This is Diana from this website. I am looking for a recipe for as I call them "Cho Cho Bars". I had them when I was a child in the 50's. I remember having them at school where they would sell ice cream in small individual sizes like Eskimo Pies, and Ice Cream Sanwiches, etc.
These Cho Cho's were a malted flavor ice cream or ice milk that came on a stick and the Cho Cho's were circular. They were wrapped in paper (no plastic wrap back then), and you would roll the Cho Cho in the palms of your hands to soften the ice cream, so you could remove the paper and eat the ice cream.
If anyone remembers these, please let me know, and if anyone has a recipe for them, or a "Malted Flavor Ice Cream", or frozen dessert, I'd really appreciate you sharing it with me.
Thank you in advance.
Diana
Diana's Desserts Website.
I remember Cho Cho Bars from the 50's very well. I really loved them and purchased them from the corner candy store. I have searched off and on through the internet to see if anyone else remembered them or had a recipe but haven't been successful until your post.
Have you had any results?
Patty
Thanks for responding to me post on the Discussion Forum. No I haven't had any luck either. No one, except yourself has replied to my post on Cho Cho Bars. There must be people, (other than you and I) that had them and someone must have a recipe.
I also did a search on the internet with no results. They were so good, weren't they?
Well, if I get any responses, I will post the information here, and if anyone has a recipe, I'll put it on my website under Frozen Desserts in My Recipe Book on this website.
Good luck, and who knows maybe someones will know something.
Where did you grow up at, if you don't mind me asking. I grew up in San Francisco, and I thought maybe they might be a local treat of some kind.
Sincerely, Diana
Diana's Desserts
Patty
Best regards, Debra
I might have a malt flavored ice cream recipe. Not sure. It will take some looking through old recipes. I will pass along a malted brownie recipe I have that is very good. I love the flavor of malt in food and drinks.
I am going out of town for the week so it will be when I return.
Martha
Sincerely, Martha
When you return I'd love for you to submit your recipes for Malted Brownies, and Malt Flavored Ice Cream.
I've never made malted brownies, sounds good.
Have a good trip.
Sincerely, Diana
Best regards, Debra
The only one who remembered them was my dad. The rest of my family thought I was nuts and, over the years, I began to wonder if they were right - LOL! I could never find anyone else who remembered them.
Thanks much for the reminiscing. Cho-Cho's were great!
the responses it appears it was not local to Seattle
like I thought, but in several places in the USA.
I think the product was produced in many locations
by local dairy or ice cream makers.
The reason I believe that is the product I bought
was always perfect. If you think back to buying
frozen foods shipped from accross country in the
50's, before freeways, often the frozen package
was like an ice block or encrusted with ice.
I suggest checking your local dairy and ice cream
makers and see if they have a website that might
have a history or someone you could call.
I look forward to finding a source for cho cho's or a
recipe.
Bob
website. www.tuckersicecream.com
The description of Cho Cho on the website sounds
like the real deal. So if you are in the Alameda, CA
area, please check it out and let us know if it is
what you remember.
Bob
Bob
That's great. How did you find the website for Tucker's Ice Cream. It's like a miracle.
I live about an hour's drive from Alameda, so one of these days, I'll have to take a drive there and try their Cho Cho's. They certainly sound exactly like the ones I had as a child. I just can't believe it.
Thank you so much, and when I go there, I will bring a container (filled with ice or those Ice Packs) and bring some home and put them in my freezer. I'll also let you know how they taste. I can't wait!!
Sincerely, Diana
Diana's Desserts
been trying things in Google and what worked was
a search that is:
"chocolate malt ice cream cho cho".
That did it! I figured everyone tried "cho cho", so
was looking for another approach. I just wish I
was closer to try it myself. I am in Seattle, so let
me know if it is the real thing, if so the next time in
Calif, I will go there myself.
Please check if they make it themselves or buy
from a distributor.
Regards.
Bob
I found the following site on the Web and this sttore specifically talks about having the Cho Cho Bar on it's menu under Fountain Items.
http://www.tuckersicecream.com/products.htm
Hope this helps.
I didn't realize there was a 2nd page of msgs.
Hope you were able to make a connection and indulge in a great treat.
We didn't have these in Canada that I recall but found this while looking through the internet. Thought it might bring back memories for those of you who used to enjoy them. I love malted anything so I can imagine how good these must have been.
Maureen
Best Regards, Jim
This is Diana from this website. Welcome to the Diana's Desserts Discussion Forum, and to Diana's Desserts website.
I grew up in San Francisco in the late 40's and 50's. I also don't remember the Cho Cho's having the crunch thing. I just remember the plain malted ice cream, smooth as you say.
They were great. Were the ones you had at Tucker's on a stick in a cup too?
I was thinking about taking a drive to the east bay to try them. Is it worth it?
Again, welcome. I hope you enjoy my website.
Sincerely, Diana
Diana's Desserts
In response to your question about tasting the "Cho-Cho's" at Tucker's, the choc-malt ice cream was in a cup and on a stick. Although Tucker's has been around since the 40's, I don't think they were the original Cho-Cho company. The choc-malt was smooth and good, but like I said, did not have the magical clown wrapper. I think what made Cho-Cho's fun and different was the rolling between your hands to remove the cup, wrapper, and make the consistancy perfect for that first lick. More than the ice cream, though, the nostalgia of Tucker's and the many antique stores in Alameda would be worth a trip.
Best Regards, Jim
Thank you for posting the information on Cho Cho's, and also about Tucker's Ice Cream Parlor in Alameda.
I would love to go to Tucker's, and plan to sometime during the next few months. It sounds like a great nostalgic place to visit.
I also remember rolling the cup between my hands to remove the cup and wrapper. That, as you say, along with the "first lick" was the best part of the whole Cho Cho experience.
Do you have the address for Tucker's and which highway is it off of? Is it Hwy 80?
I hope posting my experience at Tucker's Ice Cream Parlor (once I have finally made it there) for anyone who is in the Bay Area and craves those great bars, to go there and enjoy the Cho Cho's too! Thank you so much for all of your very helpful information.
Sincerely, Diana
Diana's Desserts
ChoChos
When I was a child growing up in Brooklyn, New York, I loved to eat Cho Chos so much that I got the nickname of "Cho-Cho". My family moved west when I was 10 years old and I never saw or heard of them again. Many years later, while working in the city of Oceanside, Cal., I met and married a wonderful woman. Lo and behold, while talking of our pasts, Doris mentioned how much she used to love eating cho chos as a child while visiting her grandparents in St. Louis, Mo. This was the first person I had ever met who even had heard of this treat. We often have wondered whatever happened to those delicious Cho Chos. --- George Ahrens, Brooklyn, NY 1931 (currently residing: Oceanside, CA) married to 1947 Baby Boomer: Doris Ahrens, St. Louis, MO
http://www.octanecreative.com/boomerbaby/food.html
<a href="http://www.fitnessandfreebies.com">Fitness and Freebies</a><br>
<a href="http://www.bellybytes.com">BellyBytes.com</a>
Welcome to Diana's Desserts Discussion Forum, and I hope you are having a Happy New Year.
Thank you for your idea about the dilly bars from Dairy Queen. I don't know if there are any Diary Queen's around this area where I live, but I will definitely try to find out. I know there is a Fosters Freeze in the next town to us. Some of these places like Dairy Queen and Fosters Freeze have gone out of business since the other "fast food" restaurants have become so popular, and also serve the soft serve ice cream.
When I find out, I will leave a message on this Discussion Forum, ok.
Thank you again.
Sincerely, Diana
Diana's Desserts
Milk Chocolate Malt Ice cream
Makes 1 quart
Ingredients
2 cups milk
2 cups heavy cream
8 egg yolks
10 ounces white chocolate, broken or cut into small chunks
1/2 cup Horlicks malt powder
Method
1.. In a large heavy saucepan, combine the milk and cream and bring to a boil.
2. In a large stainless steel mixing bowl, whisk the egg yolks. Gradually pour the heated liquid into the bowl, whisking constantly. Return to the saucepan and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until the mixture coats the back of a wooden spoon.
3. Meanwhile, in a small stainless steel bowl or the top of a double boiler set over barely simmering water, melt the chocolate. Whisk into the heated milk mixture. Remove 1 cup of liquid and dissolve the malt powder in it. Return to the saucepan and mix well. Strain into a large mixing bowl and chill over ice cubes and cold water.
4. Freeze in an ice-cream maker according to manufacturers instructions.
Chocolate Malt Ice Cream
3 ounces unsweetened baking chocolate, chopped
1 cup sugar
4 to 6 tablespoons malted milk powder
2 cups half and half
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup whipping cream
2 teaspoons vanilla
Combine chopped chocolate, sugar, malted milk powder and half and half in heavy, medium saucepan. Place over low heat and cook, stirring, until chocolate is completely melted and sugar is dissolved. Bring mixture to a simmer and cook 1 minute, stirring constantly. Slowly beat hot chocolate mixture into eggs in bowl. Return mixture to pan. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly with whisk or wooden spoon, until custard thickens slightly. Be careful not to let mixture boil or eggs will scramble.
