to be about another derivation of the Diva Cup...

Perhaps I should add "ice cream" to the thread title.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Think about the taxes...

Not to detract from the original point of this thread but did you know that
Fluff - the original marshmallow creme - was invented in Massachusetts;
The FlufferNutter is the official sandwich of Massachusetts; and
Some twit state legislator, "shocked" to find his son's school had the audacity to serve this sandwich for lunch, actually tried to get Fluff BANNED from schools?

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And now, back to your regularly-scheduled topic: Hoodsies, of course. Always did, always will. Somehow, they're not nearly as much fun as they were mm-mm years ago, but it's a New England tradition (and poor DisneyBamaFan simply doesn't know what he's missing )

Think about the taxes...

May I introduce you to the state of New Hampshire? Just don't buy property - that's taxed!

 

[3prettyprincesses]

May I introduce you to the state of New Hampshire? Just don't buy property - that's taxed!

No kidding! When I went away to college, I was stunned that I had to pay sales tax everywhere I went! NH doesn't have sales tax so if something cost $19.99 you could pay for it with a $20.