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- ↑ "A taste for ice cream". irishtimes.com. Irish Times. 21 August 2006. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
Now owned by the multinational Unilever group, HB created such ice cream classics as the Wibbly Wobbly Wonder, the Choc Ice [..] not to mention the Cornetto
- ↑ "Reeling in the years: Top 10 ice pops of the 80s and 90s". independent.ie. Independent News & Media. 20 June 2014. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
- ↑ Corless, Damian (2011). You'll Ruin your Dinner: Sweet Memories from Irish childhood. Hachette UK. ISBN 9781444726046.
Launched in 1974, this [..] melted from view in the 1990s and was withdrawn, though it made a comeback in 2006
- ↑ "Wibbly Wobbly Wonders faced the biggest ice cream injustice Ireland has ever seen". dailyedge.ie. Journal Media Ltd. 19 May 2016. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
