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Post by twistedscissors on Jul 5, 2014 21:23:48 GMT
We have one that just started coming around a couple months ago. It's actually a short bus that he has repainted. Lol. The driver is actually the same guy that is our local clown. Kinda creepy. My DD bought ice cream today, just vanilla ice cream with chocolate shell and he asked if that's what she really wanted cause that was "old people ice cream". What the heck?
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Post by baslp on Jul 5, 2014 21:34:39 GMT
It still comes up our street. When my kids were little they would run out there. Just hearing the music brings back those memories.
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Post by ModChick on Jul 5, 2014 23:19:18 GMT
We see one a couple times a month during the summer in our neighborhood but I'm failing as a parent since I never have cash on me. Wonder if they take debit now...
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Post by Linda on Jul 5, 2014 23:38:09 GMT
I haven't seen an ice cream van here in the states except parked at street festivals and carnivals but I have fond memories of them from England and especially on base in Cyprus - we had the ice cream van and also a greengrocer van and a grocery van that came around regularly through the housing areas. I loved getting a 99 with the Cadbury flake but it was a rare treat - my mum also used the line that they only played music when they were sold out.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2014 0:11:00 GMT
We have an ice cream truck that comes around the neighborhood about once a week. Of course, she seems to come up our street on the days that our kids aren't getting anything and doesn't come when they're sitting on the curb with money in hand! DH has driven off to flag her down to let her know that there are kids on our street waiting for her!
I remember when I was a kid my two favorites from the ice cream man were screwballs and the frozen toe ice cream! ![:nod:](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/U60p50mxzUNFaJHP0XeB.jpg)
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Post by my2apps2 on Jul 6, 2014 0:18:11 GMT
In our old neighborhood we did, but man were those guys sketchy! I was pretty positive that had I asked for a dime bag I would have gotten one. Not kidding.
When I was a kid, my dad was stationed in Germany and we had a ice cream man but also a candy man and a wicker man. The candy man I can still see in my mind to this day, he was the kindest old grandpa type of guy. I was pretty convinced he was Santa in disguise. I still remember how excited my mom would get when the wicker man would come...he sold the nicest homemade baskets! *sigh* I want to go back to Europe someday...
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Jul 6, 2014 0:45:43 GMT
I sometimes hear the ice cream truck around here, but the prices are prohibitively high, so I don't indulge my kids (handslap me, I know. I'm sure it is causing them some kind of irreversible trauma to have to eat the popsicles and big carton of ice cream already in teh freezer).
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Post by fotos4u2 on Jul 6, 2014 1:10:56 GMT
We do have an ice cream man and we're 99% sure they are selling something more than ice cream (one of our neighbors at the end of the block has had their house raided for drugs multiple times and that happens to conveniently be where the ice cream man usually stops). I very rarely let the kids buy anything from the trucks now that I found that out (there's another one that hits the street by the junior high at pick up time).
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Post by Mary W on Jul 6, 2014 1:36:03 GMT
Not so much anymore because there aren't many kids in the neighborhood now. But they did come by quite a bit when my kids were little and we had tons on kids always playing here. There were rumors of some of the ice cream trucks selling drugs out of them. They would go to the parks to "sell." I don't think they're still around though.
One of my fondest childhood memories was when the ice cream truck would come to the "beach" (it was a pond) where we swam in the summer. Even if we couldn't hear it, we all knew when he was there because there would be a mass exit from the water to run to the truck! My favorite was the chocolate eclairs. I also remember push ups, and I never got the nutty buddies because I thought they were too small! We had a great drive-in restaurant in town that had the best ice cream cones. Even now when I go back up to visit I have to go to that drive-in for ice cream, and I still don't like nutty buddies!
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Post by calgal08 on Jul 6, 2014 2:13:05 GMT
As a kid in England I remember eating pink ice-cream in the shape of a foot. Looking back, who the heck wants to eat a foot? What marketing genius came up with that one???
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Post by Dori~Mama~Bear on Jul 6, 2014 2:14:18 GMT
I didn't have ice cream from an ice cream truck until I was in my 20's. There wasn't any where we lived when I was growing up. But we did go to DQ when we went to visit my grandma Birdie. She lived 2 houses away from a smal walk up to the window DQ and she always treated us to ice cream. If we went over there at lunch or dinner time we always got DQ for dinner then we would walk back down to get desert.
My daughter grew up having ice cream from the Ice cream man. but we haven't seen any around here in a couple years.
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Post by Butterfly Momma on Jul 6, 2014 2:49:44 GMT
I grew up in a rural area, so no ice cream truck for me. But I vividly remember my first ice cream truck experience ... I was 20 and visiting my bf's family and when they found out I hadn't experienced ice cream from a truck, they flagged the next one down and treated me ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/MNrJDkDuSwqIMVw33MdD.jpg) Fast forward to now, I have 3 little boys and love to treat them at the ice cream truck usually every couple of weeks. But like the OP, my mom is a fun sucker about the price (which actually is very comparable to other ice cream places here). I finally had to nicely tell her that it is my money, my kids and I enjoy seeing their excitement. And yes, they were treated today ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/MNrJDkDuSwqIMVw33MdD.jpg)
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Post by Linda on Jul 6, 2014 3:13:00 GMT
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Post by mztfied on Jul 6, 2014 3:20:10 GMT
Such memories! Summertime 110 degrees. And oh those fab rootbeer popsicles were divine!
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Post by calgal08 on Jul 6, 2014 3:41:41 GMT
hysterical - who'd have thought they'd make a come-back? ![???](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/huh.png) I swear I can taste them just by looking at the photo. I remember they had a v. odd consistency, almost like a skin over the ice-cream and they never really melted in the usual ice-cream way
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