What We've Been Up To

Our van has been spending a quiet winter upstate with Joel's girlfriend Danielle's generous grandmother Nana:




David: "What came first, the van or the garage?"

I'm not kidding when I say that air literally had to be taken out of the tires in order to fit the van in there.

Here's what happened last time we took the van out:



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So, what have we been up to since you last heard from us?

Well, other than celebrating Mardi Gras:


We've been researching plastics:


And the possibility of outsourcing our painstaking pop-stick-stamping process:


Unfortunately, the smallest possible one-time order is for 13,200,000 sticks.


We've been crunching numbers:


And pushing pop frontiers:


Joel: "What if we just made a pop out of just ICE???"

Here's Joel explaining our new Thai play-toy.




We made into Karen Seiger's wonderful Markets of New York City, published by the Little Bookroom.


Lots more going on, but nothing we're ready to talk about just yet. Just rest assured that we're fantasizing about warmer days...




Love,
David, Joel, Nathalie

p.s. Anyone interested in trading pops for a better-looking website should feel free to contact us. We may be looking to outsource that, too.
p.p.s. Anyone going to the North America Pizza and Ice Cream Trade Show in Columbus this weekend? Holla!

Happy Holidays, Ya'll!

Thanks for a fantastic 2009! Can't wait to see you in '10...

See you next year!!

Thanks for a great season, y'all.

Even Martha couldn't keep her hands off a pop last weekend!

We are taking a month off to refuel and then getting our heads together to plan Ice Pop World Domination 2010. Anyone with a brain for business is welcome to contact us, we could use it.

Thanks so much for your support this year, we couldn't have done it without you.

In love and pops,
Joel, David, Nathalie

2009: A Retrospective

We think this may be our last weekend on the market for 2009. Which is why I should be sleeping instead of still up at 3 a.m., nostalgic, posting pictures. For your visual enjoyment, here's a rollback on the summer.


That's me.

See?

Test batch in the home kitchen.

Daryl, the official taste buds of the people's pops, pronounces on an early batch.

The day that the boys introduced me to the van they'd sunk our savings into, it broke down.

Perhaps that was why, despite the obvious effort the boys put into their appearance (dressed up as twins, mailmen), Chase only extended our new business a $500 credit limit, which still hasn't budged.

Joel putting final touches on the pop stick (see below).

And the boy knows his way around a jig saw.

Nathalie is less hi-tech.

Site of one executive board meeting. Why yes, it is July, and cold, and grey. Welcome to summer 2009.

Shaving ice all summer has turned our right arms into, like, twice the size of our left arms.

This guy came back three times! Almost as cool as the war veteran.

Fierce sunburn in the making.

No this is not a Zamboni cleaning the ice after disco night at the local rink.

Love in the van. And, for some reason, money.

The best-looking customers we served all year.

Flashback to 2008!!

So much about this picture is wrong. Or right. No, wrong.

Nat.

Dave, eating 2 pops at once.

This chick gets free pops for life!!

Seriously--our hero!!!

Kids manage to turn dark-colored pops into a crime scene. This turned into carnage about 30 seconds after this picture was taken. Poor kid looked like he'd been savaged by a wolf.

This lil' lady sure knows how to accentuate her watermelon shave ice.

Another one with a promising future in accessorizing.

Never quite got a satisfying answer to this question. But not a week goes by without someone asking for a cornsicle. Still not sure how to interpret that.

Finally, a lovely message from Joel's lovely mama, Barbara.

Catch us one last time at the Brooklyn Flea in Ft. Greene on Saturday and DUMBO on Sunday, weather permitting.

We'll be taking:

--blackberries & cream
--raspberry
--cantaloupe & basil

and

watermelon shave ice!

If you've been meaning to get pops delivered to your home or office this season but haven't gotten around to ordering, it's not too late...email us quickly before stock runs out!

Howdy, Daily News'ers!

Big thanks to Margarida Correia for the pleasant article about us in today's Daily News. She was kind enough to find us at the Brooklyn Flea, try one of our pops, then interview us in a friends donated back yard: mind you, Joel had no voice and Nathalie was answering questions via telephone from Copenhagen – but that's how we roll.

And thanks for stopping by our stands this past weekend at the Brooklyn Flea's, NYC'ers! While our pop-season is slowing down, we're steal a few more fire-sale days from Mother Nature. So keep checking in for our next appearance & flavors!

xo,
pp

We've come a long way, baby!

So Sunday is the 2009 incarnation of the New Amsterdam market, which our most ancient fans (hi, mom!) will remember as the explosive birth of the People's Pops. Like all births, it was both excruciating and triumphant. But the pain outweighed the pleasure just enough for us to follow through and turn it into a business, and to everyone's surprise, but especially our own, WE HAVE!!

Not bad for a gander that was just supposed to be a one-day social experiment.

So join us this Sunday Sept 13 at the Fulton Fish Market from 11-4 to celebrate the brilliant future of New Amsterdam.

And pops.

I'm feeling nostalgic, so here's a little taste of last year at the New Amsterdam. That seems like it happened about 10 years ago!

From the first batch of pops ever. Rhubarb burns so goddamn easily.

In awe of our creations!

Why the hell would they have frozen that way? And can we pretend it happened on purpose?

More importantly, how do they taste?

Well, people seem interested, at any rate.

Oh, Lucy. We miss you, girl.

I don't know if you can see it, but that horizontal sign says "Lap Dances by Dave, $5." I still wonder whether that's the direction the business should have taken.


We'll also be at the Brooklyn Flea on Saturday and Sunday, except that on Sunday, exceptionally, the Flea will happen under the Manhattan Bridge rather than under the Brooklyn Bridge.

If you come, say hi to Steve, our colleague in pops, who's coming all the way up from Athens, Georgia to spend time with us this weekend!

Where’s my F$@#ing Cantaloupe & Tarragon pop?1!?

Look we’ve all feeling a little overworked and underappreciated this summer. Ca$h Money Chamillionaire Warren Buffett describes this as an economic Pearl Harbor. December 2007 to today, will be hundreds of days that will all live in equal amounts of infamy. But in these tough economic times a sleeping giant has been awoken: people’s pops.

You may be wondering to yourself, your coworkers, friends, frenemies, and the World Wide Web: Where’s my f&*@ing Peach, Organic Yogurt & Honey pop?!!?!11

Well the boys down in research have come up with an answer to your question in the form of a map (the red dot indicates where you can find us):

Being the hard workers that we are, we took this map over to the boys at the crime lab and asked them to enhance image. They just weren’t getting it so we had to keep asking them to enhance image, and enhance image. Finally we got an adequately enhanced image:

A. Sundays at the Brooklyn Bridge Flea in DUMBO
B. Saturdays at the Brooklyn Flea in Fort Greene
C. Monday – Sunday rain or shine at Stinky bklyn

So be sure to check us out at the markets this weekend or at Stinky’s anytime for a sexy selection of pops including:

• Roasted Apricot, Blueberries, & Tarragon
• Watermelon, Lemon Verbena, & Spearmint
• Nectarine, Blackberry, & Chamomile
• Cantaloupe & Tarragon
• Watermelon & Spearmint
• Roasted Sugar Plum
• Watermelon & Basil

And Shave-Ice:

• Lemon basil
• Watermelon & Lemon Verbena