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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Does yours come regularly? Mine comes every Sunday evening but he's late tonight so I'm sitting waiting, watching out the window.
What do you get? I usually get a Mr whippy with raspberry sauce but I feel like I need a treat tonight so I'm going to go crazy and get a sundae. |
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I live round the corner from the park so I can always walk over there if I really want one. We do occasionally get one come down the street but he's so fast no idea how you'd catch him  . For me it's a 99 with sherbet, raspberry sauce and a flake. So good! |
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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago
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"Does yours come regularly? Mine comes every Sunday evening but he's late tonight so I'm sitting waiting, watching out the window.
What do you get? I usually get a Mr whippy with raspberry sauce but I feel like I need a treat tonight so I'm going to go crazy and get a sundae. "
Mr Whippy with raspberry sauce and a flake would be my choice  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I only want a Cider lolly. But the buggers never have them these days
He had them! "
Next time he’s there, can you grab me a couple. I’ll be pathetically grateful.  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I live round the corner from the park so I can always walk over there if I really want one. We do occasionally get one come down the street but he's so fast no idea how you'd catch him . For me it's a 99 with sherbet, raspberry sauce and a flake. So good! "
Mine waits for me because I go out every week for my ice cream  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I only want a Cider lolly. But the buggers never have them these days
He had them!
Next time he’s there, can you grab me a couple. I’ll be pathetically grateful. "
Every Sunday night! I'll get you some next week. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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No  joys of living down a lane in ye old countryside. However i have flashed them down whilst drivong in derby and opt for a double whippy with bubblegum blue sauce  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I only want a Cider lolly. But the buggers never have them these days
He had them!
Next time he’s there, can you grab me a couple. I’ll be pathetically grateful.
Every Sunday night! I'll get you some next week. "
You’re a legend! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Not seen one except whet at the beach.
Do they still do rounds like they used to in the 80s? I thought they’d died out along with milk floats and paper rounds! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The ice cream van comes round my way in the summer. He usually appears from June onwards x
They must be harder in Fife. They come round in January  x"
Mine carries on until November. He's nuts lol |
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"I live round the corner from the park so I can always walk over there if I really want one. We do occasionally get one come down the street but he's so fast no idea how you'd catch him . For me it's a 99 with sherbet, raspberry sauce and a flake. So good!
Mine waits for me because I go out every week for my ice cream "
Note to self: befriend the icecream man. |
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"Not seen one except whet at the beach.
Do they still do rounds like they used to in the 80s? I thought they’d died out along with milk floats and paper rounds! "
There's still milk floats and paper rounds around where my mum lives . |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Does yours come regularly? Mine comes every Sunday evening but he's late tonight so I'm sitting waiting, watching out the window.
What do you get? I usually get a Mr whippy with raspberry sauce but I feel like I need a treat tonight so I'm going to go crazy and get a sundae. "
Would you like my mini milk OP? |
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"The ice cream van comes round my way in the summer. He usually appears from June onwards x
They must be harder in Fife. They come round in January x
Mine carries on until November. He's nuts lol"
Christmas Eve. Played havoc with my Baileys consumption  x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"We have one comes nearly every day, all year round. I'm not convinced it sells ice cream  "
Years ago there was an 'ice cream war' in Glasgow between the criminal gangs that controlled the best spots. |
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"We have one comes nearly every day, all year round. I'm not convinced it sells ice cream
Years ago there was an 'ice cream war' in Glasgow between the criminal gangs that controlled the best spots."
I think this one mainly sells dodgy cigs and other "herbal" substances to the local youths |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Down here we travel to the Hocking's Dairy Cream van , as all the local know where there are parked up. It only comes in one flavour as that is all you need when it the best ice-cream in the world. Hocking's Dairy Cream ice cream. |
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"We have one comes nearly every day, all year round. I'm not convinced it sells ice cream
Years ago there was an 'ice cream war' in Glasgow between the criminal gangs that controlled the best spots."
Bit of a misnomer. No ice cream sold, it was all about drugs and illicit tobacco. Quite nasty. People got killed |
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"We have one comes nearly every day, all year round. I'm not convinced it sells ice cream
Years ago there was an 'ice cream war' in Glasgow between the criminal gangs that controlled the best spots.
I think this one mainly sells dodgy cigs and other "herbal" substances to the local youths "
It's a shame they're not also selling ice cream. Could be quite profitable when they've got the munchies  |
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"We have one comes nearly every day, all year round. I'm not convinced it sells ice cream
Years ago there was an 'ice cream war' in Glasgow between the criminal gangs that controlled the best spots.