Remove from heat. Pour through strainer into large, clean bowl. At this point, custard should be homogeneous. If you see specks of chocolate, allow custard to cool slightly, then pour custard into blender and blend 30 seconds. Pour back into bowl. Stir in cream and vanilla. Cover and refrigerate until cold or overnight.
Stir chilled custard, then process in 1 or 2 batches in ice cream machine according to manufacturer's directions. When finished, ice cream will be soft but ready to eat. For firmer ice cream, transfer to freezer-safe container and freeze at least 2 hours.
Makes about 1 quart or 8 servings.
Chocolate Malt Ice Cream
1 1/3 cups sugar
1 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 cup boiling water
1 cup malt powder
6 cups whole milk
Combine the first 3 ingredients in a bowl; stir well with a whisk. Add malt
powder, stir until dissolved. Stir in milk; cover & chill. Pour mixture into
the freezer can of an ice-cream freezer; freeze according to manufacturer's
instructions.
Thank you so much for the Chocolate Malt Ice Cream recipes. I appreicate you taking the time to search for them. I will let you know when I try them, ok.
Sincerely, Diana
Diana's Desserts
SG
Yes, it's so amazing that there are so many of us who remember Cho Cho's, especially from the 50's.
I tried another malt type treat from Walgreen's last year and it was not as "rich and tasty" as the Cho Cho's.
I guess Cho Cho's are just one more memory we will have to keep in our minds from the good old 50's. Those were the days, weren't they? A time, when life (at least it seems) was so much simpler and less complicated.
Thank you for sharing your story about Cho Cho's. It seems that they were experienced by "kids" all over the country. I used to get them at the "snack bar" at school during lunch time. They also had in packages, ice cream sundaes, eskimo pies (the real one's back then), etc. Do you remember, I think it was called, Bierly's or something like that, a soft drink that came in several flavors? That's another "long gone" soft drink from the 50's. At least, I haven't seen it around since then.
Take care and hope you enjoy my website.
Diana, Diana's Desserts
A Website Dedicated to Home Baker's
Sincerely, Diana
Diana's Desserts
sue
Yes, it's true. So many of us remember those good old "Cho Cho" Bars, and they were definitely REAL.
It seems kids from coast to coast loved those great little malted chocolate ice cream bars on the wooden sticks. What a nice memory, isn't it. They were so good.
Glad you found my website, and dropped into Diana's Desserts Discussion Forum.
Take good care.
Sincerely, Diana
Diana's Desserts
When my brothers and I were growing up in south Georgia, Mama would drive us out to the Village Green (a hamburger joint in our small town) on Saturday nights for a treat. For at least a couple of years, that treat was usually a Cho-Cho, a marvelous frozen malted milk treat on a stick that looked to have been made in a small Dixie cup. Because we loved them so, we named a kitten we found after the treat.
Unfortunately, the cat came to a disastrous end in an accident one Easter Sunday. The next week, when we went to the Village Green, there were no more Cho-Chos and no one even remembered them. Until now, my remaining brother and I have felt we were living in a "Twilight Zone," because we have never found ANYONE who had heard of Cho-Chos! I can't wait to tell him we're not crazy after all.
What a wonderful thing it would be if someone would begin making them again. As I recall, they came in a plain version and a "crunchy topped" version, with chocolate crunchies similar to crushed Grapenuts in texture.
Thanks for the memories.
Frankie
Marietta, GA
My husband has been telling me about Cho-Cho Bars for over 30 years and I also thought he was crazy. He grew up in Ohio and said he ate these every day in the summer at the local swimming pool. This weekend we attended an antique show and lo and behold what did we find but a Cho-Cho Bar waxed cup! Naturally, we had to buy it!
Just wanted to share the picture with everyone so you could all flash back to the 50s together!
Since I wasn't sure if I could post a picture here, I'll just include the link from my FTP space.
Cho-Cho Bar cup
Helen
Thank you so much for sharing the picture of the Cho Cho cup. You see, we're not really crazy or imagining things. Your husband was right all of these years.
It's great to know that all of us have these wonderful childhood memories and I don't know if it would be the same if we were to miracuriously have all these goodies now in the new milenium. It probably just wouldn't be the same!!
Thank you again for the photo and take good care.
Sincerely, Diana
Diana's Desserts
Kid from the Mission
This is Diana from this website. I am also a native San Franciscan and went to Lowell, and then to Galileo for my last 2 years of high school. What a small world. Do you still live in the city? I have moved up to Sonoma county where we have more room for our dogs.
So, Cho Cho's were made by Carnation. I don't know if Carnation is still in businees or if they were bought out by Nestle. Wish they still made those wonderful Choc Cho's and also I do remember those red wax lips. Great, huh?
That website you speak about from the Russian River at Rio Nido sounded great. What happened to it?
Well, take care fellow San Franciscan, and I hope you continue to visit my website.
Kid from Lakeside Village - Junipero Serra Blvd.
PS. I went to Commodore Sloat Elementary School.
Sincerely, Diana
Diana's Desserts
Steve
Hometown Favorites will try to find lost foods for you and also has a list of foods not sold or made anymore. I had them look for Nabisco's marshmallow sandwich cookies once, they were two vanilla wafer cookies (soft) with marshmallow in the middle. They were so delicious. I came to find out, two months before my quest, Nabisco stopped making them.
The Vermont Country Store, also searches for lost products and foods. Hope this might help.
Always Have Fun Baking
Carol Cugliani
Susan
Carnation Milk Ice-Cream #64316
2 cans evaporated milk
1 cup sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 pinch salt
2 teaspoons gelatin (dissolved in 1/4 cup very warm water and allow to stand until mixture is clear)
4 litres Change size or US/metric
7 minutes 5 mins prep
1. Beat salt, vanilla and milk at medium to fast speed until ingredients triple in bulk.
2. Gradually while still beating add sugar followed by gelatine.
3. Place in container and freeze for several hours stirring occasionally.
http://www.recipezaar.com/64316
For basic malt
1 egg
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 scoops ice cream
Yesterday at a family BBQ, my brother and I were talking about the ice cream man coming by in his truck and my mother giving us .07 for the wonderful Cho Cho Ice Cream Bar! That was 45 years ago, but we still remember how delicious it was. He travels all over the state for his job, and says he still looks for this illusive ice cream bar. Does anyone know where to buy it? Thanks! LillianI
still no find?
Cho cho's were ubiquitous in the '50's. I am so surprised there is no
real history of production or former makers or employees that
remember them who wish to discuss.
Will start looking again. Only Tucker's in Alameda has them. But
based on an earlier post, they don't compare at all to what most of us
recall
Oh well, let's not give up.
bob
Bob
The mix, that is, the raw mixture used for cho chos, was purchased from the franchiser. My boss ran the mix through his ice cream freezer and created the soft ice cream, much like what you will see in a frozen custard stand. I took that bucket full of soft ice cream and placed it into a gadget with a hopper, a hand crank, and by turning the crank, could fill the cups.
There may have been variations on the cho cho product, however, the only one I ever saw was the kind I made. No coatings or crunchies. The cho chos were sold in a cup with a stick and sealing cover that also held the stick in position while the ice cream was soft. The newly filled cups were then placed in the freezer where they hardened before delivery to the local stores and "root beer stands" and "drive-ins", as we were wont to call them.
I don't know how the rest of you are when it comes to soft ice cream, but I am a sucker for it, and soft cho chos were paritcularly seductive. There were days at the cho cho filler where I swear I ate more than I put into the cups. Fortunately for the company, cho chos were a once-a-week operation, so my pilfering of the malted treasure did not bankrupt them.
It would be great to be able to find a cho cho today, but I think they are no longer produced. A web search was not successul in turning up any indication of a current manufacturer. I did find that Horlick, a Racine Wisconsin company, invented the malt flavoring. This link will give you a very brief history of Horlick:
http://racine.wi.net/c2f5.php3
By the way, the ice cream company I worked for is still small, and still proudly in business in spite of today's ice cream giants. It's Mauel's Dairy in Owen, Wisconsin, and it's still in the Mauel family's hands, third generation. They do not appear to have a web site. The founder has been gone for many years, and his son is retired, and the next time I see him, I am going to ask him about cho chos. If I learn anything, I will let you know.
And thank you, Diana, for asking this question, because I have wondered about the fate of cho chos for a long time.
JJ
Thank you for all of your great information on Cho Cho's. Wow, what an amazing and very informative story.
In a way, you are part of the history of Cho Cho's. You actually made them. I'm impressed!
I wonder if the retired son of the Mauel family would consider making them again, although he probably doesn't have the recipe. There are certainly enough people out there from our generation who would buy the product and I know the kids today would love them too!
I remember (back in the 50's) being at grammar school, it would be lunch time and they'd open up the ice cream stand which was near the school's playgroud and I'd run over when they would raise the door of the stand, and I so looked forward to getting my Cho Cho. I'd buy it (couldn't have cost very much, maybe a nickle), rub it between my hands to soften the ice cream and then lick, lick, lick it until it was all gone. Good memories, huh!
