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Ammi
16-04-2014, 05:32 AM
..yeah, I copied this from DS but it just made me think that I don't think we have had one for a few years now...do you still have one regularly/99s..?...

AnnieK
16-04-2014, 05:35 AM
We do but she comes at stupid times....on Sunday it was 9pm...all the little kids were in bed and then she put the tune on...you could almost hear the collective groan from parents :laugh:

I remember when we were kids running like mad with no shoes on trying to catch him before he left screaming all the way!! Nothing was better than an ice cream from the ice cream man after a long hard day playing :love:

LikeABoatOnWater
16-04-2014, 05:49 AM
Yeah, ares sell crack and pills though

Ryan57
16-04-2014, 09:20 AM
Heard our usual one on Sunday.

Surprised he comes onto my street due to bad memories.

Kazanne
16-04-2014, 09:39 AM
Yes we have one come round daily,dont use it much now tbh ,usually got stuff in the freezer

lostalex
16-04-2014, 09:43 AM
yea, we've still got one round here, usually comes around 2pm during the summer. Also there's a little mexican guy that has an ice-cream push cart that walks around the local lake.. his little cart doesn't seem to be electric at all, so he must fill it with dry ice or something.

Kizzy
16-04-2014, 09:52 AM
We've had the same ice cream man for 40 odd yrs! mr rossi in Pudsey.

MTVN
16-04-2014, 10:15 AM
We do have one that comes on a Sunday but it seems completely random whether he turns up or not, strangely he is most reliable in the winter months, but then I suppose they often go to fairs and big outdoor events in the summer

Josy
16-04-2014, 10:47 AM
Yes we have but the driver just decides randomly when to come round, one of those ones that are never to be seen when it's sunny then decide to do his run when it's blowing a blizzard.

My family used to own some ice cream vans when I was a teenager and I loved going out to work on them, you got to know quite a lot about the regulars lives... like there was one little boy we weren't allowed to sell ice poles to because he was addicted to them and then there was a junkie woman that used to come for weird things like 4 penny sweets, stuff like that :laugh:

Ammi
16-04-2014, 10:51 AM
Heard our usual one on Sunday.

Surprised he comes onto my street due to bad memories.




..did something happen on the street then Ryan..?..

mizzy25
16-04-2014, 10:51 AM
yes we have one and I love the apple cider lollies from the ice cream man.
did u know ice cream is good for a hangover? im telling u it does work.
Josy what is an ice pole? Is it what Id call an ice pop?

Josy
16-04-2014, 10:54 AM
yes we have one and I love the apple cider lollies from the ice cream man.
did u know ice cream is good for a hangover? im telling u it does work.
Josy what is an ice pole? Is it what Id call an ice pop?

These are ice poles Mizzy

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Mr-Freeze-50ml-Ice-Pops-Lollies-5-Flavours-Kids-Party-Favorites-Bulk-Box-Uk-Ship-/00/s/NzM3WDE1MDA=/z/3h8AAMXQ855RpSiE/$T2eC16J,!y0E9s2S5)j5BRpSiEI4Kw~~60_35.JPG

mizzy25
16-04-2014, 10:57 AM
thank josy yes its what I would call and ice pop, I thought so but wasn't 100% sure lol

lostalex
16-04-2014, 10:57 AM
These are ice poles Mizzy

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Mr-Freeze-50ml-Ice-Pops-Lollies-5-Flavours-Kids-Party-Favorites-Bulk-Box-Uk-Ship-/00/s/NzM3WDE1MDA=/z/3h8AAMXQ855RpSiE/$T2eC16J,!y0E9s2S5)j5BRpSiEI4Kw~~60_35.JPG

who would buy those from a van? those things are just cheap sugar water. not even proper ice-cream.

lostalex
16-04-2014, 10:59 AM
these were always my favorite:

Good Humor: Strawberry shortcake

http://www2.worldpub.net/images/saveurmag/18-strawberryshortcake_goodhumor_400.jpg

Firewire
16-04-2014, 11:02 AM
I didn't think so but one happened to appear in my street only just yesterday.

mizzy25
16-04-2014, 11:04 AM
I don't know if our ice cream man sells ice pops as you can get a big box in asda cheap

Ryan57
16-04-2014, 11:31 AM
..did something happen on the street then Ryan..?..

His parents died in one of the houses due to a gas fire problem. His sister might also of done as well, unsure on her. Definitely his parents did, unfortunately.

That same house that I currently reside in. :umm2:

Jack.
16-04-2014, 11:31 AM
We have one from about march until June and then we have two in the summer

Natalie.
16-04-2014, 12:36 PM
Yeah he still comes now and again, will come more often now

Ammi
16-04-2014, 12:57 PM
His parents died in one of the houses due to a gas fire problem. His sister might also of done as well, unsure on her. Definitely his parents did, unfortunately.

That same house that I currently reside in. :umm2:

..wow poor guy, I don't think I could keep on going down the street..did his sister just 'disappear' then if they were not sure she was in the fire..?..

Vicky.
16-04-2014, 12:58 PM
Yup, and he still sells dodgy tabs like years ago, and also certain kinds of drugs. Tainted my view on icecream men as a kid actually, seeing the adults/teens getting dope and such off him :laugh:

smeagol
16-04-2014, 01:04 PM
yeah its good they play the jingle when its down the street that way you know when the pedo has arrived lol

Kazanne
16-04-2014, 01:05 PM
I don't know if our ice cream man sells ice pops as you can get a big box in asda cheap

We call them ice pops too,but do recall someone a while ago refer to them as ice polls.

Marsh.
16-04-2014, 02:04 PM
who would buy those from a van? those things are just cheap sugar water. not even proper ice-cream.

It's not supposed to be ice cream. :suspect:

Crimson Dynamo
16-04-2014, 02:06 PM
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Z
16-04-2014, 02:28 PM
There's a drug operation pretending to be an ice cream van that trundles around where I live every now and then

Crimson Dynamo
16-04-2014, 02:30 PM
I used love a double nougat

Sophiee
16-04-2014, 03:44 PM
never get ice-cream vans around here D:. I think I've only ever seen one once parked opposite.

Ryan57
16-04-2014, 07:27 PM
..wow poor guy, I don't think I could keep on going down the street..did his sister just 'disappear' then if they were not sure she was in the fire..?..

Oops. I meant that I wasn't sure if his sister was killed in that fire, or she wasn't there.

I asked my Mother earlier and she seems to think it was 3 or 4 people who died. Possibly both his brother and sister. Makes it even worse if it was 4.

thesheriff443
16-04-2014, 07:44 PM
heard a ice cream vans jingle today, drove the car and found him, had a boat with chocolate sauce, nuts and a flake, cost two pounds fifty, but was worth it.

Ammi
17-04-2014, 07:16 AM
Oops. I meant that I wasn't sure if his sister was killed in that fire, or she wasn't there.

I asked my Mother earlier and she seems to think it was 3 or 4 people who died. Possibly both his brother and sister. Makes it even worse if it was 4.

..wow, that's a really sad/tragic story Ryan..and feel a bit strange/surreal sometimes to think that it happened where you live...