When was the last time you saw an ice cream truck?
I haven’t seen one for years until yesterday. Unfortunately I was driving, so I couldn’t stop for my daughter to get a cone.
They used to come around quite a bit when my sons were young, but I rarely see them anymore.
bonus questions- What was your favorite treat from the ice cream truck when you were a child?
Was your ice cream man creepy looking?
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Last night. There is one that drives around my neighborhood.
Back in March at my mom’s house. I haven’t seen one around here, but living on a military post, that doesn’t really surprise me. My favorite treat was the chocolate eclair ice cream bar.
Today, across the road. The Mister Softee truck. It’s been years since I’ve had a soft-serve because there’s the Brooklyn (homemade) Ice Cream Factory 3 blocks away. There’s a park across the street and all the kids go there after school, so the Mister Softee man is gonna be right there.
I used to like Drumsticks with peanuts, especially if at the bottom of the cone there was bonus chocolate!
And our ice cream man was more like the dude Eddie Murphy talks about here; a 20-something guy who could barely be arsed to to stop, period.
Ice-cream trucks never seem to come into the hilly neighborhood that I was raised in, but last summer my friends and I caught one as it drove through a park. That must’ve been August. They always have such interesting treats that you can’t find at stores…
Now you’ve made me crave it… :(
@tinyfaery You are so lucky!
@aprilsimnel I loved the Drumsticks too, but we must have been at the end of his route because they were always gone by the time he got to our house. :(
Right before I woke up in the hospital.
Alway look both ways before you cross the street kids.
@jonsblond . . . i gotta drumstick for ya baby. :)
I saw one on the way home from work today on the other side of town. We have one that routinely travels through our neighborhood and coincidentally, stops close to our house oftentimes, for minutes on end, while it services the neighborhood kids. The proprietor has the music volume topped out and it drives my wife crazy when he’s close to the house and having to listen to that silly music repeat itself over and over.
I did not see one, but i did hear that crazy song that plays over and over and over again.
I arrested the driver of an ice cream truck back several years ago. someone gave information that he was selling drugs in addition to ice cream, from his truck. an informant made a buy from the ice cream truck driver and he was arrested. i thought it was funny that for some people, he would put their ice cream purchase in a small brown paper bag and not for others. the marijuana he was selling was at the bottom of the bag. thats a no-no.
Yesterday. It comes every day as far as I know. Somehow, it doesn’t thrill me like it used to, which is kind of a shame.
Saturday! It was the first time I had seen one in years. I heard the music long before I saw the truck and it just made me happy to hear it coming.
I don’t always see them but I certainly can hear them, driving around my neighborhood, playing the same 8 bars from The Entertainer in an endless, mind-numbing loop. But, it’s for the kids, I tell myself. :)
Last week. All the time. They’re around my area a lot.
As a kid I used to love the rrrring-ring, rrrring-ring of the ice cream truck’s bell. Around here the horn plays a fragment of a tune such as “Camptown Races.” I always think it must drive the vendor crazy to hear that same little bit of melody blaring out a thousand times a day. And then I think maybe it already did drive him crazy. And then I think that for practical reasons they must have hired somebody who was already crazy in the first place.
And then I think about Garth Pig and the ice cream lady (a wolf in disguise). And that makes me worry about the little kids rushing out for ice cream and sort of spoils the image of children joyously buying frozen treats from the benign and happy truck.
Sometimes it’s hell being a grownup.
I have one that parks on my block. I live in new york city so yea, lotsa trucks of all kind.
OMG you should live in my neighborhood! The same incessant nursery rhyme DAY and NIGHT!
Makes me want to plant a bomb pop in his truck~
@john65pennington
Who remembers these two in their ice cream truck?
“How about a nice dream cone?
Last summer. I expect to see them again this summer.
Last summer I had moved to suburbia after living for 5 years in a rural area, so I was pretty shocked to see them.
For now, it’s too soon for them to come out. Today we had a cloudy, cool day.