Hope to hear back from you again.
Sincerely, Diana
Diana's Desserts
I just commented to my wife, rhetorically, of course, "I wonder what ever happened to cho chos. Do you remember them? I'm gonna log on to the internet and see if I can find out about them". She indeed remembers them, and I logged on, and that's how I found your forum.
As for the Mauel Dairy, I do have ties to Owen, but they're tenuous at best. I go back annually (almost) for the high school reunions, but that won't be until next July. I'll be sure to ask about the cho chos, God willing. I would guess, however, that the recipe was held by the franchising company, but it is probably quite close to one of those that was posted on your site. Maybe there's an entrepreneurial opportunity here.
By the way, I didn't really make cho chos, I just filled the cups. That's why I put "made" in quotes.
Thanks for replying.
JJ
Just to let you know, they were my favorite too. This was in Everson, Pa. about 30 miles SE of Pittsburgh. The time frame would have been in the late 40's or early 50's.
For some reason, Bordon's comes to mind. Anybody else remember that name.
George in Hudson Florida.
very nice....
i would like to offer a suggestion to help you find your cho chos
there is this great show on FOODNETWORK called
UNWRAPPED with Marc Summers-- i bet he could help you find this treat!
i was only born in 62 so my fond memories are only of the good humor ice cream carts with bells ringing and this was in long beach ny where some of my family lived
good luck
cookie01
Thank you for your input on the Cho Cho search. Maybe someone will contact Marc Summers at the Food Network and see if he can help.
Take care.
Sincerely, Diana
Diana's Desserts
Imagine my surprise after googling "cho cho ice cream" after a conversation with a co-worker to find a lengthy on-line discussion about them. I remember them from my youth in the 50's. My sister and I walked to a little neighborhood store to get them as often as we could! This was in a small town in western Pennsylvania. The flavor was incredible, but I was beginning to believe I had dreamed them up! Noone else I talk to seems to know about them or remember them. I'm also in favor of someone releasing them again as long as they have the original taste!
Hope this helps.
But on to the topic at hand - Cho-Cho Ice Cream Bars.
This (scroll down past the clown) is what I remember them looking like, not so much a bar but a paper cup with a stick in the middle.
I am originally from Cincinnati and when the Cho-Cho novelty disappeared we substituted with the United Dairy Farmers Chocolate Malt to get the fix!
Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep, and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and be saved.
Medieval German saying
This message was edited by RedZinner on 6-25-07 @ 7:29 AM
SharonS
BLUESKY2
WOULD BE THE ONE TO " dig " into this.......
BLUESKY2
He can let us know what he finds through Diana's Desserts web site.
I would love to have one or more before I buy the farm.
Don
http://www.allscream.com/mboard/
Let me know...
If you can't get into the site, let me know and I'll do some typing.
Don
I am from Enola also and a friend of mine was talking about cho cho ice cream. I now own the whistle stop and thought if i could get these it would be a great addition. The guy i was talking to and my grandmother were saying about buying the cho cho (it must of have been from you) with the ice cream cart and that their friends dad had an ice cream factory in Shypolk and about Spagnola's. What a small world.
Growing up in San Francisco in the 1950's, I thought Cho Cho's were from a local creamery. I had no idea they were national. The ones I remember were smooth (no nuts, no candy chips) and extremely creamy malted milk ice cream The cup was small and had a picture of a clown's face. Same deal with the stick and rolling the cup in your hand to loosen the cup-shaped ice ceam on a stick.
Diana, have you had any luck with finding a recipe?
Thanks for the chance to reminisce with my 25-year old son. Just told him that Cho Cho's were 7 cents at the corner store. (He's checking my pulse now).
Regards,
Shiz
Shiz
Happy Cho Cho for 2008
This message was edited by Zuma on 1-1-08 @ 9:49 PM
This message was edited by Suerivers on 2-18-08 @ 1:19 PM
I have really enjoyed watching these posts for this discussion. It really is amazing how food can bring up such fond memories....All the best in hunting down this recipe....
Warmly,
Ingrid
Although the original Cho Chos are apparently no longer available, North Star has a chocolate frosted malt product which appears to be similiar.
www.northstarfrozentreats.com
For those not familiar with the Cho-cho, this description appears on an Internet posting by a former campground owner:
"It was a chocolate malted ice cream in a dixie-cup-type container with a plastic lid. You got a popsicle stick with it which you pushed through the lid. You rolled the cup in your hands to soften it up a bit, then removed the cup and had a 'popsicle' to eat. It kind of tasted like a Wendy's chocolate frosty but much creamier and MUCH better! We sold those at our campground for years, and then Bechtel's got new machinery and couldn't fill the smaller cups any more so they stopped making them. That was a sad, sad day at our campground, and I'm sure many others in the area."
The Cho-Cho Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin made these originally. Apparently other companies packaged these as well, possibly including HP Hood Dairy.
Joni
Joni
You will be happy to know that we have a company in northern California who sells cho cho's.
Tucker's
1349 Park St
Alameda Calif
LAkehurst 2-4960 (lol at phone number)
(tuckersicecream.com)
I copied the phone number right off the cho cho paper cup. Alameda area code is 510.
I hope this helps!!
All I can go by is that Tucker's sells cho cho's, we enjoyed one tonight and it was good. Obviously, it's been a few years since they were main stream so I can't accurately compare the old to the new in some kind of taste test.
Good luck with finding a cho cho that meets your standards.
It was not my intent to win some award or garner recognition for my information. I read the first post and felt it was such a coincidence that we had cho cho's this very night - that's all. That may be why I came across as excited.
My apologies for not reading all 8 pages on this subject before adding my information. If I had done that perhaps I would have passed and it would have saved me from registering and now having to explain myself. Guess you said it best - 'nice try'.
no need to reply - I'm not posting here again.
I want sfgate and bademento to agree to "disagree". Life is too short.
Let's all remember Cho Cho's the way we individually experienced them in our own way, alright?
Thank you sfgate for sharing your experience with us and bademento, thank you for your input as well.
Hopefully, someday, the original Cho Cho's will be made again.
Sincerely, Diana
Diana's Desserts
Yours,
JOEL
Yours,
JOEL
Yours,
JOEL
Joel Jackson
Yours,
JOEL
be customers for a revival! Renay
I decided to goggle up "Cho Cho Ice Cream" and Diane's site appeared. The power of the internet is terrific ... but the memory of a "Cho Cho" is PRICELESS!
Bob Wylan
Bob Wylan
Yours,
JOEL
He made the delicious cho cho's on the site and had a contract with the manufacturer for the secret ingredients. I was 10 or 11 years old at the time and have no specifics about who the manufacturer was.
I just remember rolling the cho cho's in my hands and enjoying the results.
My sister and I sometimes had some of the cho cho product in a bowl as it came out of the ice cream maching. Too good!
I would certainly like to try one again and time travel back to the 50's.
Regards.
Mike Craig
my dad made cho cho's.
Schell's Ice Cream/Drive in
4625 N 5th Street Hwy, Temple, PA 19560
(610) 929-9660
They call them CHO Cups now- but they are just like the old ones.
I have 2 dozen in my freezer now.
They make theirs in a "Taylor" ice cream machine and tap them into a small dixie type cup with a cardboard top and a popcycle stick. ( I saw them doing them last week) I guess it's a mix? Anyway, they are frozen, you roll them in your hand and pop them out of the cup. MMMMMMMMM!!!
I provided their contact info for those who wish to know.
Always on a quest,
This message was edited by donJ on 9-12-08 @ 7:00 AM
talks about the Polar Bear Ice Cream Parlor from 1950's.
I remember Mike's dad, I went to school a block away and would buy
Cho Cho's there. Mike's dad and the woman who may have been his
mom or an employee were always very nice to me.
Once a month of so, my parents would give me enough money to have
hamburger and fries, and a Cho Cho. I was 10-12 years old, a little kid
going to lunch by myself, it was fun.
Great memory, but now Mike said it, they had a recipe, so probably a
typical store like Polar Bear probably made their own, so no creamery
or big ice cream maker may have been involved.
The search continues.
Thanks Mike for the post.
Bob
Great fun!
The closest malt-like ice cream out there right now would probably be Wendy's Malt drink which is a softer version of the old Cho-Cho bar in a milk shake form.
Phil
Re: Cho-chos and other east coast memorbilia..
Being an original jersey girl from the 60's, I surely remember malty cho-cho bars with the crunchy coating. I found them once a very long time ago when I was living in the SF bay area in the 70's; but grew up enjoying them originally on the east coast along with Drake cakes Ring Dings (and why has the size of ring dings gotten so small??), Devil Dogs, Bosco chocolate syrup and Wise potato chips. And let's not forget the original crystalized, crunchy ovaltine, not this freeze-dried grandules. By the way, does anyone remember the kid's TV shows Norton Nork (Sandy Becker) and Diver Dan?
