O'please Geechee family don't leave me hanging on disya wun! Who remember chilly bears? Bae bae lookya I bun the chilly bear queen of 'merica street heah! I loved the red (cherry) wun and the yella (lemonade) wun. My chilly bear lady stayed in Reed st housing (I may not have the name exactly right), God bless ee heart I can't call her name and I'm shame because many a day she put her futs under our dinner table and broke bread with us. Anyhow, she would bring a whole carton of 'em soon as she knew I bun home. That bun the best treat ever! I stayed in the freeza. Who knew little Dixie cups filled with kool aid would bring a child so much joy. My cousins and I would destroy a carton full in a day or two. I'm sure other places in the sowt have something similar but just call them by a different name, but if ya Geechee and from chasstun then you ONLY knoh 'em by chilly bears. What I would give now to hear Miss Ma'am yell shru mi screen door "chillee beah" and we come a flyin down the stairs. Then when I/we got old enough we would walk our lil boonkys right on up the street and get our chillee beahs ourselves. Just another fond memory growing up geechee.
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Yes chile yes!!! Ours was right across from the middle school - we'd pour into her front room with our pennies and nickels right after school! Oh the memories!
ReplyDeleteYea yea *in my ice cube voice* lol! Fun times! Ty for your comment
DeleteMy dad grew up in Windsor Place/Union Heights in the 40's. I was born in '68 and my mom would make chilly bears for us in the summer. By then we lived in North Charleston. Better than any storebought popsicle. I only recently thought to find out where chilly bears originated. I was riding down Spruill Avenue last year or the year before and saw a sign out front of a business that said Chilly Bears".
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