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'''Paddle Pop ''' is a brand of [[ice cream]] products made by [[Streets (ice cream)|Streets]] (now is owned by the Anglo-DutchBritish multinational consumer goods company [[Unilever]]) and sold in [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]] and a few other countries. It is held for eating by a wooden stick which protrudes at the base and is known as a Paddle Pop stick (used commonly for arts and crafts and known also as a [[Ice pop|pop]]sicle stick<ref>[http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/popstar.html kidsdomain Paddle Pop stick art] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630160130/http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/popstar.html |date=30 June 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.artistshelpingchildren.org/popsiclesticksartscraftsideascraftstickskids.html|title=Popsicle Sticks Crafts for Kids : Arts and Craft Activities, Ideas, & Projects with Crafts Sticks for Children, Preschoolers, & Teens|website=Artistshelpingchildren.org|access-date=26 December 2018}}</ref> or craft stick<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.steakout.com.au/craft-sticks.html|title=Our Craft Sticks|website=Steakout.com.au|access-date=26 December 2018}}</ref>). The brand has a mascot known as the Paddle Pop Lion who appears on the product wrapper.
Paddle Pops have been very popular since their launch by Streets in 1953,<ref name="mainStreetsSite">{{cite web|url=https://www.streetsicecream.com.au/home.html|title=Home|website=Streetsicecream.com.au|access-date=26 December 2018}}</ref> and the name has become one of the best known brands in Australia.<ref name="coolCatAt50">{{cite web|url=https://www.newscorpaustralia.com/|title=Home|website=News Corp Australia|access-date=26 December 2018}}</ref> It is Streets Icecream's biggest volume item<ref name="coolCatAt50"/> with {{AUD}}70 million annual turnover.{{cn|date=December 2017}}