Gothamist: Huge Popsicle Melts on a Hot Summer Day

joshua bumpus

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:14:19 -0500

your site blows . I'm trying to find information about heat. you guys are so stupid!!!!

Paul

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:57:54 -0500

Iron Maiden and I got together this afternoon to write a song about this incident, if anyone's interested.

Captain Midnight

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:51:01 -0500

This doesn't make sense. Why would the center melt before the outside? Have you ever seen a hollow ice cube? The only way that could happen was if they made the "stick" out of something very thermally conductive, like aluminum or copper. Methinks the pop wasn't frozen all the way through, "core temperature" notwithstanding. And anyone with half a brain would have known that you have to plan for melting runoff from the popsicle sooner or later (I would have put something like a giant punch bowl under it and offered free Snapple to onlookers) and that the popsicle should have been wrapped in an insulated cover until it was upright. Would have made for a more spectacular unveiling as well. Dullards all around at Snapple, Inc.

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:03:03 -0500

I wonder if we'll see this on next years Apprentice, it screams bad Trump task.

S.D.

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 08:47:16 -0500

On the plus side, whens the lat time That intersection was cleaned so thoroughly??

bucky

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 08:28:35 -0500

At least they wrote their own account. It appears the Snapple press release went out last night since it offers a cleaner and less chaotic version. Gotta love this simplification: The world-record-attempt event wasn't a total loss, though. Kids who gathered to watch got free ice pops from Snapple http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050622/ap_on_fe_st/20_ton_popsicle_1