Ciao, JG
Yours,
JOEL
I moved to Seattle almost 10 years ago; is the parlor still there on Queen Anne? Maybe your dad had the contract with Good Humor company? I thought that's who originally manufactured them but I could be wrong.
Ciao, JG
The ice cream parlor has been gone for years. It was at 7th and McGraw on Queen Anne Hill. Thanks for asking.
Mike Craig
my dad made cho cho's.
Right now the best new lead seems to be the PA location mentioned on the previous page. I'm pretty sure Cho Cho's were not a Good Humour brand.
As to the lead in the state of PA, at least it is claimed that they are being made there. The location and phone number was posted earlier. Wish I lived within a few hours...I would check it out for all.
Don
Thanks,
Jerry Overbey
I do remember the little cup with the clown but mostly I remember the creamy malted ice cream. It wasn't until I started searching the internet that I discovered other areas of the US had them
I am going to run out to Wendy's and get a malt...surely it can't be the same. I once did find a frosted malted and I was all aflutter that I found it here on the peninsula. Well, I took one bite and pitched it. Not a Cho Cho it was icy. Obviously you all know what that means!
Thanks for going the extra mile in this mystery. Let us know the details...such as price and if they consider it a secret mixture. If this is the true Cho Cho, they'll have more business once the word gets out.
Don
JONI
Joni
We're looking for the name of the original manufacturer. I've seen a reference to a company called the CHO CHO Company, Milwaukee, WI but I can't confirm it.
Any information at all would be greatly appreciated.
was patented and might be available that way?
Renay
Kid from the Mission
and bought some chocolate ovaltine and some Carnation Malt and thought perhaps I will get lucky! Any creative cho cho chemists care to also experiment on this?
If your Wendys doesn't have malt flavor, get Carnation Chocolate Malt in a jar and mix it in then Freeze. Granted,it's NOT the same.
ON A QUEST
Yours,
JOEL
She told me of a place called "Schells Dairy Swirl" in Temple, PA. Phone # (610) 939-9676. I called and talked to the mgr. They make the cho-cho's on site 2 times a week and are trying to come up with a way to package and ship them out of state. He said he will call me as soon as he gets more information. I will pass the information along.
Hope this helps. I can't wait to have one again.
Maybe it is like See's candy it just isn't as good when it is shipped or pre-packaged. Maybe they change formulas to withstand the long distance? My sister worked for Ghiradelli and I think she said that at one time they refused to ship the candy, during the summer, to destinations outside of CA. The chocolate just wouldn't make it.
Hey, For you San Franciscans...remember the original Flicks? They stopped making them for similar reasons. I digress.
I am anxious to try the ones in Temple PA. I also called. If they get enough phone calls, they might start shipping. So, everyone call and ask for them to ship. The telephone number is 610-939-9676, Schells Dairy Swirl.
I stop at Schells weekly and the Mgr says he didn't get chance to check into shipping cost yet. They sell their cho-cups "CHO CHO's" for about $9.99 a dozen.
Badmento- i think you are in NY just 150 + - miles up I-78 from me
Always on a quest,
I remember Flicks - didn't Ghiradelli make them? They came in green and red tubes. I remember when SF bay area introduced the 'cherry ripe' bar from Australia in the early 80's; they stopped shipping them not long after; don't know why they were 'food of the gods' - cherry flavored coconut, bits of maraschino cherry enrobed in dark chocolate. I'll be migrating there eventually within the year and will have my fill of them then I'm sure.
Ciao, JG
Yes, Flicks were our movie favs. My sister worked for Ghiradelli and they told her that the original Flicks were so difficult to make and ship that they discontinued them. I think they outsourced them and they didn't take off. Duh.
I don't remember the Australian. But I do remember there was a Cherry sort of version of the Mountain Bar. My sister remembers all of this kind of stuff I am going to send her this blog...it is a kick.
Come on back...
Kid from the Mission
Kid from the Mission
Yours,
JOEL
By the way, I am not from Reading, TX? I am originally from Reading, PA but now reside in Schertz, TX (right outside San Antonio) for the last 25 years. But I still miss PA, especially in the summer and fall, it can get brutal in this heat and there is not much color when fall arrives! And, the worst is that there are no Cho Cho's to eat!
I believe my only problem with having Cho Cho's shipped will be the Texas Heat melting them before I can eat one! Yesterday it was up to 100 degrees!
Anyway, I'll have to at least try once to have them shipped, probably during the winter when it is a little cooler.
Brings back many, many memories!!!!
Kindest Regards, Gloria
I had them in the 50's from a drug store. They had a fizzy liquid, cherry syrup, and heavy cream in them. They were wonderful. I have attempted to replicate the drink and was not successful. Can anyone help?
Gloria
Kindest Regards, Gloria
Kid from the Mission
Dora
more later
Joni
This message was edited by jonitn on 12-3-08 @ 11:48 AM
Side note: They all sold for 10 cents. If I was paid with ten pennies, three or four of them were Indian head pennies. I don't know if Spagnolos is still around as I have lived in the west for 53 years now.
Just me,
John
on her U.S.Navy ship! I wonder if that means that military commisaries would have them? I am not military-so can someone who is check this out? If they
are available - Please find out who is making them?
Thanks for the memories.
Lou
called a Mister Malty...
Flicks were discontinued when they could not find parts for the old machinary when the company moved from SF.
..........bucko here in Redwood City.Ca.
BUCKO
search online shows a clown that was used for advertising. I'll continue to
look and see if I see the company name. One site mentioned how you ate
them by using a popsicle stick that was inserted into a slit in the cup top
and then I'm guessing the warmth of your hand helped loosen the ice
cream from the cup to pull it out and eat it. Sounds messy but delicious!
http://tinyurl.com/oqwxwu
Oregon Baker
jerry
I am 66 and still run to every new ice cream truck and ask if they have Cho Cho's, or what they have in a malted type ice cream. Nothing is as close as Schell's in Temple, PA. I've tried recipes at home too. Nada, nothing, whatever, it is what it is.
I'll have to tell everyone that Schells is the closest thing to it. Do they ship at all? I really could use one now after all this talk!
I now live about 40 miles north of Reading, PA and get back often to visit relatives. About 20 years ago I could always go directly to Muhlenberg dairy and by the Cho Chos by the cases. But alas, the dairy closed. My next definite stop will be Schell's! Thanks for all the great memories.
West Reading, PA Piasana
This message was edited by Piasana on 6-6-09 @ 8:14 PM
I ate cho chos in the '40s.
The cho chos made by Muhlenberg Dairy did not taste like the original cho chos. Muhlenberg Dairy is now out of business.
The cho cho's sold today by Shell's Dairy Swirl in Temple do not taste like the original cho cho's of the '40's & 50's. Everybody I talk to agrees with me.
I live just a few miles from Shell's in Temple, PA. The cho cho's are not a big seller today and not at all popular or famous like back in the old days. I would not waste my money for shipping costs to buy Shell's cho cho's at 70 cents each.
The whole world can enjoy original cho cho's by following my recipe:
How to make Cho Cho's at Home like we ate in the 40's and 50's
None of the cho cho imitations are like the real thing.
Cho cho is about the taste, first and foremost. But, it seems, all the imitations think the cho cho is about the size and shape.
JOEL
Yours,
JOEL
laura gonzalez
Joni
This is Diana from this website. I am looking for a recipe for as I call them "Cho Cho Bars". I had them when I was a child in the 50's. I remember having them at school where they would sell ice cream in small individual sizes like Eskimo Pies, and Ice Cream Sanwiches, etc.
These Cho Cho's were a malted flavor ice cream or ice milk that came on a stick and the Cho Cho's were circular. They were wrapped in paper (no plastic wrap back then), and you would roll the Cho Cho in the palms of your hands to soften the ice cream, so you could remove the paper and eat the ice cream.
If anyone remembers these, please let me know, and if anyone has a recipe for them, or a "Malted Flavor Ice Cream", or frozen dessert, I'd really appreciate you sharing it with me.
Thank you in advance.
Diana
Diana's Desserts Website.
Ok, Diana, you now have a recipe for a cho cho closest to the original than any other so-called cho cho on the market. You have my permission to include it in your recipes.
laura gonzalez
It seems like I am the only one here old enough to have enjoyed the cho cho in the 40's, when they first came on the market. The Carnation Co. invented the cho cho, and my original recipe uses Carnation Malted Milk powder.
Go to Temple, PA where cho cho's can be bought, and ask people what they think of the cho cho and most people will wonder what you're talking about. The cho cho imitations are not at all like the originals and people do not fuss over them like in the 40's.
I wonder how long it is going to take Diana to express any appreciation or acknowledgement or gratitude for my recipe?
--------------------------------------------------
joeljackson2 said: Let's ALL remember that if we had the Original, it wouldn't taste the same. After age 50 our TASTE BUDS DIE OFF in great numbers.Let's be satisfied with a close facsimile.
---------------------------------------------------
Nonsense!!! Pure nonsense!!!
