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bgstill 05-22-2013 @ 3:08 PM                           Reply to this Discussion   Edit This Message   Delete This Message.
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I am so proud to be part of the Spagnolo family from Spagnolo's Ice Cream.  This Ice Cream company was in Harrisburg, PA which has been closed for many years now and once sold the Cho Cho.  They were great and I so miss eating them.  My first memory of a Cho Cho was about age five.  Rolling that cup in my hand, hearing that pop when you pulled it out of the cup and then eating that great tasting frozen malted milk flavored treat was the best part of summer as a child.  I so would like to make a trip to that store in Temple, PA. and see if they have the same thing or not.

I_Am_Alice 04-19-2013 @ 6:11 PM                           Reply to this Discussion   Edit This Message   Delete This Message.
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Hi, Diana. I'm new here. I noticed your
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... Smile


Mad as a Hatter

Megnut 04-18-2013 @ 11:56 AM                           Reply to this Discussion   Edit This Message   Delete This Message.
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opps, sorry, did'nt see the whole thread only the first
few so didn't know that this was already discussed.

Megnut 04-18-2013 @ 11:48 AM                           Reply to this Discussion   Edit This Message   Delete This Message.
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I found this on Cho-Cho's:
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.

sunset 04-01-2013 @ 9:06 PM                           Reply to this Discussion   Edit This Message   Delete This Message.
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I just discovered this site when I was searching for the Cho-Cho Ice Cream
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  

kadnil 07-12-2012 @ 8:09 AM                           Reply to this Discussion   Edit This Message   Delete This Message.
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Hi...My mother always thought that a Wendy's Frosty was just like the Cho
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!

bademento 07-11-2012 @ 4:11 PM                           Reply to this Discussion   Edit This Message   Delete This Message.
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I tried both and neither taste like the original Cho Cho.  Tuckers was so far off and I had them shipped to the east coast from the west coast.

Good try, Thanks.

TanyaR 07-11-2012 @ 11:49 AM                           Reply to this Discussion   Edit This Message   Delete This Message.
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I don't know if you ever found the Cho-Cho bars or the recipes, however, I found a site that lists a place that they can still be purchased as well as a recipe for them.
http://www.hungrybrowser.com/phaedrus/m1108M10.htm#1

Tanya R.

bademento 06-05-2012 @ 11:37 PM                           Reply to this Discussion   Edit This Message   Delete This Message.
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Bruno,

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

Mr_Roarke 06-05-2012 @ 10:29 PM                           Reply to this Discussion   Edit This Message   Delete This Message.
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>quote< diana  05-19-2012 @ 1:42PM                                  
  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.




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