PROVO, Utah ÷ Brigham Young University masters student Dave Meilstrup had a tongue-jerking experience with an ice cream bar at a recent accounting function in the Wilkinson Student Center.

"I could think about was Dumb and Dumber and The Christmas Story," said the 25-year-old from Hershey, Penn., whose tongue was frozen to a orange and vanilla dream bar. "I couldn't believe it was actually happening."

And Meilstrup isn't the only one who has been troubled by the creamsicles.

Over the past three weeks, at least a dozen BYU students received oral injuries while eating super-frozen orange creamsicles supplied by BYU dining services. The frozen treats, transported in coolers packed with dry ice, were given out at various functions on campus including Fall Fling, accounting orientations and an engineering function.

"There were free orange creamsicles at Fall Fling, and I really like creamsicles so I opened the wrapper and popped it in my mouth," said Melissa Leininger, 20, a junior from Ogden, Weber County, studying elementary and early childhood education. "Then it just stuck to the inside of my upper lip."

Leininger said she gently tried to pull the creamsicle from her lip, but the frozen treat was firmly stuck.

"I finally pulled really hard and it came off, but it took a chunk of my lip with it. I bled everywhere, on my fingers, on the popsicle ÷ everywhere," said Leininger, who then had to fight the crowds at Fall Fling to clean her wound in a Wilkinson Center rest room. Lininger said her injuries didn't heal for three days.

More then eight students had similar encounters at an engineering function.

"I ripped it off and man it hurt" said Cory Tholl, 22, a junior from American Fork who is studying mechanical engineering. "It happened to at least seven or eight others."

The common culprit among those who were injured seems to be the Blue Bunny Orange Dream Bar, a vanilla-flavored reduced-fat ice cream bar coated with orange sherbet.

Both Lineinger and Meilstrup said they saw peers eating creamsicles from the same box they did, with none of the painful side effects.

"It was almost like creamsicle roulette," Lineinger said. "I didn't see anyone else that had a super-frozen creamsicle stuck to their tongue."

John Whalen, a dry ice professional from Cryogenisis, an Ohio based dry ice firm, explained why the creamsicle injuries appear to be random.

"Dry ice is very cold, negative 109.9 degrees Fahrenheit to be exact," said Whalen. "When a food product comes in direct contact with dry ice, it will become super frozen."