This message was edited by Richcreator on 7-23-09 @ 8:12 PM
I DO appreciate your contribution to this forum about the Cho Cho's and your recipe. I'm sorry if I hadn't said so earlier but I have been quite busy lately and am just getting to reading the forum. Please except my apologies. You have made some great contributions and given us quite a bit of knowledge and history about Cho Cho's, so thank you so very much.
Sincerely, Diana
Diana's Desserts
Mimi posted: I loved your recipe. It was hilarious!
_____________________________________________________
Can you explain what was so hilarious about my recipe?
You seem to have a strange sense of humor.
_______________________________________________________
dwells posted: For me, the Cho Cho is an ice cream bar with some crunch on the outside.
_______________________________________________________
There was no crunch on the outside of the original cho cho of the 40's. It came in a cup that you rolled in your hands to loosen and remove, creamy & smooth on a stick.
By the way...I ran over to Safeway to gather the ingredients and NO MALT. I live in an area where I can no doubt find it but it was an eye opener.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-a24mBgLjU
Joni
An original can't be invented in 1939 and again over 10 years later. An original is an original, one of a kind.
dwells said, "For me, the Cho Cho is an ice cream bar with some crunch on the outside."
The original cho cho was an ice cream in a cup. It was not an ice cream bar with a crunch. You did not have the original cho cho. You had an imitation...a copy, with a different shape and a different taste.
I don't know why you are trying to change the originality of the cho cho and you are not going to ever have The Popsicle Co. ever make an original cho cho. When the original cho cho changed from selling in a cup to selling as an ice cream bar, it ceased to be an original. And, all the cho cho's sold after the original, did not have the same unique malt taste as did the original cho cho's.
You cannot find a cho cho close to the original taste other than my recipe. You can ignore to make my cho cho recipe and twist the whole concept of cho cho's around every which way but you are only fooling yourself and those who choose to believe you.
Also learned that SF wasn't the only city with Cho Cho's.
I think I am just going to run out and get a malt and forget the quest. It was fun to see the old Cho Cho cup on the site again.
bademento posted: Unless Richcreator is 70+, he doesn't know what he is talking about.
If you wish to participate in this particular discussion about the cho cho, it would be wise and intelligent to read the thread so you don't make idiotic remarks.
I said, on 07-20-2009 @ 10:03 AM that. . . . . I was born in Reading, PA in 1935, same year as Elvis.
This makes me 73 years of age. In fact, I'll be 74 next week.
You can either enjoy an original cho cho by following my recipe and making it yourself or do without waiting in vain wishing and hoping for some popsicle company to make it for you.
quote:
Unless Richcreator is 70+, he doesn't know what he is talking about.
I'm 12 years younger than Richcreator and I well remember Cho-Cho's - in a cup - from my youth in north-central Illinois. A web search for Cho-Chos is what led me to this forum.
I enjoyed learning that there were several other version of Cho-Cho extant. I do hope that one poisonous attutude won't spoil the fun.
And, Rich, I do appreciate your making your recipe available to us.
I just reread the blog and remember that you paid $160 for the ones from Tucker's. Poor you, those are just plain disappointing.
Tom N is the other native SF person who also remembered Cho Cho's and I think he bought the cup.
Cheers. Mimi
I'd be angry too but she should be angry at herself and not angry at others.
"To the best of our knowledge Popsicle did not own the right to the
product you mentioned below.
Kind regards,
Your friends at Good Humor-Breyers"
A few pages back, someone mentioned that the Navy had Cho Cho's. But nothing was ever mentioned again. I tried searching menus ect... for the Ships but couldn't locate anything. Anyone know an active Sailor????
This thread was started by Diana in December of 2002.
Since then it has been proven that an original cho cho does not exist.
It has been proven that all imitations do not taste like a cho cho.
Do you think it is so much fun to seach for the impossible? Do you enjoy hoping and searching for something that does not exist?
Yea gads, ladies, after 8 years, deal with the truth.
In 2002 Diana requested a recipe for a cho cho. A recipe was posted a few days ago. Can't you ladies make a simple recipe and enjoy what you have been searching for for the last 8 years?
Or do you resent the fact that the recipe was created by a man?
This message was edited by dagwood on 7-28-09 @ 11:12 AM
People seem to be willing to pay 70 cents each for an imitation that tastes nothing like a cho cho or
people seem to be willing to wait until the end of time for nothing.
I made a dozen cho cho's the other day. Today I made 18 more, but I whipped the batter to incorporate more air and make them more creamy and I got 18 instead of 12. These 18 cho cho's that I made today cost me $2.25 total.
I just happened to think of something that happened a few years ago. A woman came into the diner and asked for a piece of apricot pie. The waitress said they never have apricot pie. The woman was so distressed because she craved apricot pie so bad. I said to her, "why don't you go home and make yourself an apricot pie?" She gave me a dirty look, much like the dirty look I feel like I get here.
I never buy pie or cake. I always make my own, whatever flavor I crave. I depend on nobody. And I never do without.
This message was edited by Richcreator on 7-28-09 @ 1:38 PM
To Richcreater: I might not have had the original Cho-Cho from the 50's but the ones that I had growing up in Reading, PA from the Muhlenberg Dairy were pretty **** good. If this recipe is anything close to that, I will be extremely happy.
To the rest of you, Why not try the recipe for yourselves....then you can decide if they taste the way you remember them from your younger days. What is it going to hurt.
Adios Amigos from Schertz, TX
I so appreciate all of your input, information and history on the Cho Cho. I started this forum subject on December 4, 2002 and I never expected so much interest.
I agree with some of you who have so graciously commented on this subject, but I have to agree that this was supposed to be fun, and it has now become somewhat angry. I am sad for this. I am asking that any comments made from now on be helpful and hopefully pleasant, otherwise I will have to stop this particular subject on my forum. I hate to do this as my wish was and still is that Diana's Desserts Website Forum be a place where guest's to the site can express themselves, but definitely in a PLEASANT manner.
I really care about all of you and I do hope you continue to use this forum for pleasant enjoyment and for a giving and learning experience.
Sincerely, Diana
Diana's Desserts
I use thermal and/or insulated bags.
It pays to be a thinker.
Another "Giving" and "Learning" experience.
Your Code Goes Here
Your Code Goes Here
Your Code Goes Here
Your Code Goes Here
Your Code Goes Here
This message was edited by Richcreator on 12-4-09 @ 7:48 PM
Joni
I noticed the post on page 18 immediately following the graphics post by Richcreator showing his cho cho recipe where bademento said (again in reply to the recipe) quote: "Richcreator is ruining our site" unquote
Going back to page 9, 3/16/2008, Diana had to warn bademento:
quote=Diana:Okay kids, let's keep it civil. This is definitely a friendly site and I feel sad that there is "anger" between quests.
I want sfgate and bademento to agree to "disagree". Life is too short." unquote
Who is the trouble maker here?
as a deterrent to anyone thinking to plagerize by creation.
I will be updating it frequently.
http://webstarts.com/RichCreations/
This message was edited by Richcreator on 7-31-09 @ 10:00 PM
Joni
and so is your recipe!!!!!!
RICH: I tried the recipe and it is close to what I remember. I do think it needs a little more chocolate malt though. After reading a few replies to this forum since my last, I will have to check out your website for myself.
I would like to thank you for giving me a chance to bring this great snack to my kids. They liked the Cho-Cho's so much that they ate them all in one night! They wanted me to go out the next day and get more ice cream so they could make them. I'll have to try making a gallon next time.
DIANA: Thank you for this web-site! I'll continue to watch this particular forum and i'll have to check and see what other forum's you have that I would be interested in. You have brought back a childhood memory and made it possible to pass on to another generation!
JOEL
Yours,
JOEL
I found that the Schwan food service Co. sells & delivers a Chocolate Malt Push Up. You must buy 24 @ $11.99 (50 cents each). Again, people say that there is not enough malt flavor.
This message was edited by Richcreator on 8-4-09 @ 7:14 AM
Love to all
Cookie
Cookie
quote:
I'm 67 years old and one of my best momories is my brother taking me on his bike to get a CHO CHO. The store was about a mile away The great thing about the CHO CHO are the memories. Everything taste better when your a kid, and we all want that back.
When I was a kid I could easily walk a mile for a cho cho. I didn't need a bike to go a mile. I walked 3 miles to school every day and then 3 miles back after school. Memories are for remembering what you had yesterday but don't have today. Today, thanks to Richcreator, memories are a reality. We don't have to remember Cho Cho's. All we have to do is make them and eat them. But I agree with you about everything tasting better when we were kids, like spinach and carrots and mushrooms and broccoli and we all what that taste back, don't we. duh....... :confused:
Regards
Regards
When I was 8 or 9 years old I knew the driver of the "Purity Ice Cream" truck, and about once a week we would catch him at the neighborhood store and con him out of a couple of free Cho Chos.
Also, the Topic is about the ORIGINAL CHO CHO Bars, NOT ALL THE IMITATIONS THAT CAME LATER ON!
This message was edited by dagwood on 11-10-09 @ 12:29 AM
BTW, my post was about the 40's....
Was the Purity truck connected with the Purity Dairy Bar?
