Ice cream vans

[Spunk Bubble]

I hear them quite a lot but never see them. Someone is playing a sick joke !!!

 

[The Wookiee]

I thought they were just a front used by drug dealers

 

[Paul Reids Sock]

we have about 2 or 3 around here, at about 3ish you can hear them driving up to the schools near us (primary and secondary schools at the end of the road) and then they seem to take it in turns for the next couple of hours to drive up my road pissing me off!!

 

[Braders]

one drives past ours first thing in the morning then about 6-ish in the evening with the "teddybears picnic" tune playing

that is all.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Perhaps sales of Mars and Twix ice creams at my nearest Tesco are too strong for the Mr Whippys of this world to bother

 

[WASH]

We've got friends who has told his kids (6, 4 & 1) that when it plays music, it means they've run out of ice cream.

Seems to have done the trick apparently.

We did something similar to our kids. When our daughter was about 3, she wondered what the music was, we told her that it was a mobile church calling people to prey in the streets!! She believed it for ages, though when she got older she threatened to report us to Childline if we didn't make up for the lost ice cream!

 

[Easy 10]

Love the guff they;ve written on that Star Wars lolly:

DARTH VADER
Darth Vader personifies the evil of the Galactic Empire. The awesome malevolent figure dressed in flowing black robes keeps his face forever masked by a grotesque breath screen.

 

[Starry]

just been along to a park with the young starrys and along came the ice cream van.

i asked the young ice cream maker man about two ball screwballs and he looked at me as if i had asked for blood from a stone. apparently its been a long time since they existed.

i purchased a trusty zapp for myself, a 99 with nuts and chocolate sauce for one child and an oyster with extra coconut for the other.

he was selling (not our usual ice cream chap) a whole stack of other treats that i dont remember from when i was young everything from batteries to bananas.

 

[Questions]

Clearly I live in the wrong area

They won`t come round Moulscoomb for obvious reasons Edna.

 

[Gully]

Braders, you got off lightly, the one that comes down my road plays the Pompey frigging Chimes...you can hear the bugger when he is streets away...roll on winter!

 

[Goodfella]

They won`t come round Moulscoomb for obvious reasons Edna.

It's 'Moulsecoomb', and where i was bought up, always an ice-cream van around.
Also used to have a van came round every day selling Bread, Milk, and other essentials, used to call it the 'Grey' van, for obvious reasons, any one else have this?

 

[Storer68]

Fab
and it cost 9d

 

[Storer68]

It's 'Moulsecoomb', and where i was bought up, always an ice-cream van around.
Also used to have a van came round every day selling Bread, Milk, and other essentials, used to call it the 'Grey' van, for obvious reasons, any one else have this?

but what about the children in Mile Oak. Do they get ice cream.....?

 

[surrey jim]

theres one goes around haywards heath

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

I remember those old paper wrappers,you couldnt get the lolly off them!

 

[dougdeep]

Saw one today, it was playing a clanky out of tune version of Popeye the Sailor man.

 

[seagullsslimjim]

"Popeye the sailor man" everyday in Goring too

 

[SeagullTim]

Stringer at lunch times, awesome

Big packs of cadburys chocolate for 50p

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

We get one in Mile Oak pretty often - usually about 5ish i think

Yeah, they go to sit outside my neighbours house every day, its quite cute, until the 50 millionth time you hear the teddy bear's picnic song