I am genuinely shocked Dippin Dots are from the 80s. I had always assumed they were some sort of space age thing like Tang.
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Like I assumed they were invented around the time Walt Disney froze his head and they needed more uses for the tech.
aug 31, 2025, 4:08 pm • 14 0 • view
I didn't know till now that they were invented in the 80s, but the 80s is in fact when I first remember seeing them, and I'm old enough to have been a child in the 60s (when I do remember Tang existing).
aug 31, 2025, 4:10 pm • 3 0 • view
iirc part of the reason for the delay is that it took a while for ULT freezer technology to mature - enough of that had to be in-house that Dippin Dots Cryogenics is now a significant scientific contractor for ULT freezer design
aug 31, 2025, 4:22 pm • 2 0 • view
Uhhh The 1980s WAS the Space Age.
aug 31, 2025, 4:13 pm • 4 0 • view
You just old. Like me.
aug 31, 2025, 4:14 pm • 2 0 • view
I am old in a completely different way
aug 31, 2025, 4:17 pm • 3 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 4:18 pm • 4 0 • view
Dipping Dots was invented after the Challenger disaster to help kids get over the Space Age.
aug 31, 2025, 4:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Jeeeeezus.
aug 31, 2025, 4:25 pm • 2 0 • view
from days gone by, before theonion was corrupted in the service of kat abu ghazaleh's slampiece & ukrainephile juniper. theonion.com/time-travele...
aug 31, 2025, 4:23 pm • 1 0 • view
There's a fine dining thing called "molecular gastronomy" that loves making little spheres out of foods that should not be spheres, and I always wonder * Were these chefs inspired by Dippin Dots? * Are Dippin Dots molecular gastronomy?
aug 31, 2025, 4:29 pm • 4 0 • view
Are you thinking of Astronaut Ice Cream, which kids would bring home from spring break trips to Cape Canaveral every year when I was little?
aug 31, 2025, 4:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Maybe?
aug 31, 2025, 4:42 pm • 0 0 • view
You can get this at REI now but it was a thing in the 70’s and 80’s. Just harder to find. Freeze dried ice cream.
aug 31, 2025, 4:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Maybe that was the power of marketing it as “the ice cream of the future.”
aug 31, 2025, 4:12 pm • 3 0 • view
I'm nitpicking here but I feel like their having been created in 1988 makes them both technically from the '80s and in a practical sense not.
aug 31, 2025, 4:24 pm • 1 0 • view
A 90s product is even less space age. They were a new product when I remember them from and not some boomer shit like I had asked back then.
aug 31, 2025, 4:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Me: "They're an Internet Age invention." My brain: ["Actually the internet was created in the '60s by the Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency."]
aug 31, 2025, 4:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Al Gore vibrating with rage.
aug 31, 2025, 4:32 pm • 1 0 • view