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Fat Frogs were the best ice pops ever produced in Ireland and need to be brought back
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FOR IRISH PEOPLE of a certain age, the quintessential Irish ice pop of their childhoods will always be the Fat Frog.
And as any Fat Frog enthusiast well knows, they are no longer for sale.
Which is an absolute travesty of swamp-like proportions
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Over the years, there have been calls to bring back the Fat Frog nearly every time the sun shines in Ireland. Back in 2014, HB told DailyEdge.ie that they couldn’t rule it out:
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The Facebook pages Fat Frog Ice Pops and Help Bring HB Fat Frogs back currently have over 200,000 likes between them – which shows the appetite is still out there for the limey-appley ice pop goodness that only the Frog can bring.
As recently as April this year, HB have had to field questions from Irish Fat Frog fans on Twitter – and they only have one query
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To which they gave another vague answer
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The most recent update – last September – on the main Facebook fan page isn’t promising though:
So the campaign obviously needs to get back some of its enthusiasm
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Because the demand is clearly there
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There’s a ravenous crop of Irish Fat Frog lovers just waiting every summer for the best damn ice pop ever produced to return to their lives
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So many ice creams have gone, but none hurt more than the loss of the Fat Frog
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The enthusiasm is evident
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It’s a point of principle now
And while they’re at it, they should bring back the iconic song from the ad
This is the pressing ice pop issue of the day, and it won’t go away
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If Freaky Foot deserved a comeback, Fat Frogs most certainly do too.
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