The Bomb Pop Original pop features flavors of cherry, lime and blue raspberry. The flavor profile is tart and sweet, with a refreshingly cool finish. The classic red, white and blue colors are perfect for patriotic holidays or any summertime celebration. What Are Those Red White And Blue Popsicles Called? Yes, Bomb Pops are vegan. The original flavor of Bomb Pop is made with natural flavors and colors, and does not contain any animal products. Why Do They Call It A Bomb Pop? Summer is for generalizations. Always has been. Those generalizations help us distinguish one summer from another. Each summer has its own song, its own drink, its defining movie.

The culinary contributions of Kansas City, Mo., loom large in America’s appetite. Missouri’s biggest city created the M&M candy coating, Teflon frying pan, and the red, white, and blue Bomb Pop, a Cold War–era frozen confection developed in 1955. The birth of blue raspberry is a twisting tale involving a ban on deep-red dye FD&C Red No. 2, which reportedly caused cancer, as well as the Icee Company looking to visually differentiate cherry from raspberry. By the early 1970s, the blue raspberry Icee was helping kids cool off, and today you’ll find so-called blue raspberry sports drinks, chewing gum, and even vodka. Moreover, “summer” is shorthand for hot weather, and our geographically sprawling nation doesn’t sweat on the same timeline. Urban South Brewery is based in New Orleans, where “it is warm 10 months out of the year,” says Jacob Landry, the founder and CEO of the company, which also has an equally hot Houston outpost. Mtn Dew is known for whipping up some of the most ridiculous and controversial soda flavors. And yet another new Mtn Dew flavor is heading to stores this summer: Mtn Dew Summer Freeze.

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In 1971, Wells won a trademark for its creation, protecting its intellectual property across a wide range of categories, covering “coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar, rice, tapioca, sago, artificial coffee; flour and preparations made from cereals, bread, pastry and confectionery, ices; honey, treacle; yeast, baking-powder; salt, mustard; vinegar, sauces (condiments); spices; ice.”

Somehow a whole lot of companies, all at once, have combined those nostalgia-laden flavors into a single drink. "I think it took us about three or four iterations to really nail down the different layers of flavor," says Andrew Pieri, vice president of operations for Austin-based seltzer company Mighty Swell. "We thought it was a really cool sense of nostalgia to tap into." I was drinking one on the lake last weekend,” Sherrer says. “I was like, I feel pretty American right now.”After winning a patent for his sugary invention, Epperson would eventually sell both his creation and the entire Popsicle brand to the Joe Lowe Company in New York City. Now armed with a patent, Joe Lowe immediately got to work filing suit against the string of competitors that had taken shape in recent years, Good Humor, M-B Ise Kream Company of Texas, and Kold Kake, among them. A litigious frozen commodities culture was born.