Ice cream trucks still around?

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• protist@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Na I get it. It’s hard to say no to something so special for a kiddo

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  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Do you just straight up ask for meth or is there a code word?

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• Ziggurat@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What’s outdated about it?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

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  • WeebLife@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You have to get out of your house and talk to someone, you can’t just order it on the phone. It’s def old school 😅

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      most people aren’t antisocial, my dad goes out of his way to use the manned tills at the store because he wants to chat with the chashier…

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• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My neighborhood has them. There are adult versions now, they are just called food trucks.

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  • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t think I’ve ever seen a food truck drive around looking for customers. They’re usually just stationed in one place for the day.

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    • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Food trucks move to good spots all the time and many of them have apps that tell people were they are setting up.

      I have seen many food trucks that just sell deserts and ice cream…

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• MantisToboggon@lazysoci.al ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Absolutely that’s where I buy my weed.

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• Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We have two different ones that come through our neighborhood and drive me crazy because they both play an ice cream truck version of Stereo Love by Edward Maya and have been doing so for close to a decade now. Get a new song already!

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  • BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I've worked repetitive, hot, boring jobs before, but I don't know how the people working those trucks can keep their sanity with that music on repeat. I get sick enough of Christmas music in stores after hearing them like twice, and the blaring of an ice cream truck is 100x worse!

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  • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I thought it was kinda mandatory for ice cream trucks to play Greensleeves.

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• cralex@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  One drove by my house a few weeks ago. Before that? I haven’t seen one in the wild in years.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I haven’t seen a truck in a long time, but there are still dudes on bicycles selling Mexican ice cream and whatever those orange uh… Ring thingies are.

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• Bronzie@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah they drive around all summer in Norway. Hear them once or twice a week.

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  • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same when I’m in Denmark, I love it. Too bad we don’t have them down in Italy.

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• khannie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• sylphrin@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• tacosanonymous@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah and it’s honestly super creepy.

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• BryceBassitt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Occasionally hear the jingle during summer

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We do sometimes? Like there’s no route, maybe twice a summer an ice cream truck will stroll by with music and all.

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• LadyButterfly@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They used to sell illegal ciggies in the UK don’t know if they still do

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  • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m uncertain of your instance membership.

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• wildwhitehorses@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• reev@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• Nolvamia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We have a bakery truck that drives around playing the ice cream truck music. Does that count?

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• SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They’re certainly around in New York.

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• spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pretty much daily, I hear that song playing throughout my neighborhood.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  same here, we have one that regularly comes to our part of the neighborhood, but most of the time its cold season, so there isnt much demand.

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• darthelmet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve seen one around town still. Although I suspect like 90+% of its business is just from parking right outside the town pool in the summer.

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• feddup@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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!

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• Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mister Softee has an app to track the truck’s whereabouts. I have absolutely used it to find his ass and hunt him down. Ice cream trucks have evolved into the 21st century. No one has decent soft serve anymore in my area. DQ closed like 5 years ago, and this dude is just driving around potentially bringing it to your door. Mister softee is the goat.

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• BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  One just started coming through my neighborhood like 2 weeks ago, and there's a kid a few houses down who seems to always be ready to run out and stop the truck. Takes easily 10+ minutes for the music to fade out. Like, I hate to be a grumpy old man, but that music drives me fucking nuts! I'm on the verge of trying to beat the kid to the truck just so I can bribe the guy to drive away as fast as possible

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• RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Our ice cream truck seems to also do coffee. I haven’t bought anything from it but I’ve seen it around

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  • DrFistington@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There was one that came around my old house on occasion before I had kids, and it sold amazing elote

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• Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We have dueling ice cream trucks around here.

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• hexagon527@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  even as an adult i would still rush out for an ice cream sandwich at the sound of that sweet sweet music

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• DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s the middle of winter, haven’t seen one for a few months, but they’re common in summer.

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• Waldelfe@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I live in a major city un Germany. One of the big ice cream parlors has several trucks that go to parks and areas with many offices. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one driving through a residential neighbourhood.

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