Found at nearly every ice cream truck and public pool snack bar in America, the red-white-and-blue Bomb Pop defines summertime. The culprit of millions of stained tongues, melting down thousands of sticky hands.
These sweet, thirst-quenching treats call back to the simple days of childhood: Fourth of July fireworks, cannonballs in the pool, staying up late because there’s no school tomorrow.
Jim Heeter remembers trying his very first Bomb Pop around 1957, as a kid growing up in Pierce City, Missouri. “ I was actually a big Bomb Pop fan,” Heeter says…