Fla-Vor-Ice Power Rankings

There's a ton of brands of flavored sugar water in plastic sleeves for you to freeze. Otter Pops, generic, Powerade and Fla-Vor-Ice. Four? Seems like Ted in research is getting lazy. 

Fla-Vor-Ice is the elite though. They've actually been around since 1969. Did freezers even exist then? Or did you have to wait until winter to freeze them? Either way, Fla-Vor-Ice is kind of a vice of mine. I've been eating them for the better part of 30 years. It was a refreshingly cool treat as a kid. Then as an adult, turns out you can blow through five, six in a sitting. Sometimes, you put them into a blender to make a snowcone. Sometimes, your dentist tries to have an intervention.

Fla-Vor-Ice comes in six colors. We're talking original. Not the tropical variety I was hooked on one summer. Lemon Lime (green), Grape (purple), Tropical Punch (pink), Orange (orange), Berry Punch (blue), and Strawberry (red). I always enjoy when orange has to be described. People commonly mistake red for cherry. It's strawberry but, let's face it, it tastes red. Nonetheless, Rex Chapman's claim on Twitter that red was cherry riled me up and now Snacktion News had to assemble to rank the flavors.

MTD: Mike Hllywa, your rankings. Just as a heads up, I throw purple away. I don't need frozen Dimetapp.

MH: Blue, green, red. I don't know what yellow is so I skip it. I take three or four of them, crush them up and eat them out of a bowl with a spoon.

MTD: You've heard of a blender? Wait, did you say yellow?

MH: I buy the knock off Walmart brand. 

MTD: Yellow is banana. This is my life's work.

MTD: Snacktion Reporter One

NA: Blue

MTD: Nikki, they have five more flavors.

NA: Blue.

MTD: Okay, maybe not everybody buys them by the case from Sam's Club. 

While my field reporters agree on blue, there is a hierarchy. They were close with blue.

1. Pink

2. Blue

3. Red

4. Green

5. Orange

6. 

Here's the pro tip for the adults who've been waiting through this segment about ice pops. Before you freeze them, pour a little out, pour in a little vodka, then you seal it with a hair straightener and freeze them.