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eskimo pie


slab of icecream between two wafers sold at picture theatres and deli's in 50's & 60's in SA only I think: Two eskimo pies and two orange drinks please. Compare cream between, ice-cream sandwich, wafer.

Contributor's comments: Eskimo Pie is presently available at the Trak Cinema in Burnside, Adelaide. It is a slab of icecream entirely surrounded by chocolate and sells for $2. It is extrememly well know and used in South Africa, where, in the sixties, it sold for a 'ticke.

Contributor's comments: In Tasmania and Victoria an Eskimo Pie has always been a vanilla icecream surrounded by chocolate. The ice confection described as vanilla ice cream between two wafer biscuits has only ever been known as a Cream Between and was made by Peters Ice Cream in Tasmania. I can certainly remember them in the late 1960s if not later. The ice cream came wrapped in a wax-proof paper and the wafer biscuits came unwrapped separately. Somehow they always seemed a little stale.