I think this one mainly sells dodgy cigs and other "herbal" substances to the local youths
It's a shame they're not also selling ice cream. Could be quite profitable when they've got the munchies "
They go to the dodgy corner shop for that |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I was driving out of my estate and the ice cream man was driving in, for fucks sake
Snooze, you lose ( I'll have a magnum if you're at the shops, ta) xx"
If I didn't love ice cream so much I would hunt him down and set him and his 'out of tune musical van' on fire
I might have a freezy pop from last year you can have if you can dig it out |
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"I was driving out of my estate and the ice cream man was driving in, for fucks sake
Snooze, you lose ( I'll have a magnum if you're at the shops, ta) xx
If I didn't love ice cream so much I would hunt him down and set him and his 'out of tune musical van' on fire
I might have a freezy pop from last year you can have if you can dig it out "
Harsh! I'll settle for that. I'll be right over xx |
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Can't think of a more soul destroying job than being an itinerant ice cream seller rather than having a guaranteed pitch somewhere.
Time and again they play a few bars of their miserable tune and then move on with no takers.
Can't see them lasting much longer with high diesel prices and lower disposable income among the customer base. |
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"Can't think of a more soul destroying job than being an itinerant ice cream seller rather than having a guaranteed pitch somewhere.
Time and again they play a few bars of their miserable tune and then move on with no takers.
Can't see them lasting much longer with high diesel prices and lower disposable income among the customer base."
The mark up is huge, especially for Mr Whippy |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Can't think of a more soul destroying job than being an itinerant ice cream seller rather than having a guaranteed pitch somewhere.
Time and again they play a few bars of their miserable tune and then move on with no takers.
Can't see them lasting much longer with high diesel prices and lower disposable income among the customer base."
Mine is really busy! I live on a street of ice cream munchers. I was watching for him tonight with my shoes on but even though I shot out the door as soon as I heard him, I was the third family in the queue. |
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Mine is really busy! I live on a street of ice cream munchers. I was watching for him tonight with my shoes on but even though I shot out the door as soon as I heard him, I was the third family in the queue. "
Is it not raining there today? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Mine is really busy! I live on a street of ice cream munchers. I was watching for him tonight with my shoes on but even though I shot out the door as soon as I heard him, I was the third family in the queue.
Is it not raining there today?"
Nope! |
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"Usually comes everyday, don't think ice cream vans will exist much longer. Far cheaper to buy at the supermarkets a pack"
It's just NOT the same, even if it's exactly the same ice cream as sold in the supermarket. No child wants to accept a cheap choc ice from ASDA |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Usually comes everyday, don't think ice cream vans will exist much longer. Far cheaper to buy at the supermarkets a pack
It's just NOT the same, even if it's exactly the same ice cream as sold in the supermarket. No child wants to accept a cheap choc ice from ASDA "
There's still some brilliant local ice cream companies too, Minghellas on South Coast, Rossis from Southend. Family businesses. |
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"Usually comes everyday, don't think ice cream vans will exist much longer. Far cheaper to buy at the supermarkets a pack
It's just NOT the same, even if it's exactly the same ice cream as sold in the supermarket. No child wants to accept a cheap choc ice from ASDA
There's still some brilliant local ice cream companies too, Minghellas on South Coast, Rossis from Southend. Family businesses."
My Grandparents wouldn't buy anything other than Brucianni's ice cream. It's an ice cream company based out of Morecambe, where they were from (weird I now have to write in past tense...) |
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"Can't think of a more soul destroying job than being an itinerant ice cream seller rather than having a guaranteed pitch somewhere.
Time and again they play a few bars of their miserable tune and then move on with no takers.
Can't see them lasting much longer with high diesel prices and lower disposable income among the customer base.
The mark up is huge, especially for Mr Whippy "
Was a an ice-cream man for years,albeit over 30 years ago now,and the profit margin was all in the soft 'Mr Whippy' style from machine..I think abox of actual mix was about £10 then,after adding water and vending (definite knack as well to correctly doing a cone) it was mega bucks profit |
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Oddly, an ice-cream van jingled it's way down my street today despite the fact it was pissing down with rain. I'm not sure how anyone would have got six feet away following purchase before a soggy cone would be all that was left.
I've actually started to wonder if the van is a front for something else as he only seems to turn up in "none-ice cream friendly" weather!
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Couldn't believe the price rise last time I had a 99 a couple of weeks back came to nearly £10 for three including flake mind you it was parked up in a posh garden centre car park with a hotel right next door |
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By *akie32Man
over a year ago
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cant remember the last time i saw an ice cream van, but we did have territory wars between them round here, most were run by those of a traveling perswasion, and it didnt end well, so now we have none |
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By *hoirCouple
over a year ago
Clacton/Bury St. Edmunds |
I got one that hangs around outside the school next door on Thursday and Friday from 2pm onwards. He also comes about 5 or 6 at the weekend. And rarely a different one pops around.
I don't like ice cream much now though so I just have to fend off the kids 
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