Ice cream Van

Saruman · 18-08-2008 3:14pm #1

I have two observations.
1) The ice cream vans NEVER drive around the housing estates when its nice and sunny out, its usually in winter or when its raining during the summer. I would imagine thats because the feck off to beaches and events when the weather is good.

2) They have got very stingy with the amount of ice cream. Cost seems to go up and the ice cream size goes down.

Anyway the reason for this post is my local Ice cream van seems to be an exception to rule number 2 (and sometimes 1).

The cost of a large 99 is €2. Large in Dublin seems to be what a small used to be when i was a kid.
Large to my local is a massive ice cream (chocolate waffle cone is the same price) with (i kid you not) about 12" (1 foot) tall swirl.

The thing is massive, and he bulges it at the sides too so its not just a thin ice cream. I had kids behind me yesterday who had got a regular (Dublin large size) who saw mine, gasped and asked me to swap

Steve_o · 18-08-2008 3:20pm

"Excuse me, i'm lookin for a car thats been tricked out to look like an ice cream truck, ya know, with colour pictures of ice cream treats and plays a tune thats fun for the children...<the entertainer> dah dah dah dah dah dah dah....."

OP: An ice cream van stopped outside our house in Limerick and gave us massive ice creams for €2, syrup and flakes and all... twas the business...

18-08-2008 3:23pm

My ice cream man only sells tea bags and lighters, no feckin ice cream:(

ejmaztec · 18-08-2008 3:24pm

Saruman wrote: »

The cost of a large 99 is €2. Large in Dublin seems to be what a small used to be when i was a kid.

Could this be an illusion brought on by the fact that your hands were smaller when you were a kid? I was having lengthy discussions about Mars bars shrinking over the years, before concluding that they probably hadn't.

dade · 18-08-2008 3:25pm

LittleNipper wrote: »

My ice cream man only sells tea bags and lighters, no feckin ice cream:(

he does understand teh concept of an ice cream van right

javaboy · 18-08-2008 3:27pm

Saruman wrote: »

(i kid you not) about 12" (1 foot)...thing is massive...bulges..at the sides too. I had kids behind me yesterday...who saw mine, gasped

Yes I'm immature. What of it?

Saruman · 18-08-2008 3:29pm

ejmaztec wrote: »

Could this be an illusion brought on by the fact that your hands were smaller when you were a kid? I was having lengthy discussions about Mars bars shrinking over the years, before concluding that they probably hadn't.

No because i was 6 feet tall when i was 12 and stopped growing so my hands are the same size

18-08-2008 3:29pm

dade wrote: »

he does understand teh concept of an ice cream van right

There is one that comes occasionally that has ice cream.
The one that comes everyday only seems to have bought a ice cream van to get rid of stuff he robbed or whatever junk he has.

dade · 18-08-2008 3:40pm

probably robbed teh van too so

dee8839 · 18-08-2008 3:48pm

Speaking of ice cream vans selling stuff other than ice cream.... When I was in college in Limerick we used to hear the tune of an ice cream van a good bit in the late evenings and a rumour went around that the van has two tunes, one during the day for ice cream and one used as a kind of code - if he's playing that one he's selling his other product... He's a drug dealer at night.

Lots of people had that story. Anyone ever hear it?!

Wonder if anyone chanced asking an innocent ice cream man for something "stronger"...

adsgirl · 18-08-2008 4:00pm

When we saw or heard the ice cream van coming, we used to jump up and down squealing, "It's the poke man":o

ejmaztec · 18-08-2008 4:01pm

Saruman wrote: »

No because i was 6 feet tall when i was 12 and stopped growing so my hands are the same size

Was the ice-cream near - or far away? :P

ems_12 · 18-08-2008 4:11pm

dee8839 wrote: »

...we used to hear the tune of an ice cream van a good bit in the late evenings and a rumour went around that the van has two tunes, one during the day for ice cream and one used as a kind of code - if he's playing that one he's selling his other product... He's a drug dealer at night.

Lots of people had that story. Anyone ever hear it?!

Same happens in our neighbourhood in Belfast, there's always more adults at the ice cream van than kids so it's a bit suspicious. And like u say, he usually drives round at night......

Toots · 18-08-2008 6:22pm

dee8839 wrote: »

Speaking of ice cream vans selling stuff other than ice cream.... When I was in college in Limerick we used to hear the tune of an ice cream van a good bit in the late evenings and a rumour went around that the van has two tunes, one during the day for ice cream and one used as a kind of code - if he's playing that one he's selling his other product... He's a drug dealer at night.

Lots of people had that story. Anyone ever hear it?!

