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To ask who actually gets the toppings?

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Notsurewhatisnormalanymore · 16/11/2025 14:47

Light hearted of course but this happens so frequently I am genuinely perplexed!

I love ice cream, as do my kids (one is ND so sticks to the same flavour 😂) but me and my daughter like to try the new and unusual ones. As such, we go to the places where you’re paying far more than you ought to now and again because they tend to have the more ‘seasonal’ or unusual flavours and have a new one each month - hopefully you know what type of place I mean.

My question is, who gets the stuff that’s on the top? You know the bits that make it look attractive and lure you in? Because I eat FAR too much ice cream and I have never, ever been given one of the biscuits, big chucks of chocolate, liquorice allsorts or jammy dodgers that are adorning the ice cream!

I’m more than happy with the ice cream I’ve had, this is not a complaint at all but what are they doing with the toppings? Perhaps you work somewhere like this, do they just remove them? Am I just unlucky that I’ve never had just the right portion at the right time? Seems unlikely considering how often I eat it 🙈

I feel like I need to know - help!

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Notsurewhatisnormalanymore · 16/11/2025 16:08

Thebigonesgetaway · 16/11/2025 16:07

Maybe next time just say could you scoop it to Inc some of the toppings please?

I will now that I know someone is getting them x

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Notsurewhatisnormalanymore · 16/11/2025 16:07

OSTMusTisNT · 16/11/2025 16:02

Guessing you're in Yorkshire? I love a lemon Top but wish they made them with proper Ice Cream instead of that inferior Mr Whippy.

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Yes! Mr Whippy used to be better though didn’t it? Ir maybe I’ve got rose tinted specs x

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Thebigonesgetaway · 16/11/2025 16:07

Maybe next time just say could you scoop it to Inc some of the toppings please?

GellerYeller · 16/11/2025 16:06

OSTMusTisNT · 16/11/2025 16:02

Guessing you're in Yorkshire? I love a lemon Top but wish they made them with proper Ice Cream instead of that inferior Mr Whippy.

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Scarborough Harbour Bar is the best for me! My eldest has just the lemon sorbet, no ice cream. I prefer the Strawberry version but I do love a Mr Whippy, sorry!

skyeisthelimit · 16/11/2025 16:06

I thought they were there just to show you what the ice cream is. I wouldn't expect to get an Oreo shoved on top of my cone. I have only ever seen it on the pier on holiday though.

Sanddancing · 16/11/2025 16:04

…and was bemused why I needed to know ;)

Sanddancing · 16/11/2025 16:03

I just asked DD who works in a seaside gelateria, she says they go on the customers scoop, or sometimes the bin.

OSTMusTisNT · 16/11/2025 16:02

Notsurewhatisnormalanymore · 16/11/2025 15:15

I love sorbet as well, have you had a lemon top? You can’t get them in many places but I love them!

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Guessing you're in Yorkshire? I love a lemon Top but wish they made them with proper Ice Cream instead of that inferior Mr Whippy.

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Notsurewhatisnormalanymore · 16/11/2025 15:59

JudgeBread · 16/11/2025 15:43

I used to! Obviously we'd give some to customers, especially excited little kids who were pumped to get an Oreo. But we had a sneaky tub behind the counter that we'd drop them in to snack on between customers (we did also have a separate toppings tub so we could add toppings in through the day, so we weren't depriving people too much 🤣)

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Thanks for being honest! I’m glad to know they aren’t just thrown away really weird as that is.

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TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 16/11/2025 15:59

There is probably a small sign, partially hidden by a chunk of chocolate, that states 'For Display Purposes Only' or 'Serving Suggestion'.

Sillysoggyspaniel · 16/11/2025 15:57

I'm also an ice cream purist. Get through two tubs every three days of premium ice cream, never buy toppings when out.

Arregaithel · 16/11/2025 15:53

ilovepixie · 16/11/2025 15:49

Doesn’t answer the question at all. Did you read the full thread?

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apologies @ilovepixie only skim read, don't like ice-cream personally 🙊....have left the building 😊

Itiswhysofew · 16/11/2025 15:52

To the lucky last customer of whatever tub?

ilovepixie · 16/11/2025 15:49

Arregaithel · 16/11/2025 15:41

does this answer your question @Notsurewhatisnormalanymore

Doesn’t answer the question at all. Did you read the full thread?

Twinkylightsg · 16/11/2025 15:49

Notsurewhatisnormalanymore · 16/11/2025 15:15

I love sorbet as well, have you had a lemon top? You can’t get them in many places but I love them!

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I do love lemon but prefer raspberry, lemon on really hot days though seems to be what a crave ! What is lemon top? Havnt heard of that tbh

newhousenewhouse · 16/11/2025 15:47

I once had half a crème egg in crème egg flavour at Easter. The next year they didn’t give me it so I asked, they laughed and gave it to me 🤣

Clementine12 · 16/11/2025 15:45

Beekman · 16/11/2025 15:27

I love a lemon top when I come back to the UK. Bridlington sea front!

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Takes me back to my childhood trips to Pacito’s on Redcar seafront

JudgeBread · 16/11/2025 15:43

Notsurewhatisnormalanymore · 16/11/2025 15:21

👀 do you work in one? What happens when you get to a bit where it would absolutely be awkward not to give it to the person who is being served? Do you have to sneak it out all stealthy between customers? No judgement btw, the ice cream is still usually good enough without the big bits and serving customers all day ought to have some perks 😂

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I used to! Obviously we'd give some to customers, especially excited little kids who were pumped to get an Oreo. But we had a sneaky tub behind the counter that we'd drop them in to snack on between customers (we did also have a separate toppings tub so we could add toppings in through the day, so we weren't depriving people too much 🤣)

ilovepixie · 16/11/2025 15:43

I’ve never got the toppings either, and I’m too scared to ask! I think they are just used for display purposes.

Arregaithel · 16/11/2025 15:41

does this answer your question @Notsurewhatisnormalanymore

Againwiththerain · 16/11/2025 15:32

dh always end up with huge chunks of milky bar at our local one. I’ve never had that luck with the other flavours they always seem to scoop mine from the bottom

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Notsurewhatisnormalanymore · 16/11/2025 15:32

PerfunctoryFunk · 16/11/2025 15:24

I feel similarly cheated if I don't get the decorative bits of a Colin Caterpillar.

Hahahahahaha

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Beekman · 16/11/2025 15:27

Notsurewhatisnormalanymore · 16/11/2025 15:15

I love sorbet as well, have you had a lemon top? You can’t get them in many places but I love them!

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I love a lemon top when I come back to the UK. Bridlington sea front!

Autumvibes · 16/11/2025 15:27

All of my children have multiple toppings

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Notsurewhatisnormalanymore · 16/11/2025 15:26

TheEllisGreyMethod · 16/11/2025 15:21

I sadly spend too much time in ice cream shops as my DD is obsessed, I always assumed they were decorative and no one gets them!

Ah I kind of assumed I was just unlucky to never get the right bit but then I thought about my ice cream habit and realised that’s not likely. I would love to know if it’s just decorative but I had a liquorice all sort one recently and it had loads of them on top (still don’t get a full one) and it seems wasteful to bin them and I wouldn’t have thought businesses would want to in this climate. Someone mentioned the biscuit ones being soggy so maybe they go in the bin.

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