How much is a 99 cone where you are?

[heynori]

Just bought a Mr Whippy 99 cone with a flake for DC at the park this afternoon from the icecream van... £3 each!!!

Is it that expensive everywhere, or was I being mugged off?

£3.00 Central Scotland

£2.80, from the ice cream van with flake, no sauce.

Weren’t they called 99ers because they were 99p once upon a time?

£2.40 small with a flake, £2.60 large with a flake. From cafe on the sea front East Sussex.

£1 from the van, South East England

£2 from a van that's been doing a roaring trade in the past few weeks.

Why are posters commenting about with or without a flake, don't you know what a 99 is?

They always up the price n parks. When van drives down street there £1.50 if out in a busy park they £3.00

A 99 and a small tub with a flake from the van in the park cost me £6 yesterday

£2 inc flake £1.60 without or for a child’s one which is a tiny bit less ice cream. Sauce free, sprinkles 30p. From ice cream vans in a beautiful park in Sheffield.

DD asked why they were called 99s the other day and her mind was blown when I said it's because they used to be 99p

£2.40 here, 10p extra for sauce

@Karwomannghia

£2 inc flake £1.60 without or for a child’s one which is a tiny bit less ice cream. Sauce free, sprinkles 30p. From ice cream vans in a beautiful park in Sheffield.

I'm getting unreasonably cross now, there is no such thing as a 99 without a flake!

How do you not know that's called a cone or cornet?

@TellerTuesday4EVA

DD asked why they were called 99s the other day and her mind was blown when I said it's because they used to be 99p

£2.40 here, 10p extra for sauce

Now I'm also going to get annoyed about the posting of this obvious urban myth.

Even a second's thought would tell you that can't possibly be true, 99s have been around long before decimalisation, do you think they just happened to have been nvented just at the time that 99p would have been the right price for them

£3 in Herne Bay kent, thought that was shocking! But was really generous size and very nice !

£1 or £1.50, lovely chap come round in an ice cream van and is friendly and smiley!! 😁

£2 for a double cone, with sprinkles, flake and sauce :) (North East).

I do know 99 means with a flake but it’s made exactly the same way except the 99 has the flake in. To be fair I didn’t really realise that was its proper name till recently -I thought it was ice cream in a cone with a flake. Since I found out I’ve quite enjoyed asking for 99s. It’s very efficient.
As you clearly have a touch of pedantry around ice cream labelling, is there a name to distinguish between mr whippy type ice cream and scooped ice cream with a flake? God forbid I say the wrong thing!

£3.50 single cone, not a generous amount of ice cream. I nearly passed out last time the ice cream van came round!

£2.50 in Bromley!

£2.50
Surrey

No idea. I like ice cream but I can’t remember the last time I bought from an ice cream van. It must be at least 12yrs.

DD asked why they were called 99s the other day and her mind was blown when I said it's because they used to be 99p

Please tell me you were joking!!

We bought one yesterday-£1.20.

£2 for a small one with a flake. South West London.

I thought a 99 was just a cone and italian style vanilla icecream, and a flake 99 was, well, a 99 with a flake in it.

£2 without a flake, £2.30 with. South coast (not Bournemouth you'll be glad to know!)

99 Cones aren’t so named because they used to be 99p.

They have many potential name origins but none of them are price related.

£1.05 here with a flake