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For those not in the UK a little explanation may be required. For the last 50 years or so it just wouldn't be summer without the annoying tinny jingle announcing the arrival of a Mr Whippy or a Mr Softy van dispensing ice cream cones (if you are lucky a '99' which comes complete with an alarmingly short piece of chocolate flake stuck in it). One of my earliest memories is of buying such a cone on a beach in Wales one summer; against the strict parental instructions that I would ruin my dinner. (I didn't; I ate both).
But again the anti-fun police are out and about and seem determined to see off the last of these vans.
Under an amendment to the Education and Inspection Bill, local authorities will be given new powers to stop ice-cream vans from operating near school gates. The move comes as operators claim that they are already being forced out of business by an over-zealous health lobby. Local authorities have banned ice-cream vans from using pay-and-display parking spaces and set up "ice-cream-free"exclusion zones around busy shopping streets.
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5-10-2006 @12:28PM cybele said... Um, yeah, we have ice cream trucks in North America, too.
(Have you seen the Bill Forsythe movie, Comfort and Joy?)
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5-10-2006 @12:34PM Hawk said... I remember the ice cream truck that came by my parents' house every now and then. It was fun! It was also a quite decent truck, possibly run by some company and sponsored by Good Humor.
In Ann Arbor, ooooooh boy. Ice cream 'truck' is usually a old, rusted, maybe even burned-out (as in, was on fire at some point) Econoline van with holes cut with a saw into the side metal, and very badly-done spraypaint artwork, along with a jingle that came out of some gadget you can probably buy from Johnson Smith.
These trucks come through college student neighborhoods, and I somehow doubt they only cell ice cream....
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5-13-2006 @9:31PM Jane said... I remember visiting England in the summer of 67 when was I was 5 and vividly recall the sounds of the ice cream trucks, where I lived in the USA there was no such thing. As you say in the UK, what a wanker to even suggest a crazy idea.
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6-16-2006 @5:51PM Matthew Snyders said... mmm, I am ACTUALLY looking for some info about ice cream truck's music; played when it's driving along. I'm from South Africa (Durban) and we have a particular sound played on our vans, and I've not found any referance to it yet. If anyone knows anything / other sites that specialise in music played, please PLEASE forward me the link (if possible).
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6-16-2006 @5:51PM Matthew Snyders said... mmm, I am ACTUALLY looking for some info about ice cream truck's music; played when it's driving along. I'm from South Africa (Durban) and we have a particular sound played on our vans, and I've not found any referance to it yet. If anyone knows anything / other sites that specialise in music played, please PLEASE forward me the link (if possible). galaxian@webmail.co.za
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