My neighborhood still has an ice cream truck. I’m curious how many other cities still have ice cream trucks. They seem outdated at this point.
I live in a small town, but we definitely have a couple of them floating around.
Yep, one stops just outside my house. When my daughter was little and asked what that sound was (the ice cream van music) I’d say it was the “music van” and it just plays music for people. Didn’t get away with that for very long!
I miss the corn man
They used to sell illegal ciggies in the UK don’t know if they still do
My neighborhood has them. There are adult versions now, they are just called food trucks.
The ice cream truck stopped coming to our estate about 5 years ago though there are plenty of kids about.
I do see them parked near playgrounds etc. quite a bit but not doing the rounds like they used to.
Usually when you hear the typical ice cream truck songs in Germany, it’s a dude rolling around looking for old metal.
Still got them here in Australia. They’ve always been a rarity and somehow they’re always somewhere else where you can’t see them yet they sound close by but they seem about as common now as my childhood in the 90s.
What’s outdated about it?
People like ice cream, and with global warming even more, , so a truck strategically parked (at the school exit, in the park, in front of that tourist hot spot) will drag an audience. It may be a bit harder for the ones going from neighborhood to neighbourhood but it’s still a thing. We even have one stopping at my work parking, which is the opportunity for informal discussion with coworkers I see less
there’s an old guy who drives an icecream van around my area nearly everyday during the summer
Perth Australia, we still have one frequent us in summer. Its why people ask me why do I have a tenner stuck to the back of my front door.
We have one going B2B in the industry area around lunch time. I’ve got coworkers literally running down to get some on some days.
Where I’m at in Texas, the ice cream truck runs almost year-round. I’m fairly certain they’re selling drugs, because the amount they charge for ice cream is too expensive to be worth it.
Do you just straight up ask for meth or is there a code word?
Na I get it. It’s hard to say no to something so special for a kiddo
We have a bakery truck that drives around playing the ice cream truck music. Does that count?
I think there’s one that comes through my neighborhood. I’ve never actually seen it, just heard it, and it never seems to… actually stop. When I was a kid, the ice cream trucks would stop and play their music for a while so people had time to grab their money and run outside. This one just seems to play a few bars of a song as it drives through, makes me wonder if it’s actually an ice cream truck at all.
