1981: Tip Top Zorro
May 4, 2023
By AHNZ
Tip Top new how to make exciting novelty ice creams back in the 1980s. This one was ‘Zorro’ and as you can see from the picture it’s a fairly complex construction of ice cream architecture. Yet at 8 cents each it goes to show how well our government monetary control is doing at handling inflation! In 2023 a far simpler Tip Top product (eg. Rocky Road) cost $3.20. An ice cream (a hell of an ice cream, too) was 2.5% the cost of what we pay!?
This ice cream may have gone with a children’s cartoon I can just remember from 1981: The New Adventures of Zorro. However, other sources suggest it was early into the 1970s. Ref. Wiki
About the same time there was also an Incredible Hulk ice cream and a Pac Man one that had a taste I can’t forget and have never experienced since. The 1980s Hulk produce is down at 20 cents so that does suggest the 8 cent Zorro belonged to a few years earlier.
Still, the value is amazing. More than this, in each case of Hulk and Zorro the ice cream came with a sticker too!
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Image ref. Kathy MouldOld Signs & Advertising – New Zealand, Facebook (2022)
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