Where to get otter pops

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Some newer brands, such as Goodpop, started selling freeze pops made with organic ingredients and sans preservatives. Pedialyte also sells freeze pops with added electrolytes aimed at young children recovering from the flu or severe cases of dehydration. Freeze pops have become so popular on Amazon that the company is having a hard time keeping up with the demand.

Fla-vor-ice and Otter Pops are the best- and second-best-selling ice cream products on the platform, although this might be because they are two of the few ice cream products that are sold unfrozen.

Freeze pop, icee, Otter Pop — no one seems to agree on what to call the frozen treat. Some name preferences fall along regional lines, with people referring to them by whatever brand name is popular where they live.

Consumers on the West Coast mostly call them Otter Pops. People from the East Coast usually call them Fla-vor-ice.

So similar to Kleenex or Xerox, it was nice to be able to have that identity early on, where the brand name pretty much becomes the product itself. The most popular are ice pops, freeze pops, and icees.

A few years ago, Buzzfeed conducted a poll to try and reach a definitive answer. Freeze pops was the most popular answer. A quick look at their ingredient list shows that Fla-vor-ice and Otter Pops are the exact same product, a colorful mix of water and corn syrup. Even the flavors, though they have different names, are suspiciously similar. The major difference between the two products is how they are marketed and branded.

Otter Pops, on the other hand, seems to aim its branding at a younger audience. Its flavors are named after proprietary cartoon characters, including Alexander the Grape and Sir Isaac Lime.

These cartoon otters each have their own individual style and personality. They backed down after a group of children, led by a 9-year-old, picketed outside their headquarters. Otter Pops are coming to our screens in a whole new way. Starting Wednesday, June 30 at 5 p. PT to Tuesday, July 6 at 5 p. PT, players will be able to hit the beach and take a trip down memory lane while collecting frozen fruit juice pieces with their best-loved Otter Pops friends, each representing their signature flavors — like Strawberry Short Kook, Alexander the Grape, Sir Isaac Lime, Poncho Punch, and Little Orphan Orange.