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Fudgicle

A Boston Fudgsicle.
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We just called them "fudgies"

D on April 9, 2004 03:26 PM.

Its not fudicle.. its fudgicle

kerry on June 5, 2004 12:17 PM.

Yep. It's fudgicle.

Laura on October 31, 2004 12:10 PM.

I thot it was "fudgicle" everwheah, not just Bahstan.

Bill on October 31, 2004 06:29 PM.

wow i thought my dad was the only person who said fudgicle. now that i know it's a boston thing, i feel beter.

Sarah on March 10, 2005 01:24 PM.

My husband is Boston born and bred; I'm from Seattle. I can put up with almost everything about his accent--but I cannot STAND it when he says "fudgicle"! ARGH!!! There is SO CLEARLY an "s." It's irrational, I know, but it drives me crazy.

Betsy on March 23, 2005 09:49 PM.

Hey! I'm from NY...and I say Fudgicle too!!!!!! Not just a Boston Thing...May be a Bronx thing too!!!!

Lorraine on April 25, 2005 06:54 PM.

Yeah, It is a fudgicle... I live in NY now (Mid-Hudson Valley) But I am from the Merrimack Valley and I still get bizzah looks when I ask for a frappe or a fudgicle at the ice cream stands... :-/ Sometimes I feel displaced LOL

James on June 23, 2005 02:57 AM.

I am originally from Buffalo, NY and I say fudgicle, my husband who is from a small town an hour south of Buffalo(Cuba, NY), insists that it is a Fudgsicle I am glad I am not the only one who says fudgicle!!

Ann Marie on April 4, 2006 06:50 PM.

I am originally from Buffalo, NY and I say fudgicle, my husband who is from a small town an hour south of Buffalo(Cuba, NY), insists that it is a Fudgsicle I am glad I am not the only one who says fudgicle!!

Ann Marie on April 4, 2006 06:50 PM.

I'm from Australia and I say "fudgicle" so maybe it isn't just restricted to the US??

Da Man on May 23, 2006 07:20 AM.

Our family owned the first ice cream factory (1879) in Kansas. We have old signage which reads "fudgicle" and later signage which reads "fudgsicle". Sounds like the old timers knew what they were talking about.

greg on December 19, 2006 03:08 PM.

I never knew it was just a boston thing too and when I heard someone say fudgeSicle on tv I thought it was supposed to be a joke so I lchuckled and noone knew why

Lorrie on January 21, 2007 08:58 PM.

I'm a North Carolina girl who has always pronounced it "fudgsicle". My boyfriend is from Vermont and says "fudgicle". We were grocery shopping this weekend and bought a box. The label clearly says "Fudgsicle". Now he is practicing the new pronounciation....with a southern drawl...hehe

Robin on February 20, 2007 10:38 PM.

There is supposed to be an S in fudgicle? Until this very minute I thought I was saying it right!

Kate (Merrimack Valley area)

kate on May 6, 2007 10:51 PM.

Some linguist must have studied this, and I'd sure be curious to see the results. I grew up in Hawaii and for a long time I was the only person I knew who said "fudgicle", which I picked up from my dad, who's from Philly. I'd met a couple of people since moving away who also said it, all from Philly, so I assumed it was very localized. But, just recently, I started dating a guy from northern New Jersey, and (much to my delight) he says it too!

My 2 cents: Fudgsicle is the brand; fudgicle is what the things are called, depending on geography :-)

Amy on August 1, 2007 11:55 PM.

A variation I heard, growing up in Fa'haven, pronounced the "g" more softly like soft "zh" or "szh". Fuzhicle.

Alan on August 7, 2007 03:09 PM.

I was just teasing my sister-n-law from Hamtramck, MI. She and her entire family say Fudgicle. So I decided to go on the internet and prove to her I was right, however I have found that she is not the only one. Sorry Leanne.

It is really Fudgsicle, but I will let her slide now.

Andrea on February 22, 2008 03:29 PM.

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