Don't let the turkeys get you down.
If you own a Ford automobile today, is it an immatation because it isn't a 1903 Ford?
Y'all have a Happy Thanksgiving.
"Grandma Ikki"
This was in the 1940s. We had a summer home in Guerneville on the Russian River, a small grocery next to deSmit's Resort had Cho Chos too.
Thanks for the memory, as usual. We had our summer place at Camp Meeker. Remember the great hot dog place...I think it was Monte Rio. Started with R. Ah OH off topic. Oh we had Cho Cho's in Camp Meeker... I think. Happy Thanksgiving! Mimi
I've been eating cho cho's all summer and fall
and now I have lost a taste for them. Dreaming of the past is okay if you have nothing else but dreams but I
have cho cho's anytime so I've forgotten about the past.
http://webstarts.com/richcreations/
According to the records of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Cho Cho ice cream novelties were introduced by the Carnation Company June 6, 1939. The trademark was reassigned to the Popsicle Company in 1982. The brand/product expired in 2003. Original record here:
"Word Mark CHO-CHO Goods and Services (CANCELLED) IC 030. US 046. G & S: Ice Cream. FIRST USE: 19390605. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19390605 Mark Drawing Code (5) WORDS, LETTERS, AND/OR NUMBERS IN STYLIZED FORM Design Search Code Serial Number 71420448 Filing Date June 13, 1939 Current Filing Basis 1A Original Filing Basis 1A Registration Number 0378236 Registration Date June 4, 1940 Owner (REGISTRANT) Carnation Company CORPORATION DELAWARE 100 West 10th Street Wilmington DELAWARE (LAST LISTED OWNER) Popsicle Industries, Inc. UNKNOWN Englewood NEW JERSEY Assignment Recorded ASSIGNMENT RECORDED Type of Mark TRADEMARK Register PRINCIPAL Renewal 2ND RENEWAL 19800604 Live/Dead Indicator DEAD Cancellation Date June 22, 2001"
"America's gone Cho-Cho! Boys, girls, men, women...millions thrilled by big feast of cooling, delicious, nourishing. Chocolate Malted ice Cream for a Nickel! Yes, everywhere the great news is spreading about CHO-CHO-the brand-new "taste thrill way" to eat malted ice cream! And no wonder...for you've never had anything like CHO-CHO before! It's a big, nourishing feast of delicious ice cream, chock full of theat rich, chocolate malted flavor everybody loves. You, too, will be wild about CHO-CHO! Just think! For only a nickle you can get this big, tasty treat--on a stick--of delicious ice cream chock full of rich chocolate malted flavor. Look! it's Easy to Eat CHO-CHO. Here's all you do. Hurry to your favorite ice cream dealer's and get a CHO-CHO now. Then, one!--roll the cup between your hands. Two!--press bottoms of cup with your thumb. There!--pull out with the stick. And you're all set to enjoy the grandest-tasting ice cream sensation in years. Join the crowds that are flocking to your ice cream dealer's now. Hear them cheer this new way to eat chocolate malted ice cream. And discover an exciting new taste thrill--with CHO-CHO! See special, money-saving introductory coupon. CHO-CHO Company, Milwaukeee, Wisconsin."
---Display ad, Los Angeles Times, April 28, 1940 (p. G3) [NOTE: This ad contains illustrations of the product and copy of the coupon.] TextText
Go to my website and read all about Cho Cho's and then make your own following my recipe and you will not have any more questions and you will be in the know. Easy as pie.
http://webstarts.com/richcreations/
Try visiting this link for the "Chocolate Malt Bars" recipe - http://www.thathomesite.com/forums/load/dessertex/msg1109282029728.html?15. I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for but I hope it would help.
Happy Holidays!
Sincerely,
The Cho Cho's have been found months
ago. Haven't you read the comments? Nobody is looking
for anything like what you linked to. Are you a troll?
or
maybe you had too much to drink for the New Year?
This message was edited by Mr_Roarke on 1-1-10 @ 11:43 AM
Kid from the Mission
http://tipnut.com/homemade-popsicles/ enjoy!!!
Best To You Joel
quote:
chochome said: I can only imagine the beautiful flavor of those little dixie cup malted awesome flavored ice cream. The texture and after taste was incredible. Kids today will never experience the things we enjoyed in the old days just simple things in life.
You don't have to imagine the flavor of the cho cho anymore, chochome.
Didn't you read this thread? The cho cho recipe can be made for you to enjoy and you can let all the kids you know experience the flavor also.
You can follow directions, can't you?
Live for the moment. Don't live in the past. Follow the cho cho recipe and enjoy life as it used to be today!
claybuster
quote:
also remember the cho cho's from the late 40's and early 50's. I'm from Harrisburg, Pa. and the cho cho's were round with the base being larger then the top which allowed you to remove the paper covering more easily. There was a round wooden stick in the center of the bottom and when you pulled the paper covering off the top a round circular paper remained around the bottom of the cho cho so you didn't get your hand into the chocolate. The cho cho was a malt flavored light chocolate. I wish you could still buy them because the were SUPER delicious. claybuster
You don't have to buy them.
YOU CAN MAKE THEM! YOU CAN MAKE A MILLION OF THEM. YOU CAN EAT A MILLION OF THEM. SUPER DELICIOUS!
Follow Rich's recipe!
1 tbsp malted milk powder
1 large egg
1 cup half and half
3/4 cup granuated sugar
1 tbsp pure vanilla
3 cups heavy cream
Put malted powder, egg, half and half, sugar and vanilla in a blender and blend well. Slowly add the cream and continue blending on low speed until mixture is smooth, about 30 secs.
Freeze in ice cream maker according to mfr's directions.
Life's too short. Eat a cookie!
Lee aka Ooma
Lee,
This discussion is about cho cho's. I am confused as to why you posted a recipe that has nothing to do with cho cho's.
Cho cho's are a malted chocolate treat and the recipe you posted has no chocolate in it whatsoever. Moreover, I can be certain that the recipe you posted cannot even be modified with chocolate to come close to the actual original taste of a cho cho but Rich's recipe, already posted here, tastes exactly like the original cho cho.
Lee, if you are interested in eating a cho cho, make Rich's recipe. If you are interested in the recipe you posted, you will not be enjoying a cho cho.
No, it doesn't taste exactly the way my Cho Cho tasted. You see, there are two types of Cho Cho's (argument resurrection);originally sold in a cup and one sold as a bar later on in the 50-70's.Rich's recipe does not include the chocolate covering and the nuts/malt chunks...or whatever it was on the outside of the chocolate coating. Argue all you want as to what is a cho cho...but if you asked my ice cream man in the 60-70's he wouldm't give you ice cream in a cup.
Give it a rest on the recipe...everyone can scroll up and see it. This is an extremely long running thread, don't try killing it by bullying folks. Some day an executive from an icecream company may see the interest and begin producing again.
Diana was looking for a recipe, NOT FOR SOME ICE CREAM COMPANY TO START MAKING CHO CHO's AGAIN.
This is a recipe website and recipe forums.
Please stop trying to hijack this thread with nonsense.
You insinuate some people are trying to kill this thread and are bullying folks. LOOK IN A MIRROR, DWELLS.
My recipe is exactly what Diana was/is looking for.
Your comments are out of place and uncalled for.
I sense some people here who don't want to see the recipe I created and who are trying to ignore it and continue this discussion as if it doesn't exist. I sense jealousy and contempt by you and others.
Rich's recipe for Cho Cho's
Nancy
This message was edited by TessTruehart on 7-7-10 @ 2:17 PM
but Nancy does not dissapoint dwells.
Anybody who refuses to accept or acknowledge my recipe does so deliberately and people like Nancy and dwells are only playing contempt games.
Mike Connors
quote:
Every carnival, circus or school picnic had cho cho's. Malted flavored and easily made soft. I would love to have one today.
Mike Connors
duh . . . all you have to do to have one is follow Rich Creator's recipe . .
Also I noticed bademento posted on 6-26-2008 that she tried to create her own cho-cho recipe and failed. Is she jealous that somebody else succeeded? hmmmmmm!
Cathy Collins
Cathy
just my addition, Sharon
I've been making cho-cho's for a year now according to Rich's recipe.
You do without by waiting for someone else to make cho-cho's so you can buy them and they don't taste like a cho-cho anyway.
. . .again . . . so sad!
I was probably 6 or so. My sis and I have wondered if there was anywhere we could find them. But, we never have.
So, even in Montana we knew the wonders of cho cho's!!!
Thanks for the happy memories!
Cherri
They had a very distinctive taste kinda like a Wendy frosty but better. much better. I also recall the very first soft serve I ever ate I was about 5 at the time and they called them frosted malteds. This was in Erie ,Pa.
Was having a Wendy frosty with my Grandchild just last night and told her the story of how good Frosted malteds and cho cho bars were.That prompted a google search that brought me here. Do you remember the taste of Circus soft serve? The kind you bought at the circus under the big top. That had a distinctive taste also.
Thats what put the magic in them.
