I LOVE these, but haven't seen them in years. Do they still make them?

cherry & blue raspberry were the best sometimes we wouldn't even freeze them - we'd just drink the juice

Yes they still make these!! Me and my girlfriend often eat these on hot summer days after work. Rite-Aid in CA (Sacramento) always has these!!!

They still make them, but they're smaller (or I just remember them being bigger?) and they don't have the pictures and names of the Otters anymore!

They have them on hometownfavorites.com- in the grocery store. I ordered them at $1.19 a box of 18. They have the pictures of the otter family on the box...

these were the best pops ever. my pop would allways pick some up at the store for us and they would be gone in a few days. hahahaha lol :P

I got 100 count box at Wal-mart last month! Strawberry Short Kook! Alexander the Grape! Poncho Punch! Louie Blue Raspberry! Little Orphan Orange! Sir Isaac Lime!

It wasn't until I read Kinerkat's comment that I remembered these. They came in clear plastic "tubes" that were attatched to each other (maybe about six in a row) and could be separated along perforated lines.

Jel-Sert now makes them. Hopefully, the link I submitted will go through.

Yes they are still made, but the plastic wrappers do not have their names or the individual pictures on them anymore. They do not taste quite the same, either. Had to order mine off a website. The west coast carries otter pops, and the east coast (me) carries Fla-vor-Ice. I cannot recall why, but each coast can only carry the one. Jel Sert told me this a year ago. When I was a kid though (born in 1980) stores around here carried both. I had them in my freezer all summer long.

Oh yeah, I remember those! Nice cold treat on a hot summer day!

Damn I want a Little ORphan Ornage Otter POP SOOO bad again.They were so MUCH better than fla vor ice sour with beter flavoring.Smaller too.short kind of,yes I want to order them but only if they taste the same???

After the 80s the otter pop company merged with flavor ice or some crap and they changed the recipe around as they always seem to do and made it "improved" but in real;ity ruined it, adding more real juice from apples to make it so called healthier like their rivals, which in turn removed the original flavor. Which was so memorable I recall it exactly from age eight.A little sour and not at all natural taste,but wonderful.They still make it, and it SUCKS it tastes exactly like al the rest of the boring pops available now days.There long and thin like the rest now, and the characters are only shown on the box and no longer right on the pop plastic itself.Walgreens sells these for a dollar a box now I tried them but it will never be the same I WANT THE ORIGINAL OTTER POP RECIPE if anyone can find it please please let me know here I check the site off and on.

I miss the original cherry and orange screwballs!!!

i also am VERY sad that the original recipe is not used anymore. its like if they want to make a healthier alternative, then fine... BUT why not have the original (supposedly less healthy) recipe available also. if their is diet coke and regular coke, then why not the same with otter pops?!?! its tragic that they wont put out the original tase that so many of us love and miss so much :(((

Theere has got to be a way to find and replicate the original taste for ourselves at home in ice cube or popcicle trays. I am sure we could find even the additives if any, or syrup if any nowdays. I think they had lime in them, just a little. They are made with apple juice now, maybe it was orange. I used to be very citrus sensitive as a child, but nowdays I have gotten less so and could eat many of them at once. I used to sit inside my igloo that my father made for me each winter, in the yard asa child, and eat them in there, even tho it was very cold, eating cold things. This is a favorite memory of mine.being out in my igloos, with otter pops. Thern going inside to the warm safe house I once lived in, and having cup a soup, while my father ate swiss cheese.HAHA

Oh by the way Jess from above stated that one coast can only carry one or the other type of either Otter Pop or Flav O Ice.In MN and surrounding areas, we carry both, even in the same stores. And my friend who lives in CA said she saw both at walgreens or someplace like Vans. So that isn't exactly a rule across the board. We also carry flav o Aide, the Kool Aid alternative with less flavor.

Came out in 1970. I would eat these all the time in the summer of 1984!

I was in the store just friday and we bought 100 for 2.88. I told my son how great they were and that they were the best popsicle ever. Not anymore their no different than flavor ice. I want the old recipe back too :( so dissapointed.

I miss the old recipe too!! The way it melted, it went from ice to slush to liquid. The ones today are just like ice cubes with no slushy goodness. Sigh... HFCSugar ruins everything

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Does anyone remember Rip Van Lemon otter pop flavor? So delicious and not even featured in the otter pops of today. Sad

I remember the otterpops also having drinks that were sort of like little hugs. They were really good. Had the characters on them. Wish I could find those but I haven't seen them since the 80s.

In the early days of the world wide web there was a cool site called the Original Otter Pops Fan Club, (I think that was the name). The had the whole story of what happened, why they're no longer the same, and what the original ingredients were. I believe that site is still available via the Wayback Machine. Will try to find it and post more info soon.

As promised, here are the real original ingredients: Water, Sugar, Corn Sweeteners, Fruit Juice (Apple Concentrate), Citric Acid, Cellulose Gum, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Artificial Colors (Fruit Punch, Lime, and Orange Flavors contain FD&C; Yellow No. 5). Preserved with less than 1/10th of 1% Sodium Benzoate and Potassium Sorbate. (The real original OPs were produced by a company called Nat'l-Pax. They went bankrupt in the mid-90s and evil competitor of inferior frozen products managed to buy the rights to OP name and image. Sadly they put their inferior product into an OP package and now a whole generation of kids associates OP with bad product, having no clue of how good real original was. Evil company has managed to scrub the internet of the truth. (If I can figure out a way to discreetly post the source I will do so in a separate comment.)

I think the main difference between the fake OPs on the market today and the real original OPs, is not just the vastly zippier flavors, but the texture and consistency, more like a gelatin pop than an ice pop. With a regular ice pop the flavor can be quickly sucked out leaving just ice, but with real original OPs, as with gelatin pops, the flavor is more infused and cannot be separated from the base so you're never left with just ice. Since there is no cellulose gum in the fake OPs, that ingredient might be what accounts for a lot of the difference.