The price of ice creams from the ice cream van!

[QuebecBagnet]

Shocked I tell you.

for a single cone - £3. If you want a flake as well then £3.50.

i left without one!

I keep reading about this on SM.
I'm not an ice cream fan, but even if I was I wouldn't pay that much.

£3.50 here for the little pot with a flake, card payment only 😒

Slightly different as at an event. 5 ice creams with flakes and sauce came to £30!!!!

good old ikea it’s less than a quid

It's been £2.50 for a while where I used to live. No ice cream van here but it's £3 from the Italian coffee shop

Yes, £3 for bloody Mr Whippy style ones at the local park. I got fancy Italian ice cream in the lake district for less!

The ice cream van in the local big park is £6 for a normal cone. More if you want to make it remotely interesting.

Yours sounds like a bargain in comparison!

£5.50 here. Was £3.50 prior to 2019.
Thats the cost of living in zone 1. Everything has also been bloody expensive.

The local ice cream van doesn't display prices - I am sure they make it up on the spot. I paid £15 for two 'sundaes' - they weren't, it was a screwball scramble with sauce on top. By the time she got to the price the kids were already eating them.

We were in Ramsgate a few weeks ago and got five (not small) 99's for £10, I nearly fell over when they told me the price.

I was listening to an interview with an ice cream man recently
Fuel costs are really impacting apparently (not just driving around, the refrigerating), plus the cost of the goods in the first place. It doesn’t sound like a great profession to be in at the moment

I remember a 99 costing a shilling (5p) in 1969/70. Allowing for inflation, that should be 66p now.

We had a small ‘99 on Tues at the seafront, they were £2.00 each, which I didn’t think was too bad.

I’d have been happy with £2. Possibly £2.50.

I did think their fuel costs must be affecting them.

it's ridiculously expensive. Has anyone noticed that the mr whippy doesn't seem like Ice cream anymore? It's like air and no flavour. I got my DD one as treat and she had it in her hand for over 3 hours including in the car and it didn't melt. It was no longer cold, but it didn't melt once. It was like whipped cream. But even cream would melt. This was something different

£7 for two Bunny Ears from a van at a museum on Sunday. It was ok given the venue but that is the absolute maximum I would pay

I just never bought them for my kids 😬 crazy money

i’d keep choc ices in the freezer instead, and we made our own milk shakes too

i can even do things like caramel frappe’s at home

why pay £££££

At a local park the other weekend the ice cream van was charging £4.50 - £5 with a flake!!! It’ll be a cold day in hell….. so we went home via the supermarket and each child picked a box of lollies for the freezer (am lucky mine are old enough to understand value for money and premium pricing)

I took my dd to an airshow the other day. Plenty of ice cream vans around. £5 for a bog standard mr whippy and flake, we went and got a frappe on the way home instead. Who is paying a fiver for one ice cream? Absolutely ridiculous.

Two quid for a teddy cone, 3 quid a waffle cone and an extra 50p a flake. I buy them at the supermarket and take them to the park in a chill box.

That is bizarre and I have never experienced that with Mr Whippy. In fact the opposite, they're usually melting as soon as you pick them up!

There's a little ice cream place near us which has been open over 50 years. They make their own ice cream and charge £1.60 for a scoop and 20p for each additional scoop. The scoops are smaller than you might get from a fancy gelato place, but just right for little kids. It's always packed in the summer 🙂

I’m about 200 miles from home. 😁. Finished a walk on a hot day and going back to the caravan with no freezer.

€1.50 here from our local truck in Donegal

It’s the same as a pp around here, no prices up on any vans anymore and they seem to just charge whatever they feel like. We don’t bother with them anymore and if we’re out near home we just buy a box of ice lollies in a shop on the way back.

@QuebecBagnet well in that case it is worth the money, and just pay with your eyes closed 😄

They will go out of business then!

Simple really

Can't say I'd be particularly bothered either

£1.20 for a 99 with our local ice cream man. £2 for a waffle and ice cream with a flake and sauce.
His prices are great.