I can't remember what ours plays, maybe Music Box Dancer or someting like that. But what's worse is how it looks; it's actually an old green van with no windows with the words "PJ's Ice Cream" stenciled in crooked letters on the side. It's the scariest ice cream truck I've ever seen!
Tell us something.: I love whistling and I have been a member of this forum for many years now.I have found it very informative and helpful over the years that I have been here.
At the risk of seeming culturally insensitive, I will not comment other than to say that we had the Turkey in the Straw guy for about four years. Haven't had one in the neighborhood for a few months and I have forgotten the tune but it wasn't something mainstream.
When I was a kid, the ice cream truck played a pleasant little tune that sounded like there was maybe a little man in the back who was doing it by hand. Now the ice cream truck sounds like a cell-phone ring tone "beeping"....and at 2 or 3 bucks for a popsicle it's no longer a sound I want to hear!
Which reminds me of the ancient gag:
On seeing an ambulance rushing down the road,lights flashing,bells ringing,some wag would always say "He'll never sell much ice-cream going at that speed!"
Totaly useless Ice-cream related facts;
Raspberry sauce is known as 'Monkey's blood' around here.
Ex British P.M. (hauwk,spit) Margaret Thatcher, originally trained as a chemist,and her first job in industry was to devise a method of getting more air into Ice-cream.
SEE?-She was learning to fleece people even then!
jen f wrote:I can't remember what ours plays, maybe Music Box Dancer or someting like that. But what's worse is how it looks; it's actually an old green van with no windows with the words "PJ's Ice Cream" stenciled in crooked letters on the side. It's the scariest ice cream truck I've ever seen!
On the subject of British ice cream...any of you guys ever eat something called "99 Flake?"
In London a couple of years ago, we accidently bought a few cones of that from what appeared to be an ice cream truck with what appeared to be a picture of an ice cream cone on it.
It tasted like overly sweet cake icing in a cone, and, apart from the initial visuals, bore no resemblance to a dairy product. Yuck.
Just curious.
emmline wrote:On the subject of British ice cream...any of you guys ever eat something called "99 Flake?"
In London a couple of years ago, we accidently bought a few cones of that from what appeared to be an ice cream truck with what appeared to be a picture of an ice cream cone on it.
It tasted like overly sweet cake icing in a cone, and, apart from the initial visuals, bore no resemblance to a dairy product. Yuck.
Just curious.
Hi Emm,
Hope it's not to early in the day for this...
We've got The Entertainer too-- I won't buy ice cream from that truck just on principle...
Hey, maybe these ice cream people could hire whistle players to ride along and play tunes through the PA system. A never ending stream of jigs and reels would be refreshing and distinctive!
Tell us something.: I used to play pipes about 20 years ago and suddenly abducted by aliens. Not sure why... but it's 2022 and I'm mysteriously baack...
Our town outlawed the ice cream trucks years ago as a safety and traffic hazard. We are a 100+ year old inner-ring suburb with a high population density and narrow streets. Although I have fond memories of the "Good Humour Man" from my youth I think banning them is a good idea and I'll bet that most of the parents around here would agree.
Mike
