There's a New SpongeBob Popsicle Hitting Grocery Stores — Without Gumball Eyes. The ice cream truck staple is now available at grocery stores in a six-pack ...

The gumballs that had once gotten so frozen that they became crunchy were gone. Instead, beady chocolate dots made up the ice cream SpongeBob’s pupils, robbing the bar of its off-kilter visual ...

The ice cream truck, he said, is “unfortunately becoming a thing of the past.” New delivery methods, through third-party apps or ghost kitchens, are proliferating.