My favorite treat as a kid was either a TMNT ice cream (with gumball eyes!) or an ice cream sandwich.
Bonus points: I remember getting candy cigarettes a lot too. It honestly surprises me to this day that I don’t smoke.
@Sarcasm
My guy would be out in February if he could.
The other day he was playing Christmas Carols! As a non native I don’t think he actually realized that the “First Noel” was a little odd in May.
May 17, 2010 around 5:45 pm. I saw two. A very colourful one with red, green, and yellow. And then a white one 2 minutes later. Lucky, huh? (I’m on a diet)
But then, you can always go tink’s style- “fuck the diet today.”
Last summer there was one every afternoon around here. Not warm enough right now but about three weeks ago they were here on the few warm days we had.
Hate that repetitious music. But when its hot enough the AC drowns out some of it.
I used to like the rasp. or strawberry vanillw rocket pops. The ones in a cardboard tube with a stick in the middle so you could push it up as you ate it. Great for really hot days when stuff melts so fast.
I also liked the chocolate pops.
But I don’t bother nowadays cuz there’s a Culvers about a mile up the road and their ice cream is made from real custard and is better than Ben and Jerrys.
www.culvers.com
A lot of the ice cream truck stuff is rather cheapo tasting.
Yes, they’re common. In addition, we have dudes who walk the streets pushing ice cream carts, often adorned with a row of bells. How that is profitable is beyond me.
We have one (or some) that come by our house every day, even in the rain – haha
I saw one in March in NYC. It was freakin’ cold, so I wasn’t tempted…
I used to love the chocolate cookie chipwiches. Heck, I still love them, but they don’t go well with my diet.
Saw one yesterday. He comes down our street about twice a day. We live downtown next to a lot of schools so it makes sense. Plus there are ice cream trucks at every park here. Two feet of grass and a bench? Ice cream truck!
They are really common here. In fact, I have a running joke that the ice cream man is my worst enemy. That song is SO irritating, and he drives around my neighborhood every day in the summer.
The ice cream truck was invented here in Youngstown, Ohio.
We see the ice cream truck almost every day in summer. There’s a guy, locally known as Papa Joe, who drives an old-fashioned ice cream truck with his old dog riding shotgun. There’s no blaring music, just a bell that he rings when he first arrives at his chosen location. He must spend a lot of time researching sports schedules and town events, because he always seems to show up just at the end of whatever sports practice is going on at the high school. He also parks right between the middle school and high school when classes let out (and we live right near the schools), and we see him at the Farmer’s Market each week. Every kid in town knows him, and I wonder if he gets tired of hearing shrill voices yell out “Hey Papa Joe!” anytime he goes anywhere. He also works as a cashier at the grocery store. He isn’t creepy, isn’t overly friendly or fake with the kids (he’s sometimes kind of grumpy), but he is one of the local signs of summer.
When I was a kid, the ice cream truck would torment us. We lived on a cul-de-sac, and sometimes we’d hear the ice cream truck on a nearby street. We’d get so excited, run around frantically looking for loose change or a couple of bucks from our parents, then stand on the sidewalk praying for the ice cream truck to turn down our street. The bastard would drive up and down all the streets around us, but rarely our street. We weren’t allowed to leave our street, so we had to stand there listening to the music gradually fade away. :( When he did go by our house, I usually got one of those strawberry crunch bars.
one went by my house on sunday, i seriously sprinted out the door. i was too late, it had already passed my house. i cried. just kidding. but it was so nice to hear that sound!
I saw one two days ago for the first time in about eight years.
When I think of ice cream trucks, for some reason, Herbert the Pervert from Family Guy pops into my head.
Yup, I saw one the other day.
@jjmah Major LOL at that link. :P
@anartist This is what the one that drives around our neighborhood sounds like, this isn’t the same one, I just found this on youtube, but it plays the same mind numbing bars of The Entertainer over and over and over again.
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