Pescatore
Gina
Are they the Ice Cream bars or the ice cream in the cup type of Cho Cho? Also, what is the name of the resturaunt?
Thanks!
This message was edited by diana on 7-14-11 @ 10:33 AM
Thanks so much.
This message was edited by diana on 7-17-11 @ 1:12 PM
with my husband. He grew up on them and they are
delicious. They sell them at the local ice cream store
near Reading, PA. I don't like chocolate ice cream so I
was apprehensive about trying one but they are far from
chocolate ice cream. They come in a cup with a stick in
the middle and you have to warm them up in your hand to
get the cover off. It's interesting to read some of the
stories on here.
market near my house on Warren St. Now it is the historically renewed
"old French Quarter" but back then it was mainly Italian people in the
area. The streets were cobblestone and the sidewalks were brick laid in
a herringbone design. The Italian street venders would come by every
evening with shave ice & Cinnamon Candy Apples.
The Cho-Cho's I had were on a stick in sort of a paper cup. Slightly
narrower at the top of the ice cream. They were chocolate malt flavor
and did not have any candy or hard dip chocolate on them. They were
wonderful.
This was about 1951 or 52.
Make it a great day,
company name that makes them.
Make it a great day,
You can still find "original" cho cho's at Schell's Dairy Swirl, located at 4625 5th Street Hwy, Temple, PA, phone number: 610-939-9676. They may be willing to tell you what's in them and then you can experiment with the recipe until you have a flavor the meets your taste; or they may be willing to part with their recipe. In any event, good luck.
Teresa
Teresa
according to lots of people, this is the recipe that comes closest to the original Cho Cho.
Cho Cho
(Recipe by Rich Creator)
1/2 gallon vanilla ice cream
3 tablespoons Carnation Chocolate Malted Milk powder
1 tablespoon Carnation Original Malted Milk powder
With a mixer, mix on high speed until creamy.
Pour into plastic drinking cups, insert a Popsicle stick, freeze.
(Note: Some recommend using 4 tablespoons of the chocolate malted milk powder instead of 3.)
This message was edited by skydancer on 9-24-11 @ 2:47 PM
were poured into a bathroom sized dixie cup, TINY by any ice
cream lover's standard; a flat popsicle stick inserted and covered
with a flat round paper cover, pierced by the stick to cover the ice
cream and act as a drip shield for the hand(AS IF!!). In Reading, PA
they were made or at least sold by Clover Farms Dairy, but they
discontinued them in the 70s or early 80s. As I recall from the other
night, it was/is a light chocolate malt as creamy as butter, one rolls
the delicate paper cup tween the palms to free the creamy malt
goodness from its paper prison and then the tongue laps furiously to
avoid dripping it all over the lap or steering wheel. I noted the
delicacy was no longer manufactured by local dairy, but a woman
who brought them back to the market for local "boomers" to revisit
the artery clogging (no doubt cuz it couldnt be this creamy
otherwise--and who cares, really?) joys of their youth. No
ingredients were listed on the single serve portions, but I will check
to see on the mass quantity pack. Not sure how it gets so creamy
since malt tends to grainy up ice cream--- think dusty road sundae!
http://www.retroplanet.com/PROD/30194
Nothing is so easy it can't be done wrong.
Nothing is so easy it can't be done wrong.
I still enjoy them when I get home to visit.
every day on my way to school that sold them. Every
time I eat a Wendy's chocolate frosty it makes me think
of them. I've also never had anyone else ever tell me
that they remember them either. I live in eastern
Pennsylvania, so they evidently were nationwide. The
cho-cho's that we had didn't have any chocolate crunch
as someone else described. Just the round frozen
malted ice cream on a stick that you rolled in your
hands to get the paper wrapper off. I wonder if a
frozen 'frosty' on a stick would taste like the cho-
cho's of past?????
Bonnie Leibold
kori
Yours,
JOEL
Kindest Regards,
MAM
cream bars as a kid. I also remember vendors at the old Sportsmans park Cardinal baseball stadium selling
them on warm days at the stadium.
I've never found a real recipe for them, but a friend who worked at a regional ice cream maker once told me that the chocolate malt ice cream also had some flour
added as well as binder to prevent quick melting of
their product. Mixed all ingredients then filled the cups and frozen. Never found out how much flour was added to the soft Ice cream. I just remember how great they tasted.
Jim
Keep it real
Jim
" I have written to most ice cream maker companies with not one reply,
" paid and filed for info from the US Patent Office and got the patent number from the Dixie cup,
" tried every recipe I found on Diane's web site and the Internet,
" Paid over $160 to have them shipped from Tucker's in CA,
" paid to have them sent from Schells Daily Bar in Temple, PA, and
" had friends bring them home from Julie's Olde Tyme Cho Cho, in Reading, PA, and from
" Wendy's.
" The only thing I haven't tried is some drink from Dairy Queen which is supposed to be like it.
None of the above taste like the Original Cho Cho. Yes, the ones made in PA taste similar to Rich Creator, but they are missing something from the 1950 version. I even tried Rich Creator a few times, using various vanilla ice cream. And yes, they taste like the ones made in PA by two different companies.
Let's try to think what the taste was like. I was thinking maybe a touch of caramel. Whatever it is, it is definitely missing from everything I have tried so far, and that is over 50 years of research.
I am so sorry for not thanking Rich Creator for his recipe for Cho Cho's. I am thanking him now (Thank you Rich so very much!!), and also I want to thank you Bruno for bringing this to my attention. Please except my apology.
Sincerely, Diana
Diana's Desserts
I was intimidated by the world
DOES ANYBODY ELSE BESIDES RICH CREATOR HAVE A RECIPE FOR CHO CHO'S?
Sincerely, Diana
Diana's Desserts
Dear Bruno,
I am so sorry for not thanking Rich Creator for his recipe for Cho Cho's. I am thanking him now (Thank you Rich so very much!!), and also I want to thank you Bruno for bringing this to my attention. Please except my apology.
>unquote<
Never in my life have I seen such a blatant disingenous apology
which reveals the true character of the person.
That is an assumption on your part. Diana may have mispelled the word except/accept.
Whatever she meant, I agree with her.
I have included on this site all of the research I have done and purchases that I have made to find the "true cho cho in a cup." I don't need a thank you. I appreciate Diana creating this site for us to share. Diana, please accept my thanks, I should have done it much sooner.
I have a problem with Bruno and Rich Creator's attitudes. They shine a dark cloud on something that was meant to be enjoyable to research and remember the past.
Diana, Please don't get discouraged or even consider closing down this site. You are making too many people happy. As Abe Lincoln said, You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you cant please all of the people all of the time . You are obviously pleasing the majority of the cho cho cup people most of the time.
I really can't figure out why it is so important to be recognized for a contribution to this site OR people choosing to continue to look further until they are content they have found it.
FREEDOM IS A GREAT THING.
Barbara DeMento
http://www.hungrybrowser.com/phaedrus/m1108M10.htm#1
Tanya R.
Good try, Thanks.
Cho's of her youth. Here is a link to a recipe for the Frosty...maybe try
making it and then freezing it into the shape you want.
http://www.food.com/recipe/wendys-frosty-67566
Good luck!
that I remember from childhood in San Francisco. On Saturday
afternoons, I would go down to my grandmother's house, two blocks
away, to watch Bar-Seven Theater. We didn't have a TV. My dad thought
that it was a "passing fancy." That turned out to be a good thing; when we
finally got one, we had the biggest screen on our block. Sorry for
digressing a bit. My grandmother would give me money to go to the
corner market to buy ice cream. I always bought Cho-Chos in the cup
with the stick. After 60+ years, I can still remember the feeling of rolling
the cup in my palms to loosen the ice cream, and I can still remember that
wonderful taste. I have enjoyed reading other people's memories of such
a unique ice cream. Thanks, Sue
Cho cho bars
According to the records of the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office, Cho Cho ice cream novelties were
introduced by the Carnation Company June 6, 1939. The
trademark was reassigned to the Popsicle Company in
1982. The brand/product expired in 2003. Original
record here:
"Word Mark CHO-CHO Goods and Services (CANCELLED) IC
030. US 046. G & S: Ice Cream. FIRST USE: 19390605.
FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19390605 Mark Drawing Code (5)
WORDS, LETTERS, AND/OR NUMBERS IN STYLIZED FORM Design
Search Code Serial Number 71420448 Filing Date June 13,
1939 Current Filing Basis 1A Original Filing Basis 1A
Registration Number 0378236 Registration Date June 4,
1940 Owner (REGISTRANT) Carnation Company CORPORATION
DELAWARE 100 West 10th Street Wilmington DELAWARE (LAST
LISTED OWNER) Popsicle Industries, Inc. UNKNOWN
Englewood NEW JERSEY Assignment Recorded ASSIGNMENT
RECORDED Type of Mark TRADEMARK Register PRINCIPAL
Renewal 2ND RENEWAL 19800604 Live/Dead Indicator DEAD
Cancellation Date June 22, 2001"
"America's gone Cho-Cho! Boys, girls, men,
women...millions thrilled by big feast of cooling,
delicious, nourishing. Chocolate Malted ice Cream for a
Nickel! Yes, everywhere the great news is spreading
about CHO-CHO-the brand-new "taste thrill way" to eat
malted ice cream! And no wonder...for you've never had
anything like CHO-CHO before! It's a big, nourishing
feast of delicious ice cream, chock full of theat rich,
chocolate malted flavor everybody loves. You, too, will
be wild about CHO-CHO! Just think! For only a nickle
you can get this big, tasty treat--on a stick--of
delicious ice cream chock full of rich chocolate malted
flavor. Look! it's Easy to Eat CHO-CHO. Here's all you
do. Hurry to your favorite ice cream dealer's and get a
CHO-CHO now. Then, one!--roll the cup between your
hands. Two!--press bottoms of cup with your thumb.
