Today’s secret is:
Everyone misses Pudding Pops, and no one really knows why they went off the market. Oh wait. Damn. The giddy nervousness in the nebulous and unknown is always a sure hook for a fine story and possible conspiracy theory. But once again we find that a little research and Occam’s Razor prevails. It actually was all product research, and whammo…. this is what they sent to the more “enthusiastic” pudding pop lovers that, apparently, relentlessly contacted Jello-O when they were discontinued:
Thanks for visiting our Web Site regarding the availability of JELL O Pudding Pops. Whenever a decision is made to discontinue any product, it is reluctantly done after extensive research. We wish we had more enthusiastic consumer like you, but there were not enough consumers buying our product to support its continued production. Of course it consumers become interested, we will consider putting it back on the market. We will forward your comments to our marketing staff for their benefit.
We appreciate your interest, and please visit our site again soon!
Whatever the case, this isn’t rocket science…. and I just want to help people find a viable, healthy, awesome dessert. That’s right…. I am on a health kick and looking for options…. I don’t even like sweets, but there’s nothing in the world like melting pudding in your mouth. Okay there are some things, and yes those are absolutely sexually explicit things. I mean that… don’t you dare laugh.
I do know if you take a pudding cup single serving, shove a chopstick in the top (one or two still connected), and freeze it good (good is the scientific term for extremely low temperature. If your freezer freezes meat into bricks, you should be all good)…..
all you need to do is clip the side with some poultry shears or industrial scissors, and peel the plastic off (sort of like peeling away the skin of an apple, in that springy slinky looking peel, which you would never really want to do anyway because about 80% of all the apple’s goodness is in the skin. And tomorrow’s secret really might be that the apple is part of the rose family and it makes so much sense when they are so delicious and aromatic).
Anyhoo… by the time you have finished reading the above… well… … voila – pudding pop.
I am just sharing the love, that’s all.
60 calories (if you get the right ones), lasts about 20-30 minutes, if frozen well, with vigorous, enthusiastic licking. It’s sort of a big deal.