Wonder if anyone chanced asking an innocent ice cream man for something "stronger"...

I'm convinced there's an ice cream van selling drugs in the estate near me! I've NEVER seen it during the day, and it goes around after dark on friday and saturday nights playing the music. Was walking back from the shops last saturday night and I saw it stopped at the end of a small cul de sac and there were a load of scumbags milling around it.

jackbutler · 18-08-2008 6:37pm

the ice cream vans near me are a fecking joke.
remember the tubs? how you could get a load of ice cream, sprinkles, nuts, sherbert, monkeys blood?
yeah those were the days.
i was like, can i have a tub?
he nodded, got to work on it, i was relaxing, so i didnt notice what he was doing.
a thought popped into my head "ohh can i have everything on it?
"sure mate"
a minute passed, he popped the tub on the counter.

WAIT. this isnt some normal tub, this was a BOAT. a little plastic boat, with a pathetic dollup of ice cream on.
then the driver said "woops"
so i thought "exactly mate, im not paying for that."

he pops it back on the counter with a couple sprinkles and a squirting of blood, not from a monkey, probably from a crippled dog.

shows you the worlds going mad :]

DaveyGem · 18-08-2008 6:51pm

Where i was living the ghetto on my J1 there was about 15 Ice cream vans in the neighbourhood and it was exactly like Chris Rock says it is-

On a hot day the priicks drive a couple of blocks longer than required just to whip the kids up into a frenzy.

"Its the ice cream man, Ice cream man, ICE CREAM MAN!!!!"

It also played an awful tune.

Incidently they would still drive around right into the wee hours of the morning balsting out the hip hop.

The late night ones sold damn good milkshakes for 2 bucks and i always suspected they sold drugs aswell...it was the ghetto after all.

Incidently regardless of what they were selling they didn't skimp on quantity or quality, and proved to by very affordable

stovelid · 18-08-2008 8:37pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JfMCBh1sJQ

Bottle_of_Smoke · 18-08-2008 8:48pm

Nostalgia's not what it used to be.

flanum · 19-08-2008 1:09am

my local ice cream man sells "maddy specials" and drugs!

Silenceisbliss · 19-08-2008 7:13am

Saruman wrote: »

The cost of a large 99 is €2. Large in Dublin

I may be wrong here but wasnt the point of a 99r, to COST 99p..... hence the name....

Saruman · 19-08-2008 8:09am

Silenceisbliss wrote: »

I may be wrong here but wasnt the point of a 99r, to COST 99p..... hence the name....

Completely wrong...
I think its supposed to be something to do with the product number of the flake or something.

Never in my life have i had a 99 that cost 99p or 99c in this country or in Britain.

Run_to_da_hills · 19-08-2008 8:11am

I would be very slow to buy any coned ice cream from these guys unless i see them using disposible gloves. For starters they are handling dirty cash and secondly these guys often p*ss into a bottles in their vans instead of driving out of their way to use a public jacks. :eek:

Silenceisbliss · 19-08-2008 8:28am

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

I would be very slow to buy any coned ice cream from these guys unless i see them using disposible gloves. For starters they are handling dirty cash and secondly these guys often p*ss into a bottles in their vans instead of driving out of their way to use a public jacks. :eek:

well, it builds up our immune systems n it gives snyper a hard on....everyones happy....

also, this is all i could find on wiki about the prise: "For a long period of time in the 1990s, many ice cream stands sold Flake 99s for the appropriate sum of 99 pence."

Saruman · 19-08-2008 8:32am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Flake

Bunch of reasons for it here.

Also from cadbury

Essentially the name of the flake is the 99 flake and that is where the ice cream gets its name. Where the flake got the 99 name is what is open to comment.

jester77 · 19-08-2008 8:35am

My icecream guy calls by at 9:50 every evening, could set your watch by him and it's always sunny when he calls! He doesn't do any of the whipped stuff, just scoops of "Italian" ice cream... I wonder!! Well tasty though and 50c a scoop, the whisky caramel is my fave

Saruman · 19-08-2008 8:37am

Ice cream for breakfast? Germans know how to make breakfast it seems.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 19-08-2008 8:40am

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

I would be very slow to buy any coned ice cream from these guys unless i see them using disposible gloves. For starters they are handling dirty cash and secondly these guys often p*ss into a bottles in their vans instead of driving out of their way to use a public jacks. :eek:

Jaysus, you wimp! Where's that thread about how did we survive childhood? Three germs and your flat on your bak phoing work sick and whinging for mummy.

jester77 · 19-08-2008 8:41am

Saruman wrote: »

Germans know how to make breakfast it seems.

They sure do
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