There!--pull out with the stick. And you're all set to
enjoy the grandest-tasting ice cream sensation in
years. Join the crowds that are flocking to your ice
cream dealer's now. Hear them cheer this new way to eat
chocolate malted ice cream. And discover an exciting
new taste thrill--with CHO-CHO! See special, money-
saving introductory coupon. CHO-CHO Company,
Milwaukeee, Wisconsin."
---Display ad, Los Angeles Times, April 28, 1940 (p.
G3) [NOTE: This ad contains illustrations of the
product and copy of the coupon.]
Many people recall this particular frozen treat with
fondness. Some memories here.
few so didn't know that this was already discussed.
question about the Cho-Cho ice cream bar. I've never
had them, I'm only nineteen, but I've found a few sites
describing them, and I've seen (and made) something
very similar. All you need is an ice cream maker, a
basic chocolate ice cream recipe and some malt (the
kind you just stir into milk, like Carnation brand).
Any ice cream recipe can be altered to incorporate
malt. After you make the ice cream, let it stay soft
for a few minutes and push it into 5 oz Dixie cups (or
the like). Place a circle of food-safe cardboard or
parchment paper over the top and push a Popsicle stick
through into the soft ice cream; freeze until hard. Or
just make it easy and use a popsicle mold...
Mad as a Hatter
Spagnolo Ice Cream Company in Harrisburg, PA. To give
just one example of how popular the Cho Cho's were here
in the 1950's, I will just tell you that a mention of
them, during a private conversation, at small grocery
store in Hershey last week, elicited comments from at
least 4 nearby shoppers. One women said, "Did you say
something about Cho Cho's? Where can I get some? I
haven't had one in years. They were my favorite."
Text
Eat more Cho Cho's
Mary Kathryn
I'm here to discuss Cho-Chos, somebody brought up old ice cream favorites on facebook and I thought about them, the search led me here and what a great thread it was. but I skimmed a little and will go back and see what I missed later.
Anyway I want to add what I have to offer to this topic.
My era of Cho-Chos was from approximately 1965 thru sometime in the 70s. My parents ran a country store which I later helped out at, and we had a selection of ice cream which included the Cho-Cho popsicles, the wrapper had some dark green in it, I can't seem to find a pic of it on the internet though. These popsicles were standard and not the ones depicted from the earlier days molded in a cup. It was the malted chocolate ice cream with a chocolate coating with crunchy bits. For years I have seen the various attempts at these by current brands but they often have vanilla ice cream, never have I tasted a similar one.
As for the pure chocolate malt in a cup, as I recall, the same vendor provided these, they were in a cup and were purely chocolate malt ice cream, I think they were just called Chocolate Malt Cup or something like that but weren't as good as Cho-Chos.
I'd love to both see a picture of the wrapper and have one again, somehow I find it hard to believe somebody somewhere isn't making them.
Yours,
JOEL
ice cream truck in the 1950s..They were called CHO CHO POPS on
Long Island New York....They were a malted milk Ice cream bar that
was covered with a chocolate shell that had rice Krispy type things in
it...I have been looking for these for years....I have never seen the
other kinds you are talking about.. These were not in stores in New
York, only delivered by the ice cream man....
Barbara--You have never lived till you
have done something for someone
that can never repay you...
I'm brand spanking new to this site, so I haven't read all the other comments yet. What brought me to this site was that just a couple of days ago I was thinking back to my childhood and for some strange reason cho chos came to mind. From what I understand, all people as they get older have this thing about spending a lot of their time thinking good thoughts about things long ago. I know that as I get older, I do that. Well, when I was a child in Trumann, AR., my Dad owned a grocery store and I worked there quite a bit. Lots of times when things would be slow, Dad and I would take the time to eat some type of ice cream. Some of these were: Wonder Bars, Push Ups, Fudgecicles, Dreamcicles, Popcicles, and of course Cho Chos. I also remember that two brands of ice cream that we sold were Midwest and Sealtest. I can't remember if there were others. But, I do remember eating cho chos, so I suppose that one of these companies made them.
NESTLE CORPORATION:
I just received a reply from Nestle (who owns
Carnation, the original company that made Cho Cho's.
My response from them calls for action by anyone who
would want to see Cho Cho's made again. Please read
on and reply to Nestle using the Case #26023731
Subj:
Response from Nestle Case ID: 26023731
Date: 8/21/2014 1:55:43 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
From: nestle@casupport.com
To: bademento@aol.com
Nestle Drumstick Customer Service Email Page 1 of 1
Friday, August 22, 2014 AOL: BADeMento
Dear Ms. DeMento,
Thank you for your email letting us know of your
disappointment in being unable to find
Nestlé® Carnation® Ice Cream at your local market. I
realize how frustrating it can be when you
can't find your favorite dessert treats.
Unfortunately, this particular product line has been
discontinued. Each year, we evaluate our
current flavors and products, adding some new ones
while discontinuing those that aren't selling
as well. We listen closely to our consumers and if we
hear from enough shoppers who share your
disappointment, we will certainly consider bringing
this product back into our line-up.
The specific recipe for this ice cream is proprietary
information, therefore we would be unable to
share it with you.
We appreciate your taking the time to contact our
company to let us know of your flavor
preference.
Sincerely,
Kimberley Jones
Consumer Response Representative
Ref:26023731
TextTextText
start making them again...I did my part, now everyone else needs to
get on the band wagon..lol....I would love to introduce my
grandchildren to CHO CHO POPS!!
Barbara--You have never lived till you
have done something for someone
that can never repay you...
ever remember having it was at the lake we used to belong to.
Lakeland Acres in Cortland, NY) They were my absolute favorite!
Today, my husband and I stopped in our nearby Rite Aid where they
actually sell ice cream cones and cups! They had a Malted choco
crunch ice cream! OMG! It reminded me of the Cho Cho bars! Yum! I
will be returning to buy more asap! I'll skip the cone next time,
because it took away from the deliciousness! Maybe I'll get some to
take home! So much for my diet!
Ljdavid
Cho Chos.
I think if we can more people to write requesting the return of our favorite ice cream treat, perhaps it would happen.
LJP
Dear Ms. Peppiatt,
Thank you for your email regarding Nestlé® Ice Cream Cups. We always enjoy hearing from our consumers with suggestions about ways to improve our products.
Our flavor team works year-round experimenting with new flavor ideas or modifications to flavors we already offer. While we cannot guarantee that your request will be acted upon immediately, we can assure you that we will pass along your suggestion to our flavor team members for their consideration.
Thank you again for taking the time to contact us.
Sincerely,
Roberto Pachino
Consumer Response Representative
Ref:26156404
LJP
Creams, Sorbets and Gelatos. I will guide you to
make Ice Creams, sorbets and Gelatos with many flavors
from around the world through my experiences. Come
back to our childhood with me.
My blog is about <a
href="http://www.ice-
cream.info/">Ice Creams,
Sorbets and Gelatos</a>
Who made the ice cream - Nestles or Hershey's? I used to love the crunchy malt flavor where the inside was not totally chocolate or vanilla.
One time I was hanging out with the son of a bodega owner while my dad helped the owner build shelves. Well I got in so much trouble because the son and I each ate anywhere from six to eight each cho cho bars in one sitting. That was the summer I graduated from sixth grade. I think it was the summer of 1963.
Wonder whatever happened to those ice cream bars. Man would I love to have one.
As an aside, in the Puerto Rican community the name was amusing and as kids we got a kick out of it because it very very closely sounds a like a vulgar term for a female body part.
While I have only read a few of the posts I know I am not crazy (at least as it relates to this ice cream. further, I have found a community that loves the same ice cream I so loved growing up in Williamsburg, Bklyn and will never forget (that taste).
experiences with what is called the Cho Cho malt ice cream treat.
The Cho Cho that I knew and loved came on a stick in a round 5-oz
size cup with a colorful clown picture on the wrapper. This was during
the late 40's thru 60's. It wasn't the typical Eskamo pie type thing with
a coating or crunch........just a smooth malt ice cream......you rolled
the cup between your hands to soften the frozen treat, then when the
malt was softened, the clown wrapper could be slipped off revealing
a malt treat with a perfect consistency for licking!! I think the clown
wrapper and process was part of the fun.
Best Regards